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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

We are walking in hell but we are happy gazing at flowers

The title of a short clip during our first discussion of E4E3G reminded me the great insight I have been familiar with long ago. Thanks to Nay Yu who brought it before my eyes. While I was watching, the flow of thoughts seamlessly flowed into my mind very loudly describing the above words vividly. Suddenly I felt I was enlightened.

“Never forget: we walk on hell, gazing at flowers”. Those words are from Kobayashi Issa, a Japanese poet and lay Buddhist priest of the Jōdo Shinshū sect from the 18th Century. His words reminded me plainly the world we live. In the true form beyond our human knowledge and reason, life we live is suffering itself and our mere existence is an illusion. But we do not and cannot see it due to so much hatred, greed and delusion we have. These three biggest foes within trick our minds to believe that what we see, hear and taste are all real. For billions, this is the Truth we discern. Our earthly knowledge and reason limits what we can think, know and see.

Without the transcendence of Buddha and alike, the world we live would have been shrouded with the darkness making all of us blind preventing from seeing the Truth. Only mindfulness through deep meditation can enlighten us to see what we really are.

To be a mindful person is easier said than done. Incessant efforts, enduring attempts, unfailing self-determination and consistent consciousness are the keys in raising awareness of self. In other words, the process of “know thyself” needs tremendous endeavor. By knowing all little our continuous movements as a process of dying and rebirth, we can be enlightened. A pair of mindful eyes with wisdom can see the world in its true form depicting our lives as a mere illusion.

What a thought I have out of the title! In fact it served me well as a timely reminder of being. Without knowing its true form of our existence and enjoying earthly pleasure, we are as if walking on hell and gazing at flowers. As I have lived more than half of our anticipated life span, not to die as a mundane person, I must strive to live the Way Buddha and alike higher beings illuminated through their own life experiences.

I believe that living by Buddha’s principles and sharing good deeds to others will bring true wisdom and mindfulness to all of us one day.

(Words: 408)
Max | 7 January 2013

Thursday, September 22, 2011

မဟာရံတတုိင္း၊ ဧရာ၀တီ ႏွင့္ ဒုိ႔တာ၀န္အေရးသုံးပါး။

၀တုိ႔ျပည္က ခင္မင္ရင္းႏွီးရတဲ့ သူငယ္ခ်င္းမတစ္ေယာက္နဲ႔ စကားလက္ဆုံက်ခဲ့တုန္းကေပါ့ . . .

ဟဲ့အဆြိ . .နင္တုိ႔တုိင္းျပည္က မဟာရံတံတုိင္းၾကီးက အရမ္းကုိၾကီးက်ယ္ခန္႔ျငားလုိက္တာဟာ။

အင္းဟုတ္တယ္ ပဥၥရဲ႕။ ဒီမဟာရံတတုိင္းၾကီးက ငါတုိ႔တမ်ဳိးသားလုံး မ်ဳိး႐ုိးစဥ္ဆက္ အေလးအျမတ္ထားၿပီး ငါတုိ႔တ႐ုတ္ျပည္ၾကီးရဲ႕ ၾကီးက်ယ္ျမင့္ျမတ္ခမ္းနားမႈကုိ ထည္ထည္၀ံ့၀ံ့နဲ႔ ဂုဏ္ယူ၀ံ့ၾကြားစရာၾကီးေလဟာ။

အင္း . . ေနာ္။ ငါတုိ႔ျမန္မာျပည္မွာလည္းဟာ အိမ္နီးနားခ်င္း ေဆြမ်ဳိးေပါက္ေဖာ္ႏုိင္ငံၾကီးတစ္ခုက ေက်ာက္တြင္းေတြ ရက္ရက္စက္စက္တူး၊ မတရားေတာင္ေတြၿဖိဳ၊ တရား၀င္သလုိလုိနဲ႔ မတရားသစ္ေတြ ေပၚေပၚတင္တင္ ခုိးထုတ္ေနေတာ့ ရွိသမွ်သယံဇာတေတြ တျဖဳန္ျဖဳန္ေကးေနၿပီဟ။ ခု ငါတုိ႔ႏုိင္ငံရဲ႕ ဒီမုီကေရစီ အစုိးရသစ္လက္ထက္ တုိင္းျပည္ျပန္လည္တည္ေဆာက္ေရး လုပ္ငန္းေတြလုပ္တဲ့အခါ လုံေလာက္တဲ့ သစ္ပင္ေတြမရွိေတာ့လုိ႔ အဆာက္အဦသစ္ေတြေဆာက္၊ တံတားေတြတည္၊ လမ္းေတြေဖါက္ရာ မွာ အခက္အခဲအေတာ္ရွိေနတယ္ဟ။

