When temple meets beer bottle
Monks at Thailand's Sisaket province have taken "no discrimination" to a new level.
They took a million empty beer bottles and built the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple.
Awesome. ^_^
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3 comments:
Very creative architecture. A good idea & a way to recycle bottle. But one of the commentor said that it fear that it didn’t provide a save & reliable enough structure. Maybe its okay for decoration purposes in one or two area only. It’s a good idea but it seem to encourage people to have more alcoholic drinks. When people see the green & brown bottles, they will think of drinking Heineken beer again. Right? I would prefer fruit juice bottle, light soya sauce bottle , ketchup bottle…etc.
So there are millions of Heineken bottles & many people are still drinking it. So how can we stop alcoholism. The Buddhist monks have been very kind to collect millions of Heineken bottle to recycle it. Probably b’coz of the color & the plentiful of Heineken bottles. But how long can it help? People are still drinking it. I think Heinekan beer/alcoholic drink should be ban for healthy living, moral & enviromental purposes. Anyway its very creative that they are able to built houses, sculpture, artpiece, gardens, park & etc.
Cool stuff! =)
I am just wondering... the Buddhist concept teaches us to keep things in Moderation. So I just do not quite understand why consuming alcohol is listed as one of the 5 precepts.... If I am not wrong, the reason is because alcohol is said to influence one's mind state... and...{i'm not quite sure}.
If one consumes alcohol in moderation and doesn't become alcoholic, isn't that alright? Might it be due to the fact that human creatures are assumed to have poor abilities in controlling themselves?
Oh wait.... The 5th precept actually says " Refrain from Abusing alcohol"....
So it is not actually an absolute No to alcohol?
@stella
You're right, this building will not stop drinkers from continuing to drink. Only the drinker can stop his own habit and no one else. It is possible that they built it as a tourist attraction to raise money. I've seen temples use unusual objects like gold, snakes, large statues, etc. and they draw huge crowds.
@hwei checng
That's a good point. My favorite Buddhist site, Access to Insight, has it as "I undertake the precept to refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs which lead to carelessness." I may be wrong but I read it as: If what you take doesn't make you tipsy, then it's okay.
The problem is it gets tricky. I have friends who will declare they're not effected by a few glasses but after a couple of hours, I have to drive them home.
I don't think its possible to avoid alcohol because its used in some food and medicines but the point, I think, is to prevent yourself from going into a state of mental disorientation. The state of awareness is critical to the path of enlightenment and an "awake" person would do all he/she can to guard it.
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