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Acinna, Bhaddanta (Pa-Auk Sayadaw). ဒါန။ [Dana]. 12 June 2002.
Include: Chalanga Dana; types of Dana that the Buddha liked most; the one who practises to discard Raga, Dosa and Moha. Listen more
Acinna, Bhaddanta (Pa-Auk Sayadaw). လိစၧဝီကုမာရကသုတၱန္။ [Liccavikumaraka Sutta]. 19 July 1997.
Described: five ways of prosperity that the Buddha preached to Liccavi princes; characteristics of a person who will do to prosper; the teaching which the Buddha repeatedly mentioned; five eyes of the Buddha. Listen more
Silanandabhivamsa, Dr Ashin. ရတနာသုံးပါး။ [Triple Gems]. US, 10 Jun 1991.
Mentioned: the benefits of Saranagamana; fading of Saranagamana; signs seen prior to death; what to do for one who is near to death; The Buddha is not God. Listen more
Silanandabhivamsa, Dr Ashin. သင္တန္းမိတ္ဆက္။ [Introduction]. US, 9 Jun 1991.
Include: historical evidence of the Buddha; explanation of Saranagamana; gist of Saranagamana; ways of establish- ing Saranagamana; breaking of Loki Saranagamana; three kinds of discarding Kilesa. Listen more
Vilasagga, Ashin (Saddhammaransi). စကားေကာင္းေကာင္းေျပာ။ [Right Speech]. Yangon, 14 Jun 2005.
Include: right speech; importance of right speech; speaking with mindfulness; four characteristics to speak. Listen more
Vilasagga, Ashin (Saddhammaransi). တရားအလုပ္ဆိုတာ သမၼာ ဒိ႒ိအလုပ္။ [The Work of Dhamma is a Sammaditthi]. [n.d.]
Explained: Sammaditthi, Micchaditthi and Samutisacca; how Sammaditthi and Upadanakkhanda are formed; importance of Sammaditthi in Dhamma work; destroying the Atta Ditthi system. Listen more
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I- Yamakavagga, The Pairs
14- Dvesahayakabhikkhu Vatthu
Bahumpi ce samhita bhasamano, na takkaro hoti naro pamatto;
gopova gavo ganayam paresam, na bhagava samannassa hoti.
Appampi ce samhita bhasamano, dhammassa hoti anudhammacari;
raganca dosanca pahaya moham, sammappajano suvimuttacitto;
anupadiyano idha va haram va, sa bhagava samannassa hoti.
19: Though he recites much the Sacred Texts (Tipitaka), but is negligent and does not practise according to the Dhamma, like a cowherd who counts the cattle of others, he has no share in the benefits of the life of a bhikkhu (i.e., Magga-phala).
20: Though he recites only a little of the Sacred Texts (Tipitaka), but practises according to the Dhamma, eradicating passion, ill will and ignorance, clearly comprehending the Dhamma, with his mind freed from moral defilements and no longer clinging to this world or to the next, he shares the benefits of the life of a bhikkhu (i.e., Magga-phala).
Reference:
Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.
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Candavara, Bhaddanta (Hlaing Mahasi Sayadaw). မီးလြတ္စားေသာက္ နိဗၺာန္ေရာက္။ [Eating by Consideration with Wisdom]. Yangon, 17 Mar 1986.
Include: eleven fires and ten Kilesa; way of having food by consideration with wisdom and how it leads till Nibbana discarding all Kilesa. Listen more
Candavara, Bhaddanta (Hlaing Mahasi Sayadaw). ဥပုသ္သည္ငါးဦး တရားေတာ္။ [Five Persons who Observe Uposatha Sila]. Yangon, 26 Dec 1986.
Referring to "Pancuposatha Jataka" (a story about five persons: hermit, pigeon, snake, fox, bear who observe Uposatha Sila), explained that keeping Sabbath is the tradition of wise people; reason of observing Uposatha Sila; quality of Vipassana practice; advantage of being in the Buddhist Era and disadvantage of being in period beyond the Buddhist Era. Listen more
Jayatissa, Dr Ashin (Kothaung Sayadaw). စြဲလန္းမႈမွာ ေၾကာက္ စရာ။ [Clinging is Fearful]. Yangon, 4 Mar 2009.
Explained: ten Kilesa; four types of Upadana (clinging); cause of clinging and how it is fearful giving the story of "Tissa Bhikkhu" as an example; way to avoid clinging. Listen more
Jayatissa, Dr Ashin (Kothaung Sayadaw). ေမ႑ကသူေဌး။ [A Rich Man Mandaka]. Yangon, 5 Sep 2007.