သစ္ပင္ေတြမရွိေတာ့တာနဲ႔ ဘာဆုိင္လုိ႔တုန္း ပဥၥရဲ႕။

အဆြိနင္ကလည္း ဒီလုိ အေဆာက္အဦၾကီးေတြ တည္ေဆာက္တယ္ဆုိတာ အုတ္ေတြ ေက်ာက္ေတြ သဲေတြလုိတယ္ေလဟာ။ ဒါမွ တည္ေဆာက္လုိ႔ရ ေတာ့မွာေပါ့။ အခု သစ္ပင္ေတြအလုံအေလာက္ မရွိေတာ့လုိ႔ အုတ္ဖုတ္ဖုိ႔ေတာင္ မျဖစ္ႏုိင္ပဲ ေတာ္ေတာ္ အခက္ေတြေနၿပီလုိ႔ သိရတယ္ဟ။ အဲဒါ ငါ စဥ္းစားမိတာတစ္ခုက နင္နဲ႔ ငါနဲ႔ အက်ဳိးတူစီးပြားေရး ကုမၸဏီေထာင္ၿပီး နင္တုိ႔တုိင္းျပည္ထဲမွာရွိတဲ့ လူလည္းသိပ္မသုံးတဲ့အပုိင္းက မဟာရံတံတုိင္းၾကီးရဲ႕ အစိတ္အပုိင္းအခ်ဳိ႕ကုိ ေလလံပစ္ၿပီး လုိတဲ့အုတ္ေတြ ငါတုိ႔ ႏုိင္ငံ ျပန္လည္ တည္ေဆာက္မႈမွာ သုံးခ်င္လုိ႔ဟ။ နင္တုိ႔ဆီက ပါတီေခါင္းေဆာင္ၾကီးေတြနဲ႔ တုိင္ပင္ၾကည့္ပါလား။ ႏွစ္ႏုိင္ငံ အက်ဳိးတူစီးပြားေပါ့။

ဘာ… ဒါငါတုိ႔ရဲ႕ သမုိင္း၊ ငါတုိ႔ေလးစားျမတ္ႏုိးတဲ့ မဟာရံတံတုိင္း၊ ငါတုိ႔ လူမ်ဳိးစုရဲ႕ ၾကီးက်ယ္ခန္႔ျငားမႈကုိ ကုိယ္စားျပဳတဲ့ သမုိင္းမွတ္တုိင္ဟဲ့။ ပုိက္ဆံဘယ္ေလာက္ရရ နင့္တုိင္းျပည္ၾကီး ပုံေပးအုံးဟာ မဟာရံတံတုိင္းက အုတ္တစ္လုံးေတာင္မရဘူး.. မွတ္ထား။

ေၾသာ္ . . . အမ်ဳိးဂုဏ္ ဇာတိဂုဏ္ တယ္ျပင္းတဲ့ အဆြိရယ္ နင္သာ ငါတုိ႔တုိင္းျပည္က လ်ပ္စစ္၀န္ၾကီး လုပ္လုိက္ပါေတာ့လားဟုသာ ျငီးတြားရင္း မ်က္ႏွာနီရဲေနတဲ့ တ႐ုတ္မကုိ ဘုိင္ဘုိင့္မလုပ္ပဲ ေက်ာခုိင္းခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ႏုိင္ငံတစ္ခုရဲ႕က်င့္၀တ္ကုိ အမ်ဳိးသားအက်ဳိးစီးပြားနဲ႔ ဖုံးအုပ္ေလ့ရွိသလုိ သူ႔ျပည္တြင္းေရး ဒုိ႔၀င္မစြက္ေပါင္ လုိ႔တြင္တြင္ေျပာၿပီး ကန္႔လန႔္ကာေနာက္ကြယ္ကေန အမ်ဳိးသားအက်ဳိးစီးပြားဆုိတာခ်ည္းအတြက္ ရသမွ် သမေလ့ရွိသလုိ အဆိပ္ပင္ေရေလာင္းလည္း လုပ္တတ္ပါတယ္ဆုိတာကုိ ေမ့ထားလုိ႔မရပါဘူး။

တကယ္ေတာ့ ႏုိင္ငံတုိင္းမွာရွိတဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရးမူ၀ါဒ အားလုံးနီးပါးလုိလုိဟာ “ငါတုိ႔မွာ ထာ၀ရမိတ္ေဆြဆုိသည္မရွိ၊ ထာ၀ရ အမ်ဳိးသားအက်ဳိးစီးပြားသာလ်င္ရွိ၏” ဆုိသလုိ ဘယ္သူေသေသ ငေတမာရင္ ၿပီးေရာသေဘာလုပ္သာ ခံယူေလ့ပဲရွိတတ္ၾကပါတယ္။ ရ၀န္ဒါမွာ မ်ဳိးႏြယ္စုလုိက္ သတ္ျဖတ္ဖုိ႔အတြက္ ဓါးေတြ သိန္းနဲ႔ သန္းနဲ႔တင္သြင္းေပးတာမ်ဳိး၊ လစ္ဗ်ားက အစုိးရက လစ္ဗ်ားျပည္သူေတြကုိ ရက္ရက္စက္စက္ သတ္ႏုိင္ဖုိ႔အတြက္ က်ည္ဆံေတြ၊ လက္နက္ေတြ အားရပါးရေရာင္းတာမ်ဳိး၊ ႏူကလီယားဘန္းျပၿပီး ႏုိင္ငံတကာမွာ လူမုိက္ေမြးထားတာမ်ဳိး စသျဖင့္ စသျဖင့္ ဥပမာ ဥပေမယ်ေတြ အမ်ားၾကီးရွိပါတယ္။

တကယ္ေတာ့ အမ်ဳိးသားအက်ဳိးစီးပြားဆုိတာ အဲဒီတုိင္းျပည္မွာမွီတင္းေနထုိင္တဲ့ အမ်ဳိးသားတုိင္းနဲ႔ ဆုိင္ပါတယ္။ အဆြိ တစ္ေယာက္ ေဒါသထြက္သြားမယ္ဆုိလည္း ထြက္သင့္စရာပါ။ သူလည္း သူ႔တုိင္းျပည္က အမ်ဳိးသား အဲေလ အမ်ဳိးသမီးကုိး။ ဒါဟာ အမ်ဳိးဂုဏ္ ဇာတိဂုဏ္ကုိ ထိကပါ ယိကပါး ေလနဲ႔ သြားလုပ္မိလုိ သူ႔ရဲ႕ မ်ဳိးခ်စ္စိတ္က ခြန္းတုန္႔မခံ တုန္႔ျပန္လုိက္တာပါ။

ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ႏုိင္ငံရဲ႕ ေခါင္းေဆာင္အၾကီးအကဲမ်ားကလည္း ဘယ္ေလာက္အေျမာ္အျမင္ၾကီးမားၾကသလဲ ဆုိေတာ့ ဒီမုိကေရစီမရခင္ ဟုိးပေ၀သဏီထဲက အမ်ဳိးသားအက်ဳိးစီးပြားတုိ႔ အမ်ဳိးဂုဏ္ ဇာတိဂုဏ္တုိ႔ကုိ ကာကြယ္ႏုိင္ရန္အလုိ႔ငွာ ၀ံသာႏုရကၡိတစိတ္ဓါတ္ ျပင္းထန္လာေစဖုိ႔ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသူ ႏုိင္ငံသားအားလုံးအား ဒို႔တာ၀န္ အေရးသုံးပါးကုိ ေန႔စဥ္ စဥ္ဆက္မျပတ္ ေနရာမလပ္ေစပဲ အသိေပးၿပီး ေလ့က်င့္ျပဳစုပ်ဳိးေထာင္ေပးခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။

ျပည္ေထာင္စုမျပဳိကြဲေရး - ဒို႔အေရး။
ကဲၾကည့္ ခု ျပည္သူလူထုက ကုိယ္ေသြးကုိယ္ေဖာက္ၿပီးမွ ေရေသာက္ရမယ္ဆုိရင္ ေရငတ္လည္း ငတ္ပေစ အေသခံမယ္လုိ႔ ဆုိသလုိ ဧရာ၀တီကုိ ႏွိပ္စက္ကလူလုပ္ၿပီးမွ ရလာမဲ့ လ်ပ္စစ္ကုိ မသုံးရလည္းေနပါေစ ဒီလုိပဲ ဖေယာင္းတုိင္းနဲ႔ ေက်နပ္ပါတယ္လုိ႔ ဆုိေနတဲ့ၾကားက လူထုက ေရြးေကာက္ထားတဲ့ ၀န္ၾကီးဆုိသူက ေနမေကာင္းပါဘူးဆုိမွ ဇြတ္ ဆုိသလုိ ေရွ႔ဆက္မယ္ဆုိတာခ်ည္းဆုိေတာ့ လူထုနဲ႔ အစုိးရၾကားမွာ ကြဲလြဲမႈေတြရွိလာၿပီ။ ေရႊတိဂုံဘုရားေပၚကုိ ကုိလုိနီနယ္ခ်ဲ႕ ျဗိတိသွ်ေတြက ဖိနပ္ၾကီးေတြစီးၿပီးတက္ၾကေတာ့ မခံမရပ္ႏုိင္ျဖစ္ၾကၿပီး လူထုုုအုံၾကြလုိ႔ ကုိုလုိနီလုိရက္စက္ၾကမ္းၾကဳတ္တဲ့ ျဗိတိသွ်နယ္ခ်ဲ႕ေတြေတာင္ လူထုဖက္လုိက္ေရာခဲ့ေသးတယ္ဗ်ာ။ တစ္ဖက္က တစ္ဖက္ကုိ မလုိက္ေရာရင္ အက္ေၾကာင္းရဲ႕နိဒါန္း စတဲ့ပဲဗ်။ ဒီေတာ အခ်ိန္မ်ားစြာယူၿပီး တည္ဆာက္ထားရတဲ့ အႏွစ္သာရအျပည့္အ၀နဲ႔ ျပည္ေထာင္စုၾကီး မျပဳိကြဲဖုိ႔ ျပည္သူလူထုက ေသာင္းေသာင္းဖ်ဖ် ေရြးေကာက္ထားတဲ့ အစုိးရက လူထုဖက္လုိက္မလား၊ လူထုက အစုိးရဖက္လုိက္မလား။ ျပည္ေထာင္စုမျပဳိကြဲေရး ဒို႔အေရးေပါ့။

အခ်ဳပ္အျခာအာဏာတည္တံ့ခုိင္ျမဲေရး - ဒုိ႔အေရး။
တုိင္းျပည္တစ္ခုမွာ အျခားႏုိင္ငံအေျခစုိက္လုပ္ငန္းတစ္ခုက ႏွစ္ရွည္လာအလုပ္လုပ္ေတာ့မယ္ဆုိရင္ လက္ခံထားတဲ့ တုိင္းျပည္မွာရွိတဲ့ တုိင္းသူျပည္သားေတြရဲ႕ အက်ဳိးစီးပြားအလုိ႔ငွာ အေျခစုိက္လုပ္ကုိင္မဲ့ လုပ္ငန္းရဲ႕ လုပ္ပုိင္ခြင့္ေတြကုိ သတ္သတ္မွတ္မွတ္ ကန္႔သတ္ေလ့ရွိပါ တယ္။ ဥပမာ ႏုိင္ငံျခားအလုပ္သမား ဘယ္ေလာက္ပဲခန္႔ရမယ္ဆုိတာမ်ဳိး။ ဘယ္အဆင့္ကေန ဘယ္အဆင့္ထိကုိ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ အစုိးရအေနနဲ႔ လြတ္လပ္စြာ စစ္ေဆးျခယ္လွယ္ခြင့္ ရွိတယ္ဆုိတာမ်ဳိးေတြ စသျဖင့္ စသျဖင့္ေပါ့ေလ။ ခုေတာ့ စကတည္းကုိ ကုိယ့္ႏုိင္ငံလဲလာလုပ္ေသး၊ ကုိယ့္ေသြးသားတုိင္းရင္းသားေတြကလဲ ေနရာလည္းဖယ္ေပးရေသး၊ အမယ္ ေနရာတကာမွာ သူ႔အမ်ဳိးသားစာတမ္း၊ သူအမ်ဳိးသားဆုိင္းဘုတ္၊ သူ႔အလုပ္သမား၊ သူ႔ပစၥည္းကိရိယာေတြနဲ႔ သူ႔အဖုိးပုိင္တဲ့ေျမ အေမြရလုိ႔ လာရွင္းေနသလုိမ်ဳိး လုပ္ခ်င္တုိင္းလာလုပ္ေနမွေတာ့ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ရဲ႕ အခ်ဳပ္အျခာအာဏာကုိ ထိကပါး ယိကပါးလုပ္ေနသလုိခ်ည္း ျဖစ္ေနတယ္လုိ႔ခ်ည္း ခံစားလာရတယ္။ အခ်ဳပ္အျခာအာဏာတည္တံ့ခုိင္ျမဲေရး - ဒုိ႔အေရး။

