During this month, we, Myanmar Buddhist Association have already made many religious activities and donation well. We can successfully celebrate those activities mainly thanks to your co-ordination and contribution.
Now, again, you are warmly invited to join with us for the followingprograms. 1.) Program Name : A-Nay-Ga-Zar-Tin-Pwe for the Buddha Date: : Saturday 22 August, 2009 Time: : 9am Venue: :The Buddhist Prayer Room - SU 109 (Next to SU office) No. of Monks : 3 Myanmar monks 2.) Program Name : Pay Homage Program to 10 Benefactors in life(Khin-Bon-Gyi sae parr pu-zaw-pwe) Date: : Saturday 22 August, 2009 Time: : 8pm Venue: :The Buddhist Prayer Room - SU 109 (Next to SU office) For the No.1 Program, we are going to donate rice and curry, 9 kinds offruits, 9 kinds of flowers to the Buddha, and rice and curry (Alms food) and money to 3 Myanmar monks (anyone we would like to donate robes are alsoavaillable and the robe price is 560Bahts).
For the evening program, our AIT alumini Ma Than Than Sein have already donated Khin-Bon-Gyi Sae Parr Books to all.
So, anyone, who would like to donate money and other things for the above programs, please kindly contact me via this email or my room phone or mobilephone.
Cherry room phone:7344 mobile: 0824930510
Here is our heartfelt thanks to all of our Myanmar family memebers for yourkind collaboration with the AIT Myanmar Buddhist Association.Pls, let's do together good deeds again.
ဆရာမႀကီး Prof: Dr.Khin Ni Ni Thein ဆြမ္းကပ္လွဴ ေနတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဆရာေတာ္ႏွစ္ပါးဆြမ္းဘုဥ္းေပးေနတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
တရားေတာ္ ခ်ီးျမွင့္ ေပးေတာ္မူပါတယ္။
နဝကမၼ လွဴဒါန္းပါတယ္ဘုရား။
Dear Ama,
Here I attached the photos of today activities. I am not used to write Myanmar font and so, would you mind if you send this post by your name and your news? As you are so much familiar with the AIT cooking method(one student, one curry or rice pot if they could), I do know that you could reveal it well. We have been in great happiness to do the great donation with the unity of the Myanmar Buddhist Association.
Thank you for your kind remembrance to us!
with the best regards, Cherry Myo Lwin
ဗုဒၶဘာသာအသင္းဥကၠ႒ မခ်ယ္ရီမ်ဳိးလြင္ (Energy) ေပးပုိ႔လုိက္တဲ့ စာေလးမွာပါတဲ့ AIT cooking Method ကုိဖတ္ရင္း Assignment Institute of Technology လုိ႔ နာမည္ေျပာင္ေပးထားတဲ့ AIT ေက်ာင္းသားဘဝကုိ အလြမ္းေျပႏုိင္ၾကပါေစ။ သာဓု-သာဓု-သာဓု
On the behalf of the AIT Myanmar Buddhist Association, I would like to share information with all.
Just now I got the contact from our AIT alumni that tomorrow, 10th, August, Sayadaw Ya-Wai-Nwe(Innma) will go to one of the Pagodas in Bangkok and on the way, Sayadaw will arrive AIT at lunch time. So, we, Myanmar, AIT Myanmar Buddhist will plan to donate rice and curry (ALMS FOOD) and other requisites to two monks.
Anyone who would like to meet Sayadaw Ya-Wai-New (Innma) in the AIT Buddhist Prayer Room could come around 10:30am,10th Monday.
Dear Dhamma Brothers and Sisters in Bangkok, Thailand
Sitagu Sayadaw, Dr. Ashin Nyanissara, will be in transiting in Bangkok on the way of his holy mission of Buddhism propaganda. There will be a Buddhism Dhamma talk and teaching by Sayataw on the following Sunday evening.
