Hate the sin, but love the sinner

Hate the sin, but love the sinner. - Jesus

Few Advise by Lao Tzu

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Lao Tzu

"A good traveler has no fixed plan, and is not intent on arriving."

Lao Tzu

"If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled."

Lao Tzu

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."

When You Love Someone - Preppie

When you love someone so deep inside,
It seems like it's so easy to hide.
You've loved him for so very long,
You would think he could do no wrong.

Every day you would hope and pray,
That he would always stay this way.
He treated you like you should be treated,
You thought your life was finally completed.

You thought your love was growing true,
And then one day it was all so blue.
He started putting you down and it hurt,
You thought all you were to him was dirt.

He started ignoring you and you wondered why,
All you wanted to do was curl up and die.
You thought your relationship would never end,
But that was all so fake and pretend.

One night he was so sweet to you,
You thought all those things were maybe untrue,
Two days later he was back the same,
You thought you were the one to blame.

He thought the relationship was getting too serious
And that you had become a little too curious.
By this time you knew it wouldn't last,
All the nice things he said were in the past.

You thought that you would marry him some day,
But this time God wanted to get his way.
You wanted things back how they were before,
But you knew this couldn't happen anymore.

It was a Saturday night about ten o'clock,
You heard the news and it wasn't a shock.
You knew this was going to happen soon,
As you laid there and cried in the pale lit moon.

Thanks for being my friend

Kathina Ceremony today is over

Today, Kathina ceremony is over. But Loy Krathon still remaining tonight. I am having wonderful day today!!

Loy Krathong Day!

My Resently Pictures

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Our Monastery Official Website

I live in Wat Bangsaodhong. It is a small monastery. It is quiet and peaceful monastery. I like staying and living in it.



http://www.watbangsaodhong.org/

My Current Results

STUDIED RESULT
		CREDIT ATTEMPT 85  CREDIT SATISFY 85  GPAX 3.74

This is my current GPA. Still remaining last year last semester. Wish me for better result in this final semester.

Heaven By Your Side-A1

Good song! This is just a song to listen to. Thanks to my Ate, who shared me a video on 18/11/2010. After her sharing, i just got to know A1 singers. They are becoming my favorite English song singers. Hope after you get this youtube link, you well enjoy their songs too. Have a nice time!

Dhammapada Verse 24 and related story

Dhammapada Verse 24
Kumbhaghosakasetthi Vatthu

Utthanavato satimato
sucikammassa nisammakarino
sannatassa dhammajivino
appamattassa yaso bhivaddhati.

Verse 24: If a person is energetic, mindful, pure in his thought, word and deed, and if he does everything with care and consideration, restrains his senses, earns his living according to the Law (Dhamma) and is not unheedful, then, the fame and fortune of that mindful person steadily increase.

The Story of Kumbhaghosaka, the Banker
While residing at the Veluvana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (24) of this book, with reference to Kumbhaghosaka, the banker.
At one time, a plague epidemic broke out in the city of Rajagaha. In the house of the city banker, the servants died on account of this disease; the banker and his wife were also attacked by the same. When they were both down with the disease they told their young son Kumbhaghosaka to leave them and flee from the house and to return only after a long time. They also told him that at such and such a place they had buried a treasure worth forty crores. The son left the city and stayed in a forest for twelve years and then came back to the city.
By that time, he was quite a grown up youth and nobody in the city recognized him. He went to the place where the treasure was hidden and found it was quite intact. But he reasoned and realized that there was no one who could identify him and that if he were to unearth the buried treasure and make use of it people might think a young poor man had accidentally come upon buried treasure and they might report it to the king. In that case, his property would be confiscated and he himself might be manhandled or put in captivity. So he concluded it was not yet time to unearth the treasure and that meanwhile he must find work for his living. Dressed in old clothes Kumbhaghosaka looked for work. He was given the work of waking up and rousing the people to get up early in the morning and of going round announcing that it was time to prepare food, time to fetch carts and yoke the bullocks, etc.
One morning, King Bimbisara heard him. The king, who was a keen judge of voices, commented, "This is the voice of a man of great wealth." A maid, hearing the king's remark, sent someone to investigate. He reported that the youth was only a hireling of the labourers. In spite of this report the king repeated the same remark on two subsequent days. Again, enquiries were made but with the same result. The maid thought that this was very strange, so she asked the king to give her permission to go and personally investigate.
Disguised as rustics, the maid and her daughter set out to the place of the labourers. Saying that they were travellers, they asked for shelter and was given accommodation in the house of Kumbhaghosaka just for one night. However, they managed to prolong their stay there. During that period, twice the king proclaimed that a certain ceremony must be performed in the locality of the labourers, and that every household must make contributions. Kumbhaghosaka had no ready cash for such an occasion. So he was forced to get some coins (Kahapanas) from his treasure. As these coins were handed over to the maid, she substituted them with her money and sent the coins to the king. After some time, she sent a message to the king asking him to send some men and summon Kumbhaghosaka to the court. Kumbhaghosaka, very reluctantly, went along with the men. The maid and her daughter also went to the palace, ahead of them.
At the palace, the king told Kumbhaghosaka to speak out the truth and gave him assurance that he would not be harmed on this account. Kumbhaghosaka then admitted that those Kahapanas were his and also that he was the son of the city banker of Rajagaha, who died in the plague epidemic twelve years ago. He further revealed the place where the treasure was hidden. Subsequently, all the buried treasure was brought to the palace; the king made him a banker and gave his daughter in marriage to him.
Afterwards, taking Kumbhaghosaka along with him, the king went to the Buddha at the Veluvana monastery and told him how the youth, though rich, was earning his living as a hireling of the labourers, and how he had appointed the youth a banker.

