တရားနာ ပရိတ္သတ္အၿပည္ ့လာေရာက္တဲ ့တရားပဲြတြင္ ေဟာႀကားေနေသာဆရာေတာ္...
Sayadaw U Jotika speaking to jam-packed corwds
လြန္ခဲ ့တဲ ့ဇန္န၀ါရီလ ၁၂ ရက္၊ အဂၤါေန ့က ထုိင္းနုိင္ငံကုိေရာက္ရွိေနတဲ ့ေက်းဇူးေတာ္ရွင္
မဟာၿမဳိင္ဆရာေတာ္ဦးေဇာတိက ရဲ ့အဂၤလိပ္ဘာသာနဲ ့ေဟာႀကားတဲ ့တရားပဲြကုိ ဗန္ေကာက္
ၿမဳိ ့မွာရွိတဲ ့ ဗုဒၶဂယာခန္းမ မွာၿပဳလုပ္ခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
ဆရာေတာ္က အဂၤလိပ္ဘာသာနဲ ့ေဟာတာကုိ ထုိင္းအမ်ဴိးသမီးတစ္ဦးက ထုိင္းဘာသာကုိ
တုိက္ရုိက္ၿပန္ဆုိေပးပါတယ္...
အယုဒၶယ တကၠသုိလ္ေရာက္ၿမန္မာရဟန္းေတာ္မ်ားနွင္ ့ဆရာေတာ္ဦးေဇာတိက....
Myanmar monks from the Monks university in Ayutthaya jumped at the chance to meet one of their own living masters.
ႀကည္ညဳိဖြယ္ရာဆရာေတာ္...
Sayadaw U Jotika. Simply awesome.
မဂၤလသုတၱန္ တရားေတာ္ပါ ေလာကဓံတရားမ်ားနဲ ့ႀကဳံေတြ ့၇တုိင္းမတုန္မလွဳပ္၊ ေဒါသ၊ေသာက
ကင္းစြာေနနုိင္ၿခင္း ဆုိတဲ ့ဖု႒ႆေလာကဓေမၼဟိ၊ စိတၱံယႆ နကမၸတိ တရားပုဒ္ကုိ အေသးစိတ္
ရွင္းလင္းေဟာႀကားပါတယ္...
ခ်ီးမြမ္းၿခင္း၊ ကဲ ့ရဲ ့ၿခင္း၊ ေ၀ဖန္ၿပစ္တင္ၿခင္းဆုိတာ ၿမတ္စြာဘုရားေတာင္မွ ကင္းလြတ္ခဲ ့တာမဟုတ္
လုိ ့ လူတစ္ဦးခ်င္းစီအေနနဲ ့လည္း မလြဲမေသြႀကဳံလာရမွာမုိ ့စိတ္ဆိုး၊စိတ္ပ်က္ၿခင္းကင္းစြာနဲ ့ရင္
ဆုိင္တံု ့ၿပန္တတ္ဖုိ ့ဆရာေတာ္က သူ ့ကိုယ္ေတြ ့နဲ ့ရွင္းၿပေဟာႀကားသြားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
ကိုယ္ ့ကုိကဲ ့ရဲ ့ၿပစ္တင္၊ ေ၀ဖန္ဆဲဆုိေနတာေတြကုိ စိတ္ဆုိး၊စိတ္ပ်က္၊ေဒါသထြက္ၿပီးတံု ့ၿပန္ေနခဲ ့
ယင္ သူတုိ ့ၿဖစ္ေစခ်င္တဲ ့အတုိင္းၿဖစ္ၿပီး ကုိယ္ဟာသူတုိ ့ႀကဳိးဆဲြရာ က တဲ ့ရုပ္ေသးရုပ္ၿဖစ္မွန္းမ
သိၿဖစ္တတ္တယ္လို ့ဆရာေတာ္ဆံုးမေဟာႀကားတာကုိ ဖတ္ရွဳနာယူ ႀကည္ညဳိရပါတယ္...
အဲဒီလိုအေၿခအေနမ်ဴိးၿဖစ္လာယင္လည္း ဘာမွမတံု ့ၿပန္ပဲ တိတ္ဆိတ္စြာနဲ ့ကိုယ္လုပ္စရာရွိတာကုိ
သာဆက္လုပ္ပါ...ဘယ္သူမွားတယ္မွန္တယ္ဆုိတာ အခ်ိန္ကဆံုးၿဖတ္ပါလိမ္ ့မယ္လို ့ေဟာႀကား
သြားပါတယ္...
