Dhammapada 13-14 [Khuddaka Nikaya]

I- Yamakavagga, The Pairs
9- Nandatthera Vatthu

Yatha agaram ducchannam,
vutthi samativijjhati;
evam abhavitam cittam,
rago samativijjhati.

Yatha agaram suchannam,
vutthi na samativijjhati;
evam subhavitam cittam,
rago na samativijjhati.

13: Just as rain penetrates a badly-roofed house, so also, passion (raga) penetrates a mind not cultivated in Tranquillity and Insight Development (Samatha and Vipassana).
 

14: Just as rain cannot penetrate a well-roofed house, so also, passion (raga) cannot penetrate a mind well-cultivated in Tranquillity and Insight Development (Samatha and Vipassana).

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

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Dhammapada 11-12 [Khuddaka Nikaya]

I- Yamakavagga, The Pairs
8- Sariputtatthera Vatthu

Asare saramatino,
sare casaradassino;
te saram nadhigacchanti,
micchasankappagocara.

Saranca sarato natva,
asaranca adhigacchanti;
te saram adhigacchanti,
sammasankappagocara.

11: They take untruth for truth; they take truth for untruth; such persons can never arrive at the truth, for they hold wrong views.
 
12: They take truth for truth; they take untruth for untruth; such persons arrive at the truth, for they hold right views.

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

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Theravada Audio Dhamma (8)

Candasiri, Ashin (Aung Cakka Sayadaw). ေဒဝဒူတသုတၱန္ (ပ) (ဒု)။ [Devaduta Sutta]. South Okkalapa, 17 Jan 2009.

Explaining: ten unwholesome acts; interrogation of King Niraya to a denizen of hell; five torturing in Niraya; Sanvega Nana; structure of Great Avici; sufferings in Uttara minor hell; cause of casting into hell; way of escaping from being in hell.  Listen more (1) (2)

Candasiri, Ashin (Aung Cakka Sayadaw). ဥတၱရသာမေဏ တံက်င္လၽွိဳခန္း (ပ) (ဒု)။ [Impaling of Uttara Samanera (1) (2)]. South Okkalapa, 17 Jan 2009.

Mentioned: how Khandha tortures the person whom it located; benefit of revering tri-ratana; Vutta that one cannot escape from; advice to resist the way of the mundane world (lokadan) and practise insight knowledge until one attains Nibbana. Example story_"Uttara Samanera".  Listen more (1) (2)

Pannananda, Ashin (Sitagu Star). နည္းနည္းလွဴ မ်ားမ်ားရ။ [Less Donation Much Benefits]. Kyonmangay, 1370 B.E.

Mentioned: two most important matters in one's life (i.e. to live and to die); attributes of Ahin Maha Kassapa; donating with noble mind; advice to earn, spend, save and perform meritorious deeds.  Listen more (1) (2)

Pannananda, Ashin (Sitagu Star). လူပီသေသာ လူ ့ဘဝ။ [A Real Human Life]. Magway, 25 Dec 2007.

Defining human; kind of human that Sakka (King of Devas) worships referring to the conversation between Sakka and Martali deva.  Listen more

Sujata, Ashin (Metta Aye Sayadaw). ဒုကၡကို မုန္းၾကပါ (၁)။ [Hate Dukkha (1)]. Tapayvillage, 13 May 2009.

Explanation of_seven common sufferings(Dukkha) stated by the Buddha; five aggregates, the gist of all Dukkha.  Listen more

Sujata, Ashin (Metta Aye Sayadaw). ဒုကၡကို မုန္းၾကပါ (၂)။ [Hate Dukkha (2)]. Tapayvillage, 13 May 2009.

Mentioned:the most troublesome enemy_Khandha; advice to strive to attain Nibbana rather than wishing for any of the Khandha; observing by Nana to hate the Dukkha Khandha; Bhavanamaya Nana that leads to Nibbana.  Listen more 

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Dhammapada 9-10 [Khuddaka Nikaya]

I- Yamakavagga, The Pairs
7- Devadatta Vatthu

Anikkasavo kasavam, yo vattham paridahissati;
apeto damasaccena, na so kasavamarahati.

Yo ca vantakasav'assa, silesu susamahito;
upeto damasaccena, sa ve kasavamarahati.

09: He who is not free from taints of moral defilements (kilesas) and yet dons the yellow robe, who lacks restraint in his senses and (speaks not the) truth is unworthy of the yellow robe.
 
10: He who has discarded all moral defilements (kilesas), who is established in moral precepts, is endowed with restraint and (speaks the) truth is, indeed, worthy of the yellow robe.
 
Reference:
Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.

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Theravada Audio Dhamma (7)

Eindaka, Ashin (Tuntay Sayadaw). ဘဝေနာင္ေရးစိတ္ေအး
ေၾကာင္း တရားေတာ္။ [Well-being of One's Future]. 16 July 2004.

Described: Ten facts to do for the well-being of one's future; how great the gratitudes of parents are; the best way to repay parent's gratitudes; superiority of merit.  Listen more

Eindaka, Ashin (Tuntay Sayadaw). လိုတရႏွလုံးသား တရားေတာ္။ [Having Whatever One Wishes for]. 16 July 2004.

