Re: Questions about Thailand

"Sandy Cruden" <scruden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> Nice question Khun Nick
>
> Aajaan Chintanaa taught me this a long time ago, not sure if I've got
> them right
>
> Does:
>
> The candle mean the clarity and brightness of Buddha's wisdom
>
> Incense represent truth and the middle path
>
> The lotus bud represent the impermanent nature of mans existence
>
>
> Sandy
> Huay Khwaang
>

I did find this, i don't know if it compliments on what you wrote as i
don't know much about Buddhism, maybe others can comment.
"Among the flowers can be seen three incense sticks and a candle.
Together with the flowers, they represent the Triple Gem (or ratanatri).
That is the Buddha, his Teaching and the Sangha (the monks)."
http://www.sriwittayapaknam.ac.th/waikru.html
and
"Indeed, the Blessed One is worthy and rightly self-awakened, consummate
in knowledge & conduct, well-gone, an expert with regard to the world,
unexcelled as a trainer for those people fit to be tamed, the Teacher of
divine & human beings, awakened, blessed...

"The Dhamma is well-expounded by the Blessed One, to be seen here & now,
timeless, inviting verification, pertinent, to be realized by the wise
for themselves...

"The Sangha of the Blessed One's disciples who have practiced well... who
have practiced straight-forwardly... who have practiced methodically...
who have practiced masterfully ? in other words, the four types [of noble
disciples] when taken as pairs, the eight when taken as individual types
? they are the Sangha of the Blessed One's disciples: worthy of gifts,
worthy of hospitality, worthy of offerings, worthy of respect, the
incomparable field of merit for the world."
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/tisarana.html

Nick
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