The Splendid Torch

ဘဝရဲ့ ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ျခင္းအစစ္အမွန္ ဆိုတာ .......
မင္းကိုယ္မင္း အလြန္ပဲစြမ္းေဆာင္နိုင္သူတစ္ေယာက္ရယ္လို့ 
မင္းဘာသာ ျပန္အသိအမွတ္ျပဳနိုင္တဲ့ အျဖစ္ပဲျဖစ္တယ္၊ .
အမိႈက္ပုံေပၚ မင္းကို ပစ္မတင္မီအခ်ိန္ထိ
မင္းဟာ ေရကုန္ေရခန္းၾကိဳးပမ္းထားျပီးသားအျဖစ္ပဲျဖစ္တယ္၊ 
မင္းကိုယ္တိုင္ကိုက
သဘာဝရဲ့တြန္းအားျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ အျဖစ္ပဲျဖစ္တယ္၊
စိတ္အညစ္အေၾကးေတြန့ဲ - အလိုမက်မူေတြန့ဲ
စိတ္အစိုင္အခဲေတြျဖစ္ျပီး အတြန့္တက္ရင္း၊
ေလာကဟာ ေသခ်ာအားစိုက္လို့
မင္း ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ေစေရး အတြက္ လုပ္ေပးပါေတာ့လားလို့
ညီးညဴေနသူ ျဖစ္ေနမယ့္အစားေပါ့ …။
.

ငါ့ဘဝကို မ်ိဳးႏြယ္အသိုင္းအဝိုင္းတစ္ခုလံုးက
ပိုင္တယ္ဆိုတဲ့ ခံယူခ်က္မ်ိဳး ငါ့မွာ ရွိတယ္။
အသက္ရွင္ေနနိုင္သေလာက္မွာ
တတ္စြမ္းသမွ် လုပ္ေပးသြားဖို့က
ငါ့ရဲ့ အထူးတလည္ ရပိုင္ခြင့္ပဲ။
.

ငါကေတာ့ ေသလြန္ခ်ိန္အထိ
ရွင္သန္ခ်ိန္ရွိသမွ် ကုန္စင္ေအာင္ကို
အက်ိဳးျပဳသြားသူ ျဖစ္ခ်င္မိတယ္။
ဘာလို့လဲဆိုေတာ့ လုပ္စရာေတြကို
အင္တိုက္အားတိုက္ လုပ္ေနရေလေလ
ငါ့ရွင္သန္ရွိေနမႈက အရာေရာက္ေလေလ ျဖစ္လို့ပဲ။
ဘဝရဲ့ သူ့သေဘာသူေဆာင္မႈအေပၚ
ငါဟာ နွစ္သက္ေနနိုင္ပါတယ္ …။
.

ဘဝဆိုတာ
ငါ့အတြက္ေတာ့ ဖေယာင္းတိုင္တိုတိုေလး မဟုတ္ဘူး ။
သူဟာ အခ်ိန္ကာလတစ္ခု အတြင္းမွာ
ငါ ကိုင္ေဆာင္ထားရတဲ့
ထိန္ညီးေနတဲ့ မီးရူးတိုင္သာ ျဖစ္တယ္။
အဲဒီအခ်ိန္မွာ သူ့ကို .....
အျဖစ္နိုင္ဆံုးေသာ ေတာက္ပလင္းၾကည္မူအတြက္
ငါက လုပ္ေပးသြားခ်င္တယ္ …
ေနာင္လာမယ့္ မ်ိဳးဆက္သစ္ေတြလက္ထဲ
သူ့ကို ကမ္းမေပးခင္ အထိေပါ့ ။
.

