Dhamma Gift

Audiography on Theravada Dhamma Discourses [54]

2012-02-11T13:56:00.000+08:00

ကာလ၏ စားဖတ္ ဝါးဖတ္ မျဖစ္ေစေရး တရားေတာ္ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Amarapura, Aug 24, 1958.

Time_the most frightful enemy that destroy all living beings; Paticca Samuppada which show how beings are the victims of Time; way of escaping from the destruction of Time;Nibbana: with only true happiness without Time factor. Listen more

တဏွာထက္ ဒိ႒ိက ပိုေၾကာက္ဖို႔ေကာင္းပံု / U Eindavudabhivamsa (Htoogyi Sayadaw) Yangon, Sep 8, 2006.

Explaining: two areas_ lokuttara and loki; why it is essen- tial to discard Sakkaya Ditthi first; facts(conception,aging, illness, death and four netherworlds) that can create San- vega. Advice to escape from unpeaceful (Tanha, Saddha, Sanvega and Samadhi) areas and enter to the peaceful one (Panna_Nibbana). Listen more

ဓမၼပါလ တရားေတာ္ / Ashin Janakabhivamsa (Mahagandharon Sayadaw) [no date]

Describing the only personal property that can support in one's future existence (that is, merit of performing Dana, Sila and Bhavana) with reference to“Dhammapala Jataka”. Listen more

ဓမၼဗိမာန္ တရားေတာ္ / Ashin Janakabhivamsa (Mahagandharon Sayadaw) [no date]

Manifestation of the taste of the Dhamma; observing Khan- dha; Bojjhanga_ the Dhamma that the Buddha practised. Listen more

ေမတၱာလႊမ္းၿခဳံ ေဘးရန္လုံ / Bhaddanta Sirindabhivamsa (Yaw Sayadaw) Yangon, Aug 25, 2004.

Origin of danger; ability of Metta (loving kindness); differ- ent ways of praying for the well-being of others (living beings_all in a group; in two groups, in three groups) referring to “Metta Sutta”; short to the point Vipassana. Listen more

ေသတတ္တဲ့နည္းနဲ႕ ေသသြားတယ္ / Ashin Eindacarabhivamsa. 1365 (B.E.)

Things that no one can prevent (aging, illness, death, effect of one's Kamma); types of good friend; a perfect death; Satipatthana_weapon to attack Kilesa. Reference_the story of “Phagguna Bhikkhu”. Listen more

သစၥာသိၿပီးမွ လွဴပါ / U Eindavudabhivamsa (Htoogyi Sayadaw) Yangon, Sep 24, 2006.

Instructions to perform Dana with Sacca Nana. Listen more

သမၼသနသုတ္ အငတ္နာေဘး တရားေတာ္ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Amarapura, Aug 22, 1958.

Elucidation of Tanha_ the culprit of having Khandha as well as the worst illness_ greed that can never be fulfilled; cause and result of Tanha; way to discard it; attaining Nib- bana. Listen more

အမွန္တရား လူ႔႔စြမ္းအား / Bhaddanta Sirindabhivamsa (Yaw Sayadaw) Yangon, Jul 23, 1998.

Truth_ the ability of human; explanation of four Noble Truth; Sila, Samadhi, Panna_ the exit of life to Nibbana. Listen more

အလွပိုျမင့္ ပန္းသုံးပြင့္ / Ashin Eindacarabhivamsa. Thayetkon, Apr 4, 2004.

Describing Uposatha (observance of precepts); different ways of observing precepts; advice to rely only on the Dhamma and to perform Dana, Sila, Bhavana before being defeated by old age, sickness and death giving “Patacari” as an example. Listen more

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Audiography on Theravada Dhamma Discourses [53]

2012-02-04T13:08:00.000+08:00

ကိုယ့္ဘက္သာ ကိုယ္ဆြဲသည္ / Ashin Pannajota (Taunsunn, Dhamma Duta) Yangon, 1358 (B.E.)

How people persuade one another to do good or evil; the effect of doing good or evil; definition and consequences of ponnyantare (impediment endangering merit) and dhammantare (impediment endangering Dhamma); advice to meditate at every age group of life. Listen more

ေက်းဇူး႐ွင္ျမတ္ ေက်းဇူးဆပ္ / U Janitalankara. Yangon, Aug 4, 2007.

Advising to repay gratitude to the Buddha by practising Vipassana; five Dullaba; weak and strong Vipassana; choosing suitable Satipatthana; Kayanupassana Satipat- thana practice using the observation of inhalation and exhalation method. Listen more

ခႏၶာ ပဋိစၥသမုပၸါဒ္ လက္ေတြ႔ ဝိပႆနာ တရားေတာ္ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Amarapura, Aug 14, 1958.

