ဝန္ဒာမိ

ဝန္ဒာမိ စေတိယံ သဗ္ဗံ၊ သဗ္ဗဋ္ဌာနေသု ပတိဋ္ဌိတံ။ ယေ စ ဒန္တာ အတီတာ စ၊ ယေ စ ဒန္တာ အနာဂတာ၊ ပစ္စုပ္ပန္နာ စ ယေ ဒန္တာ၊ သဗ္ဗေ ဝန္ဒာမိ တေ အဟံ။ vandāmi cetiyaṃ sabbaṃ, sabbaṭṭhānesu patiṭṭhitaṃ. Ye ca dantā atītā ca, ye ca dantā anāgatā, paccuppannā ca ye dantā, sabbe vandāmi te ahaṃ.

On Conventional Truth and the Danger of Wrong Views" (သမုတ်သစ္စာနှင့် မှားယွင်းသောအယူအဆများ၏ အန္တရာယ်)

 



We must speak in conventional terms...

We call them daughter, son,
We call them Mr Smit, Mr Jhon 

These are conventional designations,
Correct only for communication,
Understand them as mere labels

#When_you_take_them_as_real_you're_wrong - that's wrong perception,
Wrong perception leads to wrong understanding,
Wrong understanding leads to wrong view, isn't that incorrect?

Look at people saying "My daughter has grown so much"
Doesn't this happen? This is #wrong_perception_saññā_vipallāsa

Is what we see a daughter or just visible form?
Isn't there rūpakkhandha in the form?
Isn't the knowing aspect nāma? #These_are_just_nāma_rūpa

When perception is wrong, isn't the understanding wrong?
Then they think "I must depend on her"

Isn't this a wrong view now?
Are these reliable phenomena?

#Depending_on_what_doesn't_exist
The Buddha called such people deluded

We say this gently through writing
Direct words might not be well-received
(Ha ha ha)... understand? Isn't this worth contemplating?

#Didn't_the_Buddha_teach_to_rely_on_wisdom?
Contemplate this

People place their trust wrongly
Study this well, that's enough for now...