တုိင္းရင္းသားစည္းလုံးညီညြတ္မႈမျပဳိကြဲေရး - ဒုိ႔အေရး။
ကဲၾကည့္ဗ်ာ။ ေနာက္ၿပီး နဂုိတည္းကုိ ခက္ခက္ခဲခဲနဲ႔ တည္ေဆာက္ရယူထားရတဲ့ ေသြးခ်င္းမ်ားၾကားက ဗမာလူမ်ဳိးေတြအေပၚ ယုံၾကည္မႈဟာ ကခ်င္အမ်ဳိးသားေတြရဲ႕ သမုိင္း ဓေလ့ထုံတမ္းစဥ္လာ ၾကီးမားတဲ့ ျမစ္ဆုံလုိေနရာမ်ဳိး၊ ၿပီးေတာ့ ျမစ္ၾကီးနားလုိ အထက္ကရ ၿမဳိ႕ၾကီးတစ္ခုလုံးကုိ စကၠန္႔ပုိင္းအတြင္းမွာ ေရျမဳပ္ေစႏုိင္တယ္ဆုိတဲ့ ၾကီးမားလွတဲ့ အႏၲရာယ္ေတာထဲ တြန္းပုိ႔ေနတာမ်ဳိးေတြနဲ႔တင္ ျပန္လည္ တည္ေဆာက္ရယူႏုိင္ဖုိ႔ အေတာ့္ကုိခဲယဥ္းသြားၿပီ။ က်န္တဲ့ ညီေနာင္သားခ်င္းေတြကလည္း ေတြးၿပီ။ ဒါကုန္သြားရင္ ငါတုိ႔ပုိင္တဲ့ဘက္ေတြ လွည့္လာႏုိင္တယ္ . . . ဒီလုိနဲ႔ တုိင္းရင္းသားစည္းလုံးညီညြတ္မႈ ၿပိဳကြဲမႈဆီ ဦးတည္ရျပန္ေရာ။ ဒီေတာ့ကာ ဒါမ်ဳိးမျဖစ္ေအာင္ တုိင္းရင္းသားစည္းလုံးညီညြတ္မႈမျပဳိကြဲေရး - ဒုိ႔အေရး။

ဧရာ၀တီဟာ ျမန္မာတုိ႔ရဲ႕အစ၊ ဧရာ၀တီဟာ ျမန္မာတုိ႔ရဲ႕သမုိင္း၊ ဧရာ၀တီဟာ ျမန္မာတုိ႔ရဲ႕မာတာမိခင္၊ ဧရာ၀တီဟာ ျမန္မာတုိ႔ရဲ႕ဘ၀၊ ဒါေၾကာင့္မုိ႔ ဧရာ၀တီအေရးဟာ ျမန္မာ့အေရးျဖစ္တယ္။ အမ်ဳိးသားေရး အစစ္ျဖစ္တယ္ ဧရာ၀တီကုိ ထိလုိ႔နာတာ၊ ခ်စ္တဲ့စိတ္နဲ႔ ခြန္းတုံ႔မခံေျပာတာဟာ မ်ဳိးခ်စ္စိတ္အစစ္ ကလာတာျဖစ္တယ္။

အဆြိလုိ တ႐ုတ္မေတာင္ မဟာရံတံတုိင္းကုိ စကားနဲ႔ေတာင္ တင္စီးမခံရင္ ျမန္မာ့အေရးတစ္ခုလုံးကုိ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔က လက္ပုိက္ ေခါင္းငုိက္စုိက္ခ်ၿပီးၾကည့္ေနသင့္ပါသလား။ လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ ၁၈၈၅မွာတုန္းက ျဗိတိသွ်ေတြက ေသနတ္တစ္ခ်က္မေဖါက္ပဲ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံကုိ ကုိလုိနီကၽြန္ဇာတ္သြင္းခဲ့တယ္။ အခုလည္း ေသနတ္တစ္ခ်က္မေဖာက္ပဲ အျခားႏုိင္ငံတစ္ခုရဲ႕ လက္ေအာက္ခံ ဆက္ေၾကးသြင္း ခ႐ုိင္အဆင့္သာသာ ျပည္နယ္တစ္ခု အျဖစ္ မသိမသာ သြတ္သြင္းခံေနရတာကုိ လက္ပုိက္ ေခါင္းငုိက္စုိက္ခ်ၿပီးၾကည့္ေနရင္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာ အမ်ဳိးသားေန႔ ေနာက္တစ္ရက္ထပ္တုိးဖုိ႔ပဲက်န္ေတာ့တယ္။

အဲလုိနဲ႔ အဆြိေျပာသြားတဲ့ စကားေတြျပန္ၾကားရင္း . . .

