What’s What

we, at the present age, are striving to reach a high standard of living. we also speak of people as being good and bad in every day conversation. The views differ as names do. Some are of the opinions that a wealthy person is worthy of respect and can be happy in this very life, but for some , it is only when in pure moral standards. Taking untruth for truth and truth for untruth, people go on and on in search of sensual pleasure. Some people try to create their smiles on the tears of others. As opposed to pleasure, what they get is but to pass sleepless nights with a restless mind. It is evident to all of us that in this day and age, with all his wealth and high position, there is still such person who lives in worry and anxiety and loses his bearings. life wastes itself while we are struggling for what we believe . Thus, we have become enslaved to the so -called pleasure daydreaming. It leaves us feeling low and craven and then we are at a loss what to do next. It is in fact due to our ignorance that instead of searching internal happiness, we are seeking after external things .
The way to peace and happiness is so simple: tell the truth, act righteously, and live by doing what is right. Better is it to live as a cultured and respected person than to live as a wicked one. Even though we live in the hope of finding a life of luxury, dignity and an achievement of great praise, we are hardly very keen on living in accordance with form and function. Just as it is impossible to judge a book by merely looking at its cover, so also, it is to judge a person by his appearances and hot air. It does not matter what one does and preaches, but how much good will and loving kindness he puts into it that matters. And we should also take account of how much welfare it brings not for himself only but for others. In order not to be linkened to a flower with no fragrance, let’s harness our wild desire and wish with dignity and strive to get what we need. It is said that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Actually, it is only when one is satisfied with whatever he earns, trains his mind to become reasonable and grows into social conscience that one enables to build a healthy and happy life. Our compassionate Buddha exhorted beings to guard and tame their mind because a well-guarded and tamed mind brings happiness. All we need to do is to practise what we preach and to keep on mutual understanding and inter-faith in association with one another. If not, poise, calm, serenity, and all being craved for are subject to fade away from our wearysome lives. It is necessary to note that the value of life and victories belong to the virtuous. The reason is that virtue is the first step to steer beings towards a meaningful and sensible condition. Here is a noteworthy story.
Once upon a time, the Buddha to be was paid due respect and adored by king and his entourages. The Buddha to be wondered and explored it. He, one day, took one kyat from a goldsmith with no permission; he had committed the same way until he was caught. He, as taken to the presence of the king, saw snake-charmers on the road holding and wrapping poisonous snakes round their necks. On admonishing them not to do so, he was satirized and told that that snakes and not like him were cultured and very moral. Having understood the reason why he was honoured and called a valuable person, he uttered these words: “There, in this world, is only one good that is absolutely sublime virtue, that is beyond all comparissons. Take a look at this poisonous snake, it is not tortured and killed on account of morality”.
Of course, it is he, a very moral person, who earns his bread and butter easily and becomes well-to-do, who is very well-known, who enables to speak out calmly and courageously in public, who is still mindful even at the time of his last breath, who is sure to be reborn in a certain happy abode after death. For those who are willing to live in this world peacefully and happily, and who aspire to be free from suffering, the time is just ripe to accumulate enough merit and to uplift morale and morality. One controlled in deeds, in words, in thoughts, has ability to get rid of both physical and mental problems as well as agitation. There is no doubt that a good life does not drop from the sky like rain. Harder than knowing is practising, but don’t give up easily. Why?. “slow and steady wins the race” as the saying goes.
To break through perils of life, keep yourself in pure status, content yourself with what you have, generate loving-kindness to all. In fact, it is of vital importance to seek after inner peace and happiness, regardless of sensual pleasure. Never forget to take a good grasp of this great privilege. It is time for us to ponder to resolve what to do and how to do. Knowing is nothing, doing is something we all need in deed. It is crucially importance for all of us to understand what’s what if we really want to live peacefully and happily .

Special Thing But Nothing

Thinking what and how to do at present is living for a good life if your thought slides into action, while thinking of the past without taking any lesson is living for nothing special. What is special is sometimes nothing special. Then, special thing is nothing but something at times.

Will And Lesson

We can gain many a lesson to learn to apply it in day to day life when we go to somewhere.
We are to be aware of all near and far once we keep our attention in mindful mind. Then we should put it into action righteously so that we can walk on the right way.
Different view and different custom as well as culture come into our mind on traveling.
How good opportunities it is for us to apply for a better life.
Where there is a will to learn , there is a way to learn lesson. Where there are people , there are methods for us to learn what and how they are doing and why.
So, when a good will to learn lesson for life comes into our mind clearly is when we can pursue all good or bad.

