Saturday, October 29, 2011

Audiography on Theravada Dhamma Discourses [39]


ေၾကာင္းက်ိဳးသိျမင္ ဒိ႒ိစင္ တရားေတာ္ (၁) / Ashin Sunanda (Dhammaransi Sayadaw) Mogok, Sep 8, 2004.
Defining: Patthana, sunnata Dhamma, Nibbana; manifestation of Hetu (Root) paccaya; Dhamma discussion between the Buddha and a non-Buddhist ascetic Acelakassapa. Listen more
ေၾကာင္းက်ိဳးသိျမင္ ဒိ႒ိစင္ တရားေတာ္ (၂) / Ashin Sunanda (Dhammaransi Sayadaw) Mogok, Sep 9, 2004.
Description of merit (Aloba, Adosa, Amoha) and demerit (Loba, Dosa, Moha) Hetu; defining different Ti-hetu persons (person with the three well-springs of merit and Dwi-hetu persons (person with the two well-springs of merit); how to eliminate Dukkha; explanation of Ditthi with reference to the Dhamma talk between the Buddha and a non-Buddhist ascetic Acelakassapa. Listen more 
ခႏၶာပဋိစၥသမုပၸါဒ္ႏွင္႔ဒိဌိျဖဳတ္တရားေတာ္ / Bhaddanta Saddhamma Kittisara, (Aung San Sayadaw) Yangon, Feb 17, 2004.
Objective of preaching and listening to dhamma; importance of realizing the right path to Nibbana; explanation of Paticca Samuppada, Sacca and uprooting Ditthi. Listen more
ပဋိစၥသမုပၸါဒ္ တရားေတာ္ သစၥာမသိေသးလွ်င္ံ နိဗၺာန္မရွိေသး / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Yangon, Jul 10, 1962.
Advising: to have kamma which is neither black (evil deed) nor white (meritonious deed) _ that is, to detach Kamma; to change from Tanha to Aloba and from Avijja to vijja so as to end Samsara. Listen more
ယမမင္းစစ္တမ္း / U Agganyana (Kanbe payalay kyaung) Yangon, aug 10, 2005.
Explaining about: the power of Ditthi; eight levels of Niraya; interrogation made by the king of Niraya to those who recently cast into Niraya. Listen more
ဝိပႆနာအစ သံေဝဂ / Ashin Zeyapandhita (Pilot Sayadaw) Sep 9, 2004.
Defining _ Dana, Samvega (remorse), habit, hobby; what to do to escape from being in Apaya; how Samvega commence vipassana with reference to the renunciation of Bodhisatta Sidattha; advising to strive to realize the nature of Khanda as it is. Listen more
အေမွာင္ငါးစင္း အလင္းငါးခ်က္ တရားေတာ္ / Bhaddanta Saddhamma Kittisara, (Aung San Sayadaw) Yangon, Feb 18, 2004.
Manifestation of Vijja and Avijja: future existences of person who died with Loba, Dosa and Moha, transforming from Avijja to vijja, five Nanas. Listen more
အရွင္ေကာ႑ည ေသာတာပန္ တည္ပုံ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Yangon, Jul 9, 1962.
How Venerable Kondanna realized sacca; advising to dissociate tanha to end Samsara and to associate Saddha and Panna to attain Nibbana. Listen more
အဝိဇၨာထု၊ တဏွာထု ေၾကးဖလားႀကီး / U Agganyana (Kanbe payalay kyaung) Yangon, Aug 10, 2005.
Benefits of listening to Dhamma; ten Kilesas; instruction to uproot Ditthi, which is the most fearful one in thirty-one realms. Listen more
အဝိဇၨာႏွင့္ တဏွာျဖစ္ေပၚပုံ / Ashin Zeyapandhita (Pilot Sayadaw) Apr 2004.
Nature of Vijja and Avijja; variation of Panna and Moha strength in living beings; how to overcome one's mind; Dana_the Dhamma which all the Buddhas practised first to gain enlightenment. Listen more

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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Audiography on Theravada Dhamma Discourses [38]


