Saturday, April 27, 2013

Dhammapada 17 [Khuddaka Nikaya]


I- Yamakavagga, The Pairs
12- Devadatta Vatthu
Idha tappati pecca tappati,
papakari ubhayattha tappati;
papam me katanti tappati,
bhiyyo tappati duggatim gato.
17: Here he is tormented, hereafter he is tormented; the evil-doer is tormented in both existences. He is tormented, and he laments: "Evil have I done." He is even more tormented when he is reborn in one of the lower worlds (Apaya).

Reference:
Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.
 
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Theravada Audio Dhamma (11)


Lakkhana, U. (Kyaswar Sayadaw). အနာမ႐ွိေသာ လက္။ [Hand Without Sore]. Sydney, 23 December 2012.
Mentioned: sufferings of ageing; explanation of " hand without sore"; how to prevent from having demerit volition (Akusala Cetana) referring to the story of a couple_a hunter and his Sotapanna wife.  Listen more
Lakkhana, U. (Kyaswar Sayadaw). သတိပ႒ာန္႐ႈမွတ္နည္း။ [Satipatthana Practice]. Sydney, 24 December 2012.
Described: Kayanupassana Satipatthana; observation of four Satipatthana in sitting position; way of walking meditation; observing general behaviors.  Listen more
Sobhana, Ashin (ShweMyintmo Sayadaw). ပညာျပည့္ဝ
ႏွလုံးလွေစ။ [Have Full Wisdom and Good Heart]. South Okkalapa, 22 November 2007.
Include: Panna Magga_the leader of Noble Eightfold path; how wisdom is important in economy, social relation and meditation; the best taste and enjoyment (Dhamma_Reali- zing Sacca); prayer for every meritorious deed; cause of Lokottara wisdom.  Listen more
Sobhana, Ashin (ShweMyintmo Sayadaw). ေနာင္ဘဝသို ့ မေရာက္ မီ။ [Before Existing in Next Existence]. South Okkalapa, 21 May 2007.
Described: the way of Khandha (conception, ageing, illness and death); how to die having merit; the three catastrophes (famine, war and epidemic diseases) and future existences.  Listen more
Sobhita, Bhaddanta (Padamya Yeikthar Sayadaw). ခႏၶာတြင္းမွန္ စုံစမ္းရန္။ [Investigation of Khandha]. Amarapura, 1351 B.E.
Include: suitable location for meditation; position of body in sitting meditation; establishment of Samadhi by Anapa- na Satipatthana; causes of ageing, illness, death and Apaya dangers; checking which kind of Ditthi appears in one's Khandha.  Listen more
Sobhita, Bhaddanta (PadamyaYeikthar Sayadaw). ေလးျဖာ
ဣရိယာ ႐ႈမွတ္ပါ။ [Observing the Four Aspects of Deportment]. Amarapura, 1351 B.E.
Explained: the objective of Vipassana meditation; what Vipassana is; where and what to observe; four Kammatthana; harmonization of Kammatthana and one's nature; way of observing four aspects of deportment; Satipatthana and Satipatthana Bhavana.  Listen more 

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Thursday, April 18, 2013

Dhammapada 16 [Khuddaka Nikaya]


I- Yamakavagga, The Pairs
11- Dhammika-upasaka Vatthu
Idha modati pecca modati,
katapunno ubhayattha modati;
so modati so pamodati,
disva kammavisuddhimattano.
16: Here he rejoices, hereafter he rejoices; one who performed meritorious deeds rejoices in both existences. He rejoices and greatly rejoices when he sees the purity of his own deeds.
 
Reference:
Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.

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Monday, April 15, 2013

Theravada Audio Dhamma (10)