Proving that how Samudaya Sacca is the culprit of Dukkha Sacca by reverse order of Paticca Samuppada; practical Vipassana. Listen more

တရားနာက်င့္ရန္ ရည္ရြယ္မွန္ / Ashin Pannajota (Taunsunn, Dhamma Duta) Yangon, 1359 (B.E.)

Mentioning: what each of the four sacca is for; incorrect and correct objectives of listening to the Dhamma and meditation. Listen more

ထင္တိုင္း မႀကဲ ႏွင့္ / Dr Ashin Chekinda (Dhammaduta) Yangon, May 27, 2001.

Differentiation between Micchaditthi (person having false belief) and Samaditthi (person having right belief) with reference to “Ekapuggala Sutta”. Listen more

ဓမၼာ ႏုပႆနာ အလုပ္ေပး တရား / U Janitalankara. [no date]

Dhamma exercise on Dhammanupassana. Listen more

ဘဝ ေနမဝင္မီ / Vanavasi Ashin Nyeyadhammasami (Maha Bodhimyaing Sayadaw) Jun 13, 1997.

Highlighting: Tanha and Upadan, carelessness and mindfulness. Listen more

မေသမခ်င္း အလုပ္ေပး / Dr Ashin Chekinda (Dhammaduta) Hmawbi, Oct 24, 2002.

Describing the four fluxions (Asava dhamma i.e. desire, craving, wrong belief, ignorance) and how to discard them and facts to consider by meditators. Listen more

သုံးေတာ့သုံး မစြဲေစနဲ႕ / Vanavasi Ashin Nyeyadhammasami (Maha Bodhimyaing Sayadaw) Jun 14, 1997.

Description of the Buddha's teaching and five messengers of deva (newly born, old age, sick person, corpse, and executioner) referring to the “Deveduta sutta”. Listen more

အဓိပတိ သုံးပါးထား၍ အားထုတ္ရန္ႏွင့္ ေဝဒနာႏွင့္ တဏွာၾကား နိဗၺာန္ရွာပုံ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Amarapura, Aug 13, 1958.

Instructing the ways of striving with pre-eminence to attain Magga Nana; where and how to find Nibbana. In addition, benefits of performing insight knowledge are mentioned. Listen more

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Audiography on Theravada Dhamma Discourses [52]

2012-01-28T10:36:00.000+08:00

ခႏၶာကိုယ္ ေစခိုင္း၍ နိဗၺာန္ေရာက္ေၾကာင္း တရားေတာ္ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Aug 13, 1958.

Describing how Khandha is one of the cause to attain Nibbana; difference between Samatha and Vipassana; the speaker_ Rupa and Nama, the listener_ Nana; way to realize truth. Listen more

ပမာဒႏွင့္ အပၸမာဒ / Dr. Bhaddanta Nandamalabhivamsa (Rector, ITBMU) Sagaing, 1360 (B.E.)

Explanation of carelessness (Pamada) and mindfulness (Appamada). In addition, stated how mindfulness is impor- tant in attaining Nibbana. Listen more

ၿပတ္သားတဲ့ ဆုံးၿဖတ္ခ်က္ / Dr Ashin Pannissara (Dhammaduta) Bago, Apr 16, 2006.

Advising to be decisive in doing things; instructing what to do when one gets chance to meet Sasana, that is, to listen, to keep in heart and to practise Dhamma with reference to the story of Ekasadhaka brahmin. Listen more

ဘုရားအရိပ္ တရားအရိပ္ / Dr Ashin Pannissara (Dhammaduta) Bago, Nov 29, 2005.

Mentioning the three types of shelter and the best one_ Buddha Dhamma, giving “Rajjumala” story as an example. Listen more

မျပဳမျဖစ္ ျပဳမွျဖစ္ / Bhaddanta Vayaminda (Myauk-u Sayadaw) Mandalay, Sep 26, 2008.

Mentioned what Dhamma is; difficulties which one cannot prevent and wish for; process of Khandha; meritorious deed_work to perform certainly. Listen more

ရွင္သာရိပုတၱရာ မေထရ္ျမတ္၏ ႏွမေတာ္တို႔၏ ဓမၼအျမင္မ်ား / Dr. Bhaddanta Nandamalabhivamsa (Rector, ITBMU) Sagaing, 1360 (B.E.)

