ၿမတ္စြာဘုရားရွင္သည္ရြာၾကီးတစ္ရြာျဖစ္ေသာ ေကသမုတၱိရြာၾကီးသုိ ့ေရာက္ရွိခဲ့စဥ္ ၎ရြာၾကီးတြင္ ဘုရားရွင္ အေရွးဦးစြာ တတၳိပုဂၢဳိလ္(၆)ဦးမွ ငါေဟာတာယုံသူမ်ားေျပာတာမယုံနဲ ့ဆုိျပီး မွားယြင္းေသာအယူဝါဒမ်ားစြာကုိ ေဟာၾကားခဲ့ျပီးျဖစ္လုိ႕ ့ရြာသားမ်ားအားလုံး အယူဝါဒနဲ ့ပတ္သက္ျပီး ေတြေဝေနၾကေသာအခ်ိန္တြင္ ဘုရားရွင္မွေကသမုတၱိသုတ္ကုိ ေဟာေတာ္မူခဲ့ၿခင္းၿဖစ္ေပသည္။ထိုေဟာၾကားခ်က္အၿပည့္အစံုမွာ........
၁/ အယူဝါဒတစ္ခုကို တဆင့္ၾကား႐ံုမွ်ျဖင့္ သို႕တည္းမဟုတ္ သူတပါး ေဟာၾကားသည္ကို ၾကား႐ံုမွ်ျဖင့္
ထိုအယူဝါဒကို မွန္သည္ ဟူ၍ ၎၊ မွားသည္ ဟူ၍၎ မဆံုးျဖတ္သင့္ေပ။
၂/ အယူဝါဒတစ္ခု၏ က်မ္းဂန္စာေပသည္ မိမိတို႕၏ ဘိုးေဘးစဥ္ဆက္ ဆင္းသက္လာေသာ မိ႐ိုးဖလာ အယူဝါဒျဖစ္သည္ဟူ၍လည္း
ထိုအယူဝါဒကို မွန္သည္ ဟူ၍ ၎၊ မွားသည္ ဟူ၍၎ မဆံုးျဖတ္သင့္ေပ။
၃/ အယူဝါဒတစ္ခု၏ က်မ္းဂန္စာေပသည္ ဤအရာသည္ ဤသို႔ျဖစ္သည္ ဟူေသာ ေကာလဟလျဖင့္လည္း သို႕တည္းမဟုတ္ ထိုအယူ၀ါဒကို ယံုၾကည္ကိုးကြယ္သူမ်ားသည္ ဟူ၍လည္း
ထိုအယူဝါဒကို မွန္သည္ ဟူ၍ ၎၊ မွားသည္ ဟူ၍၎ မဆံုးျဖတ္သင့္ေပ။
၄/ အယူဝါဒတစ္ခု၏ မိမိတို႔သင္ထားေသာ စာမ်ားႏွင့္ ညီညြတ္႐ံုမွ်ျဖင့္လည္း
ထိုအယူဝါဒကို မွန္သည္ ဟူ၍ ၎၊ မွားသည္ ဟူ၍၎ မဆံုးျဖတ္သင့္ေပ။
၅/ အယူဝါဒတစ္ခု၏ မိမိၾကံစည္ထားေသာအၾကံအစည္ အေတြးအေခၚႏွင့္ ကိုက္ညီသည္ သိုတည္းမဟုတ္ မိမိ အယူဝါဒျခင္း တူသည္ ဟူ၍ လည္း
ထိုအယူဝါဒကို မွန္သည္ ဟူ၍ ၎၊ မွားသည္ ဟူ၍၎ မဆံုးျဖတ္သင့္ေပ။
၆/ အယူဝါဒတစ္ခု၏ က်မ္းဂန္စာေပ သည္ သူတစ္ပါးတို႔ လုပ္နည္းကိုင္နည္းကို သေဘာၾက၍ သို႕တည္းမဟုတ္ ထိုအယူ၀ါဒကို သူတပါးတို႕ ကိုးကြယ္ယံုၾကည္ သည္ ဟူ၍လည္း
ထိုအယူဝါဒကို မွန္သည္ ဟူ၍ ၎၊ မွားသည္ ဟူ၍၎ မဆံုးျဖတ္သင့္ေပ။
၇/ အယူဝါဒတစ္ခု၏ က်မ္းဂန္စာေပသည္ မိမိတို႔ ယံုၾကည္ထိုက္ေသာပုဂၢိဳလ္၏ စကားျဖစ္သည္ဟု ပုဂၢိဳလ္စြဲအားျဖင့္လည္း
ထိုအယူဝါဒကို မွန္သည္ ဟူ၍ ၎၊ မွားသည္ ဟူ၍၎ မဆံုးျဖတ္သင့္ေပ။
၈/ အယူဝါဒတစ္ခု၏ က်မ္းဂန္စာေပသည္ ငါတို႔၏ ဆရာစကား ျဖစ္႐ံုမွ်ျဖင့္လည္း ထိုအယူဝါဒကို မွန္သည္ ဟူ၍ ၎၊ မွားသည္ ဟူ၍၎ မဆံုးျဖတ္သင့္ေပ။
အယူဝါဒတစ္ခုမွ လာေသာ အဆံုးအမ၊ လမ္းစဥ္ေတြသည္ ေကာင္းလည္းမေကာင္း၊ အျပစ္လည္းမကင္း၊ ပညာရွိတို႔ ကဲ့ရဲ႕စရာလည္းျဖစ္၏။ ထိုလမ္းစဥ္အတိုင္း က်င့္ႀကံလွ်င္ (မိမိအားလည္းေကာင္း၊ သူတပါးအားလည္းေကာင္း၊ ေလာကအားလည္းေကာင္း) စီးပြားမဲ့ဒုကၡေရာက္ဖုိ႔ျဖစ္၏- ဟု ကိုယ္တိုင္ နားလည္လာေသာအခါမွသာ ထိုအယူဝါဒကို စြန္႔လႊတ္သင့္ပါသည္။
အယူဝါဒတစ္ခုမွ လာေသာ အဆံုအမ၊ လမ္းစဥ္ေတြသည္ ေကာင္းလည္းေကာင္း၊ အျပစ္တို႔ မွလည္းကင္း၊ ပညာရွိတို႔ ခ်ီးမႊမ္းစရာလည္းျဖစ္၏။ ထိုလမ္းစဥ္အတိုင္း က်င့္ႀကံလွ်င္ (မိမိအားလည္းေကာင္း၊ သူတပါးအားလည္းေကာင္း၊ ေလာကအားလည္းေကာင္း) ေကာင္းေသာအက်ိဳးစီးပြားျဖစ္ဖုိ႔သာရွိ၏- ဟု ကိုယ္တိုင္နားလည္လက္ခံ ႏိုင္ေသာအခါမွသာ ထိုအယူဝါဒကို စြဲၿမဲစြာလက္ခံသင့္ပါသည္။
