စဥ္းစားပါဦး

စဥ္းစားပါဦး

တစ္ခါတုန္းက ျမတ္စြာဘုရားရွင္ဟာ ရာဇျဂိဳဟ္ျပည္ ေ၀ဠဳ၀န္ေက်ာင္းမွာ သီတင္းသံုးေနပါတယ္။ ညေနခ်မ္းေရာက္ေတာ့ ရွင္ရာဟုလာ သီတင္းသံုးရာ သရက္ဥယ်ာဥ္သို ့ ၾကြေတာ္မူပါတယ္။ ရွင္ရာဟုလာက ျမတ္စြာဘုရားအတြက္ ေနရာခင္းျခင္း၊ ေျခေဆးေပးျခင္းမ်ား ျပဳပါတယ္။ ျမတ္စြာဘုရားရွင္က ရွင္ရာဟုလာ ခင္းထားတဲ့ ေနရာမွာ ထိုင္ေတာ္မူျပီး တရားစကား ၾသ၀ါဒ ေပးေတာ္မူပါတယ္။

“ခ်စ္သားရာဟုလာ.... အလုပ္တစ္ခု လုပ္ေတာ့မယ္ဆိုရင္ မလုပ္ခင္ စဥ္းစားလိုက္ပါဦး။ မိမိလုပ္မယ့္အလုပ္ဟာ မိမိကိုယ္ကို ထိခိုက္နိဳင္မလား၊ သူတစ္ပါးကို ထိခိုက္နိဳင္မလား၊ ထိခိုင္နိဳင္မယ္ဆိုရင္ မလုပ္ပါနဲ ့ေတာ့။

ခ်စ္သားရာဟုလာ.... လုပ္ဆဲမွာလည္း စဥ္းစားလိုက္ပါဦး။ မိမိကိုယ္ကို ထိခိုက္နိဳင္မလား၊ သူတစ္ပါးကို ထိခိုက္နိဳင္မလား၊ ထိခိုက္နိဳင္မယ္ဆိုရင္ မလုပ္ပါနဲ ့ေတာ့။

ခ်စ္သားရာဟုလာ....လုပ္ျပီးျပန္ရင္လည္း စဥ္းစားလိုက္ပါဦး။ မိမိသူတစ္ပါး ထိခိုက္နိဳင္တယ္ဆိုရင္ မလုပ္ပါနဲ ့ေတာ့။



ခ်စ္သားရာဟုလာ....အေျပာတစ္ခုေျပာေတာ့မယ္ဆိုရင္လည္း မေျပာခင္ စဥ္းစားလိုက္ပါဦး။ မိမိကိုယ္ကို ထိခိုက္နိဳင္မလား၊ သူတစ္ပါးကို ထိခိုက္နိဳင္မလား။ ထိခိုက္နိဳင္မယ္ဆိုရင္ မေျပာပါနဲ ့ေတာ့။
ခ်စ္သားရာဟုလာ....ေျပာဆဲမွာလည္း စဥ္းစားလိုက္ပါဦး။ မိမိ သူတစ္ပါး ထိခိုက္နိဳင္မလား။ ေျပာျပီးျပန္ရင္လည္း စဥ္းစားလိုက္ပါဦး။ ထိခိုက္နိဳင္တယ္ဆိုရင္ မေျပာပါနဲ ့ေတာ့။



ခ်စ္သားရာဟုလာ....အေတြးတစ္ခု ေတြးေတာ့မယ္ဆိုရင္လည္း စဥ္းစားလိုက္ပါဦး။ ေတြးဆဲမွာလည္း စဥ္းစားလိုက္ပါဦး။ ေတြးျပီးျပန္ရင္လည္း စဥ္းစားလိုက္ပါဦး။ မိမိ သူတစ္ပါး ထိခိုက္နိဳင္တယ္ဆိုရင္ မေတြးပါနဲ ့ေတာ့။”



ျမတ္စြာဘုရားရွင္က ကံသံုးပါးကို စင္ၾကယ္ေအာင္ လုပ္ဖို ့ေဟာျပလိုက္ေတာ့ ရွင္ရာဟုလာလည္း ေက်နပ္ပီတိ ျဖစ္သြားပါေတာ့တယ္။

(မဇၥ်ိမပဏၰာသပါဠိေတာ္၊ မဟာရာဟုေလာ၀ါဒသုတ္)

