THERAVADA BUDDHISMUS

               

         Der Name des Gründers von dem, was im Westen als Buddhismus bekannt ist, war
Gotama, dies ist der Name des Clans oder der Familie, der er angehörte. Das Wort "Buddha" bedeutet "der Erwachte" oder "der Erleuchtete", und ist kein Name, sondern ein Ehrentitel, welcher dem weisen Gotama verliehen wurde weil er die Erleuchtung unter dem Bodhi-Baum in Buddhagaya in Indien erlangt hatte. 

         

Myanmar's democracy icon begins first trip abroad in 24 years by offering encouragement to migrant workers.

အေကာင္းသံသရာႏွင္႔ အဆိုးသံသရာ

          ဓမၼတာအားၿဖင္႔ ၿမင္႔ၿမတ္သူတို႔ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေသာ ႏုိင္ငံသည္ သာယာ၏။ ယုတ္ညံ႔သူတုိ႔အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေသာႏုိင္ငံသည္ မသာယာ။

             ေလာကၿဖစ္စဥ္တို႔သည္လည္းေကာင္း၊ ေလာကခ်ဳပ္စဥ္တို႔သည္လည္းေကာင္း ပဋိစၥ သမုပါဒ္ ေဒသနာေတာ္အရ စက္ဝိုင္းသဖြယ္ၿဖစ္ပါ၏။ ထုိ႔ေႀကာင္႔ တရားႏွင္႔ အညီ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေသာဘုရင္မ်ား စိုးစံေသာအခါ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သည္ သာယာေအးခ်မ္း၏။

               

Speech By S N Goenka in U.N. Peace Summit

      Satya Narayan Goenka (born 1924) is a leading lay teacher of  Vipassana meditation and a student of  Sayagyi U Ba Khin. He has trained more than 800 assistant teachers and each year more than 100,000 people attend Goenka led Vipassana courses.

Love!

 

“အခ်စ္ အခ်စ္၊ ခ်စ္တိုင္းခ်စ္၍၊ ခ်စ္ေလခ်စ္ေလ၊ ခ်စ္မေၿပတည္း၊ ဆားငန္ေရေနာက္၊ ငတ္တိုင္းေသာက္က၊ ေသာက္ေလေသာက္ေလ၊ ငတ္မေၿပသုိ႔၊ ေပမအရာ၊ တဏွာဖြဲ႔ရစ္၊ ထိုအခ်စ္လည္း၊ အၿပစ္မၿမင္၊ မဆင္ၿခင္ဘဲ၊ ခ်စ္လွ်င္ေပ်ာ္ႏုိး၊ ခ်စ္စပ်ိဳးသည္၊ ခ်စ္ရိုး ခ်စ္စဥ္ ခ်စ္လမ္းတည္း။”

                                                                  (ေရွးပညာရွိပ်ိဳ႔)

“Love! Love! The more they love, the more they are insatiate, just as they cannot quench their thirst by drinking salty water. Love, pema or tanha, turns a blind eye to one’s defects; expecting happiness through love, one nurtures loves. This is the way of love, the nature of love”

                                                                  (An ancient Burmese poem.)

Venerable Ashin Virathus’ thoughts about U Gambira

The famous monk Ashin Virathu, who was released from prison in Mandalay in January 2012 after spending nine years in prison, recently published an article with his thoughts about Ashin Gambira with whom he made contact during their time together at Obu prison.

From Aung San Suu Kyi

 

“If you're feeling helpless, help someone.”

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“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”

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“You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.”

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“Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.”

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“To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.”

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“I don't believe in people just hoping. We work for what we want. I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor, so we work to try and bring about the situation that is necessary for the country, and we are confident that we will get to the negotiation table at one time or another.”

Life is a series of test!

 Life is a series of tests. Difficulties are tests. We are in school now. Our whole life is a school. From the time we were born until we die, we are in school.

This is an informal school. There is no classroom. Everything we see, everything we hear, everything we smell, everything we feel, all happiness and all suffering, every problem, every achievement, every success and every failure is a lesson. When we have success, this is a test. It is testing how humble we can when we are successful. Most of us become very proud and conceited: "Oh! I am a success. Other people are failures." So we don't treat people with respect anymore. We become conceited and arrogant.

 In the same way, failure is a test. How equanimous can you be? How can you keep your balance and not feel depressed, inferior, or unhappy about not succeeding. Also it is a test to find out whether you will try again.

“လူပ်ံေတာ္မ်ားကို ႀကဳိဆိုၾက” အပိုင္း(၁)

                   ဝီရသူ(မစိုးရိမ္)
          စာေရးသူ လူ႔ျပည္ျပန္ေရာက္မွ နာမည္ေက်ာ္ ရဟန္းပ်ဳိမ်ား လူပ်ံေတာ္ဘဝသို႔ ကူးေျပာင္းသြားသည္မွာ ႏွစ္ပါးပင္ ရွိေလၿပီ။ ႏွစ္ပါစလုံး ထင္ရွားေက်ာ္ၾကားသူမ်ားပင္ ျဖစ္ေပသည္။ တစ္ပါးက ႏိုင္ငံေရးနယ္ပယ္မွာ ထင္ရွားသူျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ က်န္တစ္ပါး မွာ သာသနာေလာက၌ ထင္ရွားသူ ျဖစ္ေလသည္။ ႏိုင္ငံေက်ာ္ ကမၻာေက်ာ္ ဆရာေတာ္ေလးမ်ား ျဖစ္ၾက၏။
          တစ္ပါးကား- ဦးဂမၻီရ ျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ တစ္ပါးမွာ ဦးဣႏၵာစရိယာဘိဝံသ(မစိုးရိမ္စာသင္သား) ျဖစ္ေပသည္။

