About the Full Moon Poya Day in Srilanka

In Srilanka Buddhist tradition, there are various Full Moon Poya Days;

1.    Duruthu Full Moon Poya Day

It is in January and it commemorates the Lord Buddha’s first visit to Sri Lanka. This visit took place in the first year of the Lord Buddha’s Supreme Enlightenment. Every year Buddhist of Sri Lanka commemorates this event by conducting the Duruthu Perahera which starts from Kelaniya. The Duruthu Perahera was first hled in 1927.

          သီရိလကၤာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ ေပါယေဒးမ်ားအေၾကာင္း

သီရိလကၤာႏိုင္ငံက ဗုဒၶဘာသာရိုးရာ အစဥ္လာဓေလ့တြင္ ေပါယေဒး သို႕လျပည့္ေန႔ေတြမွာ က်ေရာက္ တဲ႔ဥပုသ္ေန႔မ်ားစြာ ရွိပါတယ္။ သီရိလကၤာႏုိင္ငံက ဗုဒၶဘာသာ၀င္ေတြဟာ မိဘေတြေရာ ကုေလး ေတြေရာ ဥပုသ္ေန႔တြင္ ဘုရားေက်ာင္းမ်ားကို သြားေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။ သြားတဲ႔အခါမွာလဲ ဘာသာေရး ၀တ္စံုကိုပဲ ၀တ္ဆင္ ေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။ သူတုိ႔ႏုိင္ငံရဲ႕ ဘာသာေရးပြဲ၊ အခမ္းအနားေတြမွာ ၀တ္ဆင္ေလ့ရွိတဲ႔ ၀တ္စံုကလဲ တစ္ေရာင္တည္း ဆင္တူျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အေရာင္ကေတာ့ အျဖဴေရာင္ ၀မ္းစက္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အမိျမန္မာ ႏုိင္ငံမွာေတာ့ တကယ္ထူးျခားျမင့္ျမတ္တဲ႔ ဘာသာေရးေန႔၊ အခမ္းနားေတြမွာ အျဖဴအညိဳျဖစ္တဲ႔ ဓမၼစၾကာ ၀တ္စံုကို ဆင္ယင္ေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။ ဒါကလဲ လူတုိင္းမဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ အသင္းအဖြ႔ ႔ဲေလာက္ပါပဲ။ အမွန္တကယ္ေတာ့           သီရိလကၤာ ဗုဒၶဘာသာေတြရဲ႕ ဘာသာေရး၀တ္စံုနဲ႔ အမိျမန္မာျပည္က ဗုဒၶဘာ သာေတြ ၀တ္ဆင္တဲ႔ ဘာသာေရး ၀တ္စံုကို ယွဥ္ၾကည့္လိုက္မယ္ အမိျမန္မာျပည္က ဗုဒၶဘာ သာေ တြရဲ႕ ၀တ္စံုက ပိုျပီး သပ္ရပ္ကာ မ်က္စိစိတ္ႏွလံုးကို ေအးခ်မ္းေစပါတယ္။ သို႔ေသာ္လည္း အမိျ မန္မာျပည္က ဗုဒၶဘာသာ၀င္ေတြဟာ ဘာသာ ေရး၀တ္စံုကို ဆင္တူ တစ္သမတ္တည္း မ၀တ္ႏုိင္တဲ႔ အတြက္ ဘာသာေရးအခမ္း အနားေတြမွာ သီရိလ ကၤာက ဗုဒၶဘာသာ၀င္ေတြနဲ႔ နည္းနည္းေလး ကြာေနသလုိ ခံစားမိပါတယ္။ သူတုိ႔လို အထက္ေအာက္ ဆင္တူ အားလံုး၀တ္ဆင္ႏုိင္မယ္ဆုိရင္ျဖင့္ ဆုိဖြယ္မရွိပါ။

