Chinese Newspaper Reporting (中文报纸报导)

Chinese newspaper “Kwong Wah Yi Poh” date 31/07/2010 headlined the news of Wat Sungai Siput for the Ubosot building fund raising programme on the front page of “Kedah . Perlis” edition. Many thanks to “Kwong Wah Yi Poh” for the kind reporting, it is much appreciated. You can download the snap shot of newspaper to read the content but it is not very clear due to the limitation of camera on capturing the whole page of newspaper, if you are keen to read the content you can check out the link below because most of the content are taken from this blog. Thank you everyone once again for supporting Wat Sungai Siput, may triple gem bless you all well, sadhu, sadhu, sadhu!

“光华日报”在31/07/2010的“吉坡”版中报导了有关空怀泰佛寺的讲经堂筹建新闻。在这里我代表大家对“光华日报”的热心以及慷慨报导深表万分感 激。如果你要读取内容的话可以下载以下的图片，由于刊面太大所以拍摄到的画面并不是很清晰，但是大部分的内容都取至此网站，因此你也可以在下面的附属链接 读取相关的文章。最后在这里再次的感谢大家对空怀泰佛寺的支持，大家的热心付出上天必会有所记录，其公德之无量不在话下，也愿大家一起努力研究佛法，加强自己善的磁场，一起把善的意念传播下去！善哉，善哉，善哉！

光华电子新闻报导：空怀泰佛寺制佛牌筹建讲经堂(按此)

Newspaper Screenshot: (Kwong Wah Yit Poh 31/07/2010)   (Guang Ming Daily 05/08/2010)
Reported Article: 

1. Story Behind the Powerful Takrut
2. The Making of the Amulet (Nam Kwak & Somdej)
3. Amulet Chanting Ritual
4. Sponsor Needed

报纸报导： (光华日报-吉坡版 31/07/2010)      (光明日报-槟吉版 05/08/2010)
相关文章：

1. Story Behind the Powerful Takrut
2. The Making of the Amulet (Nam Kwak & Somdej)
3. 佛牌开光
4. 寻求赞助

Light Up The Temple (烛光下的佛寺)

Khao Phansa at Wat Sungai Siput indeed was a beautiful night where all the candles light up the dark and turn the heart as bright as the light of candle and as beautiful as the night of Wat Sungai Siput. The event started with chanting and it took up most of the time, besides chanting, Archan Tia as the abbot of Wat Sungai Siput also did reporting and announcement to the devotees for the financial statement and also other relevance matters to the temple. After the reporting he also gave advise to his student monk for the rules and restrictions and also guide the student monk and devotees how to do meditation, we then spent about 10 minutes practicing meditation inside the hall. It is necessary for an abbot of the temple to guide the other monks and devotees on how to follow the way of Buddha teaching at the night of Khao Phansa. After that it was a series of chanting session again then only follows by light up the candle and surrounding the temple in circle for 3 times, the circling done with sticking the bundle of flowers, joss stick and candle into the small sand dune in front of temple, as you can see from the picture.

It was raining cat & dog early in the afternoon and stopped around 4pm, and 20 minutes after the ritual finished, at 10PM the moment I look at the clock when I about to go home, it started to rain again. The ritual was done smoothly without being interrupted by a single drop of water, simply amazing. It was a simple but meaningful night of Wat Sungai Siput where it marks the beginning of 3 months period’s Phansa. I’m happy to have participated into such event, a truly remarkable day of my life.

