လာအိုအမွတ္တရ

မေလးစကားပံု

Better a feud with the clever than friendship with fool.
စဥ္းစားေတြးေခၚဥာဏ္မရွိသူႏွင့္ မိတ္ေဆြျဖစ္ရျခင္းထက္ စဥ္းစားခ်င့္ခ်ိန္ႏိုင္သူႏွင့္ ရန္သူျဖစ္ရျခင္းကပို၍ပင္ ေကာင္းေသးသည္။

The bird's strength is in its wings, the crab's in its claws and the strength of a ruler in his ministers.
ငွက္၏ခြန္အားသည္ ၄င္း၏ ေတာင္ပံမ်ား၌ ရွိသည္။ ကဏန္း၏ ခြန္းအားသည္ ၄င္း၏လက္မမ်ား၌ ရွိသည္။ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သူဘုရင္၏ ခြန္အားသည္ သူ၏ ၀န္ႀကီးမ်ား၌ ရွိသည္။

By the mouth the body is ruined.
ပါးစပ္ေၾကာင့္ ခႏၶာကိုယ္သည္ ပ်က္စီးရသည္။

He who ventures to threaten should be bold enough to fight.
ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္ရဲေသာသူသည္ တိုက္ခိုက္ရန္ သတၱိရွိရမည္။

If you don't have good weapons, it is better for you to submit.
အကယ္၍ သင့္တြင္ လက္နက္ေကာင္းမ်ား မရွိလွ်င္ အညံ့ခံလိုက္ျခင္းက ပို၍ပင္ ေကာင္းေသးသည္။

If you kill, kill an elephant; if you rob, rob a treasury.
အကယ္၍ သင္သည္ သတ္မည္ဆိုလွ်င္ ဆင္ကို သတ္ပါ။ အကယ္၍ သင္သည္ လုယက္မည္ဆိုလွ်င္ ဘ႑ာတိုက္ကို လုပါ။

A slip of the tongue may cause the loss of one's fortune, a slip of the foot may cause one to fall from a tree. စကားမွားျခင္းေၾကာင့္ ေကာင္းမြန္သည့္ကံကို ဆံုး႐ႈံးေစႏိုင္သည္။ ေျခေခ်ာ္ျခင္းေၾကာင့္ သစ္ပင္ေပၚမွ ျပဳတ္က်ႏိုင္ သည္။

To trust one's child is blindess in one eye, to trust a stranger is blindness in both.
သားသမီးယံုေတာ့ မ်က္စိတစ္လံုးကန္း၊ သူစိမ္းယံုေတာ့ မ်က္စိစံုလံုးကန္း။

Wealth is a harlot, wisdom is faithful.
ဥစၥာပစၥည္းသည္ ျပည့္တန္ဆာမတစ္ဦးကဲ့သို႔ သစၥာမရွိ။ ဥာဏ္ပညာသည္သာ သစၥာရွိသည္

First year

Economic

5 simple rules to be happy

Remember the 5 simple rules
to be happy:
1. Free your heart from hatred.
2. Free your mind from worries.
3. Live simply.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less

No one can go back and make a
brand new start.
Anyone can start from now and
make a brand new ending.
God didn't promise days without pain, Laughter
without sorrow,
sun without rain,
but He did promise strength for the day,
comfort for the tears,
and light for the way.
Disappointments are like road humps,
they slow you down
a bit but you enjoy
the smooth road afterwards.
Don't stay on the humps too long.
Move on!

When you feel down because you
didn't get what you want,
just sit tight and be happy,
because God is thinking of
something better to give you.
When something happens to you,
good or bad, consider what it means.
There's a purpose to life's events,
to teach you how to laugh more or
not to cry too hard.
You can't make someone love you,
all you can do is be someone who can be loved,
the rest is up to the person
to realise your worth.