The schedule is as follow:
Date: 16 Aug 2009 Time:16:00 - 18:00 Venue: Hall of Fame : C Block ABAC Assumption University
Endorphin(A neurochemical occurring naturally in the brain and having analgesic properties) လုိ႔ေခၚပါတယ္။ နာက်င္မႈ ကုိသက္သာေစတဲ့ အတြက္ Morphine လုိအာနိသင္ရွိပါတယ္-(Endogenous+ Morphine) ကုိေပါင္းထားတဲ့စကားလုံးေလးေပါ့ကေလးေရ-တရားအားထုတ္ၿပီး အနာေရာဂါေတြဘာေတြသက္သာတာလည္းသည္သေဘာတရားပါပဲကေလးတုိ႔ေရ..-
သည္ကဗ်ာေလးကုိဖတ္ၿပီးေမေမ တုိ႔သည္ဗုဒၶဘာသာ၀င္ျမန္မာမ်ား အျဖစ္ေမြးဖြားလာျခင္းကုိ အလြန္ အရေတာ္ေပစြလုိ႔ ေက်နပ္တန္ဘုိးထားမိပါတယ္ ။ ေမေမတုိ႔လည္း သည္လုိသာမဟုတ္ခဲ့ရင္ Mickey-Monkey လုိလည္းျဖစ္ႏုိင္တယ္ … Monkey-Mickey ျဖစ္ခဲ့ရင္ေတာင္ အင္မတန္အဘုိးထုိက္ရတနာ-သာသနာအဆုံးအမေတြကုိ Harley Street (A street in central London where the consulting rooms of many physicians and surgeons are located) သြားစရာမလုိေတာ့ဘူးရယ္လုိ႔တန္ဘုိးျဖတ္ေနမိမွာလား မေျပာတတ္ပါဘူးကေလးတုိ႔ေရ..။
MONKEY MICKEY
*Gus Hales*
Deep in the jungle of Asia
Past the wide open Indian plain
There lives a teenage monkey and Mickey is his name.
Now Mickey has this monkey mind that forever jumps about
It’s often full of fear and dread. and Its always full of doubts
If Mickey’s given the simple task
He’ll only start to panic
He’ll rant and rave an scream and shout
He really is quite manic
He bangs his chest and stamps his feet
And throws coconuts on the floor
But the really is a sad old sight
When he shouts, I can’ t take it any more
You see Mickey has this type of mind
That forever seeks a thrill
He’ll parachute and bungee jump
His mind is never still
One minute he’s as high as a kite
The next he’s in the dumps
And he plays that awful music
The kind that
Thumps! and thumps! And thumps
He plays new wave music and acid house
And punk and northern soul
Heavy metal and rhythm and blues
And rap and rock and roll
No wonder Mickey’s all stressed out
His mind can never rest
It makes him hyperactive
He really is a pest
But I feel sorry for poor old Mickey
He hasn’t got a hope
The only way he gets through the day
Is by taking drugs and smoking dope.
So that’s Mickey’s life story
And it really is a shame
But can anybody help him
Will he ever smile again
Well a very compassionate Buddha
Said to Mickey, “ You need to live a lot calmer
You don’t need Prozac or Valium pills
You need a massive dose of Dhamma
But the first thing you must try and do
Is at least just level out
Do some walking meditation
And you’ll end your fear and doubt
Now just take twenty paces
Along a walking track
Then turn around and take a deep breath
Then twenty paces back’
So Mickey started walking
He’d walk both day and night
He would walk to try and find some peace
And end his mental plight
But it wasn’t easy for Mickey
It was his hardest ever decision
But he’s given up dope, and given up booze
And he’s given up television
He’s given up loud music
No more pop and rock and punk
Now he listens to the sweetest tones
Of a chanting Buddhist monk
Then one day the penny dropped
Now Mickey really understood
That he created all his suffering
Now he wants to do some good
For Mickey’s now a very different Monkey
Who loves swinging through the trees
He’s always quite contented
He really is at ease
He’ll help anyone who’s injured
And anyone who’s ill
He’s given up bungee jumping
Now helping is his thrill
But if Mickey can be remembered
For just one redeeming feature
It’s that he truly showed compassion
To every living creature
So if you want to change
Then there is no looking back
Just follow the Buddha’s foot steps
And find a walking track
And for anyone out there
Of a nervous disposition
You don’t need expensive councilors
Or some Harley street physician
Just take your example from Mickey
And you will live a lot calmer
Then throw away your potions and pills
AND TAKE A MASSIVE DOSE OF DHAMMA
Gus Hales and his poems have become something of a hit at the summer camps. Over the years, Gus has shared with the camp some of his personal journey from being a paratrooper in the Falklands war.At last year’s Camp he showed a film of him going back to Falklands, describing his story, along with other veterans who have suffered post-traumatic stress disorder.The year before, Gus was given a Buddha image blessed by the Sangha and family campers and took it back to Mount Longdon where ho lost many of his friends who where the same age as his daughter(17) and many of the young people on the camp.