Dhammapada 43 [Khuddaka Nikaya]

3 - Cittavagga, The Mind
9 - Soreyya Vatthu

Na tam mata pita kayira, anne vapi ca nataka;
sammapanihitam cittam, seyyasonaim tato kare.

43: Not a mother, nor a father, nor any other relative can do more for the well-being of one than a rightly-directed mind can.
Reference:
Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.

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Dhammapada 42 [Khuddaka Nikaya]

3 - Cittavagga, The Mind
8 - Nandagopalaka Vatthu

Diso disam yam tam kariya,
veri va pana verinam;
micchapanihitam cittam,
papiyo nam tato kare.

42: A thief may harm a thief; an enemy may harm an
enemy; but a wrongly directed mind can do oneself far
greater harm.
Reference:
Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association,1986.

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Theravada Audio Dhamma (27)

Acaralankara, Ashin (Sagaing Shwe Hinthar). အခ်ိန္မျဖံဳးနဲ ့တရားေတာ္။ [Don't Waste Time]. Yangon, 20 April 2007.

Include: ways of prolonging time; Dhamma which pull down to Apaya (Loba, Dosa, Moha) and that raise up to the Upper realms and Nibbana (Aloba, Adosa, Amoha).  Listen more

Acaralankara, Ashin (Sagaing Shwe Hinthar). အေသလွတဲ့တရား။ [Dhamma for Good Death]. Yangon, 21 April 2007.

Explained: why one has to prepare for death by good deeds; three ways to prepare for good death.  Listen more

Kavidhajajoti, U (Kaung Hsu Wei). ကိုယ့္ကိုယ္ကိုသိပါ။ [Know Yourself]. Mindon, 16 October 2010.

Include: meaning of living; way to maintain one's valuable life; Dhamma is every where; four Oga; observation of Rupa and Nama.  Listen more

Kavidhajajoti, U (Kaung Hsu Wei). ၾကိဳးစားမႈေနာက္မွာ
ေအာင္ျမင္ျခင္း႐ွိပါတယ္။ [There is Success Behind Effort]. Taungdwingyi, 27 March 2011.

Described: the Basic Buddhism; right view (Samma Ditthi); way to be a successful person; importance of Kamma, wisdom and effort in one's life.  Listen more

Rajinda, Bhaddanta (Aungmangala Sayadaw). ဒုစ႐ိုက္ သုစ႐ိုက္ ဘာဝနာ။ [Evil Deed Good Deed Bhavana]. [no date]

Comparing the decisions of the Buddha and puthujjana on superiority and inferiority of people; evil deed and good deed; advice to practise Vipassana to be a noblest one.  Listen more

Rajinda, Bhaddanta (Aungmangala Sayadaw). ေသနည္းေကာင္း လမ္းညႊန္တရားေတာ္။ [Guide to Have a Good Death]. [no date]

Explained: who the real conqueror is; causes of rebirth in Apaya; how Dhamma is important to escape from death and attain Nibbana.  Listen more

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Dhammapada 41 [Khuddaka Nikaya]

3 - Cittavagga, The Mind
7 - Putigattatissatthera Vatthu

Aciram vata' yam kayo, pathavim adhisessati;
chuddho apetavinnano, niratthamva kalingaram.

41: Before long, alas, this body, deprived of consciousness, will lie on the earth, discarded like a useless log.
Reference:
Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.

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Greatness of the Parents' Gratitude

In comparison to parents' gratitude:
The Earth may be like a bamboo leaf.
Mount Meru may liken a mound.
Cekkavala (great circular barrier surrounding the world) may be that of the needle hole.
Water from all ponds, lakes, streams, rivers and oceans altogether may liken a drop of rain.
The Sky may be of plum leaf size.
နရပတိ၊ ဦး ( ျဖဴးဆရာေတာ္)။ အေမ့ေက်းဇူးမေက် ငါမေသ တရားေတာ္။  

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Dhammapada 40 [Khuddaka Nikaya]

3 - Cittavagga, The Mind
6 - Pancasatabhikkhu Vatthu

Kumbhupamam kayamimam viditva,
nagarupam cittamidam thapetva;
yodhetha maram panna vudhena,
jitanca rakkhe anivesano siya.

40: Knowing that this body is (fragile) like an earthern jar, making one's mind secure like a fortified town, one should fight Mara with the weapon of Knowledge. (After defeating Mara) one should still continue to guard one's mind, and feel no attachment to that which has been gained (i.e., jhana ecstasy and serenity gained through meditation).
Reference:
Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.