The measure of love is when
you love without measure.
In life there are very rare chances
that you'll meet the person you love and
loves you in return.
So once you have it don't ever let go,
the chance might never come your way again.
It's better to lose your pride to the one you love,
than to lose the one you love because of pride.
We spend too much time looking for
the right person to love or
finding fault with those we already love,
when instead we should be
perfecting the love we give.

When you truly care for someone,
you don't look for faults,
you don't look for answers,
you don't look for mistakes.
Instead, you fight the mistakes,
you accept the faults,
and you overlook the excuses.
Never abandon an old friend.
You will never find one who can take his place.
Friendship is like wine,
it gets better as it grows older.

Author Unknown
Presentation by Cornelia

Philosophy

MAHACHULA BUDDHIST UNIVERSITY

COURSE OUTLINE

(Nov-Feb on Thursday 12.30 – 14.10 pm.)

DEPARTMENT OF BUDDHIST STUDIES

(INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM)

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1. Course Code/Name: 000 106 : INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY

Credits: 2 (2-0-4) Semester: 2 Academic Year: 2009

2. Course Description:

The course is an introduction to philosophy, emphasizing the meanings and scope of philosophy, the relationships between philosophy, religion and science, the classification and the fundamental concepts of philosophy together with the development of Western and Eastern philosophical traditions.

3. Objectives:

Academic Objective:

1. To enable students to understand the definition and scope of philosophy and to be able to communicate that understanding.
2. To enable students to understand the concepts and the evolution of philosophy, including the relationship of philosophy to other branches of science.
3. To enable students to understand and appreciate the principles of the various branches of philosophy, such as Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Ethics.
4. To enable students to understand that philosophy, as the mother of sciences, has an important influence on other branches of science.

Moral Objectives:

1. Students should acquire an understanding of the role of philosophy in

the development of ideas and the formation of a worldview.

2. Students should be able to think logically in problem solving, being

able to proceed rationally from one step to anther, evaluation evidence without prejudice.

3. Students should be able to apply the various conceptual methods of

philosophy in their lives, being rational, tolerant and willing to listen to

the views of others.

4. Course Contents

1. Overview of philosophy
1. Introduction
2. The meaning of ‘philosophy’ as derived from the etymology of the word.
3. The definition of ‘prajna’ according to the views of individual philosophers.
4. The characteristics and functions of philosophy.
5. The scope and branches of philosophy.
6. The birth and evolution of philosophy.
7. The relationship between philosophy and other disciplines.
8. Philosophy and religion
9. Philosophy and science.
2. Metaphysics and Ontology
1. The meaning, characteristics, scope and function of metaphysics, including materialism, idealism, theology, and absolutism.
2. The metaphysical theories of various philosophers from ancient, medieval and modern times to the present day.
3. Epistemology
1. The meaning characteristics, functions, and scope of epistemology.
2. Epistemological theories (theories of knowledge) the characteristics of knowledge, sources of true knowledge (justification of knowledge) and truth.
3. Epistemological theories of different philosophers from ancient times to the present day, including empiricism, rationalism and intuitionism.
4. Ethics
1. The meaning, characteristics, functions, and scope of ethics and its implications for other branches of philosophy.
2. The ethical theories of various philosophers.

5. Eastern Philosophy
1. The meaning and general characteristics of Indian philosophy.

1. The evolution of asatika and nasatika.
2. The six divisions of Asatika.
3. Nasatika.

2. Chinese Philosophy

1. The general characteristics and development of Chinese philosophy.
2. The movements in Chinese philosophy, such as Taoism, Confucius and Mencious, Mo tze.

