Let's Take a Massive Dose of Dhamma

ေမေမခ်စ္ေသာသားသားနဲ႔မီးမီးေရ..

အခုခ်ိန္ခါကာလ သမယကေတာ့ေမေမတုိ႔ အတြက္ မဂၤလာ အေပါင္းနဲ႔ျပည့္စုံေနပါတယ္လုိ႔ေျပာခ်င္ပါတယ္။ မီးမီးကလည္း တရားစခန္း သုံးရက္၀င္မယ္လုပ္ၿပီးမွ (၇)ရက္သီလရွင္ ၀တ္ျဖစ္သြားတာ မီးမီး ၆ဘာသာဂုဏ္ထူးထြက္တာထက္ကုိေမေမ ေတာ္ေတာ္ ဝမ္းသာေနပါတယ္-ဂုဏ္ယူပါသည္။-မစႏၵာဝတီေပါ့ေနာ္---သည္ၾကားထဲသားသားကလည္း ၁၀-ရက္တရားစခန္း၀င္သြားတယ္ဆုိေတာ့ ေမေမ့မွာ ေရၾကည္ခ်မ္းျမ တစ္ေပါက္က်သုိ႔ ဆုိတာလုိ ေအးျမမႈေတြ လႊမ္းျခဳံလုိ႔သာေနပါေတာ့တယ္-သာဓုဆုိတာကေတာ့ ရင္ထဲမွာ ပဲ့တင္ထပ္ေနေတာ့တာေပါ့-ေက်းဇူးအထူးတင္ပါတယ္ကေလးတုိ႔ေရ---

သည္ထဲမွာ ေမေမ ကအည့ံဆုံးျဖစ္ေနပါတယ္ တရားစခန္းကုိ ၂-ညအိပ္ ၃-ရက္သာ၀င္ျဖစ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ေရာမျမဳိ႔ကေန ၂နာရီၾကာေအာင္သြားရတဲ့ေတာထဲမွာပါ..ေမေမအရင္သြားေနက် ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံ မွ ေတာရေဆာက္တည္တဲ့ ဆရာေတာ္အာဂ်န္ခ်ား ဥပနိႆယခံ ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္းေတြထဲက တစ္ေက်ာင္းအပါအ၀င္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ မနက္ေစာေစာ-၅နာရီ ထတရားထုိင္ ဆြမ္းစားေဆာင္မွာခ်က္ျပဳတ္ ဆြမ္းကပ္ ေဆးေၾကာသန္႔စင္ၾကမ္းေတြလည္းတုိက္ေပါ့။

ေက်ာင္းကုိမၾကာခင္ၾကြေရာက္လာေတာ့မဲ့ ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံက ဗုဒၶ ရုပ္ပြားေတာ္ ထားရွိ ပူေဇာ္ဘုိ႔ေျမက်င္းတူး တာေတြ အမ်ဳိးသမီးေယာဂီေဆာင္ေဆာက္လုပ္ ေနတာေတြ မွာ ေျမၾကီး၀င္ေပါက္ လုပ္အားေပးခဲ့တာ တစ္ေပ်ာ္တစ္ပါးပါပဲကေလးတုိ႔ေရ..။

ထုိင္းဘုန္းေတာ္ႀကီးေလးေတြက အင္ဂ်င္နီယာလုိပါပဲ ေက်ာင္းထဲက အေဆာက္အဦမွန္သမွ် ကုိယ္တုိင္ေဆာက္လုပ္ၾကတာပါ။ အဲသည္ေန႔မွာေတာ့ လုပ္အားေပးၾကတာ ေမေမ ကျမန္မာေပါ့ အီတလီ ေတြ ရယ္ သီရိလကၤာ ရယ္ ထုိင္းေတြရယ္-ေက်ာင္းထုိင္ဘုန္းဘုန္းက အဂၤလိပ္လူမ်ဳိးပါ။ လူမ်ဳိးေတြကြဲျပားေနေပမဲ့ ဗုဒ္ၶရဲ႔ေမတ္ၲာရိပ္ေအာက္မွာ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ေတြ လုပ္ေဆာင္မႈေတြတူညီစြာ ကုသုိလ္အတူျပဳခြင့္ရခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ေမေမကေတာ့ အေနာက္တိုင္းသားေတြရဲ႔ ဘာသာေရးကုိခ်ဥ္းကပ္ပုံေလးေတြ သူတုိ႔လက္ေတြ႔ဘ၀ ထဲကျပႆနာေတြကုိ ေျဖရွင္းၾကတာေတြကုိစိတ္၀င္စားေနမိပါတယ္---ဆရာေတာ္ ဦးေဇာတိက ရဲ႔တရားေတာ္ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားမွာလည္း ပါပါတယ္။ အခုလူေတြေတာ္ေတာ္ မ်ားမ်ား ခံစားေနရတာ မေပ်ာ္တဲ့စိတ္ ပါပဲကေလးတုိ႔ေရ--ေဆာက္တည္ရာမဲ့ ခုိကုိးရာမဲ့ စိတ္အတြက္ Prozac, Valium စိတ္ျငိမ္ေဆးမ်ား သုံးစြဲၾကပါတယ္-----