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Theravada Audio Dhamma (26)

Candasara, Ashin (Kyaung Kone) မေသေသးခင္ သြားလမ္းျပင္။ [Prepare for the Return Journey Before Death]. Dawei, 1372 B.E.

Explained: two types of person; five things that cannot be known in advance; advice to practise Vipassana asap giving the story of a weaver girl. Listen more

Candasara, Ashin (Kyaung Kone) အျမဲေန႔ည ဆင္ျခင္ၾက။ [Always Consider Day and Night]. Dawei, 20 September 2009.

Mentioned: five things to consider consistently; how to consider and its benefits. Listen more

Kovida, Dr Ashin (Mijjimagonyi). ေနဖို႔လည္းျပင္ ေသဖို႔
လည္းျပင္။ [Prepare Both to Live and to Die]. Yangon, 1
December 2009.

Include: comparison of mindful person and forgetful person; way to prepare for death. Listen more

Kovida, Dr Ashin (Mijjimagonyi). ဘယ္လိုျပန္ၾကမွာလဲ။ [How Will You Return?]. Yangon, 5 November 2009.

Advice to practise Vipassana and leave good history rather than doing evil and have miserable death. Also, explained the importance of Saddha and Panna in attaining Nibbana. Listen more

Revata, Ashin (Mula Kathitwaing Sayadaw). ဝိပဿနာ အလုပ္ေပး(၁)၊ သီလေပး (၁)။ [Vipassana Exercise (1): Sila (1)]. [no date]

Explained: real worshipping to the Buddha; what Nibbana is and its location; difference between Putujjana and Ariya; causes of rebirth in Apaya; why beings reborn in Apaya repeatedly; old and new Kamma; seven mental actions; ways to discard Ditthi. Listen more

Revata, Ashin (Mula Kathitwaing Sayadaw). ဝိပဿနာ အလုပ္ေပး(၂)၊ သီလေပး (၂)။ [Vipassana Exercise (2): Sila (2)]. [no date]

Described: ways to check Samma Sila by three charac-teristics (right speech, right action and right livelihood); layman's Sila; Miccha Sila; brief and elaborate methods of observing five precepts; how Sila in combination with Vipassana practice is necessary to prevent from rebirth in Apaya. Listen more

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Sobhita, Ashin (Padamya Yeikthar Sayadaw). ဆုေတာင္းမရ နိဗၺာန အလုပ္ေပးတရားေတာ္။ [Praying cannot Attain Nibbana]. 1364 B.E.

With reference to “Bumija Sutta”, explained how judicious consideration on Khandha is more important than praying to attain Nibbana.  Listen more

Sobhita, Ashin (Padamya Yeikthar Sayadaw). ဝိပဿနာေ႐ွ႔ အလုပ္ ဒိ႒ိျဖဳတ္ အလုပ္ေပးတရားေတာ္။ [Dispelling Ditthi Prior to Vipassana]. 1364 B.E.

Mentioned: way of establishing Samadhi by Anapana meditation, observation of Khandha by Nana and dispelling Ditthi.  Listen more

Teijosara, Ashin (Chintaungtan Tharthanarpyu). ကမၼဝါဒ။ [Kamma Vada]. Kyaikmaro, 10 December 2011.

Described: what Kamma Vada is; two Kamma (Kusala, Akusala); results of Kamma.  Listen more

Teijosara, Ashin (Chintaungtan Tharthanarpyu). ဗုဒၶဝါဒ အေျခခံ။ [Basis of Buddha Vada]. Mandalay, 14 August 2011.

Include: objective of doing obeisance; ten persons to pay obeisance and results of doing wrong to them; three duties of Buddhists; advice to maintain the tradition of paying obeisance to the Buddha.  Listen more

Teizeinda, U. ပုဂၢိဳလ္သတၱဝါျဖစ္ေအာင္ ဘယ္သူလုပ္သလဲ။ [Who Made the Puggala Beings]. Yangon, 2 August 2007.

Explained: two types of Ditthi; three Miccha ditthi; importance of eliminating Ditthi and way to dispel Ditthi.  Listen more

Teizeinda, U. ပါရမီျပည့္စုံေသာ္လည္း ဆရာေကာင္းႏွင့္
မေတြ႔က နိဗၺာန္မရ။ [Importance of Good Teacher in Attaining Nibbana]. London, 1 September 2007.

