Some good poems

Invite you with respect!

``When a woman went out of her house and tried to hang the clothes under sunshine, she saw that three old men were sitting on a bench in front of her house. So, she invited three old men into her house with respect, "Aww... A Ba Twe(Uncles who are older than parents.. called with respect), are you travellers? You must be tired traveling! Please you are welcome to come in to my house, have some tea and tea leaves salad!
Then, one of the old men said, "Thanks, daughter! Is your husband in your house now?"
Woman : No, he is at his work now.
Old man : Oh. Then, we shouldn't enter into your house. You can invite us only after your husband comes back from his work. Now, you can do your chores and just ignore us.
So, the woman kept doing her house chores. When her husband came back from his work, she told about inviting the old men to her husband. Then, her husband told her to invite the old men again into their house. So, the woman went out and invited the old men again and,...

Old man : Daughter, please understand us that all three of us can't come into your house with our secret reason. So, you can invite only one of us. I'll introduce our names to you. I'm "Ba Da Na"(Uncle Wealth). This uncle is "Ba Aung Lan"(Uncle Success) and another one is "Ba Myittar"(Uncle Love). Tell your husband our names and let him decide who he wants to invite the most among three of us!

The woman retell the event to her husband again and,...
Husband : Let's invite Uncle Wealth so that as soon as he enters into our house, the whole family will be wealthy.
Woman : No. Let's invite Uncle Success so that we will have successes.
A girl who was listening at the corner of the room who is the daughter-in-law of them suggested them,...
Girl : Why don't we invite Uncle Love so that when he comes into our house, our family will be filled with full of Love and happiness.
Husband : This idea is great! Let's decide to invite Uncle Love.
The woman went out and said,...
Woman : Among three of you, who is Uncle Love? Our family invites Uncle Love, so please come into our house.
Then, Uncle Love stood up and also the other two old men prepared to come along with Uncle Love. So, the woman was surprised and asked,...
Woman : Oh, you said that only one of you could enter into my house. So, we decided to invite only Uncle Love. Now, you all will come into my house? Can I know the reason?
Old man : You're right, daughter! If you had chosen and invited one from the two who are Uncle Wealth or Uncle Success, only one of us would have come into your house. But, now you chose Uncle Love. Our secret reason is to test your family's first priority among Wealth, Success and Love. Since you chose Uncle Love, all of us can enter into your house now. Your choice was correct! Daughter! Remember this along your life! As long as you can place your Love upon everyone, Wealth and Success will follow definitely into your life. So, always try to treat everyone with your full of Love whether they are good or not upon you. You will get advantage from it.


[from the book "Peaceful Life, clear and fresh Mind" by Atta Kyaw]

Three Worlds

There are three different worlds In this world...
1) The world that has only things(eg. trees, rivers, sky, etc.....){"Aw Kar Ta Law Ka"}
2) The world that has only humans or animals[all alive creatures]{"Tat Ta Law Ka"}
3) The world that has only CHANGING....{"Tin Khar Ya Law Ka"}
Try to understand the third world (Everything is CHANGING)......

How to watch Movies?

In order to get benefit from watching movies, you should take care upon these three facts...
1) What a character says...
2) What he/she does... 
3) What others(audience) judge about them...

[from Nineth grade English textbook]

Dhamma Life Cycle

`` The circle shows how lives keep connecting each other by the 12 consecutive facts and the entrance to "Nivarna" (Termination of Mind and Body or Life Cycle)

Handouts from the Meditation Retreat

What makes you like me?

`` Once upon a time, there was a pretty woman in a village and also a man who loves her very much. He always told her how much he loves her and the woman never accepted his love. After years, she went to the place like jungle that exists "Bake Ku Ni"(similar as nun) monestery and became a "Bake Ku Ni." She practiced meditation according to Buddha way and finally, she enlighened. One day, she met with the man accidently and the man told her the same thing that he used to tell. Since she was an enlighten person, she didn't want him to get sins anymore. So,