3. Japanes Philosophy of shinto

1. The general characteristics and evolution of Japanese philosophy.
2. An overviews of metaphysics and ethics.

6. Western Philosophy
1. Ancient Greek Philosophy
2. Medieval Western Philosophy
3. Modern Western Philosophy
4. Contemporary Western Philosophy

5. Teaching Methods:

1. Lectures
2. Class presentations.

3. Group Discussions.

6. Teaching Aids/ Materials:

1. Whiteboard
2. Overhead-projector
3. Passages & articles
4. Multimedia: Computer
5. Picture

7. Measurements:

7.1. Accumulated Points 60%

1. Attendance and Participation 10%
2. Presentation in class and tests 20%
3. Assignment, Research paper 10%
4. Mid-term test 20%

7.2. Final test 40%

Total 100%

8. Evaluation and Gradation:

A	4.0	80-100
B+	3.5	75-79
B	3.0	70-74
C+	2.5	65-69
C	2.0	60-64
D+	1.5	55-59
D	1.0	50-54
F	0	49-1

9. Texts Books, References and Reading Supplements:
1. Main Text Book (s):

1. Honer, Stanley, M. et. Al. (2002). Invitation to Philosophy: Issues and Options. Australia: Wadsworth.
2. Koller, John, M. (1984). Oriental Philosophies. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
3. _______________. (1998). Asian Philosophers. New York: Prentice Hall.
4. Kirti Bunchua. (2003). Contextual Philosophy. Bangkok: Assumption University.

9.2. Reference(s) and Supplement (s):

5. Jordan, Michael. (1997). Eastern Wisdom: The Philosophers and rituals of the East. Dubai: Carton Press.
6. Nigel Warburton. (1995). Philosophy: The Basic. London:

Routledge.

5. William S. Sahakian. (1968). History of Philosophy. New York:

Barnes & Noble Books.

6. Jeremy Weate. (1998). A Young Person’s Guide to Philosophy.

London: Dorling Kindersley.

7. Oliver, Martyn. (1997). History of Philosophy. London: Octopus Publishing Group Limited.

8. D.W. Hamlyn. (1990). The Penguin History of Western Philosophy. London: Penguin Books Ltd.

9. G.S. Kirk, J.E. Raven and M. Schofield. (1983). The Presocratic Philosophers. 2^nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

10. Jonathan Barnes. (1987). Early Greek Philosophy. London: Penguin Books.

11. Antony Flew. (1989). An Introduction to Western Philosophy: Ideas and Argument from Plato to Popper. New York: Thames and Hudson, Inc.

12. Brian Magee. (1987). The Great Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

13. Frederick Copleston. (1961-1974). A History of Philosophy. Garden City: Doubleday & company, Inc. Nine Vols.

14. John Hospers. (1967). An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hsll,Inc.

15. Roger Scruton. (1984). A Short History of Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Wittgenstein. London: ARK Paperbacks.

16.Samuel E. Stumpf. (1983). Philosophy: History and Problems. Singapore: McGraw-Hill,Inc.

N.B.: For the original sources, I will take some certain passages from certain books written by philosophers and give them to you in class.

10. Instructor

1. Dr. Veerachart Nimanong Pali VI, Dip. In Ed., B.A., B.Ed., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Graduate School of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Assumption University (ABAC), Ramkhamhaeng, Hua-Mak, Bangkapi, Bangkok Thailand: Tel. 300-4543-62 Ext. 1325. Fax: 7191521. Email: vnimanong@yahoo.com, Websites: www.veerachart.au.edu, www.philo-religion.au.edu, www.kms.au.edu, www.au.edu, Home: 83/55, Moo(หมู่) 5, Baan Petpailin (บ้านเพชรไพลิน), Soi. Saim Thorni (ซอยสยามธรณี), Khubon Ram Indra Rd. (ถนนคู้บอน รามอินทรา ก.ม.8), Bangkhen (บางเขน), Bangkok 10220. Tel. 02 919 13 97 หรือ 06 5152891.