သီရိလကၤာ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ၀င္ေတြဟာ ဘာသာေရး အခမ္းနား၊ ဘုရားေက်ာင္း၊ ဥပုသ္သီလ ေစာင့္သြားတဲ႔ အခါမွာလည္း သူတို႔ရဲ႕ ရင္ေသြးငယ္မ်ားကို ေခၚေဆာင္သြားေလ့ ရွိပါတယ္။ ေက်ာင္းေရာ က္တဲ႔အခါမွာ မဟာေဗာဓိပင္ကို ေရ၊ ဆီမီး၊ ပန္းမ်ားကို ပူေဇာ္ျပီး ရွိခိုးဆုေ တာင္းေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။ ဘုရားေက်ာင္း ၀င္းမ်ားကိုလည္း သန္႔ရွင္းကုသုိလ္ျပဳေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕က တရားထုိင္၊ ပရိတ္ရြတ္ဆုိေလ့ရွိၾကပါတယ္။

          ဥပုသ္သီလကိုေတာ့ ငါးပါးသီလကိုပဲ ခံယူေဆာက္တည္ေလ့ရွိၾကပါတယ္။ တရားေဒသနာကိုေတာ့ မနက္တစ္ခ်ိန္၊ ေန႔တစ္ခ်ိန္၊ ညေနတစ္ခ်ိန္ နာယူေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။ တရားေဟာဆရာေတာ္ကလဲ တစ္ခ်ိန္ကို တစ္ပါး ေပာာေပးတာပါ။ နာယူေနတဲ႔ အခါမွာေတာ့ လြတ္လပ္စြာ ထုိင္ႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕ ျမန္မာဗုဒၶ ဘာသာ၀င္ေတြလို ဒူးတုတ္ထုိင္ၾကပါတယ္။ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕က ေျခဆင္း၊ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕က တင္ပၸလင္ေခြ၊ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕က ဘုရားဘက္ ေျခဆင္း၊ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕က ထုိင္ခံေသးေသးေပၚ၊ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕က ရဟန္းေ တာ္ေတြရဲ႕ ေနာက္ေက်ာ ဘက္မွာ ထုိင္ေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။ သီလေစာင့္ တရားနာယူေနတဲ႔အခါမွာ စကားေျပာေ လ့မရွိပါဘူး။ သုိ႕ေသာ္ အေပါ့အပါး သြားခ်င္လဲ ထသြားလို႔ရပါတယ္။ ဘုန္းၾကီးေတြက အျပစ္မဆုိသလို သူတို႕အခ်င္းခ်င္းလဲ ကဲ႔ရဲ႕ေ၀ဖန္၊ ရွဳတ္ခ်တာမ်ိဳး မရွိပါဘူး။ အတင္းအဖ်င္းေျပာဆုိမွဳလဲ နညး္ပါတယ္။ မရွိသေလာက္ပါပဲ။ သူတုိ႔တတ္ ႏိုင္တာကိုလဲ ဒါနအျဖစ္ ေပးလွဴဒါန္းၾကပါတယ္။ သကၤန္း၊ သပိတ္၊ ဆပ္ျပာ၊ သၾကား၊ ကြမ္း၊ ၀တၳဳေငြ စသည္ပါ။ ထူးျခားတာက သူတုိ႔က ပရိကၡရာထဲမွာ ကြမ္း၊ ဆပ္ျပာစသည္လဲ ပါသည္ဟု ခံယူထားေသာေၾကာင့္ ဆြမ္းကပ္၊ ဥပုသ္ေက်ာင္းေတြမွာ ကြမ္းယာကို အေလးေပး ကပ္လွဴေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။      

  ဥပုသ္ေန႔မ်ားကိုေတာ့ တစ္ခုခ်င္းေဖာ္ျပေပးလုိက္ပါတယ္။ သူတုို႔ဓေလ့အရ ဥပုသ္ေန႔ မ်ားကိုေတာ့ ေပါယေဒးလို႔ေခၚဆုိေလ့ရွိၾကပါတယ္။ ဒီေပါယေဒးေတြကို သတ္မွတ္၊ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာမွဳေတြကလဲ သာမန္မ ဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ဗုဒၶဘာသာရဲ႕ သမုိးျဖစ္စဥ္ေတြကို ကိုယ္စားျပဳထားပါတယ္။ သူတုိ ႔ႏုိင္ငံမွာ ေပါယေဒးမ်ားကို လျပည္ေန႔ေတြမွာ သတ္မွတ္ထားေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။ ဒီေတာ့ တစ္လတစ္ ခါက်ေ ရာက္ေနတဲ႔ ဒီေပါယေဒး ဥပုတ္ေန႔ ေတြမွာ သီရိလကၤာကို ဘုရားၾကြေရာက္လာျခင္း၊ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ သာသနာ စတင္ေရာက္ရွိလာပံုႏွင့္ ဗုဒၶသမုိင္းျဖစ္ စဥ္ေတြထဲက ထူးျခားေသာအေၾကာင္းအရာေတြကုိ ကုိယ္စားျ ပဳထားပါတယ္။