Include: why one listen to the Dhamma and practise; defining Parami; explanation of two Parami; how good teacher is necessary in attaining Nibbana.  Listen more

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Dhammapada 38-39 [Khuddaka Nikaya]

3 - Cittavagga, The Mind
5 - Cittahatthatthera Vatthu

Anavatthitacittassa, saddhammam avijanato;
pariplavapasadassa, panna na paripurati.
Anavassutacittassa, ananvahatacetaso;
punnapapapahinassa, natthi jagarato bhayam.

38: If a man's mind is unsteady, if he is ignorant of the true Dhamma, and if his faith is wavering, then his knowledge will never be perfect.
39: If a man's mind is free from passion, if he is free from ill will, if he has abandoned both good and evil, and if he is vigilant, for such a man there is no danger.
Reference:
Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.

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Dhammapada 37 [Khuddaka Nikaya]

3 - Cittavagga, The Mind
4 - Samgharakkhitatthera Vatthu

Durangamam ekacaram,
asariram guhasayam;
ye cittam samyamissanti,
mokkhanti marabandhana.

37: The mind wanders far and moves about alone: it is non-material; it lies in the cave (chamber) of the heart. Those who control their mind will be free from the bonds of Mara.
Reference:
Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association,1986.

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Magganga Vehicle

The straight path, to Nibbana, is Vipassana.
Only Nibbana, truly is, a danger-free place.
This can be reached only by eight Magganga Vehicle.
Magganga vehicle has been fixed properly with two wheels.
Noiseless are both the physical and mental wheels.
Hiri is definitely like the seat-back of the vehicle.
Sati is definitely liken to walls.
Vipassana is definitely liken to the line-clearer.
Magga Nana certainly is liken to the driver.
Reference: Mottos by Ashin Kundalabhivamsa (Saddhammaransi Sayadaw)

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Dhammapada 36 [Khuddaka Nikaya]

3 - Cittavagga, The Mind
3 - Ukkanthitabhikkhu Vatthu

Sududdasam sunipunam,
yatthakamanipatinam;
cittam rakketha medhavi,
cittam guttam sukhavaham.

36: The mind is very difficult to see, very delicate and subtle; it moves and lands wherever it pleases. The wise one should guard his mind, for a guarded mind brings happiness.

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

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Death
 
Death being inherent,
Searching for death is truly inappropriate.
Since death being inherent,
Searching only for extinction of it is truly appropriate.
The danger of death, before its arrival,
Shall be reflected in anticipation.
Before death, if meditation is practised,
It is indeed appropriate.
When about to die, having bewilderment,
Will be inappropriate.
At death, not realizing Dhamma,
Will be a mistake.
Reference: Mottos, by Ashin Kundalabhivamsa (Saddhammaransi Sayadaw)
 
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Theravada Audio Dhamma (24)

Nyeyadhammasami, Vanavasi Ashin (Maha Bodhimyaing Sayadaw), လူ၏ အဓိပၸါယ္။ [Meaning of Human]. 30 June 1997.

With reference to the story of “Santati Minister”, advised to control one's consciousness to gain advantages while one got human life.  Listen more

Nyeyadhammasami, Vanavasi Ashin (Maha Bodhimyaing Sayadaw). သညာသိမွ ပညာသိသို႔။ [From Sanna to Panna Knowing]. 22 June 1997.

What knowing by Sanna and Panna means; changing Pannatti into Paramattha by having Sati in every actions.  Listen more

Sirindabhivamsa, Bhaddanta (Yaw Sayadaw). ပုညၾကိယာ ဝတၳဳ သုတၱန္ (၁)။ [Punna-kiriya-vatthu Sutta (1)]. Tuntay, 13 March 1989.

Explained: positive and negative indications that every persons who got Khandha have; the three merit-work bases; five dangers which threaten Khandha.  Listen more

Sirindabhivamsa, Bhaddanta (Yaw Sayadaw). ပုညၾကိယာ ဝတၳဳ သုတၱန္ (၂)။ [Punna-kiriya-vatthu Sutta (2)]. Tuntay, 13 March 1989.

With reference to Punna-kiriya-vatthu Sutta, mentioned the three processes (Dana, Sila and Bhavana) of setting power to the mind. Listen more

Vayaminda, Bhaddanta (Myauk-u Sayadaw). ေၾကာက္မက္ဖြယ္ရာ ဤခႏၶာ။ [Fearful Khandha]. Mandalay, 11 October 2008.