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空怀泰佛寺的“守夏节”仪式在昨晚顺利完成。仪式开始为诵经，间中阿占爹师傅也教导他的和尚徒弟们比如说要如何守戒，还教大家要如何的坐禅，这是仪式中最重要的一个环节之一，身为空怀泰佛寺的主持，阿占爹师傅有责任要把佛陀的教诲传给大家。但大多数的讲解以泰语传送，因为当天出席的善信们有95% 都是当地的暹人居民。诵经在“守夏节”的整个仪式中占据了大部分的时间，最后才是由师傅点燃蜡烛带领着大家环绕庙寺3圈，这也称为巡烛仪式，也是仪式的最高潮。阿占爹跟大家说，在环绕庙寺时要行 “步禅”，心中要念 “Phut-Tho”，第二圈跟第三圈也要各默念其咒语（我暂时忘了第二圈跟第三圈的咒语）。最后是把握在手中的花以及香烛插在堆积在庙寺前的小沙丘上，然后阿占爹师傅再为大家做最后一次的诵经，整个“守夏节”仪式才算完成。空怀泰佛寺的“守夏节” 仪式说起来应该是有受到老天的眷属，因为过午后就一直下雨直到4点多时雨才停，仪式完毕后30分钟，正当我要回家时又开始下起雨来。

简单但庄严，美丽不奢华，空怀泰佛寺的这一夜是最漂亮的，在一片橙黄色的烛光笼罩下，佛陀时期的足迹又再次的在这边重新出现。每人手中握着一根蜡烛，所踩出去的每一步都是在净化自己的心灵，大家一起追随着佛陀的脚步，用烛光照亮了前路，坚守佛规，重振精神的培训，以苦行开悟为最终目标来开始这为期三个月的“守夏节”。

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感言

看到大家不断的为空怀泰佛寺而做出努力的帮忙以及贡献，实在是感动加于感激。大家不分彼此，不顾个人的利益，自费时间跟金钱帮忙筹备讲经堂的经费，尤其是要赞美年轻的一代们，这种高尚的精神在现今的社会上已经非常罕见。原来为佛教的付出不但可以为自己以及家人集公德，也可以紧紧的把大家拉在一起，让我们看到了希望之光，人性善美的一面。看来阿占爹努力发展空怀泰佛寺是一件对的事情，之前大家可能只对他的圣物感兴趣，现在大家可以一起参与并把佛教发扬光大，把善的种子散播到下一代去，这种精神实在是另人敬佩，这种行为才是绝对的最好开运方式！

空怀泰佛寺是属于大家的家，在这里我们都受到了法喜的滋润，加强了我们的人格，开启了我们的智慧，让大家可以更建全的成长，是一个绝对的善地。当然这世界上没有绝对100%完美的东西，钻牛角尖的只会更加的愚昧自己，阿占爹曾经说过，没有一次性就完美的东西，唯有透过互相的努力方可得到最佳的结果。阿占爹是个高僧，但内心绝对不会设立一道墙来跟大家做隔离，反而会放下姿态会跟大家一样一起学习，一起发展空怀泰佛寺，把正宗佛教的精髓发扬光大，让更多人可以受到佛陀的教诲。阿占爹也曾经说过，我既然当了和尚，也就可以放下一切，我大可走进森林不问尘世，努力的自我修行，但这样做只会对我自己带来益处，而不会让更多的人可以受惠。佛牌，经文纹身，各种改运/增运仪式当然不会是转自于正宗佛教，佛陀根本就没有教我们这些法门，但如果没有利用这些东西来帮助别人度过困境，试问又要如何的介绍佛教给人家认识呢？如果一个正在面临困难的善信找你时，你什么都不做只教他坐禅颂经，你认为他们会接受吗？佛陀说过，不要一味的盲目往前走，而要依照当时的情况而做出适当调整，这样才是上策，才是智慧。阿占爹说，我当了20几年的和尚，穿了20几年佛陀的衣服，我是要还他的，你以为我穿他的袈裟是因为漂亮吗？呵呵。

多年来大家都把泰国高僧们看成制造拥有不可思议力量的佛牌工具，很少人会深入的去了解并解剖他们的内心世界以及他们对佛教的付出与展望，大家只对他们的事迹或圣物感到兴趣，导致他们往往都徘回在于表面上，无法深入的让大家体会到其衷心以及用心良苦。最后再次的感谢大家多年来对空怀泰佛寺的付出与支持，希望大家可以继续的努力把空怀泰佛寺的精神散播下去，让更多的人可以受惠其中。祝，安康。

Temple Donation Envelope (捐款信封)

Temple donation envelope is another way making contribution to Wat Sungai Siput. Temple envelope has been widely used in most of the Wat (Siam temple) where devotee get the chances to contribute in the amount that afforded by them, there is no limits on how much you can donate its all based on your heart, because the merit of donating RM1 from poor person is equivalent to RM10K from a wealthy person.