She : Do you love me?
He : I love you more than my life.
She : What do love on me? What make you love me?
He : Your eyes are very beautiful. Those are like deer's eyes. I love your cute eyes and those make me love you very much.
She : Since my eyes are very pretty, do you want to own my eyes?
He : Yes, I do.
She : Ok. I can give them to you right away!
He : I'm the happiest person in the world now!
Then, she took her eyes out with her fingers right away in front of the man and gave those bloody eyes in her palms to the man. When the man saw the entire event that she took out her eyes immediately and gave them to him with blood, he was extremely shocked and scared with those bloody eyes that he used to tell as very cute eyes.
She : Take them! I can generously give them to you since you want to own them. Tell me are they beautiful? Because I have no more vision to be able to see anything.
He : No, No, they are not. Those are scary. Don't give them to me, please!
He was so shocked and ran away from her. Anyway, she lost her vision to make the man understand even though he thought her eyes are so cute, those are not really when being taken out separately from the body.
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I was remembering this story when my classmates were discussing with the teacher about different physical attractions that they tend to be attracted in my Psychology class. For example, double-teeth or sharp teeth make that particular person looks cute when they smile Or a girl with long hair, etc...
I am thinking that if that double-teeth or sharp teeth is broken or being removed because of toothache or something, can that person still be cute or attractive?
If the girl cuts her long hair till bald,............?
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** It will be difficult to follow a concept if you have never heard before or it's beyond your intelligence or knowledge. There are endless things in the universe that you don't know or never can imagine. Try to figure out what are just illusions or what the truth is!!!
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** "Bake Ku Ne" is kinda same as "nun." The big difference is that a nun doesn't have much rules (Wi Ne) to follow except keeping sabbath. But, "Bake Ku Ne" have to follow rules (Wi Ne) almost same as monks do. "Bake Ku Ne" doesn't exist these days anymore except nun.
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[The story by Dr. Min Tin Mon in a 10-day short course of "A Bi Dhamma"(described in "Three Kinds of Dhamma") in 1998]

Who is the coolest?

There are three men staying in a hut.
First man : I feel headache! I don't know why.
After one year,
Second man : It must have been because of low blood pressure. Take care!
After another year,
Third man : If you two are talkative and making noisy like this, I will have to move out to somewhere.
:D

[Shared from my friend]

Three Kinds of Dhamma

There are three kinds of Dhamma that Buddha preached...
1) Wi Ne (Rules that monks should follow determined by Buddha) [Buddhism]
2) Tot Tan (Buddha's Life Stories along sacrifying life cycles) [Buddhism]
3) A Bi Dhamma ("A Bi" means "better." You may ask better than what? This kind of Dhamma is better than the other two kinds of Dhamma, Wi Ne and Tot Tan.) 
[Nothing related to Buddhism or any religion.]

Surprise!

From Alice in Wonderland...
Alice : I am so glad to see you because I had never seen a "Unicorn" in the real world except in Legend stories!
Unicorn : Oh, same here. I'm very happy to see you, too because I had never seen a "Kid" outside except in Legend stories!

When I become old...........

** When I become old, I'm not the one who is not like before. Understand me and treat me in patience!

** When I accidently pour rice and curry on the clothes with weak hands~~When I forget to tie my shoes, don't disgust me. Please remember the things that I taught you when you were young!

** When I retell the Same things that I told several times already, don't cut the conversation and listen with patience. Please remember that I used to tell DIFFERENT thousand stories everynight to make you sleep!

** Don't blame on me when I need your help to give me a bath because I can't move properly! Please imagine the scene that I was giving bath you everyday without blaming on you!

** Don't tease or shout on me when I don't know how to use modern electronic devices! Please remember that I always answered patiently all your "WHY" questions when you were a child!

** Please let me hold your strong hands to support my old and weak body move and walk! Please remember that I practiced you to walk step by step patiently!

** When I even forget the things that I'm telling and change different topics to and fro randomly, give me time to think about my current topic to keep on! Topics are not important for me! I'm just satisfied if you listen to me by my side!

** Day after day, don't feel upset looking at my wrinkles on my skin! Just understand me and courage me! As I pointed out the ways for your life successes when you were young, please accompany me now in my last times before I die! I will accept your love and coolness with smiles. In those smiles, you will clearly see My Endless Love!!!.................

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*** If your parents tell you that they totally hate you and no love left for you seriously, their love is still much more than ~ when someone tells you that they love you the same as their life!!!

*** In other words~ your parents' hate is much better than someone's great love to you!

*** I hope you all can appreciate your parents' Love upon you very well and realize how enormous their Love is!!!

Translated from a Dhamma handout

The Difference! :D

Which courses are you interested in? :P

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Disgusting Body!!! And Where is "I" ?

