Dhammapada 63 [Khuddaka Nikaya]

5 - Balavagga, The Fool
4 - Ganthibhedakacora Vatthu

Ya balo mannati balyam, panditovapi tena so;
balo ca panditamani, sa ve baloti vuccati.

63: The fool who knows that he is a fool can, for that reason, be a wise man; but the fool who thinks that he is wise is, indeed, called a fool.
Reference:
Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.

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ေခတ္ ေတး (၁)

လွမ္းလာခဲ့ပါ ျပည္ျမန္မာ

ေရး- မင္းခ်စ္သူ၊ ဆို- ေခ်ာစုခင္၊

နားဆင္ ႏွလံုးသြင္းရန္

ဒီေနရာ ဒီဌာေန သာယာလွပတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံတစ္ခုေပ၊ ေနေရာင္ျခည္ျဖာ ေႏြးေထြးတဲ့ ရာသီနဲ႔ေလ၊ ေ႐ႊေရာင္နယ္ေျမ
ဝင္းပတဲ့ ဒီျမင္ကြင္းေတြ၊ သယံဇာတမ်ားလည္း ေပါႂကြယ္ေန။ x

ကမၻာေပၚမွာ ျမန္မာဆိုတာ အစဉ္အလာႀကီးမားဖူးတာ အထင္အ႐ွားေပ၊ ဂုဏ္ယူဖြယ္ရာ ေ႐ွးေဟာင္း႐ိုးရာ အေမြအႏွစ္ေတြ၊ ျပည္နယ္ေတြနဲ႔ သားခ်င္းမ်ားစြာ ဖြဲ႔စည္းေန၊ ေဖၚေ႐ြပ်ဴငွာ သေဘာေကာင္းၾကတယ္ေလ။

x (အေရာက္သာ လွမ္းလာခဲ့ပါ ခရီးသြားစို႔ တို႔ရဲ႕ ျမန္မာျပည္၊ ႀကိဳဆိုပါတယ္ ဧည့္ဝတ္လည္းေက်၊ တို႔ေသြးခ်င္းေတြ၊)၂။

ဗဟုသုတ မွွတ္သားစရာေတြ၊ ၾကည့္႐ႈမဝ အလွမ်ားစြာေပ၊ တစ္သက္မေမ့စရာ သင့္အတြက္ အမွတ္ရမယ့္ ခရီးေလ။ xx ။

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Dhamma for Lifestyle (18)

Twelve Happiness

1. Having true friend.
2. Having contentment.
3. Having merit for death.
4. Discarding all deeds and consequences in the round of rebirth.
5-8. Looking after the parents, practising monk, arahat, lesser Buddha and the Buddha.
9. Having morality.
10. Having firm confidence (faith).
11. Having wisdom.
12. Being restrained from doing evil deed.
Ottama, Ashin (Thitsar Shwesi Sayadaw). Twelve Happiness.

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Dhamma Facts (23)

24 Conditions

(1) Hetu paccayo,
Condition that fortifies its conditioned state.
(2) Ārammaṇa paccayo,
Condition as an object of the conditioned state.
(3) Adhipati paccayo,
Condition that predominates over its conditioned state.
(4) Anantara paccyao,
Condition that precedes its conditioned state.
(5) Samanantara paccayo,
Condition that just precedes its conditioned state.
(6) Sahajāta paccayo,
Condition born together with its conditioned state.
(7) Aññamañña paccayo,
Condition that reciprocates with its conditioned state.
(8) Nissaya paccayo,
Condition that supports its conditioned state.
(9) Upanissaya paccayo,
Condition that strongly supports its conditioned state.
(10) Purejāta paccayo,
Condition that is born earlier than its conditioned state.
(11) Pacchājāta paccayo,
Condition that is born later than its conditioned state.
(12) Āsevana paccayo,
Condition that repeats the arising of its conditioned state.
(13) Kamma paccayo,
Condition that produces and stimulates its conditioned state.
(14) Vipāka paccayo,
Condition that quietens its conditioned state.
(15) Āhāra paccayo,
Condition that sustains its conditioned state. 
(16) Indriya paccayo,
Condition that controls its conditioned state in the function.
(17) Jhāna paccayo,
Condition that makes its conditioned state observed an object
(18) Magga paccayo,
Condition as the path of its conditioned state.
(19) Sampayutta paccayo,
Condition by associating with the conditioned state.
(20) Vippayutta paccayo,
Condition by dissociating from the conditioned state.
(21) Atthi paccayo,
Condition of the conditioned states at the moment of existence.
(22) Natthi paccayo,
Condition of the conditioned states at moment of non-existence.
(23) Vigata paccayo,
Conditiion of the conditioned states after having ceased.
(24) Avigata paccayo,
Condition of the conditioned states before it ceases.
 
Reference: Nandamālābhivaṃsa, Sayadaw Dr. PAṬṬHĀNA.
http://khemarama.com/en/paṭṭhana-sayadaw-dr-n...

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Theravada Audio Dhamma (34)

Candavara, Bhaddanta (Hlaing Mahasi Sayadaw). ဒါနေၾကာင့္ သံသရာ မ႐ွည္ပါ။ [Dana Doesn't Prolong Samsara]. Yangon, 12 December 1978.

Mentioned: Vipassana_the only way to Nibbana; achievement of the person who follows the instruction of the Buddha; ways of performing Dana Kusala giving the story of the wealthy man, Jotika as an example.

Candavara, Bhaddanta (Hlaing Mahasi Sayadaw). နိဗၺာန္ေမြးျမဴေရး တရားေတာ္။ [Having Nibbana]. Yangon, 16 april 1987.