          ဥပမာေျပာရမယ္ဆုိရင္.. Duruthu-ဒုရုသုလို႔ေခၚတဲ႔ လျပည့္ဥပုသ္ေန႔ အေၾကာင္းကို ေလ့လာ မယ္ဆုိပါက၊ ဒုရုသု ဥပုသ္ေန႔ဟာ ဇန္နရီလမွာ က်ေရာက္ပါတယ္။ ဒီဥပုသ္ေန႔က ျမတ္စြာဘုရားရွင္ သီရိလကၤာ ႏုိင္ငံကို ဘုရားျဖစ္ျပီး ရွစ္၀ါေျမာက္မွာ ၾကြေရာက္လာျခင္းကို ကိုယ္စားျပဳထားပါတယ္။ ဒီေန႔မွာ ဘုရားရွင္ သီရိလကၤာကို ၾကြေရာက္လာျခင္း အထိမ္အမွတ္အျဖစ္ ႏွစ္စဥ္က်င္းပေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။ ဒီဒုရုသုေပါယေဒးသည္ သီရိလကၤာႏိုင္ငံ၊ ျမိဳ႕ေဟာင္းတစ္ျမိဳ႕ျဖစ္တဲ႔ ေကလနိယမွာ က်င္းပေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။ ၁၉၂၇ ႏွစ္က စတင္ခဲ႔ပါတယ္။ ဒီ ေကလနိယမွာ ေကလနိယ ရာဇမဟာ၀ိရ ဘုရားေက်ာင္း၊ ကလ်ာဏီသိ္မ္တာ္ၾကီး၊  ေကလနိယ ေစတီေတာ္ၾကီးႏွင့္ မဟာေဗာဓိပင္ တည္ရွိပါတယ္။

  ေကလနိယေစတီ၏ ေနာက္ခံသမုိင္းေၾကာင္းကို နည္းနည္းျပန္ၾကည့္မည္ဆုိပါက တစ္ခ်ိန္က ေကလနိယ တုိင္းေဒသကို ဘုရင္ မနိအကၡိသ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ခဲ႔ပါတယ္။ အဲ႔ဒီအခ်ိန္မွာ ဘုရားရွင္က ရွစ္၀ါေျမာက္မွာ ပထမအၾကိမ္ၾကြခဲ႔တဲ႔နာဂဒီပကို ဒုတိယအၾကိမ္ ၾကြေရာက္ခဲ႔ပါတယ္။ ျမတ္စြာဘုရားၾကြေ ရာက္လာ တာကိုသိတဲ႔ ဘုရင္မနိအကၡိသက ဘုရားထံကိုသြားခဲ႔ပါတယ္။ ျမတ္စြား ဘုရားေဟာ ၾကားခဲ႔တဲ႕႔ တရားေ တာ္ကိုလဲ နာယူျပီး ေကလနိယကိုၾကြေရာက္ဖုိ႔ ျမတ္စြာဘုရားကို ပင့္ေလွ်ာက္ပါတယ္။ ဘုရားရွင္ ကလဲ လက္ခံခဲ႔ပါတယ္။ ေနာက္.. ဘုရားရွင္က ေနာက္ပါ ရဟႏၱာ ငါးရာနဲ႕ အတူ ေကလနိယကို ၾကြေရာက္ ခဲ႔ပါတယ္။ ျမတ္စြာဘုရားရွင္နဲ႔ ရဟႏၱာ ငါးရာကို ၾကဳဆိုျပီး ဂႏၱကုဋီတိုက္ ခန္းကိုေဆာက္လုပ္ျပီး ဆြမ္းဆက္ ကပ္ခဲ႔ပါတယ္။