If you throw terribly smelly trash in front of others' houses, they will be very irritated or angry with those but they still can stand with it.
Worse>>If you throw a dead human body in front of others' houses, they will not be able to stand with that at all. They will be shocked and gone crazy.
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How terrible our bodies are! Even more disgusting than Trash!
Bodies are decaying every single sec but luckily, those seem fresh and even beautiful because we can cover their destroy in time by cleaning the whole day.
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Tell me where is "I" , where is "You" , where are "He" and "She."
Since there is no "You" , how come you still can be proud of yourself.
There is Nothing! Except two things: "Mind and Body."

eg: If you own something, you can do whatever you want it to be. If you think you own your body because it's your body, you'll be wrong.
Think a tiny example when you get pain from your finger that you just accidently cut by knife, can you give command "it" not to give you pain or can you beg "it" pardon not to give you pain if you think you own your body? It remains painful on your finger however you are commanding or begging not to. Don't tell me that you can apply medicine on your finger to remain normal. If one of your electronic devices is broken, you can repair it. Body is like a machine, you can repair it but you can not avoid getting pain before you repair. You can not get your device normal by commanding or begging without repairing. You cannot get your finger well by commanding or begging without applying medicine, you will get painful anyway because you have another thing: "Mind." That's the only difference between device and body and also that's the thing that make you confused in thinking that I'm hurt, I'm painful. You add "I" like "it's my body, it's my house" just because of Mind.
*In fact, there is only Mind and Body. Nothing more! Please don't confuse or mess around with "I" or "You" or "He" or "She" related to a particular "Mind and Body" that you think those are yours!
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* You can call me anything you like: "Fool" * "Crazy" * "Friend".......
My name, "Khine" means nothing but just to avoid confusing with others in particular cases.
I don't have any addiction or proudness of my name.
The more you can get rid of addiction to anything related to yourself (eg, name, race, gender, country, etc.), the more peaceful you will absolutely be!


[By U Tin Shwe in a meditation center in 2004]

How fast a person can die?

Q** How fast a person can die? Within years, a month, a day, an hour, a min and a sec?
A** A person can die before his/her breathe-in air goes out OR his/her breathe-out air goes in!
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** Don't forget your death is just right at your back following you and waiting for its right time!
** Try to do or talk or think good things before you die!

*** Only three short statements to follow in brief!
1) Don't do bad things!
2) Do good things!
3) Keep your mind always clean!

The Brook!

For men may come,
And men may go,
But I go on Forever!
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People were born and died since the world started.
But I (the brook) remain flowing forever till the world ends!


[from Tenth grade English textbook]

A Blind Boy!

There is a blind boy who was blind since born. He doesn't know how a human being like, how Mother Nature like because he has never seen anything at all.
People are so pity upon him because of his blindness. They use to tell him how they pity of him. But the blind boy responses, "What does loss mean? If you have something before and you lose it one day, that's called "loss." If there is someone who has seen how a human being like, how Mother Nature like and they get blind, then they can't see those things anymore that they used to, that's called "loss." But for me, I have never seen those things since I was born, how come you can tell me that I lose something. In fact, I lose nothing! I remain the same as I was born!"


[from Nineth grade English textbook]

Let it Flow!!!

If you throw the trash into a dead water body like a swimming pool or a water body that doesn't flow anywhere, the trash will be rotten and smelt badly in one place. However, if you throw the trash into an alive water body like a stream, a river, a sea or even an ocean, it doesn't happen anything bad or smelly in one place, it will flow along the alive water body.

On the same idea, if you have something to be mad at someone and keep it for long time, your friendship with them will be worse and worse because it's not flowing, stuck in one place and become rotten. So, please remember to let your anger (same as the trash) go (same as flowing into the ocean, nothing can be seen anymore and nothing left in the particular place). :)
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** Throw the trash that I gave to you into the River near you and it will flow into the Sea and then into the Ocean~~so that nothing remain to be rotten and smelt terribly.
Please don't throw the trash into the dead water or I'll hate you. Be sure only into flowing water! :P

[Translated from a Japanese movie]

Please let me do an easy job!

I'll find someone who laughs with me when I'm happy and laughing. (I can easily find one.)
But, please find someone who cries with me when I'm so sad and crying. (I'm hopeless to find one.)