A Splendid Torch

.
This is the true joy in life,
the being used for a purpose
recognized by yourself as a mighty one;
the being thoroughly worn out
before you are thrown out on the scrap heap;
the being a force of Nature
instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

I am of the opinion that
my life belongs to the whole community,
and as long as I live, it is my privilege
to do for it whatever I can.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die -
for the harder I work, the more I live.
I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Life is no "brief candle" to me;
it is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

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Translated By: Shwe Sin Tun Yee

ဆက္လက္ဖတ္ရႈရန္

Epilogue

Epilogue

See

the man is blowing air

into the balloon to inflate.

Nothing much to care

though some effort it takes.

But

the balloon can easily burst

or later on deflate.

So shall the man,

his dreams and thirst.

Only

the thoughts and deeds

of his head and heart

will remain to pervade.

Moe Hein

Harmony Of Head And Heart

ဆက္လက္ဖတ္ရႈရန္

A Lotus

A LOTUS

In the heat

in the cold

out he goes

with an alms-bowl

making his rounds.

Bareheaded

barefooted

in a saffron robe

gives blessings

and love profound.

No more a layman

he cuts all cords to

status, wealth and family.

A ''Beikkhu'' he is

on a moral path

liberation his destiny.

With 'sila' he purifies deeds

with 'samadhi' he calms the mind

with 'panna' he enlightens himself

a righteous life he leads.

Be he in forest

be he on mountain

be he at any place.

In solitude or in company

he truly is a solace.

In him

there glows light

From him

there flows love.

Noble one!

I lay my head on your feet

A lotus above water.

Moe Hein

Poems On The Three Gems

(From Harmony Of Head And Heart)

ဆက္လက္ဖတ္ရႈရန္

THE GUIDE

THE GUIDE

As a shining light

to dispel the dark,

a cool shower

to rid of heat

and a cosy home

to give shelter.

As clean food

to provide strength,

a good medicine

to relieve pain

and a strong staff

to support the weak.

As a caring mother

who gives love,

a wise teacher

who imparts knowledge

and a close friend

in whom to confide.

As a clear road

to follow its way,

a safe island

to seek shelter

and a destination

to arrive at.

It is like everything

that is helpful.

It has its worth

if only you know.

It has its use

if only you make use of.

It has everything

if only you want.

Dhamma

the source of joy,

peace and light.

It is the guide to

harmony of

Head and Heart.

Moe Hein

Poems On The Three Gems

(From Harmony Of Head And Heart)

ဆက္လက္ဖတ္ရႈရန္

My Lord

MY LORD

First,

to you my Lord

I clasp my hands

and bow my head

in reverence

with all devotion.

Remembering

your renunciation

of a primrose life

so majestic so abundant

which you forsook

in search of truth.

Then a recluse

with efforts unmatchable

sacrifices unimaginable

a will so indomitable

that none could shake

your firm resolve.

And attainment

of the supreme bliss

seeing the noble truth

treading the noble path

and being enlightened

all on your own.

Gone!

Illusions-passions.

Sufferings ended.

Life-cycles stopped

as you have reached

the shores of Nirvana.

From

first sermon ''Avoid extremes''

to last words ''Be watchful''

you have taught Dhamma

with a boundless love

and a selfless service.

Countless beings

fully rejoice

and are liberated.

And

though you have left

the torch you lit

the path you trod

still remain

as they were

as they are and

as they shall ever be

Most Noble Lord.

Moe Hein

Poems On The Three Gems

(From Harmony Of Head And Heart)

ဆက္လက္ဖတ္ရႈရန္

TRIPOD

TRIPOD

''Peace of Mind''

is that what you want?

Then let your mind be

a mind of peace.

No peace will there be

whenever your mind is

burnt by anger

bound with greed

buried in illusion.

They will torment you,

make you restless and

throw you in a den of

darkness.

Where is peace that you want?

Let love conquer anger

contentment crush greed

wisdom dispel illusion.

It's hard but is verily

the only way to peace.

Surely,

from a mind of peace

you get

''Peace of Mind''.

