Sunday, July 28, 2013

Theravada Audio Dhamma (19)


Silakkhandabhivansa, Bhaddanta (Tipitakadhara Mawkyun Sayadaw). ပယ္သတ္သင့္တာ ပယ္သတ္ပါ။ [Discard What It Should Be]. Singapore, 14 April 2013.
Mentioned: facts to avoid for the unity of an organization; things to discard i.e. Tahna, conceit, Michha Ditthi_ Sassata and Uccheda Ditthi, twelve Ayatana, Nandi Raga and five Nivarana.  Listen more
Silakkhandabhivansa, Bhaddanta (Tipitakadhara Mawkyun Sayadaw). ဘဝသံသရာ တိုေစပါ။ [Shorten Bhava Samsara]. Singapore, 13 April 2013.
Manifestation of ways to shorten Samsara; Vipassana practice; a brief method to dispel Sakkaya Ditthi.  Listen more
Sobhana, Ashin (Shweminwun Sayadaw). ေဒြသဟာယက ဝတၳဳ။ [Dwei Sahayaka Story]. [no date]
With reference to the story of two monk friends, mentioned the importance of mindfulness in meditation and advise to practise according to the instruction of the teacher.  Listen more
Sobhana, Ashin (Shweminwun Sayadaw). ေသာတာပန္ျဖစ္ရန္ အေၾကာင္းေလးတန္။ [Four Causes to be a Sotapanna]. 1371 B.E.
Include: the extraordinary character of a Sotapanna; four causes to become a Sotapanna; characteristics of virtuous person and the evil one.  Listen more
Suria, U (Shwemann Sayadaw). ငရဲၾကီး႐ွစ္ထပ္(ဥပမာျပ) သစၥာ တရားေတာ္။ [Sacca_Eight Planes of Nirana Shown as an Example]. Yangon, 25 December 2007.
Elucidation of Eight Planes of Nirana including_ name; size, life span, sufferings and cause of existing; way to avoid Nirana; seven fires.  Listen more
Suria, U (Shwemann Sayadaw). ဘုရားမွာေသာစကားသုံးခြန္း။ [The Three Advices of the Buddha]. London, 19 May 2007.
Include: a conversation between the Buddha and Subha Bhikkhu; four Dullaba; nine weapons necessary to follow the Buddha; history of Paticca Samuppada Circle or Elaboration of the three advices of the Buddha with three hundred and thirty three words by U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw).  Listen more
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Friday, July 26, 2013

Dhamma Terms (6)


ကပ္ /ka'/ n 1 epoch (as in အာယု ~ ၊ အႏၲရ ~ ၊). 2 time of catastrophe, calamity, disaster. [Pali ကပၸ]
ကပ္ႀကီးသုံးပါး /ka' kji: thoun: ba:/

n the three catastrophes, namely famine, war and epidemic diseases. See also ဒုဗိၻကၡႏၲရကပ္၊ သတၳႏၲရကပ္၊ေရာဂႏၲရကပ္
ကပ္ /ka'/ v 3 offer things reverently (as in ဆြမ္း ~ ၊ ပန္း ~ ၊).
ကပ္လႉ /ka' hlu/v Same as ကပ္ v 3.
ကပၸဗိႏၶဳ /ka' pa. bein du./

n pattern of dots made in corner of a monk's robe (so as to be in accord with the Vinaya). [Pali ကပၸ + ဗိႏၶဳ]
ကပၸိ /ka' pi./
v make ritualistic preparations in accordance with Buddhist ordinances regarding the needs of Buddhist monks. [Pali ကပၸိယ]
ကပၸိယ /ka' pi. ja./ n lay attendant (to monasteries). [Pali ကပၸိယ]
ကမၻာ /gaba/ n 1 earth; world. 2 aeon. [Pali ကပၸ]
ကမၼဇ႐ုပ္ /kamaza. jou'/

n physical make-up of a being as the consequence of one's past deeds. [Pali ကမၼဇ + ႐ုပ္]
ကမၼဇေလ /kamaza. lei/
n force which gives the required impetus at the time of childbirth. [Pali ကမၼဇ + ေလ]
ကမၼဇိဒၶိ /kamazei' di./ n mystical power bestowed by one's past deeds. [Pali ကမၼဇိဒ]
 

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Dhammapada 29 [Khuddaka Nikaya]


II- Appamadavagga, Heedfulness
6 - Dvesahayakabhikkhu Vatthu

Appamatto pamattesu, suttesu bahujagaro;
abalassa mva sighasso, hitva yati sumedhaso.
29: Mindful amongst the negligent, highly vigilant amongst the drowsy, the man of wisdom advances like a race-horse, leaving the jade behind.

Reference:
Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.

