Saturday, December 31, 2011

Audiography on Theravada Dhamma Discourses [48]


စကားအစြမ္း အံ့မခန္း / Ashin Asaralankara. Yangon, Nov 5, 2006.
How speaking pleasant word is meant blessing; four faultless words; committing verbally;words that make unpleasant to hear; disadvantages of being talkative. Listen more
ေဇာ (၇) ၾကိမ္တရားေတာ္ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Amarapura, Jul 10, 1958.
Explaining: what Vipassana Magga Jo means; results of the first, middle five and seventh Vipassana Magga Jo; internal and external enemies; advantages of Vipassana practice.
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ေနမဝင္ခင္ ရိကၡာျပင္ / Ashin Asaralankara. Yangon, Nov 26, 2005.
Synchronization of age group, time of the day and works of life; five experiences which one cannot know before hand; advice to perform Dana, Sila, Bhavana in time. Listen more
ေနာက္ဆုံးအခ်ိန္ တရားေတာ္ / Ashin Pannavara (Dhammaduta, Theinzayat) Yangon, Nov 5, 2011.
Mentioned: the most important time of life and Samsara; future existences for those people who died with either Loba, Dosa or Moha and how to escape from these kinds of death; three signs seen by the dying person; ways to die. Also, urging to prepare for death by now. Listen more
ပဋိစၥသမုပၸါဒ္ႏွင့္ ဝိပႆနာတရားေတာ္ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Amarapura, Jul 10, 1958.
Mentioning: various dangers of Samsara; the greatest enemy_ Tejo (fire element); how living beings suffer Dukkha from the beginning to the end of their lives; Vipassana Nana_ that brings Dukkha to an end; Paticca Samuppada which magnifies past, present and future lives. Listen more
ဘဝဆိုတာေပးဆပ္ျခင္းပါ / Bhaddanta Kheiminda (Khinmakan Sayadaw) Yangon, Dec 21, 2004.
Include: the defects of Rupa; forsaking Rupa and Tanha to attain Nibbana referring to “Chakkanipata-Tontila Jataka”. Listen more
ဘဝလက္က်န္ တရားေတာ္ / Ashin Pannavara (Dhammaduta, Theinzayat) Yangon, 1371 B.E.
Explaining how people make use of their life time in decades of age group; instruction to make use of the rest of the life time beneficially. Listen more
သတိနဲ႔ေပ်ာ္၊ စိတ္ကိုေစာင့္၊ လြတ္ေအာင္ရုန္း တရားေတာ္ / Ashin Oattama (Thitsar Shwesi Sayadaw) Yangon, Oct 2, 2009.
With reference to the “Paveyakahattha” story, mentioned, the qualities of the Buddha's words; three words of the Buddha and explanations; eight apprehensive causes; various valuable strug-glings led by Viriya.  Listen more
သာသနာႏွင့္ ဒါယကာ(၁) (၂) / Bhaddanta Kheiminda (Khinmakan Sayadaw) Yangon, Dec 26, 2007.
Explaining: the importance of Pariyatti Sasana; responsibilities of Sangha and Donor to maintain Sasana; how the Buddha strived to attain virtues. In addition, advising to respect and protect Sasana with reference to “Sudattha Sutta”. Listen more (1) Listen more (2)

အဆိုးဆုံးရန္သူ အေကာင္းဆုံးမိတ္ေဆြ / Ashin Oattama (Thitsar Shwesi Sayadaw) Pakhukku, 1368 B.E.
Explained fully_what the worst enemy is; why it is so called and how it is the most fearful one; what the best friend is; why it is so called and how it is the most reliable one; the only way to have less worst enemy and more best friends; leaders and followers of merit and demerit; four different kinds of person and the deeds of wise person.  Listen more
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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Audiography on Theravada Dhamma Discourses [47]


