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 Filed Under:  Perspectives, Southeast Asia, Thailand by Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott

New Year's Lotus Flowers - Chiang Mai By way of a Buddhist festival that we stumbled upon in Bangkok, we found some fitting wishes and words of wisdom for the new year. In the festival pamphlet, designed very much for locals with a nod to us non-Thai speakers, we discovered a list of wishes and matching offerings for each of the nine participating wats (temples). From this list, we inferred something rather noteworthy.

While the offering for Endless Wealth and Prosperity is:

  • 3 incense sticks
  • 2 candles and flowers

the offering for Calmness is Happiness is a hefty:

  • 9 incense sticks
  • 2 candles
  • 11 pieces of gold foil

suggesting (or re-affirming, depending on where you stand) that prosperity is more easily attained than calmness and hence, happiness.

New Year's WisdomSo, to all of our friends, readers and fellow travelers – wherever you may be – we offer you the following New Year’s wishes from Bangkok’s 9 Sacred Places Festival:

  • Endless Wealth and Prosperity
  • Calmness is Happiness
  • Receive the Good Things in Life
  • Create Auspicious Vision
  • Have a Prosperous Life
  • Enlarge Your Visions and Fascinate Surrounding People
  • Conquer All Obstacles
  • To Be Admired and Loved
  • Bon Voyage

Happy New Year!



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3 Comments to: “Year-End Wisdom from Nine Sacred Places”

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    Carole/Frank Hehman says:
    December 31st, 2007 at 7:21 pm

    Happy 2008 to you and Audrey. We continue to enjoy following your adventure. Be safe.

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    Daniel Noll says:
    January 1st, 2008 at 2:36 pm

    Hi Carole and Frank: Great to hear from you and to see you on our site…I heard that you might be following us. All the best in 2008!

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