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MCU Class

Searching in the internet in MCU class

First year

Myanmar first year students with Tipitaka teacher














Learning has no end!

pretty boy

ွSaruppa (proper behavior)

Sāruppa (proper behavior)

1. I will wear the under robe properly.

2. I will wear the upper robe properly.

3. I will cover my body properly when going in inhabited areas.

4. I will cover my body properly when sitting in inhabited areas.

5. I will properly restrain the movements of hands and feet when going in inhabited areas.

6. I will properly restrain the movements of hands and feet when sitting in inhabited areas.

7. I will keep my eyes looking down when going in inhabited areas.

8. I will keep my eyes looking down when sitting in inhabited areas.

9. I will not hitch up my robes when going in inhabited areas.

10. I will not hitch up my robes when sitting in inhabited areas.

11. I will not laugh loudly when going in inhabited areas.

12. I will not laugh loudly when sitting in inhabited areas.

13. I will not speak loudly when going in inhabited areas.

14. I will not speak loudly when sitting in inhabited areas.

15. I will not sway my body about when going in inhabited areas.

16. I will not sway my body about when sitting in inhabited areas.

17. I will not swing my arms about when going in inhabited areas.

18. I will not swing my arms about when sitting in inhabited areas.

19. I will not shake my head about when going in inhabited areas.

20. I will not shake my head about when sitting in inhabited areas.

21. I will not put my arms akimbo when going in inhabited areas.

22. I will not put my arms akimbo when sitting in inhabited areas.

23. I will not cover my head with a cloth when going in inhabited areas.

24. I will not cover my head with a cloth when sitting in inhabited areas.

25. I will not walk on tiptoe when going in inhabited areas.

26. I will not sit clasping the knees in inhabited areas.

ေကာင္းကင္ကိုရဲ့ ကြ်န္ (ကဗ်ာ)

ေကာင္းကင္ကိုရဲ ့ကၽြန္

" ေကာင္းကင္ကိုရဲ့ ကြ်န္ " လို႔နာမည္ေပးထားတဲ့ ကဗ်ာ ေလးပါ .....
ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံေရာက္ျမန္မာ မ်ားရဲ့ဘ၀ကိုေတြ႔ၾကဳံခံစားေရးဖြဲ႔ထားတဲ့ကဗ်ာေလးတစ္ပုဒ္ပါ ။

ကြ်န္
ေရွးေရွးတုန္းကေတာ့
နယ္ခ်ဲ ့ေတြက ကၽြန္ျပဳဖို ့ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို ့ဆီကိုလာတယ္။
ဒီဘက္ေခတ္မွာေတာ့
ကၽြန္ခံဖို ့ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို ့ကိုယ္တိုင္ ခရီးထြက္ရတယ္။
လူျဖစ္ေပမယ့္ ေရြးခ်ယ္ခြင့္က မရွိခဲ့ဘူး အေမရယ္။

ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ အျဖစ္က
အိပ္မက္ထဲက ကမၻာကို
ကၽြန္ရြာမွာမွ သြားရွာမိတဲ့ အျဖစ္။

ေသရင္ ေျမၾကီးဆိုတာကေတာ့ မွန္ပါတယ္။
ရွင္ရင္ေတာ့ မစို ့မပို ့ေငြေလးက ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို ့အတြက္ေရႊထီးေပါ့။

တရြာေျပာင္းေပမယ့္ သူေကာင္းေတာ့ မျဖစ္ခဲ့ပါဘူး။
ကၽြန္ပဲျဖစ္ခဲ့တယ္။
ေၾကာက္ရင္လြဲ ရဲရင္မင္းျဖစ္သတဲ့။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္… အေမနဲ ့ညီမေလးေတြအတြက္ ရဲခဲ့ပါတယ္။
ကၽြန္ပဲ ျဖစ္ေနေသးတယ္ အေမ။
ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ရဲ ့ ရဲရင့္မွဳေတြကပဲ ေနရာလြဲခဲ့လို ့လား။

ကိုယ့္အခြင့္အေရးကို သိဖို ့ေနေနသာသာ
တစ္ခ်ိဳ ့သူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြဆို ကိုယ့္ အသက္ဘယ္ေလာက္ရွိမွန္းေတာင္ မသိရွာဘူး။
တခ်ိဳ ့ကေလးေတြဆို ျမန္မာ နာမည္ေတာင္ မရွိရွာဘူး။
ေဘာ(့စ္) ဆိုသူေတြ ေပးတဲ့နာမည္ေတြ ပဲ ရွိၾကတယ္။