ခႏၶာအစဥ္ ဉာဏ္ဝင္ျဖတ္ပုံ တရားေတာ္ / U Eindavudabhivamsa (Htoogyi Sayadaw) Yangon, Nov 26, 2005.
Instruction to observe the continuity of khandha by nana with reference to the Dhamma discussion of Venerable Nandaka and five hundred bhikhuni. Listen more
စိတ္ဓာတ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္း လူ႔႔႔အစြမ္း / Bhaddanta Sirindabhivamsa (Yaw Sayadaw) Yangon, Nov 29, 2002.
Defining Samana, Samannya and Samannyaphala; how to measure the ability of a virtuous person; the abilities of Kilesa. Listen more
တရားေဆာင္သူ စိတ္မပူ / Bhaddanta Sirindabhivamsa (Yaw Sayadaw) Yangon, Oct 17, 1999.
Description of the power of Dhamma; advising to practise religious meditation as just knowing Dhamma is not enough to suppress Kilesa; importance of Sati in dispelling Kilesa. Listen more
ႏွလုံးသား တရားတည္ထားပါ / Ashin Eindasarabhivamsa. Thayetkon, Nov 23, 2003.
How to establish Dhamma at heart (Dhammanussati Bhavana) giving Bhikkhu Dhammar Dhamma and mother of Thera Shin Conna as examples; Buddha's advice to Kalama prince_ to practise oneself and realize Dhamma. Listen more
ပဋိစၥသမုပၸါဒ္ႏွင့္ စိတၱာႏုပႆနာ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Yangon, Jul 7, 1962.
What listening to Dhamma means; how the Buddha knows everything; advice to observe by Magga nana whenever vedana occurs in order to detach Sanyojjana and attain Nibbana with reference to the Dhamma discussion between the Buddha and Mavacca brahmin. Listen more
ဗုဒၶဂုဏ္ရည္ တရားေတာ္ / Ashin Janakabhivamsa (Mahagandharon Sayadaw) Bago, Nov 23, 1975.
Striving of the Bodhisatta to have the title of “the Buddha” and started sasana; difference between loka ratana and Buddha ratana; five Maras; exhorting to perform Buddhanussati. Listen more
ဘဝစက္ႏွင့္ ဓမၼစက္ တရားေတာ္ / U Eindavudabhivamsa (Htoogyi Sayadaw) Yangon, Nov 25, 2005.
Circulation of Samudaya sacca and Dukkha sacca; to avoid two extremes_Kammasukhallika nuyoga and Attakilamatha nuyoga; to dispel ditthi prior to Vipassana practice. Listen more
သစၥာသိဖို႔ အေရးႀကီးပုံ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Yangon, Jul 8, 1962.
Importance of realizing sacca; recycling of Samudaya sacca and Dukkha sacca; urging to practise Cittanupassana which is the right judgement of one's mind by nana. Listen more
အကာ နဲ႔ အႏွစ္ ခြဲစိစစ္ / Ashin Eindasarabhivamsa. Yangon, Sep 1, 1997.
Explaining: three wrong ideas; necessary facts to be a successful dana; the best person to donate, advising to extract the essence of Dana, Sila and Vipassana from one's property, khanda and life. Listen more
အေမးအေျဖ () () / Ashin Janakabhivamsa (Mahagandharon Sayadaw) Bago, Nov 23, 1975.
Dhamma questions and answers. Listen more

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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Audiography on Theravada Dhamma Discourses [37]