Stating the Dhamma views of three bhikkhunis (sisters of Venerable Sariputta) with reference to Cala Sutta, Upacala Sutta and Sisupacala Sutta. Listen more

ေလးမ်ိဳးတားမရ / Ashin Kundalabhivamsa (Saddhammaramsi SayaDaw) [no date]

Elucidation of dangers that no one can prevent; preparation to face these dangers. Listen more

အနာဂတ္ေဘးငါးေဘးႏွင့္ပဋိစၥသမုပၸါဒ္ အႏုေလာမ နည္းရွင္းပုံ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Amarapura, Aug 12, 1958.

Future dangers (aging, illness, famine, schism of monks, revolt) that who does not practise Vipassana waits for; Avijja which ignore the four Noble Truth; merit and demerit volition (Sankhara); characteristics of Paticca Samuppada in past, present and future lives; what meditator should observe. Listen more

အေဖာ္ေကာင္းရွိပါေစ / Bhaddanta Vayaminda (Myauk-u Sayadaw) Mandalay, Sep 25, 2008.

Explaining: the three necessities of Samsara; companions in present life and Samsara; Dhamma_the best companion. Listen more

အျမတ္းဆုံးေလးပါး / Ashin Kundalabhivamsa (Saddhammaramsi SayaDaw) Yangon, 1365 (B.E.)

Manifestation of four noblest Dhamma: 1. being healthy, 2. being contented, 3. having intimate relatives, 4. happiness of attaining Nibbana; causes to realize the principle truth; benefits of Sotapanna. Listen more

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Audiography on Theravada Dhamma Discourses [51]

2012-01-21T17:37:00.000+08:00

ကာလဒါနႏွင့္ ပကာသနဒါန / Ashin Javana (Metta Shin) 1367 (B.E.)

Describing: the three non-contented things (furnace, ocean, greedy person); disadvantages of greed and how to dispel it; difference between the Dana that performed to fulfil the current needs and ostentatious Dana; when to perform Dana; reason of doing Dana, Sila and Bhavana. Listen more

ကစၥာနဇာတ္ / U Sumangala (Daeou Sayadaw) Mandalay, Sep 29, 2006.

Explaining: about Avijja and Sankhara that cause Dukkha; Nibbana_ the unchangeable Dhamma. Example_ Kaccana Jataka. Listen more

စိတ္ကို ထိန္းမွ ခ်မ္းသာရ တရားေတာ္ (၂) / Ashin Janakabhivamsa (Chanmyay Sayadaw) Oct 2, 1999.

Description of the Noble Eightfold Path; Sacca in principle (realize, dispel, attain, nurture) and in practical (nurture, realize, dispel, attain); the gist of “Maha Satipatthana Sutta”. Listen more

တဏွာထက္ ဒိ႒ိကပို၍ေၾကာက္စရာေကာင္းပုံ တရားေတာ္ / U Dhammasara (Hsinphyukyun Sayadaw) Hsinphyukyun, Jan 10, 1990.

Explaining how Ditthi is more frightful than Tahna. In addition, describing the ways to dispel Ditthi giving Shin Chanda (co-natal of the Buddha) as an example. Listen more

နားကတရားနာ ဉာဏ္ကခႏၶာလွည့္ သုသိမသုတၱန္ တရားေတာ္ / U Dhammasara (Hsinphyukyun Sayadaw) Hsinphyukyun, Feb 2, 1990.

With reference to “Susima Sutta”, mentioned how Vipas- sana Magga Nana is important in attaining Nibbana. Listen more

ပါရမီထိုက္ေသာ ဒါနႏွင့္ ပါရမီမထိုက္ေသာ ဒါန / Ashin Javana (Metta Shin) Yangon, 1367 (B.E.)

Differentiation between the benefits of Dana that acquires virtue and that doesn't. Advising to acquire virtue in per- forming Dana with correct wish referring to the story of “Mahasena brahmin”. Listen more

ယခုလုပ္ရမည္႔ အလုပ္ တရားေတာ္ (၁) / Ashin Janakabhivamsa (Chanmyay Sayadaw) [no date]

Explaining the brief teachings of all the Buddhas_ 1. to avoid all evil deeds, 2. to do all merits, 3. to keep one's mind pure. Also, advising to strive until one becomes Arahat. Listen more

လူပီသေရး / U Sumangala (Daeou Sayadaw) Nyaung Oo, May 18, 2006.

Mentioning: the ability of a perfect person; instructions to be a perfect one; the best power; basis of cause and effect. Listen more

အဓိပတိ သုံးပါးထား၍ ပစၥဳပၸန္ ပဋိစၥသမုပၸါဒ္ကိုသာ ဝိပႆနာရႈရန္ တရားေတာ္ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Aug 11, 1958.