ဆရာေတာ္ ရေ၀ႏြယ္ (အင္းမ) ၏ “မိမိကိုယ္ကို မိမိတည္ေဆာက္မယ္” ေဆာင္းပါးမွ ေကာက္ႏႈတ္ေဖာ္ျပပါသည္။

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အထက္ပါ တရားေတာ္ အဆံုးအမေလးကို ကၽြန္ေတာ္ တကၠသိုလ္ေက်ာင္းသားဘ၀ ဘာသာေရးစာေပေတြ ေလ့လာျဖစ္တုန္းက ဖတ္ဖူးခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ျမတ္စြာဘုရားရွင္က သားေတာ္ရွင္ရာဟုလာကို ဆံုးမလိုက္တဲ့ စကားေတာ္ဟာ ကၽြန္ေတာ့္အတြက္လည္း ဖခင္က ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ကို ဆံုးမလိုက္သလိုပါဘဲ။ ရင္ထဲအထိ စိမ့္၀င္ခဲ့တဲ့ အဆံုးအမေတာ္ျမတ္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဆရာေတာ္ ရေ၀ႏြယ္ စာအုပ္ကို ဖတ္ရင္း ဒီအဆံုးအမေလးကို ေရးထားတာ ျပန္ေတြ ့လိုက္ေတာ့ အေ၀းေရာက္ေနတဲ့သားတစ္ေယာက္ကို ဖခင္က ထပ္ျပီးဆံုးမလိုက္သလို ျပန္ခံစားလာရလို ့ စာအုပ္ထဲကေန ကူးယူေဖာ္ျပေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္ ခင္ဗ်ား။

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INTRODUCTION TO INSIGHT MEDITATION 11

COMPANY AND ROUTINE

Meditating with a few friends at regular times can be a great support towards constancy of practice and development of wisdom. The solitary meditator eventually faces diminishing will-power, as there's often something else to do that seems more important (or more interesting) than watching the breath. Regular group meditation for an agreed-upon duration keeps the participants going, regardless of their flux of moods. (The investigation of these shifts of disposition often yields important insights, but on our own we can find it difficult to persevere with them.) As well as seeing the personal benefits, you can reflect that your efforts are helping others to keep practicing.

(to be continued....)

INTRODUCTION TO INSIGHT MEDITATION (FROM 1 TO 10)

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The Twins (Harmony Of Head And Heart By Moe Hein)

The Twins

Afraid of death?
Be not!
Life and death are twins
living together with us.

"Life" the one twin
since existence
gives growth for longevity.

"Death" the other twin
not losing a moment
wrecks what the former has done.

The twins, life and death,
fiercely compete
in making and unmaking of us.
Our body
is their battleground.

But we
blinded by ignorance
and driven by passions
yearn for life and think of death
as something far.

When time is due
and fate commands that twin
to blow out life's flame
we shudder.

Let us not resist.
All along it has been with us.
It is best to face death, our kin,
calmly.

And know that
there is a path that liberates us
from the twins -- "life" and "death".

(From Poems On Death)

Harmony Of Head And Heart By Moe Hein

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ႏွစ္သက္မိေသာ ဇင္ ပံုျပင္မ်ား (၁၅)

More Is Not Enough

The Stone Cutter

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There was once a stone cutter who was dissatisfied with himself and with his position in life.

One day he passed a wealthy merchant's house. Through the open gateway, he saw many fine possessions and important visitors. "How powerful that merchant must be!" thought the stone cutter. He became very envious and wished that he could be like the merchant.

To his great surprise, he suddenly became the merchant, enjoying more luxuries and power than he had ever imagined, but envied and detested by those less wealthy than himself. Soon a high official passed by, carried in a sedan chair, accompanied by attendants and escorted by soldiers beating gongs. Everyone, no matter how wealthy, had to bow low before the procession. "How powerful that official is!" he thought. "I wish that I could be a high official!"

Then he became the high official, carried everywhere in his embroidered sedan chair, feared and hated by the people all around. It was a hot summer day, so the official felt very uncomfortable in the sticky sedan chair. He looked up at the sun. It shone proudly in the sky, unaffected by his presence. "How powerful the sun is!" he thought. "I wish that I could be the sun!"