Friendship Nails

```Once upon a time, there was a boy who was very short-tempered. One day, his father gave him a bag of nails and said, "If you are angry once, go and hit one nail into the wood pole in front of the house." Even for the first day, he hit 37 nails into the pole. After he hit nails into the pole whenever he was mad for several times, he could gradually control his mind. Hitting nails is getting lesser on the pole day after day. Then, the boy realized that it's even easier to keep his anger than hitting the nails into the pole. At last, a very nice day that he weren't angry at all reaches to him. Then, he ran and gave that good news to his father, "Dad, I could control my mind!"

Again, his father asked him another to do, "As soon as you could control your mind one whole day, go and take the nails that you hit into the pole out before you go to sleep." Over a perid of time, he could tell his father, "Dad, I could retake all the nails that I hit. Nothing left on the pole!"

Then, his father grabbed his son's hand and took him to the pole, and said, "It's great, my son! But look at the pole carefully! Holes remain on the pole. This pole is not like before. It was so smooth before and now it's so rough with holes. See? In the same way, when you told something really bad to others, there would be scars in their hearts. After you scratched someone with knife and however you begged their pardon for several times, wound and scars will definitely remain. So, please remember that when you hit someone with your insult words, scars on their heart will surely remain just like scratching with knife. In fact, friends are precious jewelleries. They can make us laugh with joy, help to reach our goals, even can listen when we need to tell something sad and share our joy and sadness. Friends are the ones who always open their hearts and welcome to us."
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^_^ You are my friend. I'm very proud of being your friend! One of my friends sent this to me and now I give it back to you. @_@ Let me tell you one thing````

** If there are holes remaining on the pole in front of your house because of Me, I beg your pardon not to be mad at me anymore!!!


[Translated from the book "Peaceful Life, clear and fresh Mind" by Atta Kyaw]

It's not much bad as you think!

``Assume the world population is only 100!
- There are 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 Westerns and 8 Africans.
- 52 Women and 48 Men, 30 Whites and 70 Blacks, Asians, Browns and Yellows.
- 30 Christans and 70 the rest.
- 6 people who owns 59% of the whole world's properties and all 6 people are Americans.
- 80 people don't own a house and stay where it's suitable for them.
- 70 people can't read, 50 lack of nutrition and starve. 1 is going to die and another is going to give birth.
- Only one person can have University education and only one person can own a Computer.
Above are the relevant percentages of the world.

% If you can wake up this morning with good health, you have better luck than million people on the world who are going to die within this week.
% If you have never suffered war troubles, never stayed in jail, and never suffered starvation, you are a lucky person who doesn't be counted among 500 million people in the world who have suffered above troubles.
% If you can go to your religious temples, pagodas peacefully and you don't need to worry to be killed for going those places, you are much luckier than 3 billion people who have to worry with that.
% If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes to wear on your body, and can stay under a roof and a bed, you can assume yourself that you are richer than 75% of the world population.
% If you have some money in a bank or some money in your pocket and also have some cash in your house, you can be sure that you are OK standard in the 8% of the world.
% Moreover, if you have both Mom and Dad, and also your parents still stay together, you are even involved among very rare people around the world.
% Finally, if you can read this blog, you are much luckier than 2 billion people who can't read and write anything.

** If you consider this way, you should realize since now that your life is not much terrible as you think.
*** I hope you all are enjoyed..........


[Translated from the book "Peaceful Life, clear and fresh Mind" by Atta Kyaw]

The End

Even though you think something (good or bad) will keep going in the future repeatedly, it will be going to END in a very near future as soon as you realized or figured it out as you like or dislike. Everything is changing!!! There is no "FOREVER"!!!

Khine

Meaning of Marriage for a woman

Getting uninterest or neglect from all men and hate from one man.

Difference of Moonlight and Sunshine

Love someone under Moonlight!
&
Marry someone under Sunshine!


[www.planet.com.mm]

How you see?

``One day, a rich man takes his son to a rural place and shows farm works. His purpose is to let his son realize how rural life is and how they survive upon their poverty. After they arrive home,

Father : How is it my son? How do you see the rural place that we just visited?
Son : It's bad!
Father : So, you know now how poor people have to survive their life clearly!
Son : Yes, Dad.
Father : So, what you remember and realize? Tell me back.
Son : In our house, we can keep only one dog. They even have four dogs. We have only a small swimming pool just enough to swim. They have a very long wide stream so that they can swim as wish as they want. In our garden, we have to buy and set lanterns from foreign countries with high prices. For them, there are countless sparkling stars on the sky. I thought our lawn and grass are so wide, but their lawn is endless till reach the sky. Oh, I envy their life!

After the father heard his son's retelling what he saw, he was numbed and didn't have anything to say. But his son continues, "I appreciate you, Dad because you showed me how our life is poor and bad."
The End

** Isn't it right that everything good or bad just depends on how you look at them?
** As long as you see everything good (in other words) as long as you are optimistic upon everything, you feel satisfied or content in everything and everything around you sounds perfect for you!


[Translated from the book "Peaceful Life, clear and fresh Mind" by Atta Kyaw]