                                     “ေဘာလုံးပဲြတရားႏွင့္ ဂမၻီရပ်ားရည္”
          ဦးဂမၻီရႏွင့္ လူခ်င္းမေတြ႕ဆုံးဖူးေသာ္လည္း အိုးဘိုမွာေနရစဥ္တြင္ အဆက္အသြယ္ရွိခဲ့ေပသည္။ မိမိက ေရွးဦးစြာ ေရာက္ႏွင့္ေနေသာ ေက်ာင္းသားေဟာင္းႀကီး ျဖစ္ေသာေၾကာင့္ သတင္းၾကားသည္ႏွင့္ လွမ္း၍ဆက္သြယ္ကာ မိတ္ဆက္စာေပး၍ အားေပးစကား ေျပာခဲ့ဖူး၏။ အေၾကာ္အေလွာ္မ်ားလည္း လွဴလုိက္ပါ၏။
          ဦးဂမၻီရထံမွ ျပန္စာရခဲ့ပါ၏။ ၂၀၀၂-အင္းစိန္ရြာမမွာ “အၿမဲ႐ႈံးေနေသာ ေဘာလုံးပြဲ” ေဟာစဥ္က သူဟာအႀကီးတန္း သင္တန္းသားအျဖစ္ တရားနာခဲ့ရေၾကာင္း၊ ဓာတ္ပုံကင္မရာျဖင့္ မွတ္တမ္းတင္သည့္ ဦးဇင္းတစ္ပါးမွာ သူသာျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ ပါဝင္ေလ၏။

Happiness!

          

 Life is struggle. The struggle to make money, to feel comfortable and luxury. Whatever we do, we do essentially for happiness. Even in Religion, we do for happiness. Do we get it?
Some people think that a partner, a good congenial partner, may be a source of happiness, and it may be temporary sources of happiness, but not the real sources of happiness. When we are separated for some reason or other, as sooner or later we will be, we feel unhappy. Do we really understand that the outside sources are not the real sources of happiness; the main thing is the mind? Do we really understand only the mind which is controlled and cultured is the real source of happiness? Are we ready to train our mind? How much are we generous with our time to train our mind?
We should try to learn to be contented and happy with what we have. Here I would like to share a short story:

A certain oriental king who was very unhappy sought the advice of a philosopher. The philosopher advised the king to search for the most happy and contented man in his kingdom and to wear his shirt. After a long search the king finally found the man, but he had no shirt!

Ashin Kovida: “Change Will Come, No Matter What.“

“The Pen is sharper than the Sword” – Martin Kovan interviews Ashin Kovida and Ashin Issariya

“The Pen is Sharper than the Sword” Interview with Ashin Issariya (aka King Zero) and Ashin Kovida, 14th March, 2011 The Best Friend Library, Mae Sot
by Martin Kovan
 

Ashin Issariya, also known by the pen-name King Zero, was one of the central architects and organizers of the 2007 Saffron Revolution, and continues his educational, political and social-welfare work in exile in Mae Sot, Thailand, via The Best Friend Library with branches which he founded inside and outside Burma. His colleague Ashin Kovida also coordinates the Library and educates the local and global audience about the ongoing Buddhist non-violent resistance movement inside and outside Burma. Martin Kovan is a writer and scholar of Buddhism currently living and working as an educator in Mae Sot.

The Best Friend Library: Education is the key to Freedom

When you pass through Mae Sots’ busy market with all it’s exotic smells and views, you arrive at a four storey building in Bua Khun Road with a banner over the entrance door saying “The Best Friend Library Free Education Center”. Founded by one of the key figures in Burma’s 2007 uprising, this library has become a safe haven for migrants and refugees from Burma and a meeting place for interested people from all over the world.

Friendship

Man is by nature a social animal; no one can live alone. We do not live for us alone. We live for each other. So without others I do not exist. Imagine that there was nothing and nobody, what would you be then? So everybody we know somehow affects our lives. I think the quality of our life depends much on the quality of our friendship with people around us.

Buddhism and Politics

                                       

               Should Buddhist monks take part in political affairs?

U Kovida: Burma has a long history of monks being actively engaged in political affairs when it comes to the welfare of the people. Because everyday we eat food donated to us by the Burmese peoples, the majority are poor and oppressed. Sure, we Buddhist monks should not be attached to anything or anyone. But we did not live in total isolation. We monks remain in contact with the other members of the society. If someone perform any action, which disturbs the peace and harmony of the society, how can you have peace and harmony within yourself?

INTERVIEW

Vesak celebration in Germany

Buddha Day was celebrated on the 13^th of May 2012 in Frankfurt by the Burmese Buddhist temple.

About 100 people from different parts of Germany were present at the ceremony. First they recited Metta Bhavana altogether in unison. After that, people offered lunch, consisting of traditional Burmese food, to the present monks. Among them U Zawana, Ashin Kovida and others.