Then he became the sun, shining fiercely down on everyone, scorching the fields, cursed by the farmers and laborers. But a huge black cloud moved between him and the earth, so that his light could no longer shine on everything below. "How powerful that storm cloud is!" he thought. "I wish that I could be a cloud!"

Then he became the cloud, flooding the fields and villages, shouted at by everyone. But soon he found that he was being pushed away by some great force, and realized that it was the wind. "How powerful it is!" he thought. "I wish that I could be the wind!"

Then he became the wind, blowing tiles off the roofs of houses, uprooting trees, feared and hated by all below him. But after a while, he ran up against something that would not move, no matter how forcefully he blew against it - a huge, towering rock. "How powerful that rock is!" he thought. "I wish that I could be a rock!"

Then he became the rock, more powerful than anything else on earth. But as he stood there, he heard the sound of a hammer pounding a chisel into the hard surface, and felt himself being changed. "What could be more powerful than I, the rock?" he thought.

He looked down and saw far below him the figure of a stone cutter.


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WHICH (Harmony Of Head And Heart By Moe Hein)

WHICH


I

To love is good.

To be loved is better.

To love and be loved

is the best.


II

Not to love is good

Not to be loved is better.

Not to love and not be loved.

is the best.


III

Neither loving nor unloving.

Neither being loved nor unloved.

Neither the giver nor receiver

is the best.




Among I, II and III

which do you consider the best?



(From Poems On Sentiments)

Harmony Of Head And Heart By Moe Hein

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ပဲႏြယ္ကုန္းဆရာေတာ္၏ သုတပန္းခိုင္ (၈)

၂၈။ ဒါန၊ သီလ၊ သမထ ထက္ အို နာ ေသ ကင္းတဲ့ နိဗၺာန္ေရာက္ေအာင္ ၀ိပႆနာတရား အားထုတ္တာက ပိုျပီးေတာ့ ေကာင္းျမတ္ပါတယ္။

၂၉။ ေကာင္းစြာထားေသာ စိတ္က မဂ္ ဖိုလ္ နိဗၺာန္ ဆိုတဲ့ ေလာကုတၱရာ ခ်မ္းသာ ျပည့္စံုေအာင္ လုပ္ေပးနိဳင္တယ္။ (စိတ္ေကာင္းထားပါ။)

၃၀။ သာသနာေတာ္နဲ ့ ေတြ ့ၾကံဳပါလ်က္ နတ္ကိုးကြယ္မႈနဲ ့ ေက်နပ္ေနလွ်င္ သာသနာပ-ကလူနဲ ့ ဘာမွ မထူးဘူး။

၃၁။ ေလာကီဘံုၾကီးထဲမွာ ပုထုဇဥ္ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေတြ အိုရတဲ့ဒုကၡ၊ နာရတဲ့ ဒုကၡ၊ ေသရတဲ့ ဒုကၡေတြ အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးေတြ ့ၾကံဳေနရတာဟာ ေလာကီအာရံု ကာမဂုဏ္ေတြကို ခံစားခ်င္တဲ့ တဏွာေၾကာင့္ပဲ။

၃၂။ မစင္ဆိုတာ အမ်ားၾကီးရွိမွ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ နည္းနည္းေလးရွိလည္း မေကာင္းတဲ့အနံ ့ထြက္တာပဲ။ ဘ၀ဆိုတာလည္း အမ်ားၾကီးမွ မဟုုတ္ဘူး။ တစ္ဘ၀ဆို ဆိုသေလာက္ ဒုကၡေတြ အမ်ားၾကီး ေတြ ့ၾကံဳခံစားရတယ္။
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War Between Head And Heart (Harmony Of Head And Heart By Moe Hein)

WAR BETWEEN HEAD AND HEART


The head and the heart

go to battle

each flanked by warriors.



The head has "Reason"

the heart "Passion"

as its chief commander.



Mighty are both

in persuasion and force

telling me what to do.

One does counselling

the other tempting

in between

I am indecisive.



Heave ho! the head pulls.

Heave ho! the heart holds.

So begins a tug-of-war.



I am moving

an inch forward, and inch backward.

Who shall the victor be?



An ounce of weakness

or

an ounce of strength,

the last 'tilt' rests on me.



(From Poems On Head And Heart)

Harmony Of Head And Heart By Moe Hein

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