Referring to “Siha Sutta”, mentioned: two kinds of fright; necessary facts to obtain true happiness; advice to frighten Bhava Khandha.  Listen more

Vayaminda, Bhaddanta (Myauk-u Sayadaw). တစတစ စြန္႔မွရ။ [Have to Venture Gradually to Get]. Mandalay, 11 October 2008.

Explained: why Samsara is long; who is a stupid person?; how the work of merit needs venture.  Listen more

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Dhammapada 35 [Khuddaka Nikaya]

3 - Cittavagga, The Mind
2 - Annatarabhikkhu Vatthu

Dunniggahassa lahuno,
yatthakamanipatino;
cittassa damatho sadhu,
cittam dantam sukhavaham.

35: The mind is difficult to control; swiftly and lightly, it moves and lands wherever it pleases. It is good to tame the mind, for a well-tamed mind brings happiness.
Reference:
Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association,1986.

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Practise like the Royal Elephant

The Royal Elephant has four qualities:

1.Faithfully obedient to the words of the mahout.
2.Kill the enemies on the battle ground without hesitation.
3.Forbear the beatings and wounds received at the battle ground.
4.The elephant goes quickly only to places as directed by its mahout.

If practice is like that of a royal elephant, one shall gain the noble dhamma in Sasana.

1.Listen obediently and with no deviation to the Buddha's admonition.
2.Rightly able to attack the Kilesa enemy.
3.Must have the forbearance of unpleasant words and Vedana.
4.Must have the ability to get to Nibbana swiftly.
Kundalabhivamsa, Ashin (Saddhammaramsi Sayadaw). “Motto”

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Theravada Audio Dhamma (23)

Dhammasara, U (Hsinphyukyun Sayadaw). ကိုယ္သာနာ၍ စိတ္မနာေစႏွင့္။ [Don't Hurt Your Mind]. 28 July 1990.

Explained: how having Khandha is the greatest danger; definition of Vatta; results of Vipaka Vatta; way to be free from three Vatta (Kilesa, Kamma and Vipaka).  Listen more

Dhammasara, U (Hsinphyukyun Sayadaw). တိတၳိေတြအေမး အနာထပိဏ္သူေဌးၾကီးအေျဖ တရားေတာ္။ [Discourse on Questions of Heretics and Answers of Rich Man Anathapindika]. 27 July 1990.

Described: the conversation between the rich man Anathapindika and heretics about the Buddha Sasana.  Listen more

Janitalankara, Bhaddanta. သာသနာ့အရိပ္မွာ ေပ်ာ္ေမြ ့ပါ။ [Find Contenment under the Sasana Refuge]. Yangon, 23 July 2008.

Mentioned: benefits of Sasana; causes of extinction of Sasana; what to do for the perpetuation of Sasana; eight wonders of Sasana. Listen more

Janitalankara, Bhaddanta. အႏုသယစင္မွ နိဗၺာန္ရ။ [Discarding Anusaya to Attain Nibbana]. Yangon, 13 August 2007.

Include: three Kilesa; nature and types of Anusaya; how to become Sotappana; discarding Anusaya; way of having Sakkaya Ditthi upon Chachakka.  Listen more

Pannajota, Ashin (Taunzun, Dhammaduta). ဗုဒၶ၏ လကၡဏာေတာ္ သုံးဆယ့္ႏွစ္ျဖာ (၁)။ [Thirty Two Signs of the Buddha (1)]. Kyaikkaw, 1357 B.E.

Described the causes and effects of the six among thirty two Signs of the Buddha_having 1. feet with a level sole; 2. soles of feet marked with the sign of wheel; 3. projecting heels; 4. long fingers and toes; 5. large straight body and 6. the seven convexities of the flesh (hands 2, instep 2, shoulders 2 and a nape).  Listen more

Pannajota, Ashin (Taunzun, Dhammaduta). ဗုဒၶ၏ လကၡဏာေတာ္ သုံးဆယ့္ႏွစ္ျဖာ (၂)။ [Thirty Two Signs of the Buddha (2)]. Kyaikkaw, 1357 B.E.

