Category: Dhamma English

Religion makes conversion.
Conversion makes quantity.
Quantity makes competition.
Competition makes the faithful think of war.
War needs weapons.
Weapons need money.
Money needs business people.
Business people create capitalism.
Capitalism destroys sense of democracy.
Democracy needs wise people.
Wise people want to live peacefully and happily in their own individual and communal dignity. Continue reading “The Difference Between Buddhism and Religion”

The problem between true love and expectation and the tool that can solve such a problem. This tool is “Mindfulness”.

Actually, true love should not stupidly be wrapped in serious and deep expectation from someone else you deeply love from the bottom of your deepest heart. If there is a serious and deep expectation in love, it won’t work properly. I’m sure that it will bring you a deep trouble and it will bring you craziness and unhappiness too. Continue reading “The problem between true love and expectation and Mindfulness as a Tool”

In my understanding and experiences with the world for many years, most of the powerful world politicians or  world political leaders want to make the world more peaceful, safer, more harmonious, happier, better and more comfortable for the people to live in everyday’s life when they are a president or a prim minister of a particular country. They are also used to giving very strong promises to their  electoral to be voted for them by their people. Continue reading “The Objective for My Website”

We really need more capacity of patience, tolerance and understanding to bring up Myanmar to its dignity sooner or later. We need time; I believe that time will heal most of the broken parts of the country corrupted for a long time by military regime. I believe that the lady, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will do all the best she can. If we really love the country, Myanmar and the people, we must work with her together very closely.

There are so many things irrelevant in many situations of the country, Myanmar caused by impatience, lack of proper education and lack of international experiences and strong sense of selfishness, self-interest, fear, distrust and insecurity. Actually the people of Myanmar is lucky to have Aung San Suu Kyi who is so willing to fulfill the wishes of the Burmese but some of the stupid are not able to appreciate her heart and activities. It is unfortunate. I’m sorry for that.

It is suitable for monk to think about the Dhamma. It is suitable for monk to talk about the Dhamma and it is suitable for monk to act according to the Dhamma.

My mind is always thinking about the Dhamma and I don’t keep it in me. I try to transfer my dhamma wisdom to the lay people so that they can properly apply as much as they can in their daily life. Even taking sun bathing in the sun, my mind gets used to observing the nature of impermanent (Anicca). All the nature around me is changing every moment not by any external agent but in its own law. Now, rainy season is ended and the winter is turned following the law of season. At the same time, my mind and my body are changed dependent on each other. During rainy season, I haven’t gotten natural heat of the sun because of cloudy and humid weather particular in my forest. I need natural heat of the sun. After rainy season, the sun rises again from covering under thick clouds. When the sun rises, my forest is so beautiful in green trees with their shadows. I feel relaxed and recharged or re-energized when I take sun bathing. Continue reading “Dhamma”

Only when a Yogi can keep faith balanced with Wisdom will the Yogi be able to attain the Ultimate Peace, Nibbana. To keep the faith balanced with wisdom, the Yogi must be attentively and precisely mindfully of whatever arises and passes way. There is nothing to do with religious idea but it is a practical matter. In the practice of meditation, the approach to the truth is very scientific and interesting too. The attainment of Ultimate Peace is not possible to be reached by mere thinking or mere religious prayer. While religion is seriously talking about blind or unquestioning faith, the Buddha is seriously teaching how to keep the faith balanced with wisdom. It makes me wonderful. I have never seen that the Buddha disturbs anyone or anything. I feel the Buddha is really wise teacher whose heart is qualified by very deep and powerful wisdom and imbued with deep love and compassion.

We must practice meditation in four natural postures: siting, walking, standing and reclining. Just in the natural postures there is nothing special in meditation. Something really special in meditation is a firm, strong and healthy “Mindfulness” on the object of meditation. We must be firmly mindful of everything in these four postures. Actually, we have add “Mindfulness” to our daily activities when we do this meditation. Continue reading “A Little Meditation Technique”

This is rainy season of Thitsarmyaing Tawya (the Voice of Truth Buddhist Forest Tradition) and all of Thitsarmying students love meditation and love to practice it every weekend in rainy season and Ashin Kelasa teaches them how to practice meditation in daily life. He is a practical meditation teacher. He wants people to learn the technique and to practice it at home. This is a very important message to all the people who come to learn meditation and practice under his guidance.

People have very often asked me “What is Buddhism?” “Is it a philosophy or a religion?” I have very often explain what Buddhism is literally. Buddhism can be divided into two words: Budh and Ism. Budh, according to Pali language, means ‘wisdom’. Ism, according to oxford dictionary, ‘System or doctrine’. Therefore, when Budh (wisdom) is combined with Ism (System or doctrine), it becomes Buddhism meaning “System of wisdom or doctrine of wisdom”. we can learn now that Buddhism is really different from sense of religion because actually religion is the system of faith or belief but Buddhism is the system of wisdom. I prefer that Buddhism is a philosophy but it opens to test; it is something scientific, isn’t it? Thank you for reading it.