အေမေျပာေတာ့ အလုပ္လုပ္ရင္ ၾကီးပါြးမယ္ဆို။
အလုပ္လုပ္ေလ ပိုခို္င္းေလေလပဲ အေမ။
ကၽြန္ျဖစ္ေလေလပဲ အေမရဲ ့။
လူအခ်င္းခ်င္းဆိုတဲ့ အသိ
သူတို ့မွာ မရွိဘူး အေမ။
ေသြးစုပ္ဖုိ ့ပဲ သူတို ့သိတယ္။

အေမရယ္
ကၽြန္ေတာ္လည္း အစကေတာ့
ခ်စ္သူရဲ ့မ်က္ႏွာသုတ္ပုဝါေလာက္ ျဖစ္ဖို ့မွန္းျပီးထြက္ခဲ့တာေပါ့။
အခု ျဖစ္လာတာက အားလံုးရဲ ့ေျခသုတ္ပုဆိုး
မရွိေသးတဲ့ အစြယ္ေတာင္ က်ိဳးခဲ့ျပီ္။

ခုေတာ့
ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ အသည္းႏွလံုးကလည္း
ကၽြန္အခ်င္းခ်င္ေတာင္
ျပန္မစုပ္ခ်င္တဲ့ သရက္ေစ့ တစ္ေစ့ေပါ့။

ကိုယ့္ကိုယ္ကို ကၽြန္လို ့သံုးလို ့
မငိုလိုက္ပါနဲ ့အေမရယ္။
သူတို ့ေဒါသေလးတစ္ခ်က္ထြက္ရံုနဲ ့
ရာဘာခင္းထဲ ရက္ရက္စက္စက္ အသတ္ခံရႏုိင္တာဆိုေတာ့
ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို ့အသက္တစ္ေခ်ာင္းက
ရာဘာပင္ တစ္ပင္ေလာက္ေတာင္တန္ဖိုးမရွိဘူးအေမ။
သူတို ့အခ်စ္ေတာ္ ေၾကာင္တစ္ေကာင္ေလာက္ေတာင္ တန္ဖိုး မရွိဘူး။
ဒါကို ကိုယ့္ကိုယ္ကို သခင္လို ့
မ်က္လံုးစံုမိွတ္ျပီး ေၾကြးေက်ာ္ေနရမွာလား။
အနာရွိတာကို လက္ခံမွ ေဆးထည့္လုိ ့ရမွာေပါ့ အေမ။

လူေတြ ေျပာေတာ့
ျမန္မာ အခ်င္းခ်င္း ရိုင္းပင္းတယ္ဆို။
ေကာင္းတဲ့သူေတြ လည္း အမ်ားၾကီး ရွိပါတယ္။
တခ်ိဳ ့ကေတာ့ ေတာ္ေတာ့္ကိုဆိုးတယ္။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို ့ေရႊလို ့့ျခံဳငံုေခၚေနတဲ့အထဲက တစ္ခ်ိဳ ့ကပဲ
အခ်င္းခ်င္း ေရာင္းစားေနၾကတာ အေမ။
တိုင္းျပည္မီးေလာင္လို ့
အခ်င္းခ်င္းခ်နင္းရက္တာလား။
ဘာပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ သူတို ့လူစိတ္မရွိတာ ကေတာ့
ေသခ်ာပါတယ္။
ေရႊဆိုတဲ့ စကားလံုးက
အကုန္လံုးနဲ ့ေတာ့မတန္ဘူး အေမ။
သူတို ့ကို ေရႊစာရင္းထဲက ကၽြန္ေတာ္ထုတ္တယ္။