ပိုင္ရွင္ျဖစ္ပါေစ တရားေတာ္ / Ashin Pandita (Maniratana Sayadaw) Dvipitaka. Sep 15, 2005.
Describing: types of knowing; Mogok sequence of Dhamma and work programme; advice to obtain Nana that realize Sacca referring to “Sahayaka story”. Listen more
ဘဲေက်ာင္းသမား တရားေတာ္ / Ashin Sujata (Metta Aye Sayadaw) Oct 24, 2004.
Defining Puthujjana; three Vippallasa_ Sannya Vippallasa, Citta Vippallasa, Ditthi Vippallasa; how Puthujjana deviate from truth throughout Samsara with reference to the discourse of the Buddha about the “congenital idiot “ who looks after the wild ducks. Listen more
မိဘေမတၱာ သားလိမၼာ တရားေတာ္ / Ashin Sujata (Metta Aye Sayadaw) Oct 26, 2004.
Elucidation of the gratitude of parents including: five most grateful persons (Buddha, Dhamma Sangha, parents, teacher); two persons (parents) that one cannot repay absolute gratitude; correct way to repay gratitude to parents; uncomparable parents' loving kindness; disadvantages of ungrateful children; benefits of repaying parents' gratitude. Listen more
မိုးကုတ္ ဝိပႆနာအဖြဲ႕၏ မူ (၆) ခ်က္ တရားေတာ္ / Ashin Pandita (Maniratana Sayadaw) Dvipitaka. Sep 10, 2005.
Manifestation of Six Basic Factors of Mogok Vipassana: 1. Differentiation between Conventional Truth and Ultimate Truth; 2. Differentiation between mind and matter; 3. Overcoming wrong view with knowledge; 4. Understanding Khandha Paticca Samuppada; 5. Observing and contemplating the meditation object; 6. Realizing Noble Truth. Listen more
ေဝဒနာခြါၿပီးမွ အနိစၥေတြ႕ေအာင္ရႈ၊ ေသခါနီး ေဝဒနာခြါပုံ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Aug 7, 1958.
Defining Sanditthiko and E-hipasiko; how Sanditthiko disconnect Paticcca Samuppada process; three ways to die that the Buddha stated; associating E-hipasiko with Sanditthiko to attain Nibbana. Listen more
အခြင့္သာခိုက္မွာ တရားနာပါ (ပ) / Ashin Kumara (Dhammadhara) Mandalay, 1370 B.E.
Explaining: why one should listen Dhamma; three kinds of person who listen Dhamma namely_ Avakujja Panna, Uccanga Panna, Okkujja Panna; persons that cannot listen Dhamma. Listen more
အခြင့္သာခိုက္မွာ တရားနာပါ (ဒု) / Ashin Kumara (Dhammadhara) Mandalay, 1370 B.E.
Include: persons that cannot listen Dhamma; persons who cannot understand Dhamma though they listen to it; benefits of listening to Dhamma; wrong worshipping because of not having knowledge of Dhamma giving the story of “Bahiradarucariya merchant” as an example. Listen more
အမ်ိဳးခ်စ္တဲ့ မ်ိဳးခ်စ္မေလး () / Ashin Pannananda (A Sitagu Star) Nov 9, 2006.
Words of the Buddha concerning with Dana; questions to ask oneself before performing Dana; abilities of Dana; miseries; how the Buddha loved and had pity on living beings are mentioned. Listen more
အမ်ိဳးခ်စ္တဲ့ မ်ိဳးခ်စ္မေလး (၂) / Ashin Pannananda (A Sitagu Star) Nov 9, 2006.
Describing the benefit of Dana performed with the knowledge of its abilities referring to the story of a slave girl “Sudasi” in detail. Listen more
အျမင္မွားေဘး မသူေတာ္ေဘး မသင့္ေစႏွင့္ တရားေတာ္ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Jul 9, 1958.
Elucidation of two dangers: 1. Asanditthi Tova (ditthi), 2. Assaddhamma Tova (avijja) and practice to escape from them. Example story_ “Subrahma Deva”. Listen more

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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Audiography on Theravada Dhamma Discourses [46]