Include: importance of discipline; sila visoddhi; citta visoddhi; level of attainment in meditation; Megga Kusala.

Jayatissa, Dr Ashin (Kothaung Sayadaw). အပ်င္းပယ္ေဖ်ာက္ နိဗၺာန္ေရာက္။ [Discard Laziness and Attain Nibbana]. Singapore, 9 August 2012.

Include: six big leakages of human beings; four Sampada; opposite of laziness; eleven characteristics of effort (Viriya).

Jayatissa, Dr Ashin (Kothaung Sayadaw). မဂၤလာတရားေတာ္။ [Mangala Dhamma]. Singapore, 19 August 2012.

With various examples, explained: four Sampatti; introduction to Mangala; associating with the wise and not to associate with the fool; residing in a suitable locality; having done the meritorious actions in the past; setting oneself in the right course.

Pannasihabhivamsa, Ashin. ေနာက္ဆုံးလူမျဖစ္ပါေစႏွင့္။ [Don't Be a Last Person]. Yangon, 1372 B.E.

Giving the Maghadeva Jataka as an example, explained, how eight Maggangha is the only practice to attain Nibbana.

Pannasihabhivamsa, Ashin. အခြင့္ေကာင္းကို မေ႐ွာင္လႊဲပါႏွင့္။ [Don't Avoid the Good Opportunity]. Yangon, 19 January 2012.

Described: three kinds of Metta; whom to pray for Metta; developing Metta; facts to amend; four good opportunities; audience of the Buddha; seizing the good opportunity; three types of beliefs; how to meditate; the Mahabuta_ the four basic properties of matter. 

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Dhamma Terms (38)

ဇနကဇာတ္ /zanaka. (zane'ka.) za'/ 

n the second of the Ten Great Jatakas. See also ဇာတ္ႀကီး ဆယ္ဘြဲ႔. [Pali ဇနက+ဇာတက]

ဇနပုဒ္ /zanapou' (bou')/ n hamlet; small village. [Pali ဇနပဒ]
ဇယတု /zajatu./ v be successful; be victorious. [Pali ဇယတု]
ဇရာ /zaja/ n old age; decrepitude; decay. [Pali ဇရာ]
ဇရာေထာင္း /zaja htaun:/ v suffer the ills and infirmities of old age.
ဇရာဒုဗၺလ /zaja dou' bala./ n senility. [Pali ဇရာ+ဒုဗၺလ]
ဇရာအို /zaja ou/ naged person.
ဇရပ္ /zaja'/ n 1 sayside public resthouse. 2 resthouse built on sacred premises. [Mon ျဇပ္]
ဇလေဗဒ /zala. bei da./ n hydrology. [Pali ဇလ+ေဗဒ]
ဇဝနဉာဏ္ /zawana. njan/ n intelligence; quit wit. [Pali ဇဝန+ဉာဏ]
ဇာတိ /za ti./ n 1 conception (as in ~ ၊ ဇရာ၊ မရဏ). 2 native (as in ရန္ကုန္ ~ ). [ Pali ဇာတိ]
ဇာတိေခတ္ /za ti. khi'/

n [Buddhist Scriptures] ten thousand cosmic systems which were affected by earthquakes and upheavals marking the conception and birth of the Lord Buddha important stages in his atttainment of Buddhahood and Parinirvana. See also ဝိသယေခတ္၊ အာဏာေခတ္.

ဇာတိခ်က္ေႂကြ /za ti. che' kjwei/ n Same as ဇာတိ n 2.
ဇာတိခ်က္ျမွဳပ္ /za ti. che' hmjou'/ n Same as ဇာတိ n 2.
ဇာတိစိတ္ /za ti. zei'/ n innate nature; disposition.
ဇာတိမာန္ /za ti. man/ n 1 national spirit; pride of one's race and nation. 2 pride of one's lineage. 

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Dhamma Terms (37)

ဆြမ္းဆန္ /hsun: hsan/ n rice offered to monks.
ဆြမ္းဆန္စိမ္း /hsun: hsan zein:/ n offering of provisions to monks.
ဆြမ္းေတာ္ /hsun: do/ n same as ဆြမ္း n.
ဆြမ္းေတာ္စြန္႔ /hsun: do sun./ v remove and discard food offerings from the altar.
ဆြမ္းေတာ္တင္ /hsun: do tin/ v offer food to the buddha. /hsun: do din/ food offering to the Buddha.
ဆြမ္းပင့္ /hsun: pin./ v Same as ဆြမ္းစားပင့္ v.
ဆြမ္းပန္း /hsun: ban:/ n Same as ဆြမ္း n.
ဆြမ္းဖိတ္ /hsun: hpei'/ v (of a person) request a monk to accept food offerings from his house.
ဆြမ္းရပ္ /hsun: ja'/ v (of monk) pause in front of a house to receive offerings of food.
ဆြမ္းေလာင္း /hsun: laun:/ v put food into a monk's bowl on his daily round.
ဆြမ္းလုပ္ေကြၽး /hsun: lou' kjwei:/ v offer ဆြမ္း to monks.
ဆြမ္းသိမ္းပြဲ /hsun: thein: bwe:/

n ceremony marking the end of weekly offerings during the Buddhist Lent.

ဆြမ္းသြတ္ /hsun: thu'/

v put an offering of food into a monk's bowl or offer a meal to one or more monks within a week of a person's death.

ဆြမ္းဟင္း /hsun: hin:/ n a dish of meat or vegetables offered to monks.
ဆြမ္းအုပ္ /hsun: ou'/ n large bowl with stand and cover (usually of lacquer) for offering of food to monks.

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