Three ways of performing insight knowledge; Tajo that tor- ture and Rupa and Namma that suffer; the cause of Jati. Listen more

အဝိဇၨာလက္ေအာက္ခံ သခၤါရသုံးမ်ဳိး တရားေတာ္ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Amarapura, Aug 12, 1958.

What Avijja does not know; three Sankhara (Kaya San- khara, Vaci Sankhara, Citta Sankhara) done by the person having Avijja; characteristics of Paticca Samuppada which occur in those people who listen to the Dhamma and in those who doesn't. Listen more

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Audiography on Theravada Dhamma Discourses [50]

2012-01-14T14:05:00.000+08:00

ကံျဖဴ ကံမဲ တရားေတာ္ / Bhaddanta Rajinda (Aungmangala Sayadaw) [no date]

Explanation of: four Kamma (merit, demerit, merit and demerit mixed, neither merit nor demerit); three Dhamma (Kamma, Nana, Jhana); two types of human beings; urging to rely on one's morals that one practises (i.e. to rely on Nana rather than Kamma). Listen more

ဒကၡိဏဝိသုဒၶိေလးပါး တရားေတာ္ / Dr Ashin Nyanissara (Sitagu Sayadaw) Yangon, Apr 29, 1978.

Explaining the variation of benefits of Dana with regard to the purity of donor and recipient. Listen more

ဓမၼဒါယဒသုတ္ (၁) / U Sobana (Mahasi Sayadaw) 1340 B.E.

Referring to the “Dhamma Dayada Sutta” , explained about the types of inheritance; nine Lokoktara Dhamma inheritance_ the best one to be inherited; true and false Dhamma inheritances. Listen more

ဓမၼဒါယဒသုတ္ (၂) / U Sobana (Mahasi Sayadaw) 1340 B.E.

Advice to practise Vipassana and attain Ariya Magga; levels of Vipassana practice; four works that one ought to do; why it is necessary to perform insight meditation ur- gently. Listen more

ပဋိစၥသမုပၸါဒ္ အႏုေလာမ၊ ပဋိေလာမ နည္းၿဖင့္ ဒုကၡသစၥာဆိုက္ပုံ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw)

Amarapura, Aug 10, 1958.

Explaining: the features of Samsara, an expanse of water; how Tejo torture Khandha; harbouring Tanha means continuing Dukkha; way of dispelling Tanha; why one should not pray for having Jati; Paticca Samuppada that connect past, present and future lives. Listen more

ပန္းႏွင့္ အၿပိဳင္ တရားထိုင္ / Ashin Candasiri. [no date]

Instruction to discard Kilesa that appear in one's mind by Vipassana practice like plucking down the old flowers from the plant. Listen more

ေသာပါကသာမေဏ တရားေတာ္ / Dr Ashin Nyanissara (Sitagu Sayadaw) [no date]

Description of how Sopaka Samanera became Arahat as well as bhikkhu in detail. Listen more

သခၤါရအဆုံးမွာ နိဗၺာန္ရွိႏုိင္ပုံ တရားေတာ္ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Amarapura, Jul 11, 1958.

Include: how Nibbana is quite near to those who practise Vipassana; Sankhara Dukkha; when Apaya seed termi-nates; Cittanupassana practice; two Nibbana. Listen more

အမွား ဒိ႒ိႏွင့္ တဏွာပယ္သတ္နည္း / Bhaddanta Rajinda (Aungmangala Sayadaw) [no date]

Definition of Ditthi; why birth and death continuously oc- cur; dispelling Upadana (Ditthi and Tanha) by Sila, Sama- dhi and Panna; objective of meditation. Listen more

အရွင္အာနႏၵာ ေသာတာပန္တည္ခန္း / Ashin Candasiri. Saketa, Apr 13, 2008.

Mentioning why Apaya is the permanent residence of living beings; four causes of Rupa (kamma, mind, weather, nutri-tion); way to dispel Ditthi. Listen more

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Audiography on Theravada Dhamma Discourses [49]

2012-01-07T14:25:00.000+08:00

ကာယာ ႏုပႆနာ သတိပဌာန္ / U Gosita. [no date]

Explanation of five aggregates; Satipatthana; choosing the suitable Kammatthana; Kayanu-passana practice. Listen more

ကိုယ့္စိတ္ကိုယ္စစ္ / Ashin Chandadhika (Shweparamitoya) [no date]

Importance of examining one's mind; how to examine own mind. Listen more

တစ္ေယာက္တည္းေနတစ္စိတ္တည္းထား / Ashin Chandadhika (Shweparamitoya) Nyaunglebin, Dec 17, 1996.

