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]