Floating Market: Dharma sharing on offerings
This is the video which has the Dharma talk about why we should have Buddha statues, shrines and make offerings… I am giving you Dharma sharing on a boat!! Fun!!
This video contains more footage of the floating market so you can see, taste, smell and experience the exotic environment. I really like it here… if you can’t get here anytime soon, well join me on this video… this particular floating market opens daily 7:30 am to 12:30pm… Leave early in the morning… you’ll love it…
Dear friends,
We drove two hours from Bangkok to the world famous Damnoen Saduak Floating Market. There are many floating markets not far from Bangkok, but this one is the original. The other ones we visited are nice also although not the original one. But whether it’s the original one or not, does not matter as they all have their appeal. They are all very nice…. visit the floating markets in Thailand!
People at Damnoen Saduak Floating Market are very friendly, outgoing, full of smiles and like to bargain with their items… But if you smile, they will smile back very fast. There are houses, shops, tea stops, gift items on both sides of the river for you to feast your eyes on. And many things are sold on the boats floating along the two sides against the pier. I enjoyed the ride so much. I bought some traditional Thai puppets. They wanted 4,500 baht for it, but I bargained to 2,500 baht and it took 5 mins… Wear light clothes, T-shirts, and cotton items to be comfortable… It was a blistering hot day when we went, so don’t forget to bring your umbrellas when you ride on the boat… we forgot!! Hehe… There is plenty of good food at the market… so you won’t be hungry. In fact, there’s too much good food.
Beng Kooi, Datuk May, Seng Piow, James, Ethan, Bryan, Lew, Justin Ripley, Su Ming, Cynthia, Monlam, Wan, Jp, Carmen, Wai Meng and myself rented a mini bus and took the journey from Bangkok… We all enjoyed the Floating Market very very very much.
Traffic jams in Bangkok start around 3-3:30pm and can last until 7pm. So wherever you go, you must avoid this timing. If you are coming into Bangkok then you must get in before 3:30pm daily or you will need an extra hour to get where you want to go within Bangkok. If you wish to for example drive outside of Bangkok, leave before 3:30pm also. Either in or out of Bangkok, AVOID THE JAMS… YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED… LOL.
There are places outside of Bangkok we visited and it would normally take one hour to arrive, with the jam it takes two hours… so we learned the hard way to avoid the infamous jams… hehehe… Bangkok is a huge metropolitan city with 10 million population and when offices/businesses close, everyone rushes to get home. Heed my warning regarding traveling around in cars BEFORE 3;30pm. Sundays should be better.
Not all of Bangkok is connected by tram or train, so if you have to go out then get use to the trains wherever they are available, they are convenient, punctual and do not get stuck in traffic.
I loved riding the boat on the river of Damnoen Saduak Floating Market… I decided to share a thoughts on the relevance of Buddha images and making offerings everyday. Why we make offerings, the benefits and how it started. I sincerely hope the talks help you while you feast your eyes on the exotic scenes.
Much Care as usual, Tsem Rinpoche
I had the fortune to purchase this beautiful Buddha for 1,200 baht. I carried Buddha with me on the boat all throughout the market. I wanted everyone to be blessed. I felt like the boatman escorting Lord Buddha who is the King to meet the people. Everyone who saw the Buddha loved it and smiled. Thank goodness I have a hat on as it was very very very hot that day.
So much happening on both sides of the river as you float by… after the boat ride or during the boat ride you can stop and see the shops… Lots of interesting shops for sure.
I have always loved puppets… any type of puppets… I purchased this traditional Thai puppet here…
Lots of food, snacks, fruits and tidbits to buy…
Myself with Lord Buddha on my head as I escort Him throughout the village for all to be blessed. Seng Piow in the red behind me and Wan in the blue laughing away… I think she liked the hat she’s wearing…
Thailand is really one of the best tourist places to visit in the world for sure… and lots of spiritual places also…
Dear Rinpoche,
I enjoyed the Dharma sharing that you gave, really appreciate for sharing with us on the significance of having Buddha statue on our altar and also making offering to the Buddha’s, not forgetting the water offering to Buddha’s, really learn a lot from Rinpoche sharing, will surely listen to it again.
the second video was a great experience for me watching the scene at the floating market, it is indeed very nice experience watching through the video.
i wish Rinpoche good health and rest more, and hope Rinpoche swift recovery from fever, have an amazing trip in Thailand. with folded hands.
