Let us pay homage to the Five Infinities with joined palms, bowing with humility: Namo Buddhassa. Namo Dhammassa. Namo Sanghassa. Namo Matapitussa. Namo Acariyassa.
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.
Trust in Kamma and the Path to Happiness (ကံကို ယုံကြည်ခြင်းနှင့် ပျော်ရွှင်မှုဆီသို့သွားသောလမ်း)
It's good to have faith in kamma and its results
#Wisdom_is_our_refuge
#Kamma_is_what_we_trust
Consider how people who don't believe in kamma get along with others...
Don't we see parents and children fighting?
Don't we see husbands and wives quarreling?
Fighting, arguing, getting angry - is it wholesome or unwholesome?
Is unwholesome action a path to happiness or suffering?
This needs examination.
#Don't_do_things_that_lead_to_suffering, understand?
Actions that lead to suffering aren't good.
If asked whether you want happiness or suffering, what would you say? If you want happiness, perform wholesome actions.
#Wholesome_means_not_getting_angry_not_fighting
Not getting angry - that's wholesome.
Now, you want happiness but you're doing actions that lead to suffering,
Getting angry frequently - isn't this worth examining?
This anger is unwholesome.
#Does_a_true_believer_in_kamma_need_to_get_angry?
Just do actions that don't involve anger.
Maintaining moral conduct (sīla) - does it cost money?
#This_is_merit_gained_without_spending_money - we need to study this.
We need to trust in kamma
When we trust, it's wholesome
When we don't trust, it's unwholesome - isn't this worth studying?