Included: the four rules of good social relations (charity, kindness in speech, good will and sympathy); causes and effects of the another five Signs of the Buddha_having 1. smooth and tender hands and feet, 2. apart from thumbs and big toes, fingers and toes are in equal length, 3. high raised ankles, 4. body hair arched upwards and 5. round and well-developed calves like those of an antelope's.  Listen more

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Dhammapada 33-34 [Khuddaka Nikaya]

3 - Cittavagga, The Mind 
1 - Meghiyatthera Vatthu

Phandanam capalam cittam,
durakkham dunnivarayam;
ujum karoti medhavi,
usukarova tejanam.
Varijova thale khitto,
okamokata ubbhato;
pariphandatidam cittam,
maradheyyam pahatave.

33: The mind is excitable and unsteady; it is difficult to control and to restrain. The wise one trains his mind to be upright as a fletcher straightens an arrow.
34: As a fish quivers when taken out of its watery home and thrown on to dry ground, so does the mind quiver when it is taken out of the sensual world to escape from the realm of Mara (i.e., kilesa vatta, round of moral defilements).

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

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Tanha

Tanha is a poison. Those who perform meditation avoid the poison and those who doesn't is still drinking it.
ဝိမလ၊ ဦး (မိုးကုတ္ဆရာေတာ္)။ တရားနည္းျပ အလုပ္ေပး တရားေတာ္။

Tanha and Upadana

The dog bites the stone instead of the person who threw it.
Likewise, people fear of death rather than Tanha and Upadana which lead them to death.
ဝိမလ၊ ဦး (မိုးကုတ္ဆရာေတာ္)။ ေသမင္းတမန္ သတ္နည္း တရားေတာ္။

Builder Tanha

A carpenter builds house whereas Tanha builds Bhava.
ဇနကာဘိ၀ံသ၊ အ႐ွင္။ ဘိကၡဳႏွင့္ သမဏ တရားေတာ္။

Tanha to Upadana

Don't neglect a spark because it is small. It can become a flame. Similarly, if one neglects a small Tanha, it will become a big flame_Upadana. This Upadana cause Kamma (Action) and the result is getting Khandha which means suffering (Dukkha).
ဇာေနယ်၊ ဘဒၵႏၲ (ျမစိမ္းေတာင္ဆရာေတာ္)။ ႏွလုံးသြင္းမွန္မွ တရားရ တရားေတာ္။  

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Theravada Audio Dhamma (22)

Chekinda, Dr Ashin (Dhammaduta, Hmawbi). တစ္သက္လုံးေန တတ္ေအာင္။ [How to Stay Throughout the ife]. [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 ေက်ာင္းအလႉ။ [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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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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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). ေဖၚမဲ့ ခရီးသည္။ [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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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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Khandha_ Shadow

Body casts a shadow. As the body is not firm, the shadow too will disappear.
ဝါယာမိႏၵၵ၊ ဘဒၵႏၲ (ေျမာက္ဦးဆရာေတာ္)။ ဒုကၡရင္းကာ သုခ႐ွာ။

Khandha_ Wild dog

Wild dog usually search food at night and sleep all day long. It only looks for food when it is hungry. It likes to stay conveniently when it is full. Similarly, Khandha likes to stay at ease.
ပညိႆ       ရ၊ ေဒါက္တာ အရွင္ (ဓမၼဒူတ၊ ပဲခူး)။ ေစာင့္ထိန္းက်င့္မွ တရားရ။ 

Khandha and Tanha, Ditthi

Flower that grew on the rock will shake when the rock shakes. Because they are connected. Like wise, one who has Tanha and Ditthi will never be peaceful as Khandha and Tanha, Ditthi are always in connection.
ဝိမလ၊ ဦး (မိုးကုတ္ဆရာေတာ္)။ သစၥာတရားနာမႈ ႏွလုံးသြင္းမွန္မႈ။ 

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Theravada Audio Dhamma (20)

Javana, Ashin (Metta Shin). ပထမနိဗၺာန္။ [The First Nibbana]. Yangon, 1367 B.E.

Include: the cause of cleverness; difference between Triple Gems and Five venerable persons to pay gratitude; propagation of Sasana; whether worshipping Shin Upagutta is right or wrong; suggestion to avoid making the sculpture of Dekkhinasakha; comparison of casting into Apaya by Pancanantariya Kamma and Miccha ditthi; defects of sensuality; attaining the First Nibbana.
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Javana, Ashin (Metta Shin). ျပံဳးေသမဲ့ေသ။ [Smile Death, Wry Death]. Yangon, 1365 B.E.