ကာယာ ႏုပႆနာ အလုပ္ေပးတရား / U Janitalankara. [no date]
Instruction of kayanupassana practice. Listen more  
ႏွလုံးသြင္းမွားမႈေႀကာင့္ ဒိ႒ိျဖစ္ရပုံ တရားေတာ္ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) [no date]  
Describing: the cause of Ditthi_ a wrong consideration on five aggregates; discarding ditthi_a judicious consideration on five aggregates which leads to Nibbana. Listen more      
မေမ့အပ္ေသာ အေၾကာင္းသုံးပါး / Vanavasi Ashin Nyeyadhammasami (Maha Bodhimyaing Sayadaw) Jun 11, 1997.
Elucidation of three Dhamma that are to keep always in one's mind_ 1. the Three Refuges, 2. Death and 3. the Five Buddhist Ideals that are hard to attain (Dullaba). Listen more    
လိုခ်င္မႈႏွင့္ မလိုခ်င္မႈ / Vanavasi Ashin Nyeyadhammasami (Maha Bodhimyaing Sayadaw) Jun 10,
1997.
Manifestation of Anuyoga and Viroda which are the causes of Asava and how to control them. Listen more      
လိုက္သိ၊ ေစာင့္သိ၊ ၿဖစ္တိုင္းသိ / Dr Ashin Chekinda (Dhammaduta) Danubyu, Nov 14, 2000.  
Defining Vipassana; explanation of three important facts in practising vipassna. Listen more  
ေသမင္းတမန္ (၅) ဦး / Ashin Pannajota (Taunsunn, Dhamma Duta)  Yangon, 1358 (B.E.)
Manifestation of five messengers of death i.e. 1. newborn baby, 2. the aged, 3. the sick, 4. corpse, 5. prisoner with reference to “Devaduta Sutta”. Listen more  
သတ္ပူေဇာ္က အသတ္ခံရ / Ashin Pannajota (Taunsunn, Dhamma Duta)  Yangon, 1359 (B.E.)
What bali (offering) means; types of bali; benefit of praying for the well-being of others; advising to restrain from killing as it has reciprocal effect. Listen more  
အေျချပဳ ဝိပႆနာ႐ႈနည္း အလုပ္ေပးတရား / U Janitalankara. [no date]
Describing the way of basic vipassana meditation; strong (Balava) and weak (Dubbala) vipassana. Listen more  
အစြဲနာလို႔ သံသရာလည္ / Dr Ashin Chekinda (Dhammaduta) Mandalay, Jun 9, 1998.
Description of Ditthi_ the cause of circulating in samsara. Listen more  
အေသရွိရာမွ အေသလြတ္ရန္ ရွာသင့္ေႀကာင္း တရားေတာ္ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) [no date]  
Teaching of the Buddha to have mindfulness (Sati) and Panna; why Sati and Panna are essential?; three kinds of medicine given by the Buddha (Anicca, Dukkha and Anatta); coinciding appearing / disappearing and Magga. Listen more  
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Full Moon Day of Thadingyut, the Abdidhamma Day


By the practice of middle way (Mijjhimapatipada), Gotama Buddha became the Enlightened One (Sammasambuddha) in 103 Maha Era (588 BC) on Wednesday, the full moon day of Kason. Seven years later, Buddha went into the seventh rain retreat (Vassa) in the Tavatimsa Heaven to preach Abhidhamma (Higher and subtle Dhamma) to His former mother. So, sat cross-legged nobly on the emerald throne (Pantu Kambala) of Sakka under the coral tree of Tavatimsa. Then the Buddha propounded Abhidhamma to His mother Santussita deva in the assembly of Devas and Brahmas from the ten thousands of universes. It took three months of vassa (90 days). The Abhidhamma desana consists of seven sets of voluminous works namely: 

(1) Dhamma-Sangani (Classification of Dhammas)_12 days
(2) Vibhanga (The Book of Analysis)_12 days
(3) Dhatukatha (Discourse on Elements)_6 days
(4) Puggala-Pannatti (Identification of Individuals)_7 days
(5) Katha-Vatthu (Points of Controversy) _8 days
(6) Yamaka (The Book of Pairs)_20 days
(7) Patthana (The Book of Causal Relations)_25 days = total 90 days.

The Lord Buddha expounded this Abhidhamma Pitaka in three ways as follows:
(1) Elaborate, (2) Brief, and (3) Brief nor Elaborate.

(1) Elaborate (Ati-vitthara desana)
The Blessed One preached the elaboration of Abhidhamma at Tavatimsa__to show the gratitude owed to the former mother; to let all beings know the parent's attributes; to expound the whole Abhidhamma at one sitting; and thus, the listeners will be aware of the subtle and wide dhamma, getting good benefits and as it is impossible for human deportment and life span.

(2) Brief (Ati-sankhepa desana)
For taking a bath and going on the alms round, the Buddha had to descend back to the human world. At that moment, He vowed to create His own image as a Buddha at Tavatimsa. At the Sandal forest in the Himalaya Mountain, while having a bath in the Anotatta lake, the Venerable Sariputta attended respectfully to the Buddha. And the Lord Buddha preached the daily briefing of Abhidhamma lectures to him.

(3) Brief nor Elaborate (Nati-vitthara Nati-sankhepa desana)
Every day, Ashin Sariputta Mahathera retaught the brief Dhamma from the Tathagata to his five hundred disciples of bhikkhu , who had been bats in a previous existence. It was a Dhammic form of neither too brief nor too elaborate. Next day, this indirect Abhidhamma discourses were related to the Buddha and confirmed by Him.