ၿပီးေတာ ့ဆရာေတာ္က သူ ့ဘ၀နဲ ့ယွဥ္ၿပီး ဖတ္ရွဳေလ ့လာမွတ္သားက်င္ ့ႀကံခဲ ့တဲ ့အေတြ ့အႀကဳံ
အရ သူ ့ကုိမယံုႀကည္ပါနဲ ့လို ့ေၿပာတဲ ့ဗုဒၶကုိ ပုိလုိသာခ်စ္ခင္ႀကည္ညဳိ၊ ယံုႀကည္ပါတယ္ လုိ ့ဟာသ
စြက္ၿပီး ေဟာသြားခဲ ့ပါတယ္ ( ကာလမသုတၱန္ကုိရည္ညႊန္းပါတယ္ ...)
တရားေဟာတုိင္း ေလသံေအးေအးေလးနဲ ့ေဟာတတ္တဲ ့အသံေတာ္ကုိမွန္းဆၿပီး ပူေဇာ္
ႀကည္ညဳိမိပါတယ္...
ကင္းစြာေနနုိင္ၿခင္း ဆုိတဲ ့ဖု႒ႆေလာကဓေမၼဟိ၊ စိတၱံယႆ နကမၸတိ တရားပုဒ္ကုိ အေသးစိတ္
ရွင္းလင္းေဟာႀကားပါတယ္...
ခ်ီးမြမ္းၿခင္း၊ ကဲ ့ရဲ ့ၿခင္း၊ ေ၀ဖန္ၿပစ္တင္ၿခင္းဆုိတာ ၿမတ္စြာဘုရားေတာင္မွ ကင္းလြတ္ခဲ ့တာမဟုတ္
လုိ ့ လူတစ္ဦးခ်င္းစီအေနနဲ ့လည္း မလြဲမေသြႀကဳံလာရမွာမုိ ့စိတ္ဆိုး၊စိတ္ပ်က္ၿခင္းကင္းစြာနဲ ့ရင္
ဆုိင္တံု ့ၿပန္တတ္ဖုိ ့ဆရာေတာ္က သူ ့ကိုယ္ေတြ ့နဲ ့ရွင္းၿပေဟာႀကားသြားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
ကိုယ္ ့ကုိကဲ ့ရဲ ့ၿပစ္တင္၊ ေ၀ဖန္ဆဲဆုိေနတာေတြကုိ စိတ္ဆုိး၊စိတ္ပ်က္၊ေဒါသထြက္ၿပီးတံု ့ၿပန္ေနခဲ ့
ယင္ သူတုိ ့ၿဖစ္ေစခ်င္တဲ ့အတုိင္းၿဖစ္ၿပီး ကုိယ္ဟာသူတုိ ့ႀကဳိးဆဲြရာ က တဲ ့ရုပ္ေသးရုပ္ၿဖစ္မွန္းမ
သိၿဖစ္တတ္တယ္လို ့ဆရာေတာ္ဆံုးမေဟာႀကားတာကုိ ဖတ္ရွဳနာယူ ႀကည္ညဳိရပါတယ္...
အဲဒီလိုအေၿခအေနမ်ဴိးၿဖစ္လာယင္လည္း ဘာမွမတံု ့ၿပန္ပဲ တိတ္ဆိတ္စြာနဲ ့ကိုယ္လုပ္စရာရွိတာကုိ
သာဆက္လုပ္ပါ...ဘယ္သူမွားတယ္မွန္တယ္ဆုိတာ အခ်ိန္ကဆံုးၿဖတ္ပါလိမ္ ့မယ္လို ့ေဟာႀကား
သြားပါတယ္...
ၿပီးေတာ ့ဆရာေတာ္က သူ ့ဘ၀နဲ ့ယွဥ္ၿပီး ဖတ္ရွဳေလ ့လာမွတ္သားက်င္ ့ႀကံခဲ ့တဲ ့အေတြ ့အႀကဳံ
အရ သူ ့ကုိမယံုႀကည္ပါနဲ ့လို ့ေၿပာတဲ ့ဗုဒၶကုိ ပုိလုိသာခ်စ္ခင္ႀကည္ညဳိ၊ ယံုႀကည္ပါတယ္ လုိ ့ဟာသ
စြက္ၿပီး ေဟာသြားခဲ ့ပါတယ္ ( ကာလမသုတၱန္ကုိရည္ညႊန္းပါတယ္ ...)
တရားေဟာတုိင္း ေလသံေအးေအးေလးနဲ ့ေဟာတတ္တဲ ့အသံေတာ္ကုိမွန္းဆၿပီး ပူေဇာ္
ႀကည္ညဳိမိပါတယ္...
