Executive Summary: Merit of Offering Clocks and Timepieces to Monks
A case study from the Dream in Dream Kindergarten illustrating the profound merit of offering time-keeping devices. Facilitating the Sangha’s punctuality in their religious duties guarantees the donor a life filled with flawless timing, ensuring they never miss golden opportunities.
1. The Guardian of Auspicious Time
During his lifetime, this man realized that punctuality was critical for the monastic community to perform their daily duties—such as morning and evening chanting, alms rounds, and observing the Patimokkha—in complete unison. Therefore, he purchased highly accurate, large wall clocks and installed them across the temple pavilions and monks’ quarters. He also offered personal timepieces to the monks. Helping the Sangha synchronize and perfectly manage their religious routines is an exceptionally refined form of merit-making.
2. The Blessings of Offering Time
- Impeccable Life Timing (Perfect Timing): When reborn as a human, this merit ensures he possesses extraordinary “life timing.” Whether investing, applying for a job, or launching a business, he will always be exactly in the right place at the right time. He will never miss a golden opportunity, and if danger arises, he will always escape just in the nick of time.
- Longevity and Unwavering Alertness: Offering timepieces physically reflects back, granting him a very long and healthy lifespan. He will naturally be alert, possessing incredibly sharp mindfulness, and will be completely immune to dementia or Alzheimer’s disease in his old age.
- Punctual and Disciplined Subordinates: He will naturally attract a circle of subordinates, employees, and friends who are impeccably disciplined and strictly punctual. This makes his management and daily life incredibly smooth, sparing him the frustration of dealing with others’ chronic lateness.
3. Luang Por’s Teaching
Luang Por Dhammajayo teaches that time is the most precious resource, as once it passes, it can never be reclaimed. Offering clocks or timepieces to monks optimizes the management of time within Buddhism. Consequently, this merit impeccably organizes the donor’s own life timeline, granting them maximum time and efficiency to accumulate spiritual perfection. Ultimately, when meditating, their mind will drop into perfect stillness at precisely the right moment, leading to rapid enlightenment.