Mentioned the Dhamma (Buddhanussati, Dhammanussati, Sanghanussati, Satipatthana, Karuna and Metta) when practise constantly make one free from all dangers and get whatever one wishes for.  Listen more

Eindavudabhivamsa, U (HtoogyiSayadaw). ပဋိစၥသမုပၸါဒ္ႏွင့္ ပ႒ာန္း တရားေတာ္။ [Paticca Samuppada & Patthana]. Yangon, 20 Oct 2006. 

Described: the correction of cause and effect; ability of cause; five principles.  Listen more

Eindavudabhivamsa, U (HtoogyiSayadaw). အပၸမာေဒန သမၸာေဒ ထ။ [Appamadena Sampadetha]. Yangon, 20 Oct 2006.

Explained: “Appamadena Sampadetha”_ the words that the Buddha repeatedly stated; what and how to remember; three chances to practise Vipassana.   Listen more

Sirindabhivamsa, Bhaddanta (Yaw Sayadaw).
ေမတၲာတရား လူ႔႔႔စြမ္းအား (၁)။ [Metta_the Power of Human (1)]. Yangon, 2 Feb 1996.

Explaining the four manners of noble person, that is, patience; compassion, rejoicing at others success or prosperity and loving kindness.  Listen more

Sirindabhivamsa, Bhaddanta (Yaw Sayadaw).
ေမတၱာတရား လူ႔႔႔စြမ္းအား (၂)။ [Metta_the Power of Human(2)]. Yangon, 2 Feb 1996.

Include: the ability of metta; two instructions of the Buddha_ having mindfulness when one is alone and having Metta (loving kindness) when one is with others; persons who got good name because of Sasana.  Listen more

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Dhammapada 7-8 [Khuddaka Nikaya]

I- Yamakavagga, The Pairs
6- Mahakalatthera Vatthu 

Subhanupassim viharantam,
indriyesu asamvutam;
bhojanamhi camattannum,
kusitam hinaviriyam;
tam ve pasahati Maro,
vato rukkhamva dubbalam.
 

Asubhanupassim viharantam,
indriyesu susamvutam;
bhojanamhi ca mattannum,
saddham araddhaviriyam;
tam ve nappasahati Maro,
vato selamva pabbatam.

He who keeps his mind on pleasant objects, who is uncontrolled in his senses, immoderate in his food, and is lazy and lacking in energy, will certainly be overwhelmed by Mara, just as stormy winds uproot a weak tree.

He who keeps his mind on the impurities (of the body), who is well-controlled in his senses and is full of faith and energy, will certainly be not overwhelmed by Mara, just as stormy winds cannot shake a mountain of rock.
 

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

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Theravada Audio Dhamma (6)

Janitalankara, Bhaddanta. အစြဲျပဳတ္မွ နိဗၺာန္ရ။ [Elimination of Attachment]. Yangon, 11 Aug 2007.

Described: the person who will attain Nibbana; way to detach Upadana that Venerable Sariputta instructed to Anathapannika who was on his deathbed.  Listen more

Janitalankara, Bhaddanta. ဉာဏ္စဥ္စိတ္ျဖာ ခြဲသိပါ။ [Analysis of Nana Level]. Yangon, 12 Aug 2007.

Explained: how wisdom (Nana) is the best of all things; three Nana that can lead to Nibbana (Yathabuta, Nibbindha, Magga Nana); four methods of observing Anicca.  Listen more

Kumara, Ashin (Dhammadhara). လူ႔ဘဝ၏ ဖန္ဆင္းရွင္ (ပ)။ [Creator of Human Life_1]. Mandalay, 1371 B.E.

Include: objectives of listening to Dhamma; important facts in listening to Dhamma; value of Noble Truth and Noble Eightfold Path; the doctrine of the Buddha; types of person in listening to Dhamma; life differences due to Kamma.  Listen more

Kumara, Ashin (Dhammadhara). လူ႔ဘဝ၏ ဖန္ဆင္းရွင္ (ဒု)။ [Creator of Human Life_2]. Mandalay, 1371 B.E.

Mentioned: opinions on life; types and results of Kamma; time of Kamma's effects.  Listen more

Pannajota, Ashin (Taungzun, Dhammaduta). ဆယ့္တစ္မီးျငိမ္းမွ နိဗၺာန္ရ အလုပ္ေပးတရားေတာ္။ [Dhamma Exercise on Defeating Eleven Consuming Passion]. Yangon, 1358 B.E.

Manifestation of eleven consuming passion and way to defeat them.  Listen more

Pannajota, Ashin (Taungzun, Dhammaduta). ဘယ္ပုဂၢိဳလ္ကား သတၱဝါမ်ားကို ဖန္ဆင္းထားပါသလဲ။ [Who Creates Living Beings?]. Yangon, 1359 B.E.

Mentioned the conversation between Mara (the arch angel of evil) and a Bhikkhuni arahat relating to living beings. Listen more

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