ေဟာၾကားေတာ္မူေသာ
သာေရာပမသုတ္ (အကာပယ္ပစ္ အႏွစ္ကိုရွာ)
သာေရာပမသုတ္ (အကာပယ္ပစ္ အႏွစ္ကိုရွာ) (အပိုင္း ၂)
သာေရာပမသုတ္ (အကာပယ္ပစ္ အႏွစ္ကိုရွာ) (အပိုင္း ၃)
ဆက္လက္ဖတ္ရႈရန္
The Delight Of Self-Reliance
The following is a personal note from the respected Sayadaw U Jotika to one of his followers regarding a life that has many problems.
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You are right when you said, “Life is full of problems.”
Life is full of problems.
From the time you are born, you have problems. Problems are natural. We just need to find the best ways to solve them.
There are natural problems and man made problems.
For natural problems we find natural ways to solve them.
But we are making problems. How do we solve problems that we are making?
First we must see clearly that we are making these problems.
The mind that makes problems and the mind that sees we are making problems are not the same type of mind.

We cannot solve the problem with the same type of mind that made it.
We need a mind that is mindful and therefore wise to see the problem and solve it.
When we see that the mind is making problems – just seeing it solves most of the problems. When we don’t make problems we have only natural problems to solve. Then we will find that more than 90% of the problems are gone. Just because we are not making them anymore.
With the rest of the 10% of the problems to solve, we are not so burdened anymore. We can solve them or just live with them.
If you are carrying 100 pounds and then you drop 90 pounds, with only 10 pounds to carry now, you are not so burdened. You can carry it.
With a mind that does not create more unnecessary problems, life is not so burdensome. You can travel very light.
There are two kinds of burdens.
The burden of the body. And the burden of the defilements.
We need to keep the body healthy. So, we eat, we protect our body from excess heat or excess cold. We rest when we are tired. We sleep. When we get sick we get medical treatment. All that is burden of the body. But it has a limit.
Healthy food is not so expensive.
It is unhealthy food which is more expensive. Cigarettes are very expensive. Wine is very expensive. And many other things which we don’t need to eat or drink or use are very expensive. Clothes that keep you healthy are not so expensive.
We can stay healthy without much difficulty. With modern medical treatment it is not difficult to cure most of the diseases.
But the burden of the defilements have no limit.
Greed has no limit. We can never really satisfy greed. No matter what we do to satisfy greed it is never enough. Only wisdom can put a limit to greed.
Greed cannot solve the problem it has created. It is a mind without greed that can solve the problems greed has created.
Pride, conceit, anger, envy, jealousy all create problems.
Anger cannot solve the problems it has created. It is a mind without anger that can solve the problems anger has created.
Pride cannot solve the problems it has created. Envy, jealousy cannot solve the problems they have created.
A mind without greed, anger, pride, envy, jealousy, a mind that is mindful and wise can see the problems clearly and solve them too.
Therefore to live a good life,
to live a life which is not so burdensome; to travel light,
to live with joy, we must live mindfully.
When you are mindful you are more creative in living.
Mindful living is the best way of living.
The full moon day of Vaso is one of the most important days for Buddhists. We Buddhists regard this day as the auspicious and noble day. Why do we Buddhists regard this day as the auspicious and noble day? It has four reasons:
(1) On this day Queen Mahamaya was pregnant with Bodhisatta(Ba Yar Laung),
(2) On this day Siddhattha Bodhisatta went to the forest to search for the truth for His own sake or convenience but for the sake of suffering humanity,
(3) On this day the Buddha preached Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta and Anattalakkhana Sutta to Devas(gods) and Brahmanas leading His five friends, sush as Koddanna, Vappa, Baddaya, Mahanan, and Assaji and,
(4) On this day Buddhist monks go into the rains retreat.
That’s why we Buddhists regard this day as the auspicious and noble day. On this special day, Buddhists offer food, shelter, robes and medicines to the monks who are going into the rains retreat. And then, on this day Buddhists offer food, fragrant sticks, candles, water, flowers, cakes, various kinds of fruit, golden robes and so on and so forth to pagodas and the images of the Buddha. Some Buddhist count beads and practice meditation by honouring the Buddha on this day. Thus, I admonish all Buddhists “Please do good deeds from this day on.”
Therefore I conclude my Dhamma message while I wish “May all of you be the noble persons who can support the Buddha’s Sasana and finally attain to Nibbana which is free suffering!
ဣဒံ ေမ ပုညံ အာသဝကၡယာဝဟံ ေဟာတု။
ဣဒံ ေမ ပုညံ နိဗၺာနႆ ပစၥေယာ ေဟာတု။
ဣဒံ ေမ ပုညံ ေဗာဓိဉာဏႆ ပစၥေယာ ေဟာတု။
ဣဒံ ေမ ပုညံ နဝေလာကုတၱရဓမၼႆ ပစၥေယာ ေဟာတု။
၁။ ဒုကၡပၸတၱာ စ နိဒၵဳကၡာ၊ ဘယပၸတၱာ စ နိဗၻယာ။
ေသာကပၸတၱာ စ နိေႆာကာ၊ ေဟာႏၱဳ သေဗၺပိ ပါဏိေနာ။
၂။ ဧတၱာဝတာ စ အေမွဟိ၊ သမၻတံ ပုညသမၸဒံ။
သေဗၺ ေဒဝါႏုေမာဒႏၱဳ၊ သဗၺသမၸတၲိသိဒၶိယာ။
၃။ ဒါနံ ဒဒႏၱဳ သဒၶါယ၊ သီလံ ရကၡႏၱဳ သဗၺဒါ။
ဘာဝနာဘိရတာ ေဟာႏၱဳ၊ ဂစၧႏၲဳ ေဒဝတာ ဂတာ။
ပုညဘာဂမိမံ စညံ၊ သမံ ဒဒါမ ကာရိတံ။
အႏုေမာဒႏၲဳ တံ သေဗၺ၊ ေမဒိနီ ဌာတု သကၡိေတ။
(သာဓု၊ သာဓု၊ သာဓု)