source: The citations of this article are from various web pages and blogs written on Buddhism in Burmese. This article needs to be rearranged or re-written.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
ကာလာမသုတ္ (ဗုဒၶ ၏ အယူအဆ လြတ္လပ္ပံုု)
Kalama Sutta - Buddha's charter of free inquiry
The Kesamutti Sutta, or better known as Kalama Sutta, is a Buddhist Sutta in the Anguttara Nikaya of the Tipitaka. In this Sutta, it is clearly seen how generous, practical and flexible Buddhism is. Instead, he said, only when one personally knew that a certain teaching was skillful, blameless, praiseworthy and conducive to happness, and that it was praised by the wise, should one then accept it as true and practise it.
Once, Gautama Buddha passed through the village of Kesaputta and was greeted by the people who lived there: the Kalamas. The Kalamas greeted the Buddha and asked for advice. According to the Kalamas, many wandering holy men and ascetics had passed through their village, expounding their teachings and criticizing others'. The Kalamas asked the Buddha whose teachings they should follow. In response, he delivered a sutta that serves as an entry-point to Buddhist tenets for those unconvinced by revelatory experiences.
The Buddha instructed the Kalama People on which basis one should decide which religious teaching to accept as true. The Buddha told the Kalamas to not just believe religious teachings because they were claimed to be true by various sources or through the application of various methods and techniques. He urged that direct knowledge from one's own experience should be called upon. He counseled that the words of the wise should be heeded and taken into account when deciding upon the value of a teaching. This was not a dogmatic acceptance but rather a constantly questioning and testing acceptance of those teachings which could be proven to reduce suffering.
Buddha preached:
Buddha also instructed, the sources of wisdom to be avoided, as follow:
Source: www.en.wikipedia.org
Monday, April 27, 2009
The Chant of Metta (Loving Kindness)
Lyrics by Imee Ooi, Music by Woon Yoke Fun
Video Source: Youtube
Lyrics Source: http://www.buddhanet.net/chant-metta.htm
Acknowledgment:
I would like to show my gratitude for this post to my friend, Oakkyaw Za, who sent it to me.
