infinity11 Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Besides the obvious 'nothing' as an answer or wishing for something. Please keep it civil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costas2008 Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 OP, if they are not wishing for something, why would they pray? Have you ever prayed in your life? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsetBkk Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 They are thinking that the entity that they are waiing, praying to, kneeling in front of or worshipping will eventually bring them good luck i.e. money. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post David48 Posted April 12, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted April 12, 2014 It's an interesting question ... and each action is an independent thought and response. I would have asked MissFarmGirl directly, but she's in deep discussion with Ma and Pa about going to the Temple tomorrow with the TWIN boys. Because they are 1/2 Westerner ... there is a huge pressure for a school style 'show and tell' tomorrow ... she doesn't want to go ... Pa wants BIG FACE and wants them! discussion continuing. wai, ... well, as the person has been spotted from a distance ... to wai or not to wai ... I would think ''' nothing much' pray, ... maybe some cure for Thailand's Water drought, or, I wish those Jeans she saw at a store outside TESCO weren't sold (true story) kneel, I'm not as young as I used to be! Which way is the Monk/s? Buddha? No point my feet that way. or worship ... ah ... bit deeper now. did I take the chicken out of the freezer for tonight ... sticky rice and pork feels about right just now ... ... I hope the stall hasn't sold out yet! Heck ... what would I know .. I'm just a humble bloke! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Showbags Posted April 12, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted April 12, 2014 9 times out of 10 it is for good luck one way or another....usually to do with money one way or another. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sirineou Posted April 12, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted April 12, 2014 9 times out of 10 it is for good luck one way or another....usually to do with money one way or another. Do you mean to say that 10% of the people pray for bad luck? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kannot Posted April 12, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted April 12, 2014 i think they are nuts, but i dont limit it to Thais i can cover all religions with the same disgust. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsetBkk Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 i think they are nuts, but i dont limit it to Thais i can cover all religions with the same disgust. As an antitheist, I agree. Although maybe I would use the word "pity" rather than "disgust". 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ulysses G. Posted April 12, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted April 12, 2014 Food and money. The same things they think about when they are not praying. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post thailiketoo Posted April 12, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted April 12, 2014 (edited) Nothing. That is the key to meditation. No, I'm not kidding. http://drhyman.com/blog/2012/06/18/why-doing-nothing-is-the-key-to-happiness/ Edited April 12, 2014 by thailiketoo 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsetBkk Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Nothing. That is the key to meditation. No, I'm not kidding. http://drhyman.com/blog/2012/06/18/why-doing-nothing-is-the-key-to-happiness/ Nothing to do with meditation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Som wat Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Money. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StreetCowboy Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 I would guess that they think about similar things to you and I, when we pray. If you don't pray, then I suggest you start off asking the same question of your compatriots and co-culturalists, whom you may have a hope of understanding. SC 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sustento Posted April 12, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted April 12, 2014 Why don't you ask them rather than asking people who don't know? 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notmyself Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Why don't you ask them rather than asking people who don't know?Unlikely to tell you as doing so is considered bad luck. Akin to telling someone your wish when you blow out the candles on a birthday cake. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Somtamnication Posted April 12, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted April 12, 2014 It is always gimme more money. Win the lottery. When parents bless the children, it is health and being rich. When wife goes to the temple, it is wealth THEN health. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thailiketoo Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Nothing. That is the key to meditation. No, I'm not kidding. http://drhyman.com/blog/2012/06/18/why-doing-nothing-is-the-key-to-happiness/ Nothing to do with meditation. The Thai Forest Tradition is a tradition of Buddhist monasticism within Thai Theravada Buddhism. Practitioners inhabit remote wilderness and forest dwellings as spiritual practice training grounds. Maha Nikaya and Dhammayuttika Nikaya are the two major monastic orders in Thailand that have forest traditions. The Thai Forest Tradition originated in Thailand, primarily among the Lao-speaking community in Isan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geriatrickid Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Food and money. The same things they think about when they are not praying. and sex? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdanielmcev Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I don't do mind reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatdrunkandstupid Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Food Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Som wat Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Well they ask monks for lottery numbers.... So that's a clue.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thailiketoo Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 A lot of different kinds of Monks in Thailand. Some good and others not so good. Some just meditate and others sweep out temples and wash dishes. There are a lot of different kinds of Christians and a lot of different kinds of Buddhists. Generalizations about Monks is like generalizations about Christians. But you guys get a kick about crapping on anything Thai. Do you know how dumb that makes you look? Har har. Kipling would have thought we had learned something in 100 years. 'Er petticoat was yaller an' 'er little cap was green, An' 'er name was Supi-Yaw-Lat jes' the same as Theebaw's Queen, An' I seed her first a-smokin' of a whackin' white cheroot, An' wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot: Bloomin' idol made o' mud-- Wot they called the Great Gawd Budd-- Plucky lot she cared for idols when I kissed 'er where she stud! On the road to Mandalay ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gsxrnz Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I tell my Missus to pray to Buddha every day for the same thing I pray for - a hole in one on the short par three over the water......thank you very much in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wprime Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 They think about how they look. Usually either, am I doing this right? Or I must look like a good person making all this merit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 The ONLY time Mrs.Trans elder (gambling) sister goes to a Temple is when she can't get past her losing streak......True....... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimmer Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Off topic bickering posts removed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaoYuk Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 $$$$$$$$$$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seajae Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 no problems with it, my wife believes in it and I will go along with her as it is not an imposition plus it is part of the culture we that we have come to live in. There are a lot of thais that do it because they believe in buddha and his teachings, nothing wrong with that and I wai too because I think it is the right thing to do. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 no problems with it, my wife believes in it and I will go along with her as it is not an imposition plus it is part of the culture we that we have come to live in. There are a lot of thais that do it because they believe in buddha and his teachings, nothing wrong with that and I wai too because I think it is the right thing to do. Not tooooooo sure about Buddha/his teachings and folk, as many I know are ripping each other off, even family, and folk having to pay corruption money to a Hi-So just to get a job or anything of importance.......Sadly. To me that is against the "teachings". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thailiketoo Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 no problems with it, my wife believes in it and I will go along with her as it is not an imposition plus it is part of the culture we that we have come to live in. There are a lot of thais that do it because they believe in buddha and his teachings, nothing wrong with that and I wai too because I think it is the right thing to do. Not tooooooo sure about Buddha/his teachings and folk, as many I know are ripping each other off, even family, and folk having to pay corruption money to a Hi-So just to get a job or anything of importance.......Sadly. To me that is against the "teachings". Read the Three Universal Truths and you will have the answer. Then you won't be sad any more. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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