ငါလည္းတေန႕တရားေတာ္ (၁) / Dr Ashin Kovida (Majjhimagonyi) Yangon, Dec 3, 2007.
Explanation of five things that one cannot wish for (i.e._ aging, illness, death, damaging, using up); advice to repay gratitude to parents before they are old, sick and die. Listen more
ငါလည္းတေန႕တရားေတာ္ (၂) / Dr Ashin Kovida (Majjhimagonyi) Yangon, Dec 3, 2007.
Urging to repay gratitude to parents while they are healthy and alive giving “ Sonna Bhikkhu” as an example. In addition, advising to do meritorious deeds (dana, sila, bhavana) in time as one cannot also avoid aging, illness and death. Listen more
ဉာဏ္ႏွစ္ဉာဏ္ႏွင့္ နိဗၺာန္ေရာက္ႏိုင္ တရားေတာ္ / Ashin Punna Nanda. Yangon, Aug 17, 2005.
Elucidation of Vipassana and Magga Nana that are necessary to obtain in achieving Nibbana; classification of forty Bhavana; ten characteristics of Anicca Lakkhana (Impermanency) and result of observing them; the work of Vipassana Nana. Listen more
နိဗၺာန္ေရာက္မွ အရူးေပ်ာက္မယ္ တရားေတာ္ / Ashin Punna Nanda. Yangon, Aug 18, 2005.
Why putujjana are all fools; description of twelve Vippallasa which make putujjana a fool and instruction to dispel them. Listen more
ပူေဇာ္ထိုက္သူကို ပူေဇာ္ပါ / U Kavidhajajoti (Kaung Hsu Wei) Yangon, Nov 27, 2010.
Include: definition of Mangala and worshipping; difference between wise and stupid persons; two kinds of knowledge; whom one ought to worship and why; benefit of worshipping. Listen more
ဝယ္တတ္မွ အစစ္ရ (၁) / Bhaddanta Teijosara(Bago) Mandalay, 1370 B.E.
Explaining: what Saddha means and its types namely_ Pasada Saddha, Okappana Saddha, Agama Saddha, and Adigama Saddha; true and false happiness; way of performing Dana to have true happiness i.e. Nibbana. Listen more
ဝယ္တတ္မွ အစစ္ရ (၂) / Bhaddanta Teijosara(Bago) Mandalay, 1370 B.E.
Include: three meritorious deeds; facts necessary to be a successful Dana; types of Sila; the merit of Veyavicca (chores); raising the level of one's Saddha; what to do while one becomes human being in the Buddha's era. Listen more
သမထ မလုိ၊ ဝိပႆနာနဲ႔ နိဗၺာန္ေရာက္ႏုိင္ပုံ သုသိမဝဝတၳဳ (၁) / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Amarapura, Mar 24, 1958.
Explaining the beginning and finishing of Dukkha; attainment of Arahatta Magga; Vipassana Nana and Magga Nana with reference to the story of “Susima Bhikkhu”. Listen more
သမထ မလုိ၊ ဝိပႆနာနဲ႔ နိဗၺာန္ေရာက္ႏုိင္ပုံ သုသိမဝဝတၳဳ (၂) / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Amarapura, Mar 25, 1958.
Refering to the story of “Susima Bhikkhu”, describes how to attain Nibbana;comparison of the benefits of Samatha and Vipassana practices. Listen more
သင့္ေတာ္တဲ့ အရပ္မွာေနပါ / U Kavidhajajoti (Kaung Hsu Wei) Yangon, Nov 21, 2010.
Describing: Kammassakatha Samma Ditthi; reasons of performing Dana; ways to refresh oneself; living in a suitable place. Listen more

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Sunday, December 11, 2011

Audiography on Theravada Dhamma Discourses [45]


ကထာငါးခ်က္႐ွင္းေဟာတရားေတာ္ / Bhaddanta Saddhamma Kittisara (AungSan Sayadaw) Yangon, Feb 19, 2004.
How realizing Sacca is important in attaining Nibbana; description of the Dhamma that the Buddha stated prior to Sacca (Magga Katha)_ Dana Katha, Sila Katha, Samatha Katha, Sakka Katha, Kammanna Adinava Katha; five Nana_ Kammassakata, Samaditthi, Namarupa Pariccheda, Piccaya Pariggaha, Magga; formula of Kammassakata Nana; Paticca Samuppada_ that tells about Khandha. Listen more
ေဒဝဒူတသုတ္တရားေတာ္ () / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Mandalay, Jan 30, 1958.
Include: a way to escape from suffering ( Devaduta Sutta); what Ariya and consciousness of Ariya mean; changing the consciousness of puthujjana into Ariya's one; Vipassana practice. Listen more
ဓိပတိေလးေထြ က်င့္တတ္ေစ တရားေတ္ / Ashin Sunanda (Dhammaransi Sayadaw) Mogok, Sep 11, 2004.
Description of Adhipati Paccaya which is essential to be successful. Listen more
နႏၵေကာဝါဒသုတ္ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Mandalay, Feb 3, 1958.
Benefits of considering and listening to Dhamma; how to consider one's Khandha with reference to “Nandakovada Sutta”. Listen more
မိလကၡမုဆိုးဝတၳဳ / U Agganyana (Kanbe phayalay kyaung) Yangon, Aug 11, 2005.
Explaining how it is important to disconnect the process of Paticca Samuppada; urging to strive hard to attain Magga Nana before lying in deathbed. Example story_ A hunter, Milakkha. Listen more
မူလႏွစ္ျဖာ / U Agganyana (Kanbe phayalay kyaung) Yangon, Aug 11, 2005.
Definning Paticca Samuppada and each of its characteristics; how Avijja and Tanha are the causes of Vutta. Listen more
သာသနာသံုးရပ္ႏွင့္ ကမၼႆကတ သမၼာဒိဌိတရားေတာ္ / Bhaddanta Saddhamma Kittisara (AungSan Sayadaw) Yangon, Feb 20, 2004.
Benefits of knowing Paticca Samuppada; to discard Ditthi urgently; how Niyata miccha ditthi is more frightful than Sakkaya ditthi; three Sasana; Pariyatti Sasana in brief_ Khandha, Ayatana, Datu, Sacca, Paticca Samuppada, Meditation object, Nana; Sankhara and its varieties. Listen more
အပါယ္ဇာတိမလာေရးႏွင့္ ကုသိုလ္ အကုသိုလ္ / Ashin Zeyapandhita (Pilot Sayadaw) April, 2004.
Explaining about: the ability; performing Dana with Metta; importance of Saddha; avoiding Apaya Jati; evil deed and meritorious deed. Listen more
အရႈခံ ခႏၶာအေၾကာင္း / Ashin Zeyapandhita (Pilot Sayadaw) April, 2004.
Describing: Sakkaya Ditthi_ the seed of Apaya; Panna that discard Sakkaya Ditthi; how the merit of living beings have been used up with an example story_ “Sumana Devi”. Listen more
အာ႐ုံၾကားမွ တရားရ တရားေတာ္ / Ashin Sunanda (Dhammaransi Sayadaw) Mogok, Sep 10, 2004.
Elucidation of Arammana Paccaya to dispel Ditthi. Listen more