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 24: If a person is energetic, mindful, pure in his thought, word and deed, and if he does every thing with care and consideration, restrains his senses, earns his living according to the Law (Dhamma) and is not unheedful, then, the fame and fortune of that mindful person steadily increase.

At the end of the discourse, Kumbhaghosaka attained Sotapatti Fruition.


From the website:-
http://www.tipitaka.net/tipitaka/dhp/verseload.php?verse=024

Pali Prosody Literature

Prosody - kavya

-direct influence from Sanskrit. It seems Pali Prosody has been based from Medieval Period.Vuttodaya was written by Sangharakkhita Thera, Kamandaki, and Chandoviciti are Pali works on metres. Subodhalankara is a work on rhetoric by Sangharakkhita Thera. There are two good books on Prosody; they are Kavisarapakaranam and Kavisaratikanissaya.

gajja -prose
pajja - verse

Pajja becomes famous because it is like a poem or song that can touch our heart.

"Kavya- sastra-vinodeno kalo gacchat dhimatam/
Vyasasena ca murkhanam nidraya kalahena va/

= The time of the wise passes by entertainment with arts and sciences that of the foolish goes by troubles, sleep or quarrel.

Fate - daiva
faith - saddha

--> A Story of three sons of King, they are foolish.....Vishnu Sharma taught them by stories...

---> In a literature, the Prosody plays very important role. Even in the Vedas (Oldest form of Religious Texts) Rich of such poeties features.

'Stepping out of her slippers
Her hands raised before me,
palm-to-palm over her heart
she softly tenderly,
in measured words spoke to me first:
"You are young, recluse..."'

---> There are few well-known Prosody works in Sanskrit.

-Vruttaratnakara - by Kedarabhattha
-Kavyadarsa by Dandin
-Kavyalankara by Vamana
-Kavyamimamsa by Rakasekhara

---> Following these two texts, two Pali Prosody texts were composed as follows:
-Sbodhalankara and Vuttodaya
-Both composed by Ven. Sangharakkhita

(Eight) 8 Ganas:
-Ma,ya, Ra,sa, Ta,ja, Bha, Na

There are long and short: Long is called Garu; and short is called Lagu.
- E, O, are long


Yo vadatampavaro manujesu
Sakyamunibhagavakatakicco
Paragatobala viriyasamangi
tamsugatamsaranattanupemi

Milindapanha (Questions of King Milinda)

Milindapanha - Questions of Milinda

-->this is about the dialoque between Indo-Greek king Milinda (Menandros) and Buddhist monk Nagasena.

-->written 500 years after passing away of the Buddha (Siddharta Gautama) 100 BCE

-->Orginally in Sanskrit or Prakrit

-->Milindaparipucchaa -->Sanskrit Test

-->Phys Davids says it is the greatest work of classical Indian prose

-->The present text basically has Four Parts

1. Introductory Story
2. Milindapanha
3. Medhakapanha
4. Upamakathapanha