မူရင္းသတင္းလင္ ့ခ္ပါ...
http://littlebang.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/report-on-sayadaw-u-jotikas-talk/
ေအာက္မွာေတာ ့ဆရာေတာ္ရဲ ့အေႀကာင္းအက်ဥ္းခ်ဴပ္နဲ ့ဆရာေတာ္ ့တရားပဲြအေႀကာင္းအဂၤလိပ္
လုိသတင္းေလးပါ...
Sayadaw U Jotika: Born into a non-Buddhist family in Moulmein, Myanmar (Burma) on August 5, 1947. His parents were U Sattar and Daw Tin. He received his basic education at a Roman Catholic missionary school. During his younger days, he didn’t believe in any organized religion although he studied and exposed himself to many different religions, as well as western philosophy and psychology.
He graduated as an Electrical Engineer in 1973 from Rangoon Institute of Technology. He became very interested in Buddhist meditation. He discovered that life was unsatisfactory and majority of the people devoted their precious time mainly in gathering wealth, enjoying sensual pleasures, fame, power and position.
Thus, he decided to leave behind his family and became a “Samenera” (Novice) at the age of 26. He was ordained as a “Samgha” in 1974 at Taung Pu Lu Tawya, Meiktila with Ven. Taung Pu Lu Sayadaw as his preceptor. He practiced meditation under the guidance of the late Ven. Taung Pu Lu Sayadaw for (3) years. He continued to practice meditation with Htantabin Tawya Sayadaw for (15) years.
Ven. Jotika visited Melbourne in 1977 and again in 1998. He was in the United States in 1983-84 for about (16) months, conducting Dhamma talks in Santa Cruz, New York, Boston and Washington. He had visited Singapore several times on Dhamma Duta missions as well.
He has established a monastery in a rural environment overlooking a great lake near Pago, (50) miles north of Yangon. His Dhamma talks and books are in great demand in Myanmar as well as with overseas Burmese. He has published about (13) titles so far. One of his popular Dhamma book in English is “Snow in the Summer”
Last night’s talk was wonderful example of that. A popular and respected teacher here in Bangkok, Sayadaw U Jotika, originaly from Burma, spoke about ‘Praise and Blame’ and based his talk on the reference to the eight vicissitudes of life in the Mangala Sutta. He recited the Pali, explained each phrase, and then focused on one small section, explaining why praise and blame are vicissitudes, and giving practical ideas for dealing with them.
Everyone, he pointed out, has been praised, and everyone has suffered criticism at times, even the Buddha. Then Sayadaw went on to talk about his experiences growing up, reading about religion, and struggling to find his own understanding of life, which brought criticism from his family, friends, and society. Ask too many questions, he recounted, and people will soon see you as a nuisance, and even dangerous.
After every few minutes U Jotika, speaking in English, would pause while his talk was translated into Thai, giving the evening a gentle, rolling, rhythm, and in a hall packed with hundreds of people, with the crowd spilling even into the corridors outside, there was a wonderful attentive silence throughout. “But” he said, “the Buddha said not to believe”, and it was that which, and U Jotika pointed out the humour in this, brought him to trust and love the Buddha.
“Then it becomes my religion, very personal, and not the same as anyone else’s” he said. “Not in a possessive way, but in such a way as it’s fully yours and infuses your whole life.” And he gave examples of how he himself learnt to deal with blame, based on seeing for himself how his responses worked. At first, when criticised, he’d argue back, later he’d just try to explain, later still he realised that he didn’t need to do anything.
In the long run it becomes obvious who is right or wrong. There’s no need to say anything. Stop, he said, let go, and move on. This gives you more freedom. If you respond to every criticism, he said, you are a puppet, in the control of others. It’s the same if you seek praise. The solution is mindfulness. Pay attention to your mind and the qualities of your mind, pay attention to how you feel when praised or blamed, and you will overcome.
Listen to your own wisdom. And do listen to the advice of people you know to be wise. And when giving criticism to others, as from a parent to a child for example, be calm, he said, make sure the time is right, and don’t do it publicly to bring shame on anyone. Educate, don’t punish. And don’t forget that the biggest critic is yourself, so correct yourself and regain your self-respect.
These lessons from the Mangala Sutra, he repeatedly pointed out, are to be lived and not just recited. Don’t be manipulated by praise or blame, and don’t use praise and blame to manipulate others. Live out your own life, he said, and don’t allow the world to be your master. The less you are effected by the opinions of others, the more you can rely upon mindfulness and your own wisdom, the more freedom and dignity you have.
The evening finished with some chanting, including some of those hymn-like chants that I really love listening to, and many people stayed to make merit and buy copies of U Jotika’s books in Thai and English. I bought his most popular book, Snow in Summer, which has sold over a million copies, and hope to read it some time soon. If the book contains the same wisdom and inspiration as I saw in the talk last night, I’m in for a real treat.
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