Idea and Thought

Everybody has his or her idea and thought. Still having something doesn't means having everything at command.
The great man has the great idea and thought thus trying to fulfill it.
The noble man has the noble idea and thought thereby developing all around and beyond.
What we think is what we were in the past, are now and will be in future.
What is important is when and how to put our idea and thought into right action.
Our actions are our histories. Those are the things that will decide who we were, are and will be.
Nothing is impossible under the sun to those who have a strong will and who keep on striving for it systematically and reasonably.

When Life Starts changing

When life turns into either good or bad is when your way of thinking is changed. Whether or not we take care of our changing, is only depending on what you do and why you do.

Is Every Conclusion an Answer?

Just as every conclusion is not an answer to every problem we people are facing in daily life, so also, every problem demands no, all the time, answer.
Knowing clearly space and time is reaching exactly what needs and wants. Ever thinking and doing in the fixed boundary are not the way to cope with all difficult.
So, what is necessary is to think and do beyond the limits to certain extent through right understanding what and why. Good luck comes to those who believe it and those who keep strong faith in finding what is what.
This is because of the fact that we are in need of both right changing and right doing as well as right moving on, depending on the righteous way that asks everybody to keep in mind respective responsibilities through morale and morality.

If We Go On With This

It is natural that everybody longs for a healthy and happy life. We can see people striving for what they believe, hoping their great dreams come true someday if they find a way. Just as we, as faced with ups and downs of life, are suggested to have a good friend to encourage and motivate to go on, so also, it is taken into consideration for all of us to have an effective means in order to reach our target in a short span of time. Now let’s go through with the following good rules.
All we from the outset need to do is to become a virtuous one. It is of vital importance to tell the truth and to act righteously whenever and wherever you are if you really want to be in a good condition. The reason is that no one likes to associate with a wicked one, and that good conduct is the infrastructure of building a better life. It should be borne in mind that morale and morality are the pillars of our life and the passport to our future, that will allow us to enter the gateway to success. There is no other thing more worthy of preserving than it that is a core of evaluating if one is valuable. No doubt that such reputation and dignity as well as respect come to just those who live in accordance with Form and Function. The question is whether it is possible to keep ourselves in high moral status when we get into cut-throat competition. The answer is, “Yes, we can”,. Believe in this: where there is a will, there is a way. Life possessed of property and power means so much to some who live for possession, on the one hand, if there is no morality, it is of no use to those who value it more assuming that nothing under the sun is comparable with virtue. So, be righteous one not in action only but in speech as well as in thought.
The next step is to pursue general knowledge. Needless to say, having knowledge in respective fields to some extent makes one famous and fabulous. One is able to grasp at his opportunity by virtue of which. To know, to note, to memorize what is seen and heard is a good habit. Knowing something is better than knowing nothing even if a little knowledge is very dangerous at times. A person without knowledge is like a robot without sense and thus he takes untruth for truth and truth for untruth making many a silly mistake. Now is the opportune moment for you to inquire further into the matters of future feather in your cap should you keep burning-desire to higher position. As long as we do not enough cognition, we are still far from advantages arisen out of discussions and communications. Only when we get sense of what happens around us and beyond, can we take part in social activities and give a hand to the needy. From now on, plan for persistently and purposefully preparing for knowledge to help gain what you are standing for.
Will we be well-off by merely keeping the two above mentioned? No! You will ask me why. Because as yet we have not a good friend, a torch to show the way to break through every peril of life. Having association with a real friend is like having a golden-pot that never comes to shortage of all we need. We cannot avoid relationship with one another in day to day life for man is a social animal. It does not matter how many friends you have, but how you treat others and whether you have an excellent companion and been so to yours matter most. Be social to all with a well-meaning, and maintain one ready to instruct to you what is right or wrong. When it comes to the point, who guides and advises pointing to both the pros and cons of our behaviour regardless of our different standpoint is who we ought to associate with in the long term. No one but gifted one can stand alone in the swirls of untold pain of human life for man is intrinsically not perfect. Remember the Lord Buddha’s admonitions: to associate with the wise and not with the foolish; on hearing their talks, one becomes only a noble, not an ignoble. Here, one we call a buddy is one who is virtuous, upright, good-minded and high self-esteem. A life with no real comrade is likened to be a bird with no legs and wings. He cannot be found at a dinnerparty only at a time we are in a tight corner. Due to this matter, there comes a saying--a friend in need is a friend in deed. As love begets love, one with a big dream must, first and foremost, be a good one to join forces with others to achieve great things. Be convinced that good fortune will come to you on the day you meet a real benevolent friend.