ဟိုတေလာက စာအုပ္ထဲမွာ ဖတ္လိုက္ရတယ္အေမ။
လင္ကြန္းဆိုတဲ့ သူက ကၽြန္စနစ္ ပေပ်ာက္ေအာင္လုပ္ေပးခဲ့သတဲ့။
ဘယ္မွာ ဟုတ္လို ့လဲ အေမရယ္။
သားတို ့ကိုလာၾကည့္စမ္းပါ။
သူလုပ္ႏိုင္ခဲ့တာ သူ ့ႏိုင္ငံကြက္ကြက္ေလးပဲ
သူ ့ကိုေလးစားေပမယ့္
ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို ့အတြက္ေတာ့ သူက
သမိုင္းတင္ေလာက္ေအာင္ မစြမ္းေသးပါဘူးအေမရယ္။

လူ ့အျဖစ္က ရခဲတယ္ဆို။
ရခဲ တာပဲ ေကာင္းပါတယ္ အေမ။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္ လူမျဖစ္ခ်င္ေတာ့ဘူး။
ကၽြန္္္္္္ေတာ္ ငွက္ေတြကို ေငးၾကည့္မိတယ္ အေမ။
ငွက္အခ်င္းခ်င္း အမ်ိဳးအႏြယ္မတူလို ့ရက္စက္ၾကတာမရွိဘူးအေမ။
ငွက္ေတြမွာ ျပည္တြင္းစစ္မရွိဘူး။
ငွက္ေတြမွာ ဘာသာေရး အဓိကရုဏ္းေတြ မရွိဘူး။
ငွက္ေတြမွာ ကိုယ့္အသိုက္အျမံဳကို ဗိုလ္က်ျပီး အတင္းေရႊ ့ခုိင္းတာမ်ိဳး မရွိဘူး။
ငွက္ေတြ ကံဆိုးမိုးေမွာင္က်ျပီး ေလွာင္အိမ္ထဲမွာ ေနရရင္ေတာင္
သူတို ့သခင္က သူတို ့ကို အခ်စ္နဲ ့ေလွာင္ထားတာ။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို ့ကေတာ့ အမုန္းနဲ ့ေလွာင္ထားျခင္းခံရတယ္။
ေမတၱာ အရမ္းငတ္တယ္ အေမရယ္။

ကမၻာ ့ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြကလည္း
ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို ့ငိုသံေတြ ဘယ္ေလာက္က်ယ္က်ယ္
အမ်ိဳးသား အက်ိဳးစီးပါြးဆိုတဲ့ စကားလံုးေအာက္မွာ
နားမၾကားၾကဘူး ထင္ပါရဲ ့။

လူ ့အခြင့္အေရးဆိုတဲ့ ပန္းဟာ
ဖိႏွိပ္သူေတြရဲ ့ႏွဳတ္ခမ္းမွာ မပြင့္ဘူး အေမ။
ကၽြန္စနစ္ဟာ
စာရြက္ေပၚမွာေတာင္မွ
မပေပ်ာက္ေသးပါဘူး အေမရယ္။

Ashin Suriya

Ashin Suriya
in the class















































mcu

ကာမဂုဏ္ဆင္းရဲ

ၿမည့္ေနေအာင္ထက္တဲ့ သန္လ်က္နဲ႔
ရင္ဝကို အထိုးခံရၿခင္းထက္
ကာမဂုဏ္ေၾကာင့္ၿဖစ္တဲ့
ဆင္းရဲကပိုၾကီးပါတယ္။

Ashin visuddha

ေယာက်္ားတံခြန္
လူရည္ခ်ြန္က
ေကာင္းကင္တမြတ္
ၾကယ္ကိုွဆြတ္၏။














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ရန္မာန္ပိတ္သဲ ခရီး၌
စိတ္ဇြဲသန္သန္ ေနာက္မၿပန္ပဲ
ရဲမာန္ရဲေသြး ရဲစိတ္ေမြးလ်က္
ရဲေသြးနီနီ စီရရီၿဖင့္
ဦးတည္မပ်က္
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