Moe Hein

Poems On The Three Gems

(From Harmony Of Head And Heart)

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ၾကည္လင္ေအးခ်မ္းတဲ့စိတ္

မင္းလိုခ်င္တာ အဲဒီစိတ္လား 

ဒါဆို ေအးခ်မ္းေသာစိတ္ ျဖစ္ေအာင္ 

ကိုယ့္စိတ္ကို ထားပါ 

ေဒါသက ေလာင္ျမိုက္တဲ့အခါ

ေလာဘက ေနွာင္ဖြဲ့တဲ့အခါ

အစြဲမွားတို့ ဖံုးကြယ္ေနခ်ိန္မွာ

ျငိမ္းေအးမႈဆိုတာ ...

ဘယ္လိုမွ စိတ္မွာ မရွိနိုင္ျပီ 

သူတို့က မင္းကို နွိက္စက္မယ္ 

ဂေယာင္ေျခာက္ခ်ား ျဖစ္ေစမယ္ 

တြင္းနက္ၾကီးထဲက်ေအာင္ကို ပစ္ခ်မွာပဲ

ေအးခ်မ္းခ်င္တယ္ ဆိုျပီး ဘယ္မွာလဲ ေအးခ်မ္းရာ

ေဒါသကို ေမတၱားတရားနဲ့ အနိုင္ယူပါ 

ေလာဘကို ေရာင့္ရဲနိုင္ျခင္း နဲ့ နွိမ္နင္းပါ 

အစြဲမွားတို့ကို ဥာဏ္ပညာ နဲ့ လြင့္ျပယ္နိုင္ပါေစ 

ဒါဟာ ခက္ခဲတယ္ 

သို့ေပမယ့္ ေအးခ်မ္းမႈအတြက္ဆို

တစ္ခုတည္းေသာ ဧကန္လမ္းျဖစ္တယ္ 

ဧကန္မုခ်

ေအးခ်မ္းေသာစိတ္ကသာလွ်င္

ၾကည္လင္ေအးခ်မ္းတဲ့စိတ္အေျခကို

မင္း ခံစားရရွိပါမယ္ 

ျမန္မာဘာသာျပန္ - Shwe Sin Tun Yee

ဆက္လက္ဖတ္ရႈရန္

TRUE WORTH

TRUE WORTH

What you eat

more or less becomes

excretion.

What you keep

sooner or later you leave behind

with your coffin.

What you do

good or bad is a seed

that grows within.

MOE HEIN

Poems On The Three Gems

(From Harmony Of Head and Heart)

ဆက္လက္ဖတ္ရႈရန္

EGO

EGO

Inside us

is a range of volcanoes

where anger often erupts

and hatred-lava flows.

Inside us

are many an octopus.

Dwelling in a sea of greed

come what prey it sucks.

Inside us

is a forest of delusions.

So dense and dark it is

that there shines not a ray of reason.

We are burnt, drowned and darkened.

Why so?

It's ''Ego'' the master of deception

tying us to the yoke of

anger, greed and illusion.

Moe Hein

Poems On The Three Gems

(From Harmony of Head and Heart)

ဆက္လက္ဖတ္ရႈရန္

The Road

THE ROAD
P urify your deeds and words
E fforts no less you make
A ffection spread it whole
C alm the mind to concentrate
E nlightenment be your goal.
The noble road
for head and heart to take.

Moe Hein
Poems On The Three Gems

(From Harmony Of Head And Heart)

ဆက္လက္ဖတ္ရႈရန္

THE GOAL

THE GOAL

'Suffering' exists

and there is a 'Cause' for it.

Suffering can 'Cease'

and there is a 'Way' to achieve.

The Four Noble Truths

The Holy One has preached.

What remains is

to know, to do and to reach.