I remember I received my first envelope from Archan Tia in 3 years ago, and the amount I donated is just RM50, follow by the “Phapa” on year 2007, I use RM50 to present the Kasaya to other monk on that event and another RM50 to buy an amulet, I contributed RM150 in total but I did helped to distribute the envelope to my family and friends and collected few more hundred, I gathered it and present to Archan Tia on the day of “Phapa”. You see, im not afraiding of letting you to know that how much I donated because like I said it’s all based on your heart and your ability, I know it wasn’t enough because my contribution alone is just 1/6667 from the grand amount of RM1000000 that needed to build that Ubosot. But that’s all I can afford and I did that happily because I know I have did my part and its kind of responsibility that each and every living human being on this society must do to contribute back to something that you have “used” in the past. Through out these years I keep donating to the temple when its ok for me, I did not ask anything for return and I didn’t even ask for receipt! All I do is simply to help, no question asked, no hesitating and no regret. But I did earned something in return throughout these years from Archan Tia, that’s happiness, and improving on personality, I have grown wise, that’s something you cannot learn else where, lot of laughs and no, we did not shed tears together because there is no sadness and negative thought under the big umbrella of Buddha!

So for those who want to do envelope donation please visit Wat Sungai Siput and get the envelope by yourself, please do that before 8/31 and also please help distribute it to your family and friends if possible. For those who want to do donation via online representative please visit http://order.archantia.info and you will find few representative to take your donation. You can also email your donation request to me at watsungaisiput@gmail.com. Thank you very much, sadhu, sadhu, sadhu!

“空怀泰佛寺”的捐款信封是另外一种可以让善信们进行乐捐了愿的方式。善信们可以随意的在自己的能力范围以内进行乐捐。其实那信封有另外一种含义，它也是8月31号“祖先公德法会”的邀请函，因为在每封信封里面会有一张通告，通告里会有法会的时间以及流程，当信封被善信们发布到任何一个人的手上时，那个人就算是被邀请参加法会了。这是一件极为意义的事情，除了可以捐助帮忙建造“讲经堂”，也可以集公德集福报，也是回馈社会的一种方式。“讲经堂”的用途是为新的和尚剃度出家，也是阿占爹师傅用来弘扬佛法的地方，让更多人可以了解正宗佛法，渡化更多人，其意义不会比医院、学校或孤儿老人院来得低，是一个非常关键的建筑物。我不会用“功德无量”这句话来点缀这篇文章，更加不会利用它来说服你去捐款，因为这完完全全是看个人心意的，有说 “穷人的一分钱相等于富人的一百块钱”。佛说渡有缘人，多少都好，尽力而为，发出自内心的才是真正有意思的，才是超越一切文字上可以形容的公德。

多年来我都在尽我的内力范围以内把钱塞进信封里，或帮忙把信封递给有缘人，为的就是要尽自己的一份力量，虽然数目不多但是尽了力就好。我也从不要求任何的回报，但努力的向阿占爹师傅学习，这些年来我不知不觉的增长了好多东西，比如增长智慧，开心以及不再执著，我相信这远比增长银行账簿里的数目来得珍贵，说得俗一点，那可是前往天堂的积分啊，呵呵。

如果有意要捐款的可以亲自到“空怀泰佛寺”向阿占爹师傅索取信封，筹备好了之后可以在8月31号那天的法会上呈交上去。如果不能前来的可以游揽http://order.archantia.info 会有网上的代理人帮你办。祝，安康。

Khao Phansa (守夏节)

Monday, July 26, 2010 is the day of Khao Phansa event for Wat Sungai Siput. Khao Phansa aka “Candle Festival”. As the seasonal monsoon rains descend over the kingdom, it marks the beginning of the Buddhist "rain retreat" and the Buddhist Lent, or "Phansa", during which all Buddhist monks retreat to the temples. This is also an auspicious time for Buddhist ordinations as it marks a period of spiritual renewal.