ဘာ… ဒါငါတုိ႔ရဲ႕ သမုိင္း၊ ငါတုိ႔ေလးစားျမတ္ႏုိးတဲ့ မဟာရံတံတုိင္း၊ ငါတုိ႔ လူမ်ဳိးစုရဲ႕ ၾကီးက်ယ္ခန္႔ျငားမႈကုိ ကုိယ္စားျပဳတဲ့ သမုိင္းမွတ္တုိင္ဟဲ့။ ပုိက္ဆံဘယ္ေလာက္ရရ နင့္တုိင္းျပည္ၾကီး ပုံေပးအုံးဟာ မဟာရံတံတုိင္းက အုတ္တစ္လုံးေတာင္မရဘူး.. မွတ္ထား။

ထပ္ေတာ့မေျပာလုိက္ေတာ့ပါဘူး။ ငါက ေလနဲ႔တင္ရွိေသးတာဟလုိ႔ . . .

ပဥၥမေျမာက္မ်ဳိးဆက္
၂၀၁၁ခု၊ စက္တင္ဘာလ ၁၅ရက္။

Saturday, August 20, 2011

အေရးၾကီးျပီ ေသြးစည္းၾကစို႔

ဧရာ၀တီ ျမစ္ဆုံေဒသတြင္ ဆည္တည္ေဆာက္ျခင္းႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ မ်က္ႏွာစာအုပ္ေပၚရွိ စစ္တမ္းေကာက္ခံမႈအား ယေန႔ ၁၂-၈-၁၁ ေန႔ ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ည ၁၀နာရီတိတိအခ်ိန္ထိ စစ္တမ္း ေကာက္ခံရရွိမႈအေျခအေန -
ပါ၀င္ေျဖဆုိသူ စုစုေပါင္း                          - ၃၁၆၄
ဆက္လက္မတည္ေဆာက္သင့္ပါ              -၂၉၄၈ (၉၃ %)
ဆက္လက္တည္ေဆာက္သင့္ပါသည္      - ၉၆   (၃%)
မိမိတုိ႔ႏွင့္မသက္ဆုိင္ပါ                           - ၁၂၀ (၄%)

သေဘာထားတစ္ခုေပၚတြင္ မိမိ၏ခံယူခ်က္၊ အျမင္မ်ားေပၚမူတည္၍ မတူညီေသာတုန္႔ျပန္မႈမ်ားရရွိျခင္းသည္ ပုံမွန္ျဖစ္႐ုိးျဖစ္စဥ္တစ္ခုဟု ခံယူမိပါသည္။ ထုိ႔အတူ မိမိ၏ ထင္ျမင္ခ်က္ ခံစားခ်က္ ယုံၾကည္ခ်က္မ်ား ေပၚမူတည္၍ ျခိမ္းေျခာက္ဖ်ားေယာင္းမႈမရွိဟု ေတြးထင္ယူဆမိ၍ မိမိ၏ဆႏၵသေဘာထားကုိ လြတ္လပ္ ပြင့္လင္းစြာ ထုတ္ေဖာ္၀ံ့ၾက သူမ်ား ျဖစ္သျဖင့္ ေလးစားမိပါသည္။

မတူညီေသာ အေတြးအျမင္မ်ားစုစည္း၍ ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေသာႏုိင္ငံအေဆာက္အဦးတစ္ခုကုိ တည္ေဆာက္ျခင္းသည္ အဆင့္အတန္းျမင့္မား၍ အျမင္က်ယ္ေသာ လူမႈအဖြ႔ဲအစည္းတစ္ခုအတြင္းမွသာလ်င္ တည္ေဆာက္ႏုိင္၍ ရပါသည္။ အာဏာရွင္ဆန္ေသာ တစ္ေသြး တစ္သံ တစ္မိန္႔ျဖင့္ ခ်ီတက္လ်က္ရွိေသာ ေစစားခံ လူမႈအဖြဲ႔အစည္းတစ္ခုတြင္မႈ အျမင္မတူလ်င္ ငါႏွင့္မတူ ငါ့ရန္သူဟု ယူဆၾကလ်က္ အျမင္မ်ားကြဲ ေသြးစည္းမႈမ်ားကြဲၿပီး ရည္မွန္းရာပန္းတုိင္သုိ႔ မေရာက္သုိ႔မေရာက္ႏုိင္ပဲ အစည္းေျပသည့္ လူအဖြဲ႔အစည္းပုံစံ ျဖစ္မွန္းမသိ ျဖစ္လာၾကရပါသည္။ ဆႏၵသေဘာထားေဖာ္ထုတ္မႈအရ အမ်ားဆႏၵသည္ အဓိျဖစ္သည္ဟု ဆုိေသာ္လည္း ေရမ်ားေရႏုိင္၊ မီးမ်ားမီးႏိုင္ဟုသေဘာထားပါက အျမင္ ယုံၾကည္ခ်က္ မတူသူမ်ားအၾကား အညဳိးအေတးမ်ားစြာျဖစ္ေပၚလာေစၿပီးတင္းမာသည့္သေဘာေဆာင္သည့္ လူအဖြဲ႔အစည္းတစ္ခုျဖစ္လာႏုိင္သျဖင့္ ေရရွည္တည္တံ့ခုိင္မာမႈကုိ ရႏုိင္ရန္ခဲယဥ္းလွပါသည္။

