The Guiding Principle of Becoming The Buddha

Compassion is the guiding principle in the Dispensation of the Buddha. It was compassion that moved his heart towards the “Great renunciation” and opened for him the doors of the golden cage of his home life. It was compassion that made his determination unshakable even by the last parting glance at his beloved wife asleep with their babe in her arms. The heart-throb of an agonized and ailing humanity found a responsive echo in his own heart. The more he came in contact with the world, the more convinced he became that the world was lacking in true happiness.

The Lord of Compassion made up his mind to reveal unto a sorrow-stricken world what he had realized. Therefore, journeying from village to village, from town to town, he instructed, enlightened and gladdened the many and for forty-five years worked for the weal and happiness of mankind.

Acknowledgement --- This short but beautiful composition is taken from a Buddhist booklet called BUDDHISM A LIVING MESSAGE by Thera Piyadassi and re-written with a little bit of change.

Ashin Manita





ဘုရားျဖစ္လာရတဲ႔ ပဓာနအေၾကာင္းတရား


ကရုဏာတရားဟာ ျမတ္ဗုဒၶရဲ႕သာသနာေတာ္မွာ ပဓာနအေၾကာင္းတရားျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ထုိကရုဏာတရားကပဲ သူ႔ရဲ႕ လူ႔ေဘာင္ဘဝ ေရႊေလွာင္အိမ္တံခါးေတြကုိ ဖြင္႔ေပးခဲ႔ၿပီး မဟာစြန္႔လႊတ္မႈႀကီးဆီသုိ႔ သူ႔ရဲ႕ ႏွလုံးသားကုိ ေဆာင္က်ဥ္းေပးခဲ႔တာပါ။ ထုိကရုဏာတရားကပဲ သားငယ္ကုိ ရင္ခြင္ပုိက္ ႏွစ္ႏွစ္ၿခိဳက္ၿခိဳက္ အိပ္ေပ်ာ္ေနတဲ႔ ဇနီးခ်စ္အေပၚမွာ သူ႔ရဲ႕ ေနာက္ဆုံးခြဲခြါအၾကည္႔ကေတာင္မွ မတုန္လႈပ္ေစႏုိင္ခဲ႔တဲ႔ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ကုိ ခ်ေစခဲ႔တာပါ။ လူတုိင္းရဲ႕အသည္းေၾကာ္ ဘုရားအေလာင္းေတာ္ဟာ ျမည္တြန္ေတာက္တီး ငုိညည္းေနၾကတဲ႔ ေလာကႀကီးထဲက ပဲ႔တင္သံတစ္ခု သူ႔ရဲ႕ႏွလုံးသားသုိ႔ ရုိက္ခတ္လာတာကုိ သူသတိျပဳမိလုိက္ပါတယ္။ သူဟာ ေလာကႀကီးနဲ႔ အထိအေတြ႔ ပုိမ်ားလာေလေလ၊ ေလာကႀကီးမွာ စစ္မွန္တဲ႔ ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္မႈ လုိအပ္ေနတာကုိ ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ ပုိသိလာေလေလ ျဖစ္လာပါတယ္။


ကရုဏာရွင္ ဗုဒၶဟာ သူသိခဲ႔သမွ်တရားေတြကို ပူေဆြးေသာကေတြနဲ႔ ႏွိပ္စက္ခံေနရတဲ႔ ေလာကလူသားတို႔အား ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေဟာၾကားဖုိ႔ စိတ္ပုိင္းျဖတ္ေတာ္မူခဲ႔ပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင္႔ သူဟာ တစ္ရြာမွ တစ္ရြာ၊ တစ္ၿမိဳ႕မွ တစ္ၿမိဳ႕ ခရီးလွည္႔လည္ကာ မ်ားစြာေသာ ေဝေနယ်သတၱဝါတုိ႔အား လမ္းညႊန္ျပသ၍ ညဏ္အလင္းေရာင္ကုိ ရေစ၊ ရႊင္လန္းဝမ္းေျမာက္ေစခဲ႔ၿပီး လူသားေတြရဲ႕ ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္မႈႏွင္႔ ေကာင္းက်ဳိးခ်မ္းသာအတြက္ ေလးဆယ္႔ငါးႏွစ္တုိင္တုိင္ မေနမနား အလုပ္လုပ္ေတာ္မူခဲ႔ပါတယ္။




Explanations---


@--Dispensation = (technical) religious system that operates in a country at a particular time = သာသနာ


@--It was compassion that moved his heart towards the “Great renunciation” and opened for him the doors of the golden cage of his home life.
-It is / was…… that……. Emphatic Pattern - ေလးနက္ေအာင္ ေဖာ္ျပလုိတဲ႔အခါေတြမွာ အသုံးျပဳတယ္။ Eg. It is on the internet that everything is available.


@--That made his determination unshakable even by the last parting glance.
-(1) It made his determination. (2) It was unshakable even by the last parting glance. (Adj Clause) It made his determination which was unshakable even by the last parting glance. (Adj Phrase) It made his determination unshakable even by…..


@--That made his determination unshakable even by the last parting glance at his beloved wife asleep with their babe in her arms.
-(1) His beloved wife (Not a sentence). (2) She was asleep with their babe in her arms. (Adj Clause) His beloved wife who was asleep with their babe in her arms. (Adj Phrase) His beloved wife asleep with…..


@-- Babe = (old use) = a baby


@-- The heart-throb = (used especially in newspapers) a famous man, usually an actor or a singer, that a lot of women find attractive = အသည္းေၾကာ္၊ ပ်ဳိတုိင္းႀကိဳက္တဲ႔ ႏွင္းဆီခုိင္


@--Agonized and ailing = ျမည္တြန္ေတာက္တီး ငုိညည္းေနေသာ


@--Responsive echo = တုန္႔ျပန္ပဲ႔တင္သံ


@--The more he came in contact with the world, the more convinced he became that the world was lacking in true happiness.
-The more Adj +Sentence, the more Adj +Sentence Eg. The more self-confident you are, the more successful you will be.
-The +Comparative Adj, the+Comparative Adj Eg. The earlier, the better.
-The more +Sentence, the more +Sentence Eg. The more you study, the more you know.


@--(Be) + In contact with = ထိေတြ႔ဆက္ဆံသည္။


@--Convinced = [not before noun] completely sure about sth = လုံးဝေသခ်ာေသာ ၊ ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ


@--Lacking in = having none or not enough of sth = ဘာမွမရွိေသာ (သို႔) မလုံေလာက္ေသာ


@--Make up someone’s mind = ဆုံးျဖတ္သည္၊ စိတ္ပုိင္းျဖတ္သည္။


@--Unto = to or towards


@--Sorrow-stricken = (in compounds) seriously affected by the thing mentioned = ဖိစီးႏိွပ္စက္ခံေနရေသာ Eg. poverty-stricken families


@--The many = The + Adj = Plural Noun = လူအမ်ား


@--Weal = ေကာင္းက်ဳိးခ်မ္းသာ