Known as "Khao Phansa", the Buddhist Lent is a time devoted to study and meditation. Buddhist monks remain within the temple grounds and do not venture out for a period of three months starting from the first day of the waning moon of the eighth lunar month (in July) to the fifteenth day of the waxing moon of the eleventh lunar month (in October). Stories of the Buddhist Rains Retreat can be traced back to the beginning of the Buddhist era. At that time, the Lord Buddha saw that monks wandering outside the temple compound might damage growing crops or accidentally kill insects, so he proclaimed that it would be better for the monks to observe the teachings and practice meditation at the monasteries instead.

Buddhism, Buddhist traditions and beliefs are central forces that shape the local way of life and give rise to various festivals of religious origin which have been observed for generations. For example, the majority of the Buddhist ordinations take place during the Buddhist Lent when young novices enter the monkhood. Villagers also actively engage in merit-making during this period. Offerings consisting of an assortment of savoury dishes and sweets as well as items for daily use are offered to monks. Items that provide light such as candles, lanterns and lamp oil are deemed to be particularly important offerings as it is believed that they provide monks with illumination physically and spiritually.

The event of Khao Phansa for Wat Sungai Siput is on Monday, July 26, 2010, time is 8PM at night. You must prepare the flower, candle (white or yellow) and joss stick, it will be start with chanting ritual in lomtam follow by surrounding the whole area of Wat Sungai Siput by holding the flower, candle and joss stick. It should be nice to have the opportunity to participate into such event, do not miss it if you are free on that night!

守夏节亦称坐守居节、入夏节、入雨节等。在此期间，佛教僧侣留在一个地方，通常在他们的寺院。应在寺内坐禅修学，接受供养。这段时间称为雨安居期，禁止僧尼外出在一些寺庙. 守夏节前，僧侣要清扫寺院和僧舍。守夏节之日，全寺僧人举行入夏安居仪式，礼佛诵经并诵念“贫道将在此寺守夏安居三个月”三遍。然后一般僧人向高僧忏悔过失。之后，各寺院和僧人互送鲜花、香烛互致敬意和忏悔。仪式后，僧人开始安居修学。守夏节早晨，平民百姓普遍到寺院施斋，所施斋饭除新鲜饭食菜餚外，还有传统糕点蕉叶兹粑。同时奉献蜡烛丛及甘蔗水、糖、牙刷、牙膏、肥皂、浴巾等日用品。并且制作可燃三个月之久而不熄的巨大蜡烛，敲锣打鼓送到寺庙，供僧人在守夏节诵经时使用。傍晚，人们手持鲜花和点燃的蜡烛，在寺院举行隆重的巡烛仪式，守夏节活动达到高潮。在守夏节期间，许多善男信女将出家三个月，或天天聆听僧侣诵经，或在家中持守佛律八戒，示对佛教的虔诚。在守夏节，许多佛教信徒重振精神的培训，採取更加苦行的做法，如放弃肉类，酒精，或吸烟。

据说这种仪式源于古印度人，每当雨季到来他们就停止去其它地方，如有游历在外的泰国人牞在哪里碰到雨季就在那里停留三个月，雨停了继续行进，这样很不方便。即使是三藐三佛陀尊者（对佛陀的敬称），他们要去各个地方游历，一到雨季他们也会按自己的意愿停止游历。这和作为一个三藐三佛陀尊者应有的行为是一致的，但是没有必要把这作为一个风俗习惯，也没有佛祖规定僧侣们要守夏。

直到后来僧侣越来越多，有一回佛祖居住在玉舍城（古印度摩提陀国首府），有六个和尚没有固定的地方居住，即使是雨季他们也要去游历，踩踏农民的庄稼，草木和许多小动物，以至人们都说：“即使是异教徒（佛教以外的）都懂得在雨季以后停止游历；鸟在下雨的时候也懂得做窝避雨，但是为什么僧侣们一年到头都要到处去游历踩踏许多活生生的草木和杀害许多小生物？”这些话传到了佛祖的耳朵里，佛祖就规定：每年雨季的三个月里僧侣们一定要住在一个固定的地方，停止游历，也就是阴历的8月16日至11月中旬，这一时期叫做守夏期。