Instructing the facts to follow to attain Magga, Phala and Nibbana; disadvantages of talking while meditating; objectives of keeping one's mind only in Vipassana consciousness; conditions not necessary to select in performing meditation (i.e. work, place, aspect of deportment, time). Listen more

ပါေ၀ယ်ကဆင္ တိုက္ ပဲြ၀င္္/ U Narapati (Phyu Sayadaw) Yangon, Dec 22, 1978.

Include: instruction to overcome external and internal enemies that prevent from attaining Nibbana with reference to the story of the fighting elephant, “Paveyaka”; significance of Dana, Sila and Bhavana to achieve Nibbana; benefits of Satipatthana; how mind is more important to look after than the body. Listen more

မွားေသာအက်င့္ႏွင့္ မွန္ေသာအက်င့္ တရားေတာ္ (၁) / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) August 8, 1958.

Why Buddha advised to disconnect Paticca Samuppada; correct way of Vipassana practice to attain Nibbana (i.e. observing appearance and disappearance between Vedana and Tanha.)
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မွားေသာအက်င့္ႏွင့္ မွန္ေသာအက်င့္ တရားေတာ္ (၂) / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) August 9, 1958.

Describing: the practices which disconnect and connect samsara; how Tejo is the main culprit of aging and death; reversing the Paticca Sa- muppada to be visible distinctively that the continuation of Kamma result in continual Jati and prolong samsara; words left by the Buddha to Venerable Ananda. Also, urging to perform Vipassana to realize aging and death practi- cally. Listen more

သုညတဆိုက္ေအာင္ရႈပါတရားေတာ္ / U Gosita. Yangon, Jun 8, 1996.

Consequence of destroying a building related to all monks (Sanghika); observation of appearan- ce and disappearance of the five aggregates till they become nothingness in order to escape from death. Example story:“BhikkhuMoharaja”. Listen more

အေဖၚေကာင္းႏွင့္ဆရာေကာင္း (၁) / Bhaddanta Janeiya (Myaseintaung Sayadaw) 1364 B.E.

Advising to avoid of being a Micchaditthi but to practise Vipassana and becomes Sammaditthi. Also, explained Upadana that manipulates one's consciousness; three Magga namely_Mula Magga, Pobbanga Magga and Ariya Magga. Listen more

အေဖၚေကာင္းႏွင့္ဆရာေကာင္း (၂) / Bhaddanta Janeiya (Myaseintaung Sayadaw) 1364 B.E.

Description of various types of pregnancy, death, Marana, condition and time of Kamma; pannatti and paramattha; importance of having good teacher and good companion in practising Vipassana. Listen more

အေ႐ွ႔မွေန၀န္းထြက္သည့္ပမာ / U Narapati (Phyu Sayadaw) Yangon, Dec 17, 1993.

Explaining: the types of Samaditthi; how Sama- ditthi is the precursor of realizing Sacca; Viriya Bo; benefits of Viriya; what Vipassana Medita- tion means; the three characteristics of exis- tence (Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta); the peaceful characteristic of Nibbana. Listen more

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Wishes For New Year 2012

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Here comes another year,

As the old one disappears.

Throw all worries that appear,

And keep your mind pure and clear.

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Audiography on Theravada Dhamma Discourses [48]

2011-12-31T11:07:00.000+08:00

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

မ်က္ရည္စနဲ ့မလြမ္းပါနဲ ့(၁) (၂) / Ashin Soma (Tavoy) Ranong, Feb 4, 2008.

Three Samsara; to have apprehension that appearance is always followed by disappearance; why living beings die in groups; how beings circulate in Samsara and become related to each other with an example story of a poor woman “Sudali”. Listen more (1) Listen more (2)

ဝဋ္ကံၾကမၼာေၾကာက္စရာ / Ashin Soma (Tavoy) Kawthaung, Oct 24, 2009.

Describing: how future life exists between in-breath and out-breath; frightful atonement for past misdeed with various examples and slide show. 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)

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2011-12-24T14:25:00.000+08:00

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 (၁) / 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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2011-12-17T13:58:00.000+08:00

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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2011-12-11T10:51:00.000+08:00

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 (၂) / 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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2011-12-03T15:28:00.000+08:00

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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2011-11-26T08:59:00.000+08:00

ကံေလးမ်ိဳး အက်ိဳးေပး / Ashin Pannajota (Taunsunn, Dhamma Duta) Kyaikhto, 1356 (B.E.)