  ဆြမ္းဘုဥ္းေပးျပီး ဘုရားရွင္က ဘုရင္၊ မိဖုရား၊ မွဴးမတ္မ်ားကို တရားေဟာခဲ႔တယ္။ ေနာက္ပုိင္းမွာေတာ့ ဘုရင္ၾကီးက ဘုရားရွင္ တရားေဟာခဲ႔တဲ႔ေနရာမွာ မ်ားစြာေသာ ေစတီမ်ားကိုတည္ေဆာက္ခဲ႔ပါတယ္။ အခုေတာ့ သီရိလကၤာဗုဒၶဘာသာ၀င္မ်ား ရွိခိုးပူေဇာ္ေလ့ရွိၾကေသာ ေကလနိယေစတီရယ္လို႔ ထင္ရွား ရွိေနပါတယ္။

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Salikedara

Once upon a time, there was a farmer who grew paddy in a field. One day, he saw a parrot eating paddy from his field. Once he had finished eating, the parrot took more paddies in his beak and tried to fly away.

          The famer who saw this asked the parrot, “why are you doing this” You have eaten your share and you are taking away more with you.” The parrot answered, “My parents are very old and weak. They are blind and cannot fly. So I take food for them”.

          “This is a very good deed. From this day, this portion of my field is for them,” said the farmer.

         

“Spreading Loving Kindness”

May I be free from suffering,

May I be free from sickness,

May I be free from enmity,

May I be happy forever!

May all beings be free from suffering,

May all beings be free from sickness,

May all beings be free from enmity,

May all be happy forever as I am!

“Let us Worship Our Parents”

Noble and holy are parents,

They are our first teachers,

They look after us well,

Let’s worship and kiss their feet.

Existentialism

Existentialism

In the Philosophical history, the various Philosophical thoughts arose in various countries of the world; rationalism, empiricism, Aesthetic, Atheist etc. The existentialism arose in the western philosophical complex. This philosophical thought was a newly theory which has inquire the value of human life and the meaning of the life.  The term existentialism derived from the Latin term existence which means “Be arising.” It arises in the world in the middle of ninety century and developed in the 20 century. Soren Kierkegaard was the founder of this philosophy. Former philosophers have divided it into two parts; theistic and atheistic.

Soren Kierkegaard, Karl Jasper, Gabriel Marcels are known as the sexual life with the self-modification. The individual effect always based his own requires. Every moment an individual tries to fulfill his requirement. Sometimes it may be a few effects. Then his mentality will be collapsed as the frustration. Theistic philosopher explains the frustrated position of human beings and pointed out a solution for the mental disorder. The solution is the Ethical life of the second step of the life. On this second step a man can enter to the good behaviors. He can complete various ethical term on this step. Again he can concentrate and build up his collapsed mentality of the first step of the life. The first and second steps are considered as the empiricism part of this philosophy. After, they have pointed out the religious life. This step entirely covered by the concept of god. Such as people can entirely delicate their whole life for the god. That is the final conclusion of a human beings existence. Through this way an individual can gain the next world. The existential philosophical view shows the current existence of the life. But the theistic philosopher has mentioned the next birth. This misguidance was resurrected by the atheistic philosopher. We can identify; Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camu etc.

Here, Jean Paul Sartre was great novelist and poet. He opens up this existentialism Philosophy through novel, poetries, etc. He hardly attacks to the god’s concept in the Theistic part. Jean Paul Sartre explained that the human is not a god’s creation but the god is human’s creatures. A human being has own energy and power but he cannot realize the reality of him. Therefore he can face the frustration and suffering in various moment. Then he creates an invisible god and tends to pray the god. Sartre explains that activation of man can be considered as the primary mental state. Therefore he explains that individual has to develop and understand that reality. Jean Paul Sartre always pointed out the liberation and supremacy of the mankind. He has applied this thought into his novels and poetries. He emphasize that the public liberation of the mankind can be destroyed in the society. Therefore he was a great thinker in the 20 century. In the Second World War, many people were died. They have no any mind of the life and never think their existence of life. Suddenly they saw their relatives who died in front of their eyes. After Second World War, the existentialism philosophy arose in the philosophical complex aiming at the value and existence of the life. First of all, a man should understand the value of the life. If one wants to understand it, he should really understand the cruel and brutality of the death. When ones can understand it his mind completely will fulfill with the craving of the existence. Then he can maintain his life and enjoy his life.   

about religions

           Among those which the main and great religions, can’t find the start founder of Hinduism in any books and literatures. And so also no one can know the start founded era. The religion, which is known the start founder and era, exactly, are;
(1) Buddhism,
(2) Christianity and
(3) Islam.