Dear Rinpoche,your videos are beautiful and thank you for the Dharma talk,always very helpful!! Much love and blessings to you and your furry babies!!
Hope you feel better too,get some rest and warm soup
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Happy to see you so smooth floating, what a beautiful place, and simply lofly with a Buddha. Ji you really are a dictionary of Bhudism! I don’t know if I am a high lama or a low lama, perhaps looking for a GadenLama, annyway I jumped in a family namen galama, so a ga-lama. I also like to preach and to decide, and the dicisions towards truth and meditationpractise solid loyal faithfulsimpel to do what my SatGuru wants from me. Brother, I think you’ve been having the pains because of we want to help the bears free and escape from the hels of bearfarms. I promessed to help you. On your website confronted with this ..I was so glad en happy you made all that on your website. To me the third time this terribal in our country are no bearfarms, but here also annimals as everywhere in the world, are suffering, because we humans not recognize ourselves in them. I will look to the videos again and then later I will think of the bears in there situation, and imagine clearly how I will open the cages and free them from the prisson and hurt, that they are in. And so on. I will imagine the people around there and I will look in there eyes and perhaps speak, to the poit. to change them.open their hearts again and see what they are doing… I am confinced that by this will create space for people fysiccally near, will be supported to nurter it into reallity. If we all who are not fysically near the annimals ..we can help by our good intentions to help, i’ll bring it asfar as possible.
And also sending money helps.
I am really glad to notice that you are doing fine , kind regards from a Gaden sponsor.
With prayers from them to you… too. Be happy, be cool ,don’t eat to much…if you eat a lot of work..don’t forget to eat also a litle bit rest. If you eat a lot of hurt, don’t forget to eat also a lot of love. Thank you . May all sentient beings..be free from sufferings and nightmares and free from malicious people. May all wounds and hurt come to an end. yours’ sincerely a sister. take care. Beye
Dear Rinpoche – Thank you a million million for taking us on this journey. I had such strong deja vu that I forgot that I was not yourself on the river. My wooden Buddha is also from Thailand. It is just a humble tourist Buddha but it has been a part of my family and me for many years; it keeps great Dharma love around me every day. I will follow your advice; I can make my alter much more rich ! (I do the water offering of Jambhala every morning in my kitchen shrine. In Dharma, Madeline from Nova Scotia.
Thanks!Very nice and very pictoresque-especially the Buddha on your lap, it looks very natural and mesmerising at the same time…
I would very much appreciate a future posting about the different types of merits, about which you mentionned in this video!
Thank you Rinpoche for giving dharma teachings at every opportune time.
I enjoyed the scenery as I listened to teachings
on how to set up altar , offerings and be blessed by Buddha….how fortunate
This is very educational! We thought a buddha statue is very holy that we should not touch it. In contrary, we should touch it and make sure it is always clean because of the blessings we are able to get. The more I learn about Dharma, the more I like buddha statues.
This is a very good teaching for people that want to set up altar and do offerings.
Rinpoche mentioned the reason and how to do it. Very informative and beneficial to a lot of people & myself.
As mentioned by Sock Wan that about touching the Buddha statue, I too do come across to a lot of people that very particular with it. But Rinpoche given a very valid reason to associate more with the Buddha.
Thanks Rinpoche for this teaching.
Rinpoche thanks for the teaching you gave. I will make offerings to my Buddha statues.
Thank you , Rinpoche. You share with us every sight and sound that you experience in Bangkok and we live each experience vicariously through you.
Thank you for the Dharma sharing on making offerings to Buddha statues.
When you said that the Buddha’s form or body is the culmination of three aeons of merits of body, speech and mind (practising restraint and abandonment of the ten non-virtuous actions of body, speech and mind), it had/has a powerful impact on the way I now view Buddha statues and the way I make prostrations and offerings to the Three Jewels. THere is greater awe and humility than before, greater awareness of a Buddha’s great compassion that motivated Him to accomplish all this.
I’m working with this teaching at the moment to incorporate in to our Lamrim classes. This teaching is shot in such a beautiful place with Rinpoche on the boat, a beautiful statue in his arm as Rinpoche eloquently taught the dharma. This video teaching is a must watch for all who are new to setting up altars, learning the benefits of buddha images.