Describing the effects of four Kamma namely_ merit (white kamma), demerit (black kamma), mixture of merit and demerit (white and black mixed kamma) and neither merit nor demerit (neither white nor demerit (neither white nor black kamma) referring to the conversation of the Buddha and two heretics_Ponna and Seniya. Listen more

စိတၱာႏုပႆနာ အလုပ္ေပး တရား / U Janitalankara. [no date]

The benefit of practising Cittanupassana; how to perform Cittanupassana. Listen more

ဆရာေကာင္း နဲ႔ ေတြ႔ေစခ်င္တယ္ / Dr Ashin Chekinda (Dhammaduta) Taunzun, Apr 26, 1997.

Importance of meeting with perfect teacher while one becomes human being during sasana; seven characteristics of a perfect teacher. Listen more

တရားနာက်ိဳး အားထုတ္က်ိဳး / Ashin Pannajota (Taunsunn, Dhamma Duta) Kyonpyaw, 1357 (B.E.)

Explanation of: four nana (Sutamaya, Cintamaya, Bhavanamaya, Pativeda); two kinds of puthujjana; benefits of listening to the Dhamma and practising. Listen more

ဘုံသုံးဆယ့္တစ္ / Vanavasi Ashin Nyeyadhammasami (Maha Bodhimyaing Sayadaw) Jun 12, 1997.

Explaining how Tanha manage Loka with comparison of puppet show and stage of Loka; advice to escape from command of Tanha by having mindfulness. Listen more

ျမတ္ရတနာ သုံးစု / Vanavasi Ashin Nyeyadhammasami (Maha Bodhimyaing Sayadaw) Jun 13,

1997.

Instructing the correct ways of taking precepts, observing precepts and doing obeisance; expla-nation of different precepts (five, eight and ten precepts). Listen more

ေရာဟိတႆသုတ္တရားေတာ္ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Mandalay, Jan 26, 1958.

Instructing where and how to reach the end of Loka (i.e. Nibbana) with reference to the conversation of the Buddha and Rohita deva. Listen more

ေဝဒနာႏုပႆနာ အလုပ္ေပး တရား / U Janitalankara. [no date]

Dhamma exercise on Vedananupassana. Listen more

သုျဗဟၼသုတၱန္္တရားေတာ္ (၁) / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Mandalay, Jan 27, 1958.

Explained: what Sankhara Loka is; where one can find Nibbana; the nature of Nibbana; Anicca_ the end of Sankhara; Bojjhanga Magga_a practice to be free from grief. Advice to dislike both merit and demerit which create existences. Reference: Subrahma Sutta. Listen more

အေၿပာ နဲ႔ အလုပ္ အဟုတ္ညီရင္ / Dr Ashin Chekinda (Dhammaduta) Yangon, Dec 20, 2002.

Explaining about the person: who is known to be a Dhammakathika, who knows and practises insight knowledge, who attain Nibbana. In addition describe samvega nana and realizing the true Rupa. Reference_ the first Dhammakathika Sutta. Listen more

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2011-11-19T11:22:00.000+08:00

တဏွာသခၤယသုတ္ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Mandalay, Jan 24, 1958.

Observing to cease Tanha and attain Nibbana (i.e. to realize Vedana as Anicca); four Nupassi_ Anicca, Vihara, Nirodha, Parinibbana Nupassi; Dhamma necessary to realiza appearance and disappearance of Khandha; consequences of observing and forgetting to observe Vedana, advising to do the observation of Vedana as an everyday work (Acinnakam) referring to “Tanha Sankhara Sutta”. Listen more

တရားဘာေႀကာင့္ က်င့္ရသလဲ / Dr Ashin Pannissara (Dhammaduta) Bago, May 1, 2006.

Describing: five experiences that cannot foresee and objective of meditation referring to the Dhamma which the Buddha stated based on the talk of young bhikkhu Shin Samiddhi and a female deva. Listen more

မႏုႆဓမၼႏွင္႔ ဥတၱရိ မႏုႆဓမၼ / Dr. Bhaddanta Nandamalabhivamsa (Rector, ITBMU) Yangon, 1369 (B.E.)

Manifestation of Manussa Dhamma (ten good deeds) and Uttarimanussa Dhamma giving the story of the Bodhisatta Dhammapala as reference. Listen more

မာယာခရီး / Dr Ashin Pannissara (Dhammaduta) Bago, May 4, 2006.

Urging to observe all things as Rupa and Nama with Sati and Panna in order to escape from the seduction of five objects of sense or thought which are just the pretence deceiving life. Example story is about the prince "Telapatta". Listen more

ဝိပႆနာ အေျခခံ အေျဖမွန္ / Bhaddanta Vayaminda (Myauk-u Sayadaw) Mandalay, Sep 25, 2008.