Ottama, Ashin (Thitsar Shwesi Sayadaw). ဘုရားေပးေသာ ဥပမာ မ်ား။ [Examples that the Buddha Gave]. Yangon, 30 October 2009.
With reference to the story of "Pancasata Bhikkhu", explained, the facts that the Buddha preached with similes to five hundred Bhikkhus who became Arahat at the end of the discourse. Listen more
Ottama, Ashin (Thitsar Shwesi Sayadaw). သူေတာ္ေကာင္းတို႔၏ သေဘာထား။ [Attitude of a Virtuous Person]. Yangon, 21 December 2010.
Referring to "Kanna Jataka", described:Buddha's ways of disciplining; extracting essences from property (Dana), Khandha (Sila) and life (Bhavana); wishes that Bodhisatta Kanna asked from Sakka; disadvantages of weak and strong Dosa (anger), Loba (greed) and love.  Listen more
Sunanda, Ashin (Dhammaransi Sayadaw). ပါရမီမွန္လၽွင္ နိဗၺာန္ဝင္ တရားေတာ္။ [Correct Perfection Acquires Nibbana]. Mogok, 8 September 2004.
Description of Purejata, Pacchajata and Asevana paccaya.  Listen more
Sunanda, Ashin (Dhammaransi Sayadaw). ဣေျႏၵညီမွ် နိဗၺာန္ရ တရားေတာ္။ [Balanced Indrias Acquires Nibbana]. Mogok, 22 September 2004.
Mentioned: definition of Indria; types of Indria; importance of balance of Indrias; ability of Kamma.  Listen more
Tejosara, Bhaddanta (Bago). ထြက္ရာလမ္း တရားေတာ္။ [Way of Escape]. Bago, 1369 B.E.
Mentioned Bhava Tanha_ the cause of Vutta; preparation for death; importance of realizing the four Noble Truth. Example_ Sangala Jataka.  Listen more (1) (2)
Tejosara, Bhaddanta (Bago). အလိုက္ေပးမွ လဲလို ့ရ။ [Giving Extras to Barter with Nibbana]. Bago, 1370 B.E.
With reference to the story of "Uttara Thera", explained the necessary extras faith (Saddha), desire (Chanda) and effort (Viriya) to barter with Nibbana.  Listen more 

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Dhammapada 15 [Khuddaka Nikaya]


I- Yamakavagga, The Pairs
10- Cundasukarika Vatthu
Idha socati pecca socati,
papakari ubhayattha socati;
so socati so vihannati,
disva kammakilitthamattano.
15: Here he grieves, hereafter he grieves; the evil-doer grieves in both existences. He grieves and he suffers anguish when he sees the depravity of his own deeds.

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

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Saturday, April 6, 2013

Theravada Audio Dhamma (9)


Nyeyadhammasami, Vanavasi Ashin (Maha Bodhimyaing Sayadaw). ဒုကၡမွန္းသိမွ ဒုကၡပယ္လို ့ရ။ [Realizing and Dispelling Dukkha]. 28 Jun 1997.
With reference to the story of "Kalaraja Brahmin", explained two Dukkha; three loads that one has to carry in every lives.  Listen more
Nyeyadhammasami, Vanavasi Ashin (Maha Bodhimyaing Sayadaw). အမွတ္အသိေလးတစ္ခု၏ အက်ိဳးေပး။ [Benefit of Mindfulness]. 23 Jun 1997.
Referring to the story of wealthy man's daughter "Sumana Devi", explained: the way that Avijja (ignorance) and Tanha (craving) mutually mislead beings to be caught in Samsara; how mindfulness (Sati) is important in changing one's nature; mindful and mindless persons.  Listen more
Pandita, Ashin (Dvipitakadhara, Maniratana Sayadaw). ဒိ႒ိကပ္ ခြါပုံ တရားေတာ္။ [How to Discard Ditthi]. 12 Sep 2005.
Include: causes of having Ditthi; various Ditthi; way of discarding Ditthi.  Listen more
Pandita, Ashin (Dvipitakadhara, Maniratana Sayadaw) သာသနာ ဘယ္လို ျပဳၾကမလဲ တရားေတာ္။ [Way of Propagating Sasana]. 12 Sep 2005.
Definition of Vipassana; two types of propagating Sasana and the better one referring to the story of rich man Anathapani's youngest daugter "Culasubaddha".  Listen more
Vayaminda, Bhaddanta (Myauk-u Sayadaw). ကိုယ့္စိတ္ကိုယ္စစ္ တရားေတာ္။ [Check Your Own Mind]. Mandalay, 10 Oct 2008.
Include: advice to check one's mind in order to keep it clear and clean; how to check one's mind; what Avijja is.  Listen more
Vayaminda, Bhaddanta (Myauk-u Sayadaw). ခႏၶာ့ေဘးရန္ တရားေတာ္။ [Dangers of Khandha]. Mandalay, 11 Oct 2008.
Explain how kandha is dangerous and advise to decorate one's mind with merit.  Listen more 
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