Aham avero homi
May I be free from enmity and danger
abyapajjho homi
May I be free from mental suffering
anigha homi
May I be free from physical suffering
sukhi - attanam pariharami
May I take care of myself happily
Mama matapitu
May my parents
acariya ca natimitta ca
teacher relatives and friends
sabrahma - carino ca
fellow Dhamma farers
avera hontu
be free from enmity and danger
abyapajjha hontu
be free from mental suffering
anigha hontu
be free from physical suffering
sukhi - attanam pariharantu
may they take care of themselves happily
Imasmim arame sabbe yogino
May all meditators in this compound
avera hontu
be free from enmity and danger
abyapajjha hontu
be free from mental suffering
anigha hontu
be free from physical suffering
sukhi - attanam pariharantu
May they take care of themselves happily
Imasmim arame sabbe bhikkhu
May all monks in this compound
samanera ca
novice monks
upasaka - upasikaya ca
laymen and laywomen disciples
avera hontu
be free from enmity and danger
abyapajjha hontu
be free from mental suffering
anigha hontu
be free from physical suffering
sukhi - attanam pariharantu
May they take care of themselves happily
Amhakam catupaccaya - dayaka
May our donors of the four supports: clothing, food, medicine and lodging
avera hontu
be free from enmity and danger
abyapajjha hontu
be free from mental suffering
anigha hontu
be free from physical suffering
sukhi - attanam pariharantu
May they take care of themselves happily
Amhakam arakkha devata
May our guardian devas
Ismasmim vihare
in this monastery
Ismasmim avase
in this dwelling
Ismasmim arame
in this compound
arakkha devata
May the guardian devas
avera hontu
be free from enmity and danger
abyapajjha hontu
be free from mental suffering
anigha hontu
be free from physical suffering
sukhi - attanam pariharantu
may they take care of themselves happily
Sabbe satta
May all beings
sabbe pana
all breathing things
sabbe bhutta
all creatures
sabbe puggala
all individuals (all beings)
sabbe attabhava - pariyapanna
all personalities (all beings with mind and body)
sabbe itthoyo
may all females
sabbe purisa
all males
sabbe ariya
all noble ones (saints)
sabbe anariya
all worldlings (those yet to attain sainthood)
sabbe deva
all devas (deities)
sabbe manussa
all humans
sabbe vinipatika
all those in the four woeful planes
avera hontu
be free from enmity and dangers
abyapajjha hontu
be free from mental suffering
anigha hontu
be free from physical suffering
sukhi - attanam pariharantu
may they take care of themselves happily
Dukkha muccantu
May all being be free from suffering
Yattha-laddha-sampattito mavigacchantu
May whatever they have gained not be lost
Kammassaka
All beings are owners of their own Kamma
Purathimaya disaya
in the eastern direction
pacchimaya disaya
in the western direction
uttara disaya
in the northern direction
dakkhinaya disaya
in the southern direction
purathimaya anudisaya
in the southeast direction
pacchimaya anudisaya
in the northwest direction
uttara anudisaya
in the northeast direction
dakkhinaya anudisaya
in the southwest direction
hetthimaya disaya
in the direction below
uparimaya disaya
in the direction above
Sabbe satta
May all beings
sabbe pana
all breathing things
sabbe bhutta
all creatures
sabbe puggala
all individuals (all beings)
sabbe attabhava - pariyapanna
all personalities (all beings with mind and body)
sabbe itthoyo
may all females
sabbe purisa
all males
sabbe ariya
all noble ones (saints)
sabbe anariya
(those yet to attain sainthood)
sabbe deva
all devas (deities)
sabbe manussa
all humans
sabbe vinipatika
all those in the 4 woeful planes
avera hontu
be free from enmity and dangers
abyapajjha hontu
be free from mental suffering
anigha hontu
be free from physical suffering
sukhi - attanam pariharantu
may they take care of themselves happily
Dukkha muccantu
May all beings be free from suffering
Yattha-laddha-sampattito mavigacchantu
May whatever they have gained not be lost
Kammassaka
All beings are owners of their own kamma
Uddham yava bhavagga ca
As far as the highest plane of existence
adho yava aviccito
to as far down as the lowest plane
samanta cakkavalesu
in the entire universe
ye satta pathavicara
whatever beings that move on earth
abyapajjha nivera ca
may they are free of mental suffering and enmity
nidukkha ca nupaddava
and from physical suffering and danger
Uddham yava bhavagga ca
As far as the highest plane of existence
adho yava aviccito
to as far down as the lowest plane
samanta cakkavalesu
in the entire universe
ye satta udakecara
whatever beings that move on water
abyapajjha nivera ca
may they are free of mental suffering and enmity
nidukkha ca nupaddava
and from physical suffering and danger
Uddham yava bhavagga ca
As far as the highest plane of existence
adho yava aviccito
to as far down as the lowest plane
samanta cakkavalesu
in the entire universe
ye satta akasecara
whatever beings that move in air
abyapajjha nivera ca
may they are free of mental suffering and enmity
nidukkha ca nupaddava
and from physical suffering and danger.