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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Theravada Audio Dhamma (18)


Nagindalankara, Ashin (Mingundhammaceti Sayadaw). တရားနာ ရေသာ အက်ိဳး။ [Benefits of Listening to the Dhamma]. Ye, 1371 B.E.
Mentioned: the prayer that contains thirteen attributes of the Buddha; five benefits of listening to the Dhamma. Listen more
Nagindalankara, Ashin (Mingundhammaceti Sayadaw). သာသနာ့ေရေသာက္ျမစ္။ [The Main Source of Sasana]. Mawlamyine, 1371 B.E.
Include: Saturday born four Buddhas; three Sasana; Monastic education; five causes of Sasana disappearance; answering the questions related to Dana and reciting Darana Parita.  Listen more
Nyanobasa, Ashin (Thazin Yeikyaw Sayadaw) ဇာနေတာ ပသေတာ။ [Janato Pasato]. [no date]
With reference to “Vasijata Sutta”, explained the way of eliminating Asava in sequence.  Listen more
Nyanobasa, Ashin (Thazin Yeikyaw Sayadaw) ပင့္ကူေနနည္း ပမာမွီး။ [Imitating the Behaviour of a Spider]. [no date]
Described: two Kammatthana; how to imitate the behaviour of a spider when doing meditation.  Listen more
Vijaya, Ashin (Mula Dhamma Sayadaw). အမွားဆုံးႏွင့္ အမွန္ဆုံး တရား။ [The Most Wrongful and Righteous Dhamma]. [no date]
Explained how to observe the nature of Dhamma; ten benefactors; repaying gratitude; the right view; the most wrongful and righteous Dhamma with an example story about the two farmer brothers.  Listen more
Vijaya, Ashin (Mula Dhamma Sayadaw). အ၀ိဇၨာႏွင့္ ၀ိဇၨာ။ [Avijja and Vijja]. Amarapura, 1368 B. E.
Manifestation of Vijja and Avijja; Four Noble Truth.  Listen more
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Dhamma Terms (5)


ေကာင္းမႈ /kaun: hmu./ n 1 good deed; meritorious deed.
ေကာင္းရာသုဂတိ /kaun: ja thu. gati/ n better future existence.
ကိုင္း႐ိႈင္း /kain: shain:/ v be devout; have or show deep respect for.
ကိစၥ /kei' sa./

n business; work to be done. [Pali ကိစၥ] Function. Regarding the 14 functions of consciousness. [Pali: Kicca]
ကဏၬေကာစ /kan dago: za./ adv contrarily. [Pali ကဏၬက]
ကဏၰသုခ /kan na. thu. kha./ n euphony. [Pali ကဏၰ + သုခ] ကိတၱိမသား /kei' ti. ma. tha:/ n adopted child. [Pali ကိတၱိမ + Myan သား]
ကႏၲာရ /kan ta ra./ n difficult journey. [Pali ကႏၲာရ]
ကန္ေတာ့ /gado./

v pay obeisance with one's hands clapped palm to palm and raised to touch one's forehead. 2 present a gift in respect and gratitude (as in အေမကိုေငြတစ္ရာ ~ -- )
ကန္ေတာ့ဆြမ္း /gado. zun:/ n expression of apology to a monk for one's inability to offer ဆြမ္း.
ကိန္း /kein:/ v (of holy object) enshrine; (of holy person) live, dwell.
ကိန္းဝပ္ /kein: wu'/ v be enshrined (as in ဓာတ္ေတာ္ ~ --).
ကိန္းေအာင္း /kein: aun:/ v dwell in exist within.
ကုန္းေခ်၁ /goun: cho:/ v make mischief (between two persons).
ကုန္းစကား /goun: zaga:/ n slander; clumny.
ကုန္းတိုက္ /goun tai'/ v Same as ကုန္းေခ်ာ v.
 

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Monday, July 15, 2013

Dhammapada 28 [Khuddaka Nikaya]


II- Appamadavagga, Heedfulness
5 - Mahakassapatthera Vatthu

Pamadam appamadena, yada nudati pandito;
pannapasadamaruyha, asoko sokinim pajam;
pabbatatthova bhumatthe, dhiro bale avekkhati.
28: The wise one dispels negligence by means of mindfulness; he ascends the tower of wisdom and being free from sorrow looks at the sorrowing beings. Just as one on the mountain top looks at those on the plain below, so also, the wise one (the arahat) looks at the foolish and the ignorant (worldlings).
 

Reference:
Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.

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Thursday, July 11, 2013

Dhamma Facts (3)


Three Ratana (Three Precious Jewels)
1. Buddha ratana = The Precious Buddha
2. Dhamma ratana = The Precious Doctrine
3. Samgha ratana = The Precious Order
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