       Those three religions are able to find the start founder and era obviously, cause of describes exactly in their texts, literatures and Bibles. The start discoverer and guider of Buddhism is The Gautama Buddha. The Gautama Buddha is born in the year 623 B.C. He has attained the highest enlightenment in the year 588 B.C. The start founder of Christianity is Jesus Christ. He was born in the year 400 B.C. And he start founded his religion in the year 27 A.D. The start founder of Islam is Mohammad. He was born in the year 571 A.D. And start founded his religion in the year 610 A.D.
              Therefore, amongst these three Great Religions of world which know the start founder and era exactly, Buddhism is the emerged religion so earlier. Christianity is emerges in 623 years after emerging Buddhism. Islam is the religion which emerges 1194 years later after emerging Buddhism and 571 years later after emerging Christianity. Islam is the last emerging religion among the world Great Religion. 

               Taking Refuge To the Gods.
These three religions, Hinduism, Christianity and Islam are the World Great religions which believe and take refuge to the Gods. Although their taking refuge to the Gods are the same, the Gods and the various creator are a little different. The God is has difference of name according to religions. Hindu people called their God Ishwar, Christian people give the name their God Jehovah, and Muslim people denominate their God Allah. Other Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam except Buddhism are the religions of accepted the Gods.

Religions.

                                   Religions
      In this chapter, I think it should be described a modicum about the basic principles of the main religions. The reason it should be described is the men and children, the Buddhists and others to observe each religion by comparing and by developing consideration knowledge, and to criticize and discriminate truth and false, since childhood.
     In the academic study of religion as a phenomenon in history the term ‘religion’ can be considered in its different aspects: as an inner experience, as theology, or intellectual formulation of doctrine, as a basis or source of ethics and as an element in culture.
       Different scholars have given different views and opinions of its nature and meaning. According to Aldous Huxley, religion is, among other things, a system of education, by means of which human beings may train themselves, first to make desirable changes in their own personalities and in society, and second, to heighten consciousness and so establish more adequate religions between themselves and the universe of which they are parts.

   Modern India philosophers like Dr. Radhakrishnan, have expounded the theme that religion is not a set of doctrines but that it is experience. And religious experience is based on the realization of the ‘presence of the divine in man. ‘H.G. Wells says ‘religion is the central part of our education that determines our moral conduct’. The German philosopher, Kant, stated that ‘religion is the recognition of our moral principles as laws that must not be transgressed.’
      The Buddha’s message as a religious way of life: “Keeping away from all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impurities.” For our purposes, religion may be defined in a very broad sense as a body of moral and philosophical teachings and the acceptance with confidence of such teachings.

     In this present world, men can be able to chooses as one’s wish and take refuges religion what is one appreciates freely. Regarding about it, men are taking refuge various religion, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Jainism and so on. However, there are just four religions, which the great power and many million people are taking refuge. They are;
       (1) Hinduism,
       (2) Buddhism,
       (3) Christianity and
       (4) Islam.

I will mentioned it more and later. Be patient me. 

May all of you be happy and peaceful in your mind and body!

The Meaning of Bodhisatta

    The Meaning of Bodhisatta
   One who aspires to attain Samma Samboddhihood, the perfectly self-enlightened one is called a Bodhisatta. Bodhisatta is PaLi word. The word itself is derived from Bodhi   and Satta. Bodhi is maggañana, the fourfold insight knowledge of the path with   accompaniment of omniscience Sabbannutañana). Satta is living beings. Therefore, one   who  aspires to attain Bodhi is called Bodhisatta. These are three kinds of Bodhisatta  known  as Samma Sambodhi, Paccekabodhi and Savakabodhi. Sammasambodhi is the one who had an enlightenment consisting of the fourfold insight-knowledge of the path, understanding the four noble Truths by his own intellect.
      

   Furthermore, he could make others realize the things mentioned above and the way to
Nibbana. Paccekabodhi is the one who had enlightenment consisting of the Fourfold Insight knowledge of the path, realizing the Four Noble Truths without being taught. Savakabodhi is the one who serves others but his capacity for the save of others is limited. He practiced the teaching of the Buddha and finally attained Nibbana.