သုိ႔ျဖစ္၍ အျမင္မတူသူမ်ားႏွင့္ ယုံၾကည္ခ်က္မတူသူမ်ား အၾကား ရင္ၾကားေစ့ႏုိင္သည့္ အဓိက အခ်က္မွာ မိမိသေဘာထား၏ အေၾကာင္းရင္းခံမ်ားကုိ ပြင့္လင္းစြာေဆြးေႏြး တုိင္ပင္ ညွိႏႈိင္း၍ မတူသူအုပ္စုကြဲမ်ား အတြင္း တစ္ဖက္ဖက္ကုိ ထိခုိက္နစ္နာမႈနည္းႏုိင္သမွ် အနည္းဆုံးရွိသည့္ အေျဖကုိ ပူးေပါင္း ရွာႏုိင္ျခင္းပင္ျဖစ္သည္။ ယင္းသုိ႔ အေၾကာင္းရင္းခံမ်ားကုိ ဆန္းစစ္ရာတြင္ ဘာေၾကာင့္ သုိ႔မဟုတ္ အဘယ္ေၾကာင့္ မိမိက ယခုကဲ့သုိ႔ ဆႏၵသေဘာထားကုိ ထုတ္ေဖာ္ရပါသည္ဟု အေၾကာင္းရင္းကုိ တိတိက်က် ပြင့္လင္းစြာေျပာဆုိႏုိင္မႈသည္ အဓိကက်ပါသည္။

သုိ႔ျဖစ္၍ အထက္ပါ စစ္တမ္းတြင္ေျဖၾကားသူမ်ားအနက္မွ ဆက္လက္မတည္ေဆာက္သင့္ပါဟု သေဘာထား ခံယူသူမ်ား၏ အေၾကာင္းရင္းခံမ်ားမွာ ကမာၻ႔အရပ္ရပ္ရွိ ပစၥကၡ ဆည္မ်ား၏ ဆုိးက်ဳိးမ်ားေပၚအေျခခံလ်က္ ဆည္ဆက္လက္တည္ေဆာက္ျခင္းျဖင့္ ဧရာ၀တီျမစ္ကုိေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း၊ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံႏွင့္ လူမ်ဳိးကုိေသာ္ လည္းေကာင္း၊ သဘာ၀ပတ္၀န္းက်င္ကုိေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း ထိခုိက္နစ္နာႏုိင္ သည္ဟု ေတြးထင္ ယူဆမိပါသည္။

အဆုိပါအခ်က္မ်ားႏွင့္ လြတ္လပ္စြာ သေဘာထားကြဲလြဲ၍ ဆက္လက္မတည္ေဆာက္သင့္ပါ သုိ႔မဟုတ္ မိမိႏွင့္ မသက္ဆုိင္ပါဟု ဆႏၵသေဘာထားကုိ ေဖာ္ထုတ္ထားသူ ညီအစ္ကုိေမာင္ႏွမမ်ားအေနျဖင့္ ဘာေၾကာင့္ သုိ႔မဟုတ္ အဘယ္ေၾကာင့္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္/ကၽြန္ေတာ္မတုိ႔က ယခုကဲ့သုိ႔ သေဘာထားရပါသည္ကုိ ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေျပာဆုိ၍ အျပဳသေဘာေဆာင္ေျပာဆုိေဆြးေႏြးၾကမည္ ဆုိလ်င္ အျမင္မတူသူမ်ားၾကား ရွဥ္႔လည္းေလ်ာက္သာ ပ်ားလည္းစြဲသာ ဆုိသည့္ စကားႏွင့္အညီ ယုံၾကည္ခ်က္မတူညီေသာ္လည္း လုိရာပန္းတုိင္ကုိ ခ်စ္ၾကည္ရင္းႏွီးစြာျဖင့္ ေရရွည္လွမ္းႏုိင္မည့္ လမ္းေၾကာင္းမ်ား ပြင့္လင္းလာႏုိင္သည္ဟု ယုံၾကည္မိပါသည္။

ေမာင္မက္စ္
၂၀၁၁ခုႏွစ္ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၁၂ရက္။

တာလစ္ရဲ႕ ငန္းနက္ေတြ ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ျမဴးေနၿပီေပါ့ . . .

မေန႔က ၾကယ္ေတြ အစင္းလုိက္ အစင္းလုိက္ ညြတ္တြားရင္း
ေလေျပေသြးေသြးနဲ႔ မုိးေအးေအးေတြၾကား
မဟတၱမဂႏီၵက ေ၀ဖန္ခံေနရတဲ့ သူ႔သီအုိရီမွန္ေၾကာင္း ထပ္ေလာင္းေျပာသတဲ့။
ေသြးစည္းဖုိ႔လုိၿပီး မလုိအပ္ပဲေသြးေတြစီးေနရတဲ့ေျမမွာ
မေန႔က ျမဴတိမ္ကင္းစင္ၿပီး လသာသာေအာက္မွာ
တာလစ္ရဲ႕ ငန္းနက္ေတြ ပ်ံျမဴးေနၾကသတဲ့ အေမ။

ပတၱျမားမွန္ရင္ႏြံမနစ္ဘူး
နန္းသစ္ေျမမွာ အပန္းေတာ္ေျဖခရီးမဟုတ္ေပမဲ့
ပန္းသစ္ေတြ မေၾကြလြင့္ေအာင္တားမဲ့
အေမ့ ေျခလွမ္းသစ္ေတြအတြက္ ဂုဏ္ယူတယ္အေမ။

ဆရာေမာင္စိန္၀င္းရဲ႕ ငွက္တုိ႔သမုိင္းကဗ်ာထဲမွာ
ငွက္ေတြဆုိတာ ပ်ံရင္းေသၾကသတဲ့ . . .
ေက်ာင္းနံရံတစ္၀ုိက္မွာ ေဒါင္းအလံစုိက္ခ်င္တဲ့
ေရႊဘုန္းလူရဲ႕ဆႏၵအိပ္မက္ ဆက္မက္ေနမိရင္း . . .
ခြပ္ေဒါင္း ကုိေတာ့ လူနီ႐ုိင္းေတြရဲ႕ သမိုင္းထဲက
ဖီးနစ္ငွက္လုိ မီးထုံကူးၿပီး အျမဲ၀ံ့ၾကြားေစခ်င္တယ္ အေမ။.

