Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Theravada Audio Dhamma (22)


Chekinda, Dr Ashin (Dhammaduta, Hmawbi). တစ္သက္လုံးေန တတ္ေအာင္။ [How to Stay Throughout the Life]. [no date]
Manifestation of Vipassana Nana which include: definition; attention; obtaining and inhibition of Vipassana Nana.  Listen more
Chekinda, Dr Ashin (Dhammaduta, Hmawbi). ဝိပဿနာအစ ဝိပဿနာအဆုံး အလုပ္ေပးတရားေတာ္။ [Dhamma Exercise on Beginning and Ending Points of Vipassana]. Hmawbi, 1 November 2001.
Include: Samatha Yanika and Vipassana Yanika persons; what Vipassana is; work of Vipassana; beginning and ending points of Vipassana.  Listen more
Janakabhivamsa, Ashin (Maha Gandhayon Sayadaw). ကံႏွင့္ ကံအက်ိဳးတရားေတာ္။ [Cause and Effect of Kamma]. [no date]
What Samsara is; Kamma Piccaya ability; necessary facts to have good Kamma effect (existence, time, personality, effort, virtue).  Listen more
Janakabhivamsa, Ashin (Maha Gandhayon Sayadaw). လူအမ်ား သိသင့္ေသာ ေက်ာင္းအလွဴ ။ [Donation of Monastery]. [no date]
Include: benefits of donating monastery meant for all monks; responsibilities of the donor of the monastery and its resident monks; offering Kathina robe.  Listen more
Kundalabhivamsa, Ashin (Saddhammaramsi Sayadaw). ပဒါနိယဂၤ သုတၱန္ (ၾကိဳးစားတြင္တြင္)။ [Padaniyanga Sutta (Hard Working)].
[no date]

Described: the importance of hard working in Kammatthana practice; four good chances; three ways of practising; types of observing Vedana.  Listen more
Kundalabhivamsa, Ashin (Saddhammaramsi Sayadaw). ပဒါနိယဂၤ သုတၱန္ (ေျဖာင့္စြာစိတ္ထား)။ [Padaniyanga Sutta (Honest Mind)]. 1353 B.E.
Explanation about Honesty_one of the necessary facts in practising Kammatthana; characteristics of a person who can attain Magga, Phala and Nibbana.  Listen more
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Monday, August 26, 2013

Dhamma Terms (9)


ၾကာႏု /kja nu./ n part of ေစတီ decorated with a motif of small lotus petals.
ၾကာျပန္ /kja bjan/ n Same as ၾကာလန္ n.
ၾကာေမွာက္ /kja(kja) hmau'/ n part of ေစတီ resembling an inverted lotus flower.
ၾကာရင့္ /kja jin./ n part of ေစတီ decorated with a motif of large lotus petals.
ၾကာလန္ /kja(kja) lan/ n part of ေစတီ resembling a spreading lotus flower.
ၾကာသကၤန္း /kja thin gan:/

n 1 sacred robe in a lotus bud occurring in primordial days. 2 sacred robe woven from lotus fibre. 3 ornamental robe offered to the Buddha.
ႀကီးျမတ္ /kji: Mja'/ adj noble.
ေၾကးစည္ /kjei:(kji:) zi/ n triangular brass gong.
ေၾကာင့္ၾက /kjaun. gja./ v be anxious; be worried.
ေၾကာင့္ၾကစိုက္ /kjaun. gja. sai'/ v do sth with due concern.
ေၾကာင့္ၾကမႈ /kjaun. gja. hmu./ n anxiety; worry.
ၾကည္ညဳိ /kji njou/ v respect; revere.
ၾကမၼာ /kjama/ n 1 karma. 2 fate (usually used when ill fate is concerned).
ၾကမၼာငင္ /kjama ngin/ v be ill-fated.
ကြန္႔ျမဴး /kun. mju:/

v 1 (of sacred figures as the Buddha or sacred objects) radiate brilliant, tremulous light. 2 sparkle. 3 be inspired with imaginative ideas (as in ဉာဏ္ ~ -- ); have a brain-wave.
ကြယ္လြန္ /kwe lun/ v die; pass away; expire.
ကြၽတ္တမ္းဝင္ /kju' tan:win/ v be emancipated from Samsara.
ႂကြ /kjwa./ v 1 rise up. 2 (holy or respectable persons) come or go; invite or bid farewell politely.
ႂကြခ်ီ /kjwa. chi/ v Same as ႂကြ v 2.
ႂကြျမန္း /kjwa. mjan:/ v Same as ႂကြ v 2.
ႂကြေရာက္ /kjwa. jau'/ v [formal] (of distinguished persons) arrive; come.
 