Taking the Truth Refuge

Taking the Truth Refuge!
    In this world, every religion has its own concept of what is regarded to be the goal of spiritual life. For some religions, eternal life in heaven or paradise with the Lord is the final goal. For some the ultimate aim in life is the union of universal consciousness, because it is believed that life is a unit of consciousness and it must return to the same original consciousness. Some religions believe that the ending of suffering or repeated birth and death is the final goal. For others, even heavenly bliss or union with Brahma (creator) is secondary to the uncertainty of existence, no matter, whatever form it takes. And there are even some who believe that the present life itself is more than enough to experience the aim of life.
   To attain the desired goal, every religion offers a method. Some religions ask their followers to surrender to God or depend on God for everything. Others call for stringent asceticism as the means of purging oneself of all evil through self mortification. Some others recommend the performance of animal sacrifices. And many kinds of rises and rituals as well as the recital of mantras for their purification to gain the final goal. There is yet another which upholds diverse methods and devotions, intellectual realization of truth, and concentration of the mind through meditation.
      Each religion has a different concept of punishment for evil deeds. According to some religions, man is doomed forever by God for his transgressions in this one life. Some others say that action and reaction (cause and effect) operate due to natural laws and the effect of a deed will only be experienced for a certain period. Some religions maintain that this life is only one of so many, and a person will always have a chance to reform himself in stages until he finally evolves to attain the goal of Supreme Bliss.
    Given such a wide variety of approaches, interpretations and goals of different religions adopted by mankind, it is useful for people not to hold dogmatic views about their religion but to be open to and tolerate of other religious views.

   The Buddha said: ‘one must not accept my teachings from reverence, but first try them as gold is tried by fire.’ The lord (Buddha) said, concerning with taking refuge to the real truth;
         Yoca buddhanca dhammanca.
         samghanca saranam gato.
         cattari ariyasaccani.
         sammappannaya passati.
         dukkhan dukkhasamuppadam.
         Dukkhassa ca atikkamam.
         ariyam athangammaggam.
         dukkhupa samagaminam: (3)1
   “One who takes refuge in the Buddha, the Dhamma and Samgha, sees with Magga• insight the Four Noble Truths, viz, dukkha, the Cause of Dukkha, the Cessation of Dukkha, and the Noble Path of Eight Constituents which leads to the Cessation of Dukkha.” In fact, taking refuge to the Three Refuges trusty is free from gangers and gets the benefits of both present life and future life. And then, the gods, king of the Devas, the persons with super natural powers, the alchemist who possesses super natural powers will look after, help and protect the persons who take refuge to the Three Gems, cause of they also take refuge to the Three Gems respectively.
  The king of the Devas, frightened extensively, when he realizes he is going to pass away, and he approach to the Buddha, and listen to the discourses of the Buddha, and then, when he is listening to the discourse by the Buddha, pass away, and he was born back in the celestial world as a the king of the Devas immediately.
    Therefore, who make to become a king of the Devas? The answer “The Buddha” is. So, don’t take refuge the king of the Devas beyond the Buddha. Especially, it will be ruined, if you meet with the foolish king of the Devas. I want to tell, here, a story of about a trader’s family. There is a house of two traders’ wife and husband in a village. They have a beautiful and clever daughter. Their daughter died at sixteen years. Then, her mother was very sorrowful cause of her daughter died. After that, mother goes to the cemetery bringing snacks and put on her daughter’s cave, and weeps loudly. In that cemetery, an opium smoker used to smoke opium. He needs some money to buy opium. He gets an idea when he saw crying mother. Therefore, he buy the king of coarse paper made from paper mulberry pulp in Main Kain and he make a Sakka’s cloth, and stick tinsel on the cloth. In the next day, the opium eater goes to the cemetery early, and wears the Sakka’s cloth. After that, he climbs up banyan tree, near the cave of lady daughter. In arrive time, the mother cries at her daughter’s cave, bringing flowers and foods. The opium eater, “Shun Shun” shakes the branches of banyan tree. The mother, “Oh the king of the Devas, where are you from?” asks looking up he head.