With reference to a rich man Mandaka and his family member's story, mentioned: the similes of Dana; four facts in achieving dana; six features necessary to be a perfect Dana; four immediate benefits of Dana; advice to perform Dana, Sila and Bhavana in order to attain Nibbana. Listen more
Pannasihabhivamsa, Ashin. စိတ္ဆုံးမပါမွ နိဗၺာန္ရ။ [Nibbana Can Only Be Attained by Disciplining One's Mind]. ၁၃၇၂။
Include: titles which are difficult to get; how mind is hard to discipline; way to discipline mind. Listen more
Pannasihabhivamsa, Ashin. အေဝစၥပသာဒ။ [Avaccapasada]. ၁၃၇၂။
Described: the meaning of Aviccapasada; benefits of respecting elders and honourable persons; way of preventing from danger. Listen more
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၁၃၇၅ ခု၊ ကဆုန္လဆန္း ၁ ရက္
ကဆုန္လဘြဲ႕
ေနနန္းရယ္တဲ့ ဖန္သူရိန္။
တန္ခိုး ဥဏွဂူႏွင့္၊
ကဆုန္ဟူ သည္မာသမွာ၊
ျပင္းျပပူရွိန္။
ဝိသာခါ ယွဥ္ျပိဳင္ဝန္းပါလို႔၊
ထြန္းလွတဲ့ ေငြတာရိန္ငယ္၊
ဒြတၱႎသ ေန႔စြဲ။
ပန္းစကားဝါ၊
နန္းဘယာ ေကသီဆင္လို႔၊
ေရႊျပည္ခြင္ ဗိုလ္ပါေပါင္းရယ္တို႔၊
ၿငိမ့္ေညာင္းေအာင္ ထာဝစဥ္ျဖင့္၊
ခါသဘင္ေညာင္ေရသြန္းၾကတယ္၊
လြမ္းစရာ့ပြဲ။
[မဟာဂီတ ဦးျပဳံးခ်ဳိ]
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I- Yamakavagga, The Pairs
13- Sumanadevi Vatthu
Idha nandati pecca nandati, katapunno ubhayattha nandati;
punnam me katanti nandati, bhiyyo nandati suggatim gato.
18: Here he is happy, hereafter he is happy; one who performs meritorious deeds is happy in both existences. Happily he exclaims: I have done meritorious deeds." He is happier still when he is reborn in a higher world (suggati).
Reference:
Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.
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Sangaha-vatthu 4
Sangaha is the rule of good social relation. Such attributes_ respectful, lovable and honourable show the perfection of Sangaha. Those who follow the rules of good social relations will prosper. The whole world will be peaceful too if people do so. There are four Sangaha-vatthu:
1.Dana = Charity
2.Piyavaca = Kindness in speech
3.Atthacariya = Helpful action
4.Samanattata = Participation
Charity is the act of giving things. It can only be done by the non greedy person.
Kindness in speech is a Metta speech. One should speak with kindness when dealing with others. Only person with less anger can do this work.
Person who cherishes the welfare of others uses oneself for the world and is worthy to call wise and virtuous person.
It is not enough just to perform charity, kindness in speech and helpful action. One should also help others by participating in social occasion of joy or grief.
Non arrogant person related equally with others. So, one should be equal in dealing with others though they are different in wealth, power or class.
These four rules of good social relations supported the world like a linchpin which fetters the turning wheel of a carriage.
Even parents will be ignored by their own children if they fail to follow the rules of good social relations. Lord Buddha instructed that wise persons are noble and deserve to be honoured as they consider these rules.
Therefore, regardless of race, religion and age, may all people can practise these four rules of good social relations (Sangaha-vatthu) and make the world a peaceful one.
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Chandadhika, Ashin (Shweparamitoya). ေနရာတိုင္းဟာ ကိုယ့္ရိပ္သာ။ [Every Place is a Meditation Centre]. 2011.
Giving “Therika Bhikkhuni” as an example, explained that every place is a meditation centre when one has mindfulness and wisdom at all times. Listen more
Chandadhika, Ashin (Shweparamitoya). မေသခ်င္ရင္ အသက္႐ွဴပါ။ [Breathe If You Don't Want to Die]. 2011.
With respect to “Anapana Kammatthana”, mentioned, why it should be practised; how it is a versatile Kammatthana; its other names and benefits. Listen more
Janakabhivamsa, Ashin (Chanmyay Sayadaw). မဂၤလာတရားေတာ္ႏွင့္ တရားနာ ရျခင္း အက်ိဳးငါးပါး။ [Blessing and Benefits of Listening to Dhamma]. Yangon, [no date]
Why listening to Dhamma is a blessing; Virtue; objective of performing Dana; result of donating food, robe, monastery, vehicle and Dhamma. Listen more
Janakabhivamsa, Ashin (Chanmyay Sayadaw). ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေလးမ်ိဳး တရားေတာ္။ [Four Types of Person]. Yangon, 18 April 1999.
Defining Pakadupanissaya Paccaya; manifestation of four types of person. Listen more
Saddhamma Kittisara, Bhaddanta (AungSan Sayadaw). ေသမင္း ကို စိန္ေခၚရာ ဓမၼာႏုပႆ နာ။ [Dhammanupassana that Challenges the King of Marana]. Insein, 29 January 2011.
Explained: seven things to know to discard Ditthi; twelve Ayatana; Dhammanupassana practice; Miccha Ditthi. Listen more
Saddhamma Kittisara, Bhaddanta (AungSan Sayadaw). ခႏၶာပဋိစၥ သမုပၸါဒ္ အစ ဆ အာယတန။ [Cha Ayatana_the Starting Point of Khandha Paticca Samuppada]. Insein, 29 January 2011.
Manifestation of twelve Ayatana; suitable meditation method for man and woman; benefits of walking meditation. Listen more
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