Moe Hein

Poems On The Three Gems

(From Harmony Of Head And Heart)

ဒုကၡသည္ရွိေန၏
အေျကာင္းတရားေျကာင့္ျဖစ္ရာသည္

ဒုကၡသည္ျငိမ္းနိုင္၏
စြမ္းေဆာင္ရန္လမ္းရွိျပီးျဖစ္သည္

သစၥာတရားေလးပါး ကို
ဘုရားရွင္ သည္ ေဟာျကားေတာ္မူျပီးျဖစ္သည္။

သိျမင္ရန္၊ လိုက္နာရန္နွင့္
ဆိုက္ေရာက္ရန္သာက်န္ရွိေနပါသည္။

ကဗ်ာဘာသာျပန္ - Shwe Sin Tun Yee

ဆက္လက္ဖတ္ရႈရန္

TRUTH

TRUTH

Truth

needs no brand, does it?

Like a rose

called what you may is ever sweet.

Truth

has no land, has it?

Like the sky

go where you may is ever present.

But truth

you can hardly see or understand it.

Unless you clear the 'illusion' mist.

And truth

once you have seen and understood

will more than anything do you good.

Moe Hein

Poems On The Three Gems

(From Harmony Of Head and Heart)

ဆက္လက္ဖတ္ရႈရန္

BEYOND HEAD AND HEART

BEYOND HEAD AND HEART

There is a time,

when thoughts and feelings

no more chime.

Has the life-clock stopped?

Is awareness lost?

Has one turned into a robot?

None.

But there's no food for thought

and no fuel for feelings.

Everything is at standstill.

Is it and equaniimity

or a vacuity?

Neither.

It is just what it is.

Nothing can be added to

or taken away from.

Like a "Zero" by itself.

A wonder!

The head and heart

outwardly present.

But

the head and heart

inwardly absent.

The "supreme" bliss

in this very life

does exist!

Moe Hein

Poems on Head and Heart

(From Harmony of Head and Heart)

ဆက္လက္ဖတ္ရႈရန္

THE FINALE OF HEAD AND HEART

THE FINALE OF HEAD AND HEART

We have journeyed a long way

and it's about to end.

Rolling on two wheels, head and heart,

on which the 'life-cart' depends.

Now, we look back and see

all that we've come through.

Some thoughts and feelings indelible

that left milestones quite a few.

Surely, our path was never smooth

as none can miss to see and feel.

That the howling hounds of life

are ever hard on the heels.

With head and heart we faced them

losing and winning at times.

Our morale sinking and soaring

as our endeavours did dim and shine.

But how will the long trail end?

It is the head and heart's finale.

Shall we be crest-fallen or buoyant

by the end of life's journey?

Moe Hein

Poems on Head and Heart

(From Harmony Of Head and Heart)

ဆက္လက္ဖတ္ရႈရန္

A PLEA TO HEAD AND HEART

A PLEA TO HEAD AND HEART

Dear Head,

show me not the way to amass wealth

for it may drown me in a sea of greed.

Nor the way to harness power

for it can sow the destruction seed.

And not the way leading to fame

for it can inflate and deflate me again.

But show me how to wise

think right, speak right and do right.

The path they never lose from their sight

and win over passion with reason.

Dear Heart,

give me the guts to face life

and the strength to endure hardship.

So that I be placid in a storm

as the brave strive to survive.

And if I reach the shores of happiness

with a chance to hoist the flag of success,

let me be humble not arrogant

and know that everything is transient.

Moe Hein

Poems on Head and Heart

(Harmony Of Head and Heart)

ဆက္လက္ဖတ္ရႈရန္

APLENTY

"APLENTY"

I have diamonds

not the glass type

but sparkling dew

on the lawn.

Gold I have

not the nuggets

but the warm rays

of the morn.

And emeralds

not the hard ones

but lush greens

sprawling around.

Rubies, sapphires

not those proud gems

but smiling petals

more colorful.

And pearls

not the cultured ones

but jasmine buds

of flawless beauty.

All these I have

without my asking

gratis from nature's chest

and aplenty.

MOE HEIN

~On Sentiments~

Harmony Of Head And Heart

ဆက္လက္ဖတ္ရႈရန္