Instructions of basic Vipassana practice. Listen more

သစၥာေလးပါးျမတ္တရား / Bhaddanta Vayaminda (Myauk-u Sayadaw) Mandalay, Sep 25, 2008.

Description of Sacca which includes: definition; result of not knowing Sacca; improving one's mind by realizing Sacca; nature of Khandha. Listen more

အက်င့္မွန္မွ နိဗၺာန္ရ / Dr. Bhaddanta Nandamalabhivamsa (Rector, ITBMU) Yangon, 1368 (B.E.)

Explaining the "Kukkuravati Sutta" that the Buddha stated to Ponna (who performed bovine practice) and Seniya (who performed canine practice) with intention for them to understand the four types of kamma, the wrong practices which prevent from attaining Nibbana and the correct way to gain Nibbana. Listen more

အနာထပိ႑ိကသုတ္တရားေတာ္ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Mandalay, Jan 25, 1958.

Description of important facts to be emancipated from Samsara (having perfect teacher, Yatherbhuta nana and Magga nana); Venerable Sariputta's teaching of how to die (i.e. observation of happenings and distructions) with reference to “ Anathapindika Sutta”. Listen more

အလႉဒါန (၆) မ်ိဳး / Ashin Kundalabhivamsa (Saddhammaramsi SayaDaw) Yangon, 1365 (B.E.)

Describing six types of Dana (food, clothing, vehicle, light, monastery, Dhamma) and things suitable to offer in each type. Listen more

ဣေႃႏၵထက္ေၾကာင္း တရားတက္ေၾကာင္း (၉) ပါး (၁၀) / Ashin Kundalabhivamsa (Saddhammaramsi

SayaDaw) Yangon, [no date]

Exhorting to strive until one reaches his destination i.e. Magga, Phala and Nibbana; importance of expounding Dhamma and practising; reason of not attaining fruition; example stories are Venerable Sariputta and Dhananjaya brahmin, Bhikkhu Manyadua, Ajatasattu. Listen more

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စိတ္ကိုထိန္းမွ ခ်မ္းသာရ တရားေတာ္ (၁) / Ashin Janakabhivamsa (Chanmyay Sayadaw) Oct 2, 1999.

Definning Metta and Tanha; why do people suffer?; controlling one's consciousness; the teaching that all the Buddhas stated repeatedly. Listen more

ေထရဝါဒမွတ္ေက်ာက္ / Ashin Javana (Metta Shin). Yangon, [no date]

Definition of Theravada; value of time; how virtuous person makes use of time and how stupid one wastes time; difference between arahat and putujjana; worshipping without three extremes; criterion of Theravada; religious questions and answers. Listen more

ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေလးမ်ိဳး တရားေတာ္ (၂) / Ashin Janakabhivamsa (Chanmyay Sayadaw) Apr 18, 1999.

Advising to do meritorious deed as much as possible, to avoid vices at all times and to keep one's mind pure. Example story_ King Maha- kappina. Listen more

ဖန္ဆင္းရွင္(၃)ဦး / Ashin Javana (Metta Shin). Yangon, [no date]

Explaining: the basic of a buddhist_ kamma and its effect; importance of Saddha, Panna and their balances; Kamma, Nana and Viriya_ the three essential energy to be success- ful; four things that should not be underestimate (fire,snake, prince, monk). Reference: Bahiya Daru- cariya Sutta and story of King Mahakappina. Listen more

မဆုံေသာလမ္း / U Sumangala (Daeou Sayadaw). Mandalay, Aug 22, 2006.

With reference to the story of Peppali lulin (Ashin Maha- kassapa to-be) and Bhadda Kapilani couple explained how living beings meeting again in Samsara is Dukkha Sacca. Listen more

မိုက္ဇာတ္သိမ္းၾကစို႕ / U Sumangala (Daeou Sayadaw). Mandalay, Jan 29, 2007.

Manifestation of five Sammoha_ Kamma, Dhamma, Piccaya, Lakkhana and Nibbana. Listen more

ရုပ္နာမ္သည္အၿမဲမရွိ ဆင္းရဲရွိ၏။ နိဗၺာန္သည္ ဆင္းရဲမရွိ အၿမဲရွိ၏။ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Jun 22, 1962.

Elucidation of the nature of Rupa and Namma and Nibbana. Listen more

ရွင္အႆဇိ ရဟန္းဝတၱဳ တရားေတာ္ (၁) / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Jan 3, 1958.

How Vipassana is more important than Samatha practice; ways of observing Vedana (Sukha, Dukkha, Upekkha) referring to the story of Ashin Assajji. Listen more

ေဝဒနာႏွင့္ငါမေရာေစႏွင့္ ေဝဒနာႏုပႆနာ အလုပ္ေပး
တရားေတာ္ / U Dhammasara (HsinphyukyunSayadaw)
Hsinphyukyun, Apr 1, 1988.