In the seventh vassa of 103 Maha Era (588 BC), the Abidhamma desana, the higher teaching of the Buddha became prominent and propagated simultaneously in both world of deva and human. 

On the full moon day of Thadingyut (October) i.e. the end of the seventh Rain retreat, after His Abhidhamma lectures, the Lord Buddha descended back to the city of Sankassa in the human world from Tavatimsa. In this celebration, the Sakka created three stairways. They are: 
(1) a golden one on the right for the devas,
(2) a silver one on the left for the Brahmas and

(3) a ruby one in the middle for the Lord Buddha.

Many deities accompanied the Buddha. They also held brilliant celestial regalia, making devotional offering such as:
Panca Thinkha deva on the right played the “Veluva” harp,
Matali deva on the left carried flowers and fragrance,
Suyama deva carried the yak tail fly whisk,
Santussita deva held the ruby-studded gold fan,
Sakka blew the “Vizayuttara” conch shell, and 
Brahma Sahampati on the left held the white umbrella over.

Before the Buddha set right foot upon the earth, at the gate of stairway, Ashin Sariputta Mahathera firstly paid obeisance to the Lord Buddha. After that the crowd that awaited also paid homage to the Blessed One. The spot where the Tathagata had set His right foot on the earth was later regarded as a sacred place and calledAcala Cetiya-thana”.

With reference to expounding the Great Abhidhamma, Buddhists all over the world recognized the Full Moon Day of Thadingyut (October) as Abhidhamma Day”. On that day Buddhist devotees also celebrate with recitation of the Abhidhamma. “Thadingyut Light Festival” is held in all Theravada countries as a Buddhist tradition because of offering lighting to the Buddha. It would be a good deeds of inheritance for posterity.

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Saturday, October 8, 2011

Audiography on Theravada Dhamma Discourses [36]


စိတ္ဓါတ္ခြန္အားျမွင့္တင္ထား / Dr. Bhaddanta Nandamalabhivamsa (Rector, ITBMU) [no date]
Describing: the difference between Thervada and Mahayana Buddhism; to know oneself; ways of raising one's will-power with reference to “Mahanama Sutta”. Listen more
တဏွာ မာန ဒိ႒ိ တရားေတာ္ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) [no date]
Four matters of Khandha; how tanha, mana and dithi manipulate puthujjana; way to change from andha puthujjana into kalyana puthujjana. Listen more
ေနေရးထက္ ေသေရးခက္ / Dr Ashin Pannissara (Dhammaduta) Bago, Apr 17, 2006.
Manifestation of two kinds of death is (fearless death and fearful death) and their results with reference to the discussion of the Buddha and Jhanusoni brahmin. Listen more
ေနာင္တ မရၾကပါနဲ႔ / Bhaddanta Vayaminda (Myauk-u Sayadaw) Mandalay, Sep 24, 2008.
Manifestation of ten regrets; method of nurturing Buddha nussati. Listen more
နိဗၺာန္ေရာက္ခ်င္လွ်င္ ကုိယ့္စိတ္ကုိ ရႈမွတ္ၾကပါ () / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Jul 12, 1957.
Including: why one could not attain Magga and Phala though he or she meditated? And an advice to observe one's mind until appearing or disappearing and Magga coincide. Listen more
မေမ့မေလ်ာ့ေနတဲ့သူ / Dr Ashin Pannissara (Dhammaduta) Bago, Apr 13, 2006.
Including: Sati_ the cause of differing people from one another; difference between mindfulness and carelessness; advice to practise Satipatthana. Listen more  
မိုက္သူခံ ထိုက္သူစံ / Bhaddanta Vayaminda (Myauk-u Sayadaw) Mandalay, Sep 24, 2008.
Comparison of stupid person and virtuous person which include definition, what they concentrate in and their future existences with example stories_Patacari, Devadatta. Listen more
အရွင္အာနႏၵာ၏ အလြမ္းစကားႏွင့္ ျမတ္ဗုဒၶ၏ ဆုံးမစကား / Dr. Bhaddanta Nandamalabhivamsa (Rector, ITBMU) Insein, 1369 (B.E.)
Mentioning: definition of remorse; four non remorseful extremes; marananussati; facts to include while considering death; admonishment of the Buddha given to Venerable Ananda that concerned with the parinibbana of Venerable Sariputta; advising to base on Satipatthana and strives until one attains Lokkuttara Magga. Listen more
ဣေႃႏၵထက္ေၾကာင္း တရားတက္ေၾကာင္း () ပါး () / Ashin Kundalabhivamsa (Saddhammaramsi SayaDaw) Yangon, 1354 (B.E.)
Advising: to practicse Dhamma Vicaya Sambojjhanga when the consciousness of Bhavana become weak; to meditate when one is young; how to consider to strive without taking body and mind into consideration. Listen more
ဣေႃႏၵထက္ေၾကာင္း တရားတက္ေၾကာင္း () ပါး () / Ashin Kundalabhivamsa (Saddhammaramsi SayaDaw) Yangon, 1354 (B.E.)
Summary of the level of attainment in meditation. Listen more