ဖ႐ုိင္းမန္းရဲ႕ ျပားလာတဲ့ကမာၻၾကီးမွာ
ေက်ာင္းသားသူပုန္ေဟာင္းၾကီးေတြေတာင္
နန္းေတာ္ရာကုိတက္ အေကာင္းျမင္ျပဳျပင္ဖုိ႔ ေျပာဆုိခြင့္ရခဲ့ၿပီပဲ။
မေ၀းေတာ့မဲ့တေန႔မွာ ခြပ္ေဒါင္းမ်ဳိးႏြယ္မွန္
အက်ဥ္းစံ အကုိေတာ္ အမေတာ္အားလုံး
အေမရဲ႕ ဦးေဆာင္မႈေအာက္ ညီညာျဖျဖနဲ႔
ျပည္သူ႔အက်ဳိး သယ္ပုိးေနတာကုိ ျမင္ခ်င္ေနမိတယ္ ။
ပန္း႐ုိင္းတုိ႔ လန္းလာဖုိ႔ အိပ္မက္ မေ၀းေတာ့ဘူး ထင္ရဲ႕ အေမ။

အားက်တယ္ အေမရယ္။
ခြပ္ေဒါင္း အစစ္ရဲ႕အေတာင္ေတြ ႏြမ္းေနေပမဲ့. .
ေရာက္ရာေနရာမွာ က်ရာတာ၀န္ကုိထမ္းရင္း
မ၀့ံမရဲမ်ဳိးခ်စ္စိတ္နဲ႔ တုိင္းျပည္ေကာင္းက်ဳိးကုိေတာ့ သယ္ပုိးတုန္းပါအေမ။

တခါ တခါ ယုိင္းယိမ္လာတဲ့စိတ္ေတြနဲ႔ နဖူးနဲ႔ဒူးတုိးေတာ့မယ္
ခပ္ေၾကာင္ေၾကာင္အိပ္မက္ေတြကုိ
အိပ္ေထာင္ထဲကေန အျမဲသတိေပးေပးေနတဲ့အတြက္
ေက်းဇူးပါ အေမ။

တာလစ္ရဲ႕ ငန္းနက္ေတြ ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ျမဴးေနၿပီဆုိေပမဲ့ . . .
ေနာင္လာမယ့္တစ္ေန႔
ဧရာ၀တီကုိေတာ့ သူရဲ႕ငန္းနက္တစ္ေကာင္မျဖစ္ေစခ်င္ဘူး ။

ဘာပဲေျပာေျပာ …….
ေသြးစည္းဖုိ႔လုိၿပီး ေသြးစီးေနရတဲ့ေျမမွာ
မေန႔က ျမဴတိမ္ကင္းစင္ၿပီး လသာသာေအာက္မွာ
တာလစ္ရဲ႕ ငန္းနက္ေတြ ပ်ံျမဴးေနၾကသတဲ့ အေမ။

ပဥၥမေျမာက္မ်ဳိးဆက္
၂၀၁၁ခုႏွစ္၊ ၾသဂုတ္လ (၂၀)ရက္။

Friday, July 29, 2011

ေသေသာ္မွတည့္ ေၾသာ္ ေကာင္း၏ - It's Better to Die than to Live

ေသေသာ္မွတည့္ ေၾသာ္ ေကာင္း၏ …

သိဃၤတန္ေဆာင္၊ ဘုန္းေတာ္ေမွာင္၍၊

ကုန္းေဘာင္ေနမီး၊ မထိန္ညီးက၊

တိုင္းၾကီးျပည္ၾကီး၊ အခ်ည္းႏွီးလွ်င္ (တည့္)၊

ထီးသုဥ္း နန္းသုဥ္း၊ ၿမိဳ႕သုဥ္းသုည၊

သုဥ္းသံုးဝျဖင့္၊ သုဥ္းရျပန္လစ္ (သုညရလစ္)၊

ေသေသာ္မွတည့္ ေၾသာ္ ေကာင္း၏ ... ။

သုညေခတ္ဝယ္၊ ျဖစ္လာရေလ၊

ဒို႔တေတြသည္ ..

ေသေသာ္မွတည့္ ေၾသာ္ ေကာင္း၏ ... ။

~ ဆီးဘန္နီ (ဆီးပန္းနီ) ဆရာေတာ္ ~

အာဇာနည္ စာဆုိအေက်ာ္ ဆီးဘန္နီ (ဆီးပန္းနီ) ဆရာေတာ္ ၏ ပါေတာ္မူတမ္းခ်င္း။

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It's Better to Die than to Live

When magnificent influence and

Majestic authority

Of the Konbaung Dynasty diminished,

The country was thus in peril.

Ruler deported.

Authority departed.

Sovereignty deceased!

In the Age of Chaos & Anarchy,

So-called in the Zeor Era

It's better to die with honour

Than to live with shame.

Si Ban Ni Sayardaw

(A poem on deportation of the King Thibaw, who was the Last King of Konbaung Dynasty in Burma)

Trans: Max | 30 July 2011

source:

http://harrylwin.blogspot.com/2011/07/blog-post.html (for original poem in Burmese)

http://media.vam.ac.uk/media/thira/collection_images/2006AR/2006AR9165_jpg_l.jpg

http://www.schoyencollection.com/modern_files/ms2475.jpg

Thursday, July 28, 2011

THE KISS

DUR KUSS

I remember a gentle and warm kiss on my cheek. And eyes with a very loving look too. I believe I was enjoying the affectionate kiss on my cheek and I longed for more. Without a doubt, it was one of the grateful and memorable moments of my life. It was the first time I remembered my mom kissed me on my cheek. It was so pleasant and a wonderful experience. That’s how I learned about a kiss. A very affectionate kiss from a mother to her lovely son. Every time I think of it, I feel good and nice. It gives me energy and motivation. So sweet!