  The opium smoker, “The king of the Devas, who govern the Tavatimsa* celestial world, is me,” answer with the vice of form of address. The mother asks with great expectation, “The king of the Devas, don’t you know my little daughter?” “I come down to mundane world from the celestial world, cause of I know about her.” “O dear, what kind of case?” “Like this, you put in only fourth money for the ferriage when your daughter dies. It can not buy a pancake in celestial world. Other goddesses celebrate festivity daily, with ornaments what their parents put in. Your daughter is sitting and crying cause of she has not ornaments. Don’t cry, I will tell your mother about you, and I come down in to the mundane world, cause of I pity her. If so, can I give you my daughter’s ornaments.” “Oh, why not, you can, go and bring the ornaments hurriedly.” “Good.” Mother goes back to home quickly and bring a packed of ornaments in the box. And she goes back to the cemetery hurriedly without closing the box of ornaments. “Oh- king of the Devas, take, take, and my daughter’s ornaments, give my daughter please, in there.” “You are rest assured, your daughter must be happy, okay, go back without worry and care.” When mother go back to, the opium eater can be climb down on the banyan tree. Mother returns to village satisfied. Her husband comes back to house from the village, he saw opening the box and losing the packed of ornaments, and he go to cemetery riding a horse. When he meet his wife, she “O dear, you lost the time going round in the village. I met the king of the Devas. I send the ornaments to the daughter with him indirectly.” “Ah! Ah! Where is he?”  “At the cemetery.”
   The husband goes to the cemetery riding a horse hurriedly. When he arrives in there, he sees the king of the Devas, who entering in to the bush. He descends and follows the opium eater, after ties the rope of bit of a bridle at the banyan tree. The opium smoker skilful about the forest. And he comes back to the banyan tree after running crookedly. And then, he jumps up the house and runs away. The trader man can not follow to catch him. Therefore, he cries out, “Hey, king of the Devas, tell my daughter, please, that father give you a horse as a present.” That, cause of false of worship, lost both the world of nature and the cycle of death and birth.
    Therefore, if men take the true refuge, can get the happiness of man, happiness of gods and happiness of Supreme Being (Brahma)+ after cession of any suffering. In the last life, they realize the Ultimate Reality (Nibbana)*. Therefore, men, steadily, believing that there is nothing other refuge except Three Refuges. And it is very important, to understand and realize the definition of and about Three Refuges, and to take lessons and to makes use of for one’s life until to die.
   Therefore, take the safe of your life. Take refuges only the Three Refuges. Take the develop and noble of your life by keeping the Three Gems forever. May your life be beautiful and elegant from time to time!
                                                                                                                     To go on!

Taking Refuge to the Imposter!

Taking Refuge to the Imposter

The Buddha made discourse on taking refuge to the imposter and the truth

refuge, analytically, after becoming Buddha.

The Buddha expounded in the text of the paLi canon of Dhammapada;

        Netamkho saranam khemam.

       Netam sarana muttamam.

      Netam sarana mAgamma.

       Sabbadukkha muccati. (2) 3

“Such a refuge is not a safe refuge, not the best refuge. One is not liberated from all evil consequences of existence (dukkha) for having come to such a refuge.” According to above the Buddha’s speech, it is very important not to rely on,

not to worship to the Refuge what is can not give the peace of all suffering. At the present time, the most Buddhists thought and take refuge to the persons, such as the gods, the king of the Devas, the persons with supernatural powers.

   It should not cover the Buddha’s statues and images with the bananas of godsand offertory consisting of hands of bananas and coconut. It should be make therespect and sharing universal love to the persons, who belief one selves, after remembering and missing them, cause of meritorious deeds or good actions. But, it will be happen a danger, if pay respect and refuge the gods, king of the Devas, the person with super natural powers (Vijja), the alchemist who possesses super natural powers, SurassatI, Boetaw and so on, together with the three refuges.

  The Buddha said taking refuge to those persons is not the truth refuge, as is not the refuge what is can not give a peace from all troubles. We can not liberate from the suffering from the round of rebirth of the cycle of death and birth (SaMsarA)∗ by taking refuge to those persons. For the Buddhists or man, taking refuge to those persons can not get benefits on the present life and future life. It causes us the suffering in the present life, and will doom to a state of downfall in future life.

     In the present time, the most Buddhists used to take refuge to those persons. It is not good for the Buddhists who are take refuge to them, because it is not the truth and noble refuge. So, men should take refuge to the truth and noble to get benefits in their daily live.