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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Audiography on Theravada Dhamma Discourses [35]


တရားခံဘယ္သူလဲ / U Sumangala (Daeou Sayadaw) Mandalay, Jan 27, 2007.
Description of Kamma_past, present and future; to correct Kamma Bhava to escape from getting Jati. Listen more.
ေတလပတၱဆီခြက္ ဥပမာျပ ေဘးငါးေဘးကိုေစာင့္မေနၾကပါနဲ႔ တရားေတာ္ / U Dhammasara (Hsinphyukyun Sayadaw) Hsinphyukyun, Sep 9, 1986.
Explanation of five Buddhist ideals that are hard to find (dullabha); to practise vipassana as a mean of avoiding the five dangers; to observe continuously without missing any of the meditation point giving Telapatta_a bowl filled with oil as an example. Listen more.
နိဗၺာန္ေရာက္ခ်င္လွ်င္ ကုိယ့္စိတ္ကုိ ရႈမွတ္ၾကပါ () / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Amarapura, Jul 11, 1957.
Mentioning the Magga road that leads to Nibbana; ways to follow the Magga road which Venerable Sariputta described. Listen more.
ပုဂၢဳိလ္ေလးမ်ဳိး တရားေတာ္ () / Ashin Janakabhivamsa (Chanmyay Sayadaw) Yangon, Apr 18, 1999.
With reference to “Puggala Sutta” mentioned: teaching of all the Buddhas; four types of persons; ten vices; the Noble Eightfold Path_ a touch-stone to test religious belief.  Listen more.
မီးရထားဘူတာစဥ္ ဥပမာျပ အဘိဏွသုတ္ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Amarapura, Oct 10, 1957.
Describing: the journey of people who do not realize the Four Noble Truths in comparison with the series of railway stations. Also, advising to take heed in the practice to obtain Nana that can realize the four Noble Truths. Listen more.
မဂ္ဖိုလ္မရျခင္းအေၾကာင္း / Ashin Javana (Metta Shin) 1367 (B.E.)
Explanation of the five causes that prevent from attaining Magga and Phala. Also, practical meditation has been instructed. Listen more.
ေမတၱာ တရားေတာ္ () / Ashin Janakabhivamsa (Chanmyay Sayadaw) Yangon, [no date]
How to nurture Odissa Metta Bhavana; benefits of Metta Bhavana; urging to base on Metta Bhavana and then perform vipassana until one attains Nibbana. Listen more.
ေမွ်ာ္ေတာ္ေရာင္ / U Sumangala (Daeou Sayadaw) Mandalay, Jan 28, 2007.
A valuable Dhamma_Paticca Samuppada; how Avijjha leads to death; a way to escape from having Bhava; what sotapanna discard. Listen more.
သူေတာ္ေကာင္းတို႕၏ စိတ္ထား / Ashin Javana (Metta Shin) Yangon, 1368 (B.E.)
The temperament of a virtuous person giving the act of some Sayadaw as example; advising to avoid evil deeds at all times; what judicious and non-judicious consideration means. Listen more.
သကၠပၪွသုတ္ တရားေတာ္ / U Dhammasara (Hsinphyukyun Sayadaw) Hsinphyukyun, Sep 10, 1986.
The Noble Eightfold Path_the real Dhamma to depend upon ; the harmful issa (jealousy, envy) and macchariya (stinginess) with reference to “Sakka Panha Sutta”; desire and its origin; how to stay harmlessly. Listen more.

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