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Saturday, August 24, 2013

Dhammapada 32 [Khuddaka Nikaya]


II- Appamadavagga, Heedfulness
9 - Nigamavasitissatthera Vatthu

Appamadarato bhikkhu, pamade bhayadassi va;
abhabbo parihanaya, nibbanasseva santike.
32: A bhikkhu who takes delight in mindfulness and sees danger in negligence will not fall away; he is, indeed, very close to Nibbana.
 

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

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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Theravada Audio Dhamma (21)


Nandamalabhivamsa, Dr. Bhaddanta (Rector, ITBMU). စိတ္ကို ေလ့လာသုံးသပ္ျခင္း။ [Observation of Mind]. Yangon, 1370 B.E.
Explained: two persons who can pause the process of mind; mind in human life; cause of wholesome and unwholesome consciousness.  Listen more
Nandamalabhivamsa, Dr. Bhaddanta (Rector, ITBMU). နာမ္တရားကို ေလ့လာသုံးသပ္ျခင္း။ [Observation of Nama]. Yangon, 1370 B.E.
Regarding to Namma, explained: definition; location, base and formation.  Listen more
Pannissara, Dr Ashin (Dhammaduta, Bago). ေဖၚမဲ့ခရီးသည္။ [Unaccompanied Traveller]. Daiku, 8 December 2006.
Include: Maranassati_consideration of death; Buddha's way of observing Maranassati; process of life; two journeys that one has to travel without companion; what true happiness and misery are. Listen more
Pannissara, Dr Ashin (Dhammaduta, Bago). ျမတ္ဗုဒၶ၏ အယူဝါဒ အလုပ္ေပးတရားေတာ္။ [The Doctrine of the Buddha]. Bago, 16 December 2005.
Mentioned: the doctrine of the Buddha (i.e. discarding Tanha); results of discarding and not discarding Tanha.  Listen more
Vimala, U (Mogok Sayadaw). လူမိုက္ႏွင့္ လူလိမၼာခြဲျခားပုံ။ [Differentiation Between Unwholesome and Wholesome Persons]. Amarapura, 28 December 1959.
Include: difference between unwholesome and wholesome persons; Vipassana Magga and Lokuttara Magga. Listen more  
Vimala, U (Mogok Sayadaw). ေသာတာပန္တည္နည္း တရားေတာ္။ [How to Become a Sotapanna]. Amarapura, 31 December 1959.
Explaining the view of Sotapanna. Listen more 
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Saturday, August 17, 2013

Dhamma Terms (8)


ေက်းဇူး /kjei: zu:/ n 1 good deed for others. 2 benefit. 3 gratitude. [Pali ကတၫုတ]
က်င္လည္ /kjin le/ v 1 be caught in a vicious circle. 2 move in a particular section of society.
က်င့္ /kjin./ v 1 practise. 2 train.
က်င့္ႀကံ /kjin. kjan/ v act according to intention.
က်င့္စဉ္ /kjin. zin/ n rules of conduct; practice.
က်င့္ဝတ္ /kjin. wu'/ n rules of conduct; moral code.
က်င့္သုံး /kjin. thoun:/ v practise; observe or act (in accordance with tradition or accepted rules).
ေက်ာင္း /kjaun:/ n 1 monastery; 2 school. v look after; tend (as in ႏြား~ -- /ဝမ္း~ --).
ေက်ာင္းကန္ /kjaun: kan/ n collective term for religious edifices.
ေက်ာင္းထိုင္ /kjaun: htain/ v preside at a monastery.
ေက်ာင္းထိုင္ဆရာေတာ္ /kjaun: dain hsaja do/ n presiding monk at a monastery.
ေက်ာင္းအမ /kjaun: ama/ n lady who sponsors the building of a monastery.
က်ည္းဝန္း /kji: wun:/ n part of ေစတီ၊
က်ိန္း /kjein:/ v (of sacred objects) reside, lie; (of holy persons) sleep.
က်ိန္းစက္ /kjein: se'/ v Same as က်ိန္း v.
က်ိပ္ /kjei'/ part numerical classifier denoting 'tens' (as in ႏွစ္ ~ ).
က်မ္းစာ /kjan za/ n scripture.
က်ဳံ႕က်ဳံ႕ထိုင္ /kjoun. gjoun. htain/ v sit decorously (with feet tucked underneath).
 

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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Dhammapada 31 [Khuddaka Nikaya]



II- Appamadavagga, Heedfulness
8 - Annatarabhikkhu Vatthu

Appamadarato bhikkhu, pamade bhayadassi va;
samyojanam anum thulam, daham aggiva gacchati.
31: A bhikkhu who takes delight in mindfulness and sees danger in negligence, advances like fire, burning up all fetters, great and small.
Reference:
Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.

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Sunday, August 11, 2013

Dhamma Facts (5)


Three Kappa (Three Disasters)
1.The disaster by weapons (Satthantara Kappa)
2.The disaster by pestilence (Rogantara Kappa)
3.The disaster by famine (Dubbhikkhantara Kappa)
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