在泰国这是最重要的佛教传统节日，大部分商店都关闭，夜总会不会出售酒。有点像庆祝中国新年，每个人都放假回家。他们传统的蜡烛游行到庙裡 。这种蜡烛游行穿过市中心的花车，伴随着各自的代表机构， 舞者，或音乐家通常穿着传统的服饰。

空怀泰佛寺的守夏节仪式定在2010年7月26号，星期一的晚上八点。善信们要自备鲜花3朵，黄/白烛以及香一把。仪式开始为诵经，诵经完毕后阿占爹就会带领大家拿着花朵，蜡烛以及香环绕佛寺，也称为巡烛仪式。当天有空的善信们不妨前来参加这项鲜为人知的活动，经历一下传自佛陀时代就进行的仪式，对于佛教徒来说其意义应该深长。

The amulet of Luang Phor Top (Luang Phor Top的佛牌)

Amulet created by Luang Phor Top (Wat Pra Buddhabartchondan) himself on 2505 using the betelnut that he chewed. The purpose of creating this batch of amulet is for the fundraising programme. Number created not known, but accordingly to Archan Tia, his master usually don’t make amulet in huge number, he prefers 20, 50, 99 or at most 500 pcs.

This amulet was kept by Archan Tia for many years, 100% genuine, any form of amulet authentication is absolutely welcome as long as it doesnt harm the amulet itself. The price set at RM30,000 and it will be 100% funded into the development of Ubosot building. Interested party please click here to contact us.

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Luang Phor Top 在佛历2505自己亲身制造的自身牌，用料是自己吃过的槟榔渣。这批为数不多的佛牌主要是当时建庙筹款而造。阿占爹师傅说他的师傅不喜欢大量的制造佛牌， 每次做为数20，50，99或最多500尊而已。

这尊佛牌已经跟阿占爹师傅很久，100% 真材实料，欢迎任何的佛牌鉴定家来核查。阿占爹师傅现在以马币3万块的结缘价欲出让给有缘者，全部资金将会用在正在进行的大雄宝殿建筑。有意结缘者请按此联络。

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If you are looking for the Luang Phor Top amulet that created by Archan Tia at the affordable price, you are now have the chance to do so. This batch of Luang Phor Top amulet is made by Archan Tia when he first establish Wat Sungai Siput on year 2000. They are few hundred in number and chanted with the one and only one of Luang Phor Top katha. The purpose of making this batch of amulet is to let the Malaysian devotee to know about his master which is Luang Phor Top. Archan Tia said he used to give away this amulet for free but people refuse to accept it because they dont know who is Luang Phor Top, so he just keep them in his room until now he decided to display it out for people to rent since devotee in Malaysia started to know the legend of Luang Phor Top from amulet magazine. The price is RM100, it can be more higher but Archan Tia said he wants to let devotee to have the opportunity to own the amulet of his master therefore he wont set the price too high, so that it affordable by everybody. If you are interest please visit Wat Sungai Siput and rent this amulet by yourself or if you are inconvenient to do so you may order it online with the help of representative.

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如果你要拥有阿占爹师傅自己做的Luang Phor Top 自身牌，现在就是最佳良机，而且结缘价大众化。这一批 Luang Phor Top 的自身牌是阿占爹师傅在10年前刚建立空怀泰佛寺时而造的，目的是为了要让马来西亚的善信们认识他的师傅，既是Luang Phor Top。但由于在大马除了老行家以外，很少人会知道谁是Luang Phor Top，他曾经免费的给人家这佛牌但既然招到拒绝，因为人家不知道那和尚是谁。但近年经过很多佛牌杂志的介绍后就有很多人开始认识这位 “灵口和尚“了。佛牌的结缘价为马币100，其实这是偏低的价格了，因为阿占爹师傅要大家可以有机会拥有Luang Phor Top的佛牌，因此价格为大众化。