Describing : The Dhamma to practise and to avoid mentioned in Dhammacakkapavuttana; the process of Khandha; Vedananu- passana practice with reference to "Pakkuna Bhikkhu" story; how the dying putujjana can become Sotapanna, Sakadagami and Ana- gami; how Anagami can attain arahantship when near to death. Listen more

ဝိပၸလႅာသ တံတိုင္းၿပိဳေရး တရားေတာ္ / U Dhammasara (Hsinphyukyun Sayadaw) Hsinphyukyun, Apr 12, 1989.

Comparison of Ariya and Putujjana; manifestation of Veppallasa_ the cause of Papanca dhamma (tanha, mana and ditthi) with example story_ Patacari; importance of having excellent religious teacher to be knowledgeable and to realize the four noble truth giving Venerable Sariputta and King Ajjatasattu as examples. Listen more

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ဒါန အႏုေမာဒနာ ကထာ တရားေတာ္ / Dr Ashin Nyanissara (Sitagu Sayadaw) Nov 20, 1977.

Mentioning: the benefits of Dana; correct prayer to make after performing Dana; where to invest one's properties (shrine, monk, person, guest, mother, father, elderly or honourable person). Listen more

နိဗၺာန္ တံခါးဖြင့္ တရားေတာ္ / Bhaddanta Kumarabhivamsa (Bamaw Sayadaw) Jan 8, 2010.

Defining Nibbana; explaining eight characteris- tics of Vipassana nana which leads to Nibbana with reference to “Rupakkhandopama Sutta”; eighteen Dhatus. Listen more

နိဗၺာန္ အေၾကာင္း ရွင္းၿပပုံ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Jul 11, 1962.

Explanation of Nibbana referring to the Dhamma talk between the Buddha and Aggivaccha brahmin. Listen more

ဘယ္ကုသိုလ္ အၿမတ္ဆံုးပါလိမ္႔ / U Narapati (Phyu Sayadaw) Dec 18, 1983.

Detailed description of the best and highest merit(Vipassana) with reference to the “Velama sutta”. Listen more

ရွစ္ျဖာမဂၢင္ နိဗၺာန္ဝင္ (၁) / U Sobana (Mahasi Sayadaw) 1338 B.E.

Mentioning: the Noble Eightfold Path and its benefit; why the Buddha returned to Kusinara to passed into Parinirvana; discussion between the Buddha and Subhadda itinerant heretical (Parivrajaka); method of meditation. Listen more

ရွစ္ျဖာမဂၢင္ နိဗၺာန္ဝင္ (၂) / U Sobana (Mahasi Sayadaw) 1338 B.E.

Description of the Noble Eightfold Path and its practice; how to observe to have Vipassana nana; twelve samanas; different types of Sama- ditthi. Listen more

ေလာင္စာသိမ္း၍ မီးၿငိမ္းရာ နိဗၺာန္ / U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw) Jul 12, 1952.

Explaining: the causes of not attaining Nibbana; dispelling ditthi; importance of realizing Paticca Samuppada with reference to the discussion between the Buddha and Aggivaccha brahmin. Listen more

ဝိပႆနာ အားထုတ္ရၿခင္း အေၾကာင္း / U Narapati (Phyu Sayadaw) Jul 2, 1992.

The objective of meditation; why beings cast into the four Nether worlds (Apayas) and how to avoid these existences; causes of catastro- phes (famine, war and epidemic) and disasters (fire, flood and wind) and ways to prevent. Listen more

သုခေလးပါး / Dr Ashin Nyanissara (Sitagu Sayadaw) Feb 9, 1978.

Manifestation of four types of happiness with reference to Buddha's discourse to two divided groups of Sangha in the town of Kosanbhi. Listen more

အပါယ္ပိတ္ တရားေတာ္ / Bhaddanta Kumarabhivamsa (Bamaw Sayadaw) Dec 11, 2009.

Manifestation of four visuddhis: Sila visuddhi, Citta visuddhi, Ditthi visuddhi, and Kankha- vitarana visuddhi with variety of examples. Listen more

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Audiography on Theravada Dhamma Discourses [39]

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ေ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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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 (၁) (၂) / Ashin Janakabhivamsa (Mahagandharon Sayadaw) Bago, Nov 23, 1975.

Dhamma questions and answers. Listen more

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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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Full Moon Day of Thadingyut, the Abdidhamma Day

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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 called “Acala 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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