Mentioned: the miseries of pregnancy and death; three types of Marana; dispelling Loba and Dosa Kilesa; eight Rupa Dhatu; practical elimination of Ditthi; brief Vedananupassana practice.  Listen more

Nyanissara, Dr Ashin (Sitagu Sayadaw). သံေဝဂဉာဏ္ႏွင့္ သံေဝဂ ဘာဝနာ။ [Samvega Nana and Samvega Bhavana]. [no date]

Explained: the usefulness of a corpse; four Samvega Nana; benefits of Samvega Bhavana; the sequence of the Dhamma that the Buddha preached (Dana Katha, Sila Katha, Sakka Katha, Adinava Kammanta Katha, Nikkhama Katha and Sacca Katha); changing Samvega Nana into Dhamma Cekkhu Nana with an example story about a rich man's son Rassa.  Listen more

Nyanissara, Dr Ashin  (Sitagu Sayadaw).  အိုသည့္ တိုင္
ေအာင္ေကာင္းမယ့္ တရား။ [Dhamma Which Will Be Good Until Old Age]. Kyauktan, 14 November 2011.

Described: how firm the Dhamma is; four Dhamma which will be good until old age_Sila, Saddha, Panna and Ponnya.  Listen more

Sumangala, U (Daeou Sayadaw). ပဗၺတူပမသုတ္။ [Pabbatupama Sutta]. Mandalay, 6 October 2006.

Advising to practise Vipassana in time to have true happiness referring to “ Pabbatupama Sutta”.  Listen more

Sumangala, U (Daeou Sayadaw). ဝကၠလိသုတၱန္။ [Vakkali Sutta]. Mandalay, 7 October 2006.

Urging to perform Vipassana in order to escape from Samsara with reference to “Vakkali Sutta”.  Listen more

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Dhammapada 30 [Khuddaka Nikaya]

II- Appamadavagga, Heedfulness
7- Magha Vatthu

Appamadena maghava, devanam setthatam gato;
appamadam pasamanti, pamado garahito sada.

30: Through mindfulness (in doing meritorious deeds) Magha became king of the devas. Mindfulness is always praised, but negligence is always blamed.

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Sasana_ Shade

Sasana resembles shade. It gives both physical and mental peacefulness to those who arrive with anxiety.
ပညိႆ       ရ၊ ေဒါက္တာ အရွင္ (ဓမၼဒူတ၊ ပဲခူး)။ အပူေတြ ့ရင္ အေအးယွဥ္ တရားေတာ္

Sasana_ Super market

From Sasana super market one can buy variety of com- modities such as causes of_longevity, beauty, being in pleasant planes of existence, nobility and attainment of Nibbana etc. Use Saddha as payment and be happy.
ေတေဇာသာရ၊ ဘဒၵႏၲ (ပဲခူး)။ ဝယ္တတ္မွ အစစ္ရ တရားေတာ္

Sasana_ Rain

Rain fall periodically. Those who want rain water must collect while raining. It is the work to be done at the exact moment. Like wise, one must do the Sasana activities while meeting with Sasana.
သုမဂၤလ၊ ဦး (ဒယ္အိုးဆရာေတာ္)။ သစၥာမိုး (၁) တရားေတာ္

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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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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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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). သာသ နာ့ ေရေသာက္ျမစ္။ [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). အဝိဇၨာႏွင့္ ဝိဇၨာ။ [Avijja and Vijja]. Amarapura, 1368 B. E.

Manifestation of Vijja and Avijja; Four Noble Truth. Listen more

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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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Khandha_ Harp

Originally there is no sound in a harp. One can never find sound in any part of it. Khandha too has nothing in it. Neither beauty nor ugliness, not a person, being or self. It is only filled with Anicca, Dukkha and Anatta if one views with Nana.
Vimala, U (Mogok Sayadaw). ေစာင္း ဥပမာျပ

Khandha_ Monkey

Monkey never stay still. The owner of the monkey who watches it will see its changes. Also, person who waits and observes Khandha will see its changes.
Vimala, U (Mogok Sayadaw). ဝိပႆ       နာ႐ႈပြားနည္း (ေမ်ာက္ ဥပမာျပ)

Khandha_ Public rest house

A public rest house located at the four cardinal points accepts every body rich or poor, old or young etc. Also, Khandha accepts all Vedana (feeling) that arise.
Vimala, U (Mogok Sayadaw). ေမ့ေလ်ာ့ျခင္းေဘးအႀကီးဆုံး 

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