有兴趣的善信们可以亲自到空怀泰佛寺恭请，如果无法自己恭请可以要求网上定购团帮你购买。所有佛牌结缘价一律是庙方价格，所有资金将100%用于发展庙宇为出发点。

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The Legendary 900 years old Monk - LP Thep (九百多岁高僧的传奇)

The following story of LP Thep Lok Udorn was told by Archan Tia in hokkien, memorized down by me and written down in both the English and Chinese version with the help of other devotee for correcting the grammar and sentences. They are real story happened when Archan Tia stayed with him in the cave for 5 days back to the days when Archan Tia still a forest monk.

以下是有关 LP Thep Lok Udorn 高僧的故事。是由阿占爹以福建话口述之后再由我根据所听的以英文以及华文来从写。以下都是真实发生在阿占爹身上的故事，因为阿占爹曾经跟这位高僧在山洞里共处5天。


- English Version
- 中文版本

Thai Style Ancient Spiritual Acupuncture (泰国古式针灸灵疗)

It’s all begins with that long needless that Archan Tia use it for acupuncturing to cured an old man recover from bad disease in 10 years ago... It so happened that when Archan Tia came to Pendang, Malaysia 10 years ago to soliciting money for his temple in Thailand, he met an old man with many years of pain on his legs, Archan Tia help him by performing Thai style ancient acupuncture therapeutic on that man, and after few times of healing process, amazingly that many years bad disease successfully cured. He then received a piece of rubber estate land in Kampong Sungai Siput from that old man who happened to be the local's landlord as the sign of appreciation.

I don’t really know exactly how to call that thing but the process look like the combination of Chinese acupuncture and Thai style spiritual tattoo, with the herd oil on the head of needle, Archan Tia stick the needle repeatedly on the spot where the patient claimed to have pain on it. The process is very fast and for optimize results patients are advisely to come back after few weeks to let Archan Tia check and see weather there are any improvement. Personally I think this kind of medical therapy is working on the blood vessels and collaterals to remove the blocked inside plus the spiritual healing method from the chant that Archan Tia spell during the acupuncture process. Many have claimed that it works amazingly well for them, and you might want to give it a shot at Wat Sungai Siput if you have any bad disease that modern medical can’t help, best of all this services is completely FOC!

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10年前的阿占爹师傅只身从泰国来到马来西亚吉打洲的北部为其在泰国的庙宇进行化缘，在机缘巧遇之下帮助了一位老先生痊愈了多年的疾病，老先生刚好是当地的大地主，为了要显示感激因此捐了一块橡胶园地给阿占爹师傅好让他可以落脚建庙留下来帮助有需要帮助的人。就这样的阿占爹师傅靠那一支从泰国家乡带来的长针以及那实而不华的医疗技能，帮他建立了今天的空怀泰佛寺来跟大家结缘。

我们华人从小就知道中国的针炎医疗方法，对针炎并不陌生，阿占爹师傅的医疗方法就跟针炎很相似，但跟泰国的刺青更加靠近，主要是用一根扎在长棍前，沾了草药油的针头，在患者有病痛的地方进行来回快速的刺扎，有如泰国古式纹身一样，加上阿占爹师傅的咒语，整个过程大概只需要一分钟就可以结束了。阿占爹师傅说由于有些疾病已经隐藏多年，非一两次就可以彻底解决，需要多次的回诊方可达到药到病除的效果。我不知道这种医疗方式叫什么名堂，但是其做法类似针炎，即疏通被阻塞的血管以及经络，让血液可以在全身舒畅的循环进行陈新代谢，那么留在体内有害的物质就不会凝集成有害的毒素，就不会产生疾病。如果你有多年来现代医疗方式无法解决的疾病，不妨前来空怀泰佛寺拜访阿占爹师傅，试一试这泰国古式的针炎灵疗，也许病情会有转机。值得一提的是，阿占爹师傅是以救人为出发点，因此这医疗服务是完全不收费的，但信徒可以随缘捐助，好让空怀泰佛寺有足够的经费可以维持下去以帮助更多需要帮助的人。

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