And then, whether or not we are soft-spoken and eloquent is to be taken into account because without the art of which we can do nothing to persuade and pervade our perspectives. Well-spoken ones are upwardly mobile ones for such ability is nothing but a secret to success. In contrast, talking through only your hat or being just a talker is not everybody’s cup of tea. Never hesitate to follow up these rules--speak less, listen to more, ask advice from the other, be ready to go effectively by all good and beneficial. We see many people engrossed so much in their terms to have their say that they have been far from both the benefit and the point mainly discussed, not having understood how advantageous it is in paying attention to other’s outlook. “We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less,” said Diogenes. Your goal is neither too far nor too close to you if mending. Now, let’s deliver an intelligent speech to strike it rich.
As a matter of fact, as things never go easy by just word of mouth, it is crucial to us to put our knowledge into action. In my view, deeds are absolutely needed more than words. It is only when we participate in team-work and neighbourhood with a decent frame of mind that we become well-informed and able to mend and mould our characters. Live actively and intelligently through share and share-alike living and team spirit, that is a good characteristic of a great man. We can see in the football match how important part team spirit plays on the way to development not in society only but in state also. In doing so, only our loving-kindness and goodwill matter most. And taking responsibility on the part of what we did and do.
Then, it should clearly be borne in mind to love and value your precious and priceless culture and literature wherever you are. Moreover, never look down on others and try to support them without discrimination between inferior and superior if necessary. However vital it is to change with time to keep abreast of current affairs and to hang on high-tech, we should not allow our heritage to be cast aside. We must have both feet on the ground even when in a state of being prosperous. This is because of the fact that the glory and dignity of a country or a nation is based on the higher level of its culture and literature. Let’s sink in the essence of it we are expected to be devoted to.
And then, food for thought here is which level is called a higher status of living. Since man is a craving-creature, the more we get, the more we want. We cannot explicate our need and want due to lack of understanding what we are living for and why thus chasing after a hunger for endless sensual pleasure. What on earth the foolish are creating a circle of endless searching, whereas the wise are absorbing in satisfaction and contentment with all they have through realizing they have nothing to do with worldly pleasure on the way to noble life and real happiness. Material property is built on the very edge of momentry enjoyment, on the other hand, contentment endowed with powers of reasoning and comprehension lasts ever firmly and securely. The greatest man in the world is he who is satisfied and able to get rid of his thirst for all things. Not to get caught up in the rat race; at any rate, be contented with all you earn.
It is, in truth, taken for granted that victory belongs to the most persevering. It is only through wisely spending a lot of time and diligence not for the welfare of ourselves only but for all that a stroke of good luck comes into us. Now life-span is completely limited with time, who loves his life must love his time so as to reach a bed of rose. Noticing “time and tide waits for no man’’ and setting out to wipe out bad behaviours and self-centred attitude as well as ever wishful thinking, we should keep on our attempts. Nothing is impossible to those who have resolute mind, lofty aim and effort, too. You are the master of your destiny, and so you can do all. Believing in it, do it right now to do well.
After that, we are to be mindful of aim and object of life or of where and who we are and what we are seeking for so that we can know what to do and how to do and why. With forethought and focus on flying high, let’s go on and on. Fortune favours us fairly at the minute we mind out for improvement on property and purity of mind. Be aware of what and how is happening around the world so as not to be left behind the date.
And the last one is education. It goes without saying how and why prominent and powerful it is at the present day. Today is IT Age, and the world has been termed Global Village, where English Language and Computer together with Internet are applied to communicate and talk all matters over with one another. To keep up with the time, everyone is expected to be educated to some extent especially the youth to be well-rounded and well-adjusted adults. And pave the way for them. Why? Because the youth are our future and dreams. “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth,” said Diogenes. So evident is it that there is no other way but education to build a valuable life, and that things and even knowledge without education are as dangerous as a devil factory. And you must be more educated not to underestimate and treat others like dirt but like yourself when you are informed. In fact, all is well and truly in the bounds of wisdom. If so, do not wait for opportunities, make and take them, by hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.
If you have already bowed down before success and happiness praised by the wise, the time is ripe for you to consider and distill the value of what has been talked over and to apply it in life. Because if you go on with these, you will get what you want.
Ashin Sumana (Kyauk Phyu)

The Rubbish-man

What do you think is the worst thing in this very world? Have you ever thought of it? Of them, the rubbish-man is the worst. Will you agree with me if I say so? How and why? We, no doubt, can see much rubbish under our noses. No one in general feels like collecting it but fortunately it is of use to some to certain extent if they know how to utilize.
Needless to say how difficult and dangerous it is to associate with the man-rubbish. This is not because the rubbish men are put aside but because they are too weak in both knowledge and wisdom to give a hand to others but so strong in evil thought and action demotivating others and so on. They ever make not only themselves but also others around and beyond, get into trouble instead of making effort to develop all good and beneficial.
Let's keep on striving not to become a rubbish-man. With ever evil thought, word and deed, the man just living for doing all good or bad without considering morale and morality, is called the rubbish-man .