အဲသည္ေဆးေတြ က ေမေမတုိ႔တရားထုိင္ၿပီးခ်ိန္မွာထြက္လာတဲ့ အေအးဓါတ္မ်ဳိးနဲ႔တူတယ္လုိ႔ ဆရာေတာ္ဘုရားေဟာၾကားဘူးတယ္ကေလးတုိ႔ေရ..။ အမွန္မွာကေတာ့ တရားေယာဂီ ရဲ႔အေအးဓါတ္ ကေတာ့ ကိေလသာ ကင္းစင္ လုိ႔ထြက္ေပၚ လာတဲ့ သဘာ၀ေဟာ္မုန္းဓာတ္တစ္မ်ဳိးပါ--

Endorphin(A neurochemical occurring naturally in the brain and having analgesic properties) လုိ႔ေခၚပါတယ္။ နာက်င္မႈ ကုိသက္သာေစတဲ့ အတြက္ Morphine လုိအာနိသင္ရွိပါတယ္-(Endogenous+ Morphine) ကုိေပါင္းထားတဲ့စကားလုံးေလးေပါ့ကေလးေရ-တရားအားထုတ္ၿပီး အနာေရာဂါေတြဘာေတြသက္သာတာလည္းသည္သေဘာတရားပါပဲကေလးတုိ႔ေရ..-

အဲသည္ ေဆးနဲ႔တူေအာင္ဖန္တီးထားတဲ့မူးယစ္ေဆးေတြကုိေသာက္သုံးေတာ့စိတ္ထဲေပ်ာ္သလုိလုိျဖစ္ရတာေပါ့ေလ..အေပ်ာ္အတုေပါ့..အထီးက်န္တာေတြ စိတ္အလုိမျပည့္တာေတြ အတြက္ တည္မွီရာ ရွာမေတြ႔ၾကတာ သနားဘုိ႔ေကာင္းလွပါတယ္။ ဆရာေတာ္ဦးဝိဇယ စကားအရဆုိရင္ေတာ့စိတ္ေနစရာအိမ္မရွိလုိ႔ျဖစ္တာပါ။ဆရာေတာ္အရွင္ဆႏၵာဓိက ကရဲ႔သတိဆုိတဲ့ေနအိမ္ တရားေတာ္မွာလည္း သည္လုိပဲ ေဟာၾကားထားေတာ္မူပါတယ္။

အခုေမေမေဖာ္ျပထားတဲ့ကဗ်ာေလး ကေတာ့သည္လုိဘ၀ေတြကုိထင္ဟပ္ျပထားတာပါ။ဖတ္ၾကည့္ပါအုံး ေလ။ကဗ်ာေရးတဲ့သူကေတာ့ Gus Hales စစ္ျပန္တစ္ဦးပါ အဂၤလန္ မွာလည္း ေရာမ ကလုိမ်ဳိး အမရ၀တီ--ဆုိတဲ့ ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္းရွိပါတယ္..ဆရာေတာ္အာဂ်န္ခ်ား--ရဲ႔တပည့္ ဆရာေတာ္ အာဂ်န္သုေမေဓာ (အေမရိကန္လူမ်ဳိး)တည္ေထာင္ထားတာပါ..

၁၉၉၆ကတည္းက မိသားစုတရားစခန္း ေတြဖြင့္ မိသားစုလုိက္ ကေလးေတြပါေခၚ ၿပီးတရားအားထုတ္ၾကတာ- ေနာက္မွ အက်ယ္တ၀င့္ေရးပါအုံးမယ္။ အဲသည္စခန္းမွာ Gus Hales ကသူ႔ဘ၀အေတြ႔အႀကဳံကုိမွ်ေ၀ထားတဲ့ကဗ်ာေလးပါ..အေရးအသားေလးက ကာရန္ -Rhythm ရစ္သမ္ေလးနဲ႔ အလြယ္တကူနားလည္ႏုိင္ပါတယ္-

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.

You can read more about Gus and the video at www.family.amaravati.org/2008/summer#falk