Ghosts in Buddhism
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Check the list of dharma centres & monasteries I sent you... it will be useful to you.
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Anytime a person dies due to suffering or unwillingly, there is a possibility the spirit will remain there. We have to be compassionate for the spirit due to it's sufferings.Originally posted by burntan:There is one house in my neigbourhood very spacious and selling very cheap, because it is haunted.
People said that the house belong to guy who lock his daughter there, because he don't like his daughter to marry a young boy. The girl eventually become crazy and end up kill herself in the kitchen. Ever since then, the family move away and left the house empty. Neighbor around there often hear the girl cry at night from the house and some even see a little girl comb her hair in the kitchen at night as well.
The property agent who show us the house, told the same story as well, he say he must be honest to me. My wife love the house and she didn't know the story. Do you think I should see the "emptiness" and buy the house without telling my wife about the haunted story or not?
I think if u dun mind, u can buy the house. Get some monks to perform some rites and prayers to help the spirit cross over. Dedicate whatever merits we have for this spirit. Due to it's karma, it has to suffer in this state now. Dur to our karma, we know about it. Let's all pray for the peace of this spirit. -
Hi All,
I found this very interesting site on the Law of Karma & Dharma Practice. There are many accounts of ghosts etc.
http://www.geocities.com/piyapane/
Read them and you will not be disappointed
With Maha Metta
Synopsis of Book
Books of Law of Karma & Dhamma Practice had been produced by Wat Ambhavan, Singhburi, Thailand. In these books contains the stories of biography of Phra Dhepsinghaburajara, the abbot of Wat Ambhavan, experiences in dhamma practice, Phra DhepsinghaburajaraÂ’s karma, and other dhamma lectures by Phra Dhepsinghaburaja..
The objective production of the books “Law of Karma & Dhamma practice” is to spread out the dhamma of Lord Buddha into public in order to be the imformation support the development of mindfulness resulting the cessation of physical and mental sufferings. -
what if u encounter a ghost and it comes to harm u and u dunno the reasons?
and at the particular moment, what should u do?
chant a mantra or wat?
jus asking... -
Whatever comes to you, the first thing you should do is not the allow that thing to cause panic in you, or in fact, let any sentient thoughts arise in you. To do that, chanting is a good practice.
If I were to meet ghosts again, I will chant Namo Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva (na mo di zhang wang pusa). There are also some powerful mantras against evil spirits, but usually to chant them you must have the right knowledge and right views to use these mantras. Perhaps Origami can tell you a bit more?
However, if a ghost really wants to harm you with great hatred, chanting may not be enough in long term... you must seek help from a monk/guru/etc... even seek forgiveness from your "creditors" of previous lives. I don't know what exactly will be done.
Ghosts, don't bother about them, "xin li mei you gui", usually they won't find you