In fact, there are many types of kiss – cheek kiss, French kiss, kiss of peace, kiss of respect, platonic kiss, romantic kiss, etc. Wiki states that the word “a kiss” is a descendent of the old English word “cyssan" meaning “to kiss". Many literatures and scientific research on human’s kissing are readily available online. They all indicate only one thing in common – a kiss is an act of expression of affection and love of human beings. Did Adam kiss Eve in the Garden of Eden? Who teach Homo sapiens about kissing? An origin of human’s kissing remains unknown. Some scholars highlight that kissing is associated with the level of civilization. Does it really matter? No one cares and we kiss nevertheless to express affection and love to one another. Kissing is in fact beneficial to our health as it involves movement of the lower jaw (the sole movable bone in the head) and contraction of 34 muscles in the face, neck and head -- principally the orbicularis orbis, which surrounds the mouth and allows the lips to pucker. There are top ten health benefits from kissing. Another research indicates that 10% of human population does not know well about kissing. May be they are also in need of expressing their loves to others too.

Is a kiss considered a sin? If so, love wouldn’t be preached to us in the first place. A kiss is an act of love and a sign of affection. No doubt, kiss is not a sin in any way. Viktor Frankl said, love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. To live and survive, love is essential. And love and kiss is inseparable. Kiss is thus also necessary for all human being. It could be a kiss from a mother as well as from loved ones. Life is tough and a long journey! With love and sweet kisses along the way, I believe, life becomes a pleasant journey.

Max

26 July 2011

References:

A Kiss is more than just a kiss - http://articles.latimes.com/2008/feb/04/health/he-esoterica4

Health benefits of kissing - http://www.bestkisses.com/kisses-for-health.html

Affairs of the kiss: Why we kiss - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=affairs-of-the-lips-why-we-kiss&page=4

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss

Picture: http://www.weddingcometrue.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/lip-kissing.jpg

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Irrawaddy: the sole reason for existence of Myanmar

Though I wasn’t born in the caveman era, I can say for sure that today’s Myanmar (Burma) exist because of Irrawaddy. It’s just a simple but plausible guess. In those old days, cavemen look only for very basic things: food, shelter, water. Irrawaddy attracts many cavemen’s along the way to gradually start our civilization. As early as back in the 6^th Century, Irrawaddy has been serving uncountable ancestors of Myanmar in many ways. If Irrawaddy were a person, she actually gives breastfeeding our ancestors and all of us. Rice we have as a staple food is usually coming from the Irrawaddy’s delta aka the rice bowl of Myanmar. Without making any complaint, she carries us on her back transport from lower to upper parts of the country. In short, Irrawaddy helps Myanmar to grow and glow for centuries. She is indeed our mother and Myanmar lifelong guardian angel. She is so many things for so many people we owes her so very much in so many lives. Now she is being threatened and in danger. Some wants to take her away from you forever.

Today, millions of people talk about capricious climate changes in every corner of the world. Most of these changes are resulted from, I believe, though I can’t quote statistically here, from many reckless actions by imprudent and irresponsible states’ actors i.e. governments. Many of their actions tamper with nature and as a result millions of people suffer from the consequences arose.

Most of the environmental problems we are facing today would have been avoided if many of states’ actors in old days take time to think long-term consequences prior to carrying out certain policies and particular actions which may have negative impact on nature and ecology. Instead, in the race of development, nations take actions and formulate polices solely based on economic interest rather than the interests of the public or mother-nature.

“The Great Chinese Famine” aka “three bitter years” during Mao era in China in which both draught/bad weather & bad policies claimed more than 20 millions of people can be seen as an example of state’s actions based on economic interest. Not only China, but also US which now have spending great deal of tax payers’ money on fixing the problems created by the dams they have built in an half-century. With very little understanding of dams and their impacts on river, fifty years ago, the United States rushed into a water development program.

China, one of the fastest growing economies in the world, takes seriously of its environmental issues at home. Many environmental related policies are laid down and formulated to limit various actions which have negative impacts to environment. For instance, logging is widely banned in China. However, China is a growing giant which craves for natural resources including energy. Since it doesn’t want to hurt itself, based solely on economic interest, it engages with neighboring nations who are willing to fulfill its need. Social responsibility of Chinese Government towards citizenries from neighboring countries is very obvious to notice. Chinese Government is notoriously famous that it will engage in any arbitrary actions towards people in other nations as long as its national interests are served.

China knows well about dams and its negative impact on rivers. Recently, Chinese government admitted and acknowledged the problems of Three Gorges Dam – the world’s largest hydropower plant in China. Since, it doesn’t want to hurt itself more, its energy resources for nation’s growth are outsourced. Many teak forests from Myanmar have been disappeared during the short period of time. So are jades and rubies.

With agreement of Myanmar government, a Chinese company whose is backed up by the Chinese government is building the largest hydroelectricity project with seven large Dams in the area where two rivers meet making Irrawaddy to flow downstream. The electricity from this project is mainly for the use in China. The size of the project is as big as New York City. I have no idea how these so-called patriotic and nationalistic Generals make this kind of agreement at the expense of Irrawaddy River. We owe her so much. In the end, we just sell her out. It has invaluable historical and cultural values to Myanmar civilization. With every patriotic blood cell in my vein, I urge all Myanmar people to join hand in hand to help and protect Irrawaddy from being harmed. She is the sole reason we exist as Myanmar today. Save Irrawaddy, please.