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Saturday, December 3, 2011

Audiography on Theravada Dhamma Discourses [44]


စက္ေတြလည္မွ ႀကီးပြားၾက / Ashin Eindasarabhivamsa. Thayetkoun, Jan 21, 2004.
Explaining about the importance of (1) living in a suitable location, (20 associating with the virtuous person, (3) taking proper care of oneself and (4) having merit of previous existences. Listen more
ေဒဝဒူတသုတ္ တရားေတာ္ (၁) / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Mandalay, Jan 29, 1958.
Manifestation of “Devaduta Sutta” which had been preached only once in every enlightened Buddhas. Listen more
ရြဲကုန္သည္ တရားေတာ္ / Ashin Janakabhivamsa (Mahagandharon Sayadaw) [no date]
Explaining the superiority of people living in the southern part of Mount Meru (with regard to Buddhists) than northernners and devas (i.e. bravery, mindfulness and having chance to perform noble deeds); advice to follow the way of virtuous person. Listen more
လမ္ဆုံးလွ်င္ရြာေတြ႔႔ တရားေတာ္ (၁) / U Eindavudabhivamsa (Htoogyi Sayadaw) Yangon, Nov 29, 2005.
Explanation of: sufferings given by Bhava and Khandha; future existences (Deve, Manussa, Niraya, Peta, Animals) of living beings who want Bhavas; Tanha_the cause of getting bhava; the Buddha's instruction. Listen more
သာသနာ သန္႔ရွင္းေရး တရားေတာ္ / Ashin Janakabhivamsa (Mahagandharon Sayadaw) [no date]
How purification of sasana is important; what to do if ine loves oneself the most. Listen more
သုၿဗဟၼနတ္သားကိုေဟာေသာ သုတၱန္တရား / U Eindavudabhivamsa (Htoogyi Sayadaw) Yangon, Sep 11, 2006.
Referring to Sutta that the Buddha preached to Subrahma Deva, mentioned: how Tanha and Ditthi deceive living beings; to dispel Ditthi prior to Vipassana practice; ways of obttaining true happiness (observing Bojjhanga; controlling Indrias and eliminating Kilesa). Listen more
သုျဗဟၼသုတၱန္္ တရားေတာ္ (၂) / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Mandalay, Jan 28, 1958.
How Avijja attracts upacchedaka kamma; refer- ring to Subrahma Sutta explained why on needs to practise Bojjhanga rather than reciting or listening to the Bojjhanga Sutta. Listen more
အသိမွန္ကန္ ကိုယ္႔ဘို႔က်န္ / Bhaddanta Sirindabhivamsa (Yaw Sayadaw) Yangon, Jul 7, 2002.
Importance of having right consideration; three savings (Khandha, property and Dhamma) and their results; defining merit; three forecasts of life. Listen more
အိပ္ေသာ္လည္းႏုိး၊ ႏိုးေသာ္လည္း အိပ္ေနတယ္ / Ashin Eindasarabhivamsa. Thayetkoun, Apr 4, 2005.
Manifestation of Nivaranas (Hindrances) such as Kamacchanda, Bjapada, Thina-Middha, Udacca-Kukkucca Vicikiccha and Indrias (Faculties) namely Saddha, Sati, Viriya, Samadhi, Panna based on “Jagara Sutta”. Listen more
အိမ္တြင္းမဂၢင္ လူ႔႔က်င့္စဥ္ / Bhaddanta Sirindabhivamsa (Yaw Sayadaw) Yangon, Feb 24, 1999.
Elucidation of four household Magga practice (i.e having Saddha, Sati Viriya and Panna) which can overcome four Ogas, namely Kamo- ga, Bhavoga, Ditthoga and Avijjoga. Listen more

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