Inspirational Buddha Quotes

Greatest knowledge is God

“Greatest knowledge is God” (ပညာအရွိဆံုးပုဂၢိဳလ္သည္ ဘုရား ျဖစ္သည္)။ ဤစာေၾကာင္းကို The Greatest ဟူေသာ post တြက္ က်ေနာ္ တစ္ႀကိမ္ေဖာ္ျပခဲ႔ဖူးသည္။ မွန္သည္။ ကၽြႏု္ပ္တို႔ ေထရဝါရ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ ျမန္မာလူမ်ိဳးမ်ားအတြက္ အျမတ္ဆံုးေသာ၊ ပညာအရွိဆံုးေသာ၊ မည္သူမွ် တုႏိႈင္း၍ မရနိုင္ေသာ ပုဂၢိဳလ္မွာ ဘုရားရွင္ သာ ျဖစ္ေပသည္။

ေထရဝါရ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ တြင္ အျခား ဘာသာဝင္မ်ား၏ ေထာက္ျပမႈကို ခံရေလာက္ေအာင္ အခ်ိဳ႕အခ်ိဳ႕ ေသာ ေလာကနိယာမႏွင္႔ ဆန္႔က်င္ေနသာ အခ်က္မ်ား၊ အလြန္အက်ဴးဖြဲ႔ဆိုထားသည္မ်ား အမ်ားအျပားရွိသည္။ သံဃာေတာ္ႀကီးမ်ား အခ်င္းခ်င္းပင္လွ်င္ သေဘာထာမ်ား ကြဲလြဲေလာက္ေအာင္ အယူအဆမ်ားစြာ ရွိေနသည္ကို စာဖတ္သူတို႔အေနျဖင္႔လည္း သတိထားမိၿပီး ျဖစ္ပါလိမ္႔မယ္။ က်ေနာ္ကိုယ္တိုင္က သာသနဝန္ထမ္း မဟုတ္သလို၊ သံဃာလည္းမဟုတ္သည္႔အတြက္ ထိုပုဂၢိဳလ္မ်ားကဲ႔သို႔ အတြင္းက်က် မသိပါ။ မေဝဖန္လိုပါ။ အားလံုးကိုလည္း ျပည္႔ျပည္႔ဝဝ လက္ခံထားျခင္းမရွိပါ။ အမွန္တကယ္ က်ေနာ္ ယံုၾကည္သက္ဝင္ ၾကည္ညိဳသည္မွာ ဗုဒၶဘုရား ရွင္သာ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

ဗုဒၶဘုရားရွင္အေနျဖင္႔ မည္သို႔မည္ပံု အစြမ္းရွိခဲ႔သည္၊ အစြမ္းျပခဲ႔သည္၊ မည္သည္႔ ဘဝ မ်ားတြင္ မည္သို႔ မည္ပံု မေကာင္းမႈေတြ လုပ္ခဲ႔သျဖင္႔ ဘဝေပါင္းမည္မွ် မည္သို႔ေပးဆပ္ခဲ႔ရသည္တို႔ကို ဗုဒၶဘာသာဝင္အားလံုး ဖတ္ဖူးၾကမည္ျဖစ္သည္။ ျဖစ္နုိင္လား၊ မျဖစ္နုိင္လား၊ ယံုၾကည္လား မယံုၾကည္လား ဆိုသည္မွာ မိမိ ဆႏၵသေဘာအတိုင္းသာ ျဖစ္သည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ ေသခ်ာတာ တစ္ခုမွာ ဗုဒၶသည္ သာမန္ ပုဂၢိဳလ္တစ္ဦး မဟုတ္ပါ။ ယခု ဤ post ကို ဖတ္ေနေသာ စာဖတ္သူသည္ မည္သည္႔ ဘာသာဝင္မဆို ျဖစ္နုိင္ပါသည္။ ဗုဒၶအေၾကာင္းကို ဗုဒၶဘာသာဝင္ တစ္ဦး (သို႔) သံဃာ တစ္ပါးကို ေမးျမန္းပါက မူလ ထက္ ပိုသာေသာ စကားလံုးမ်ားကို ရရွိနုိင္သည္။ “လူအေၾကာင္း ေပါင္းၾကည္႔မွ သိ” ဟူေသာ စကားကဲ႔သို႔ပင္ ပညာရည္ မနိမ္႔သူတစ္ေယာက္သည္ အျခား တစ္စံုတစ္ေယာက္အေၾကာင္း သိလိုပါက ထိုသူႏွင္႔ စကားေျပာၾကည္႔၊ ထိုသူေျပာေသာ စကားကို နားေထာင္ၾကည္႔ယံုျဖင္႔ ထုိပုဂၢိဳလ္အေၾကာင္း အျပည္႔အဝ သိၾကသည္။ ယခုေလာေလာဆည္ ဗုဒၶႏွင္႔ စကားေျပာဆို၍ မရနုိင္ေသာ္လည္း ဗုဒၶျမြတ္ၾကားခဲ႔ေသာ စကားမ်ားကို ေအာက္တြင္ ဖတ္ရႈနုိင္ပါသည္။ ဖတ္ၿပီးပါက စာဖတ္သူ၏ စိတ္ထဲတြင္ တစ္ခု (သို႔) တစ္ခုထက္ပိုေသာ အရာအခ်ိဳ႕ က်န္ခဲ႔မည္လိမ္႔မည္ဟု ယံုၾကည္ပါသည္။ အျခား ပံုျပင္မ်ားကို လက္မခံဘူး ဆိုရင္ေတာင္ အထက္တြင္ က်ေနာ္ေဖာ္ျပခဲ႔ေသာ ပညာအရွိဆံုးပုဂၢိဳလ္သည္ ဘုရား ျဖစ္သည္ ဟူေသာစကား ကို စာဖတ္သူ အေနျဖင္႔ အျပည္႔အဝ လက္ခံနုိင္ပါလိမ္႔မည္။

Words of the buddha

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
A jug fills drop by drop.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.
Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
He is able who thinks he is able.
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

1 comments

Nanda says 13 March 2010 at 21:47

How many journal and conference papers do you need to graduate?
Do you also have to join international conferences?
Here, generally, we need two peer reviewed journal papers, which is very tough to get acceptance. The more the better. But for conference publications, it's not compulsory. Of course, it's better to have as many conference papers as well, to include a long list in your resume when you apply for a researcher post. My junior friend who did PhD in Russia said he didn't need to have publications in international journals.