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Seasonal Flowers, and Bonus Flowers in the Summer 2015

This summer is so hot and there was a hardful warning to everyone from the daily weather report. It said ultraviolet rays have now high radiation. It was dangerous if we were going outside between 11am and 3pm. But wait! There were beautiful nature beauties await us. The seasonal flowers called Kankaw (Mesua Ferrea) blooming in this month. Kankaw flowers are everywhere in the market place, and women love to buy and wear on their head. I also love to buy some Kankaw flowers, and put at our household shrine. (Kankaw flowers in the garden.) Luckily, we met another bonus flowers blooming in this hard weather. This summer might be a lucky month. We met rain and thunder in this hottest month. The wind blew dangerously last few days, and people were afraid of the to-be-cyclone. But luckily the rain suddenly dropping, and the weather became cool. We were happy at the moment, looking forward the Thingyan flowers called ‘Padauk’ would be seen in the market. ‘Padauk’ was...

100th Anniversary of Burmese Cartoon in 2015

(U Bagalay (Shwe Ta Lay) , U Hain Zun, U Ba Gyan, and U Phay Thein.) 100th Anniversary of Burmese Cartoon in 2015 Early forms of cartoons art can be seen in the cave drawing. In Burma we could see the cave drawings, or the frescoes painted on the walls of the temples from old Bagan city. Because of those drawings as ancient inscriptions, we learnt the Buddha’s life, or the ancient history of the old king. Apart from the ancient stories, the comic art, or the terms comic and comic strips started in World War II at the Rangoon Time Newspaper in English, established in 1912. Burmese Cartoon Descends From Monkey? It was because of the first cartoon appeared as celebrating Christmas at the supplementary issue of the Rangoon Time Newspaper on the Christmas day of 1912. In the cartoon, an English man with the English dress and an English woman with Burmese dress were dancing together. The cartoonist signed as ‘Monkey’ at below. At that time Burmese people called the British as ...

A Day At The Monastery

(Photo - My parents offered the yellow robe and our donation. T he head monk received and invested the congregation with the Three Gems and Eight Precepts.) 2 nd January of 2013 was now 14 years since our granny passed away. Time passed so quick that it was happened like yesterday. But we never forget the day my granny passed away. We always did good deed to remember our granny’s memorial. To this year 2013, for 2 nd January, we prepared yellow robe or some donation before the very day. We were happy to do such a good deed to our granny and prayed a lot for her hoping to watch from heaven see our good deed with joy and delight. What Monastery Mean To Buddhists To go to the monastery was not really a duty to the Buddhist people. People loved going there on Sabbath day or had an interesting time for doing meditation or discussing Buddhists scriptures with other. People especially chose the day which concerned the remembrance of their relatives p...

The Adventure of My Practicing Sunlun Way of Vipassana Meditation (2)

I seem to be always writing about myself, my dear readers? I hope someone who may read what I write will understand that these adventures contain a great deal about me. I would have you to know that since I was a little girl indeed, I seldom dared to open my heart to anybody else except to my readers. You will always be a lucky person at all as long as you are my reader. The adventure of my practicing Sunlun way of Vipassana Meditation in the memories of my childhood was not as smooth as silk. But I never felt ashamed to recall my memories, and write down openly to my readers. My Childhood Memory Our Venerable Monk - Sunlun Sayadaw U Vinaya (1914, 5th August Wednesday - 2012 6th October Saturday) (Sayadaw at 59 years of monkhood.) Sunlun Sayadaw U Vinaya (Former Head of Kaba Aye Sunlun Gu Kuyaung Meditation Centre, 7th Miles) showed us how to practice meditation for total 100 minutes; 50 minutes for breathe hard, and another 50 minutes for keeping full mindf...

Burmese Days and Flowers (I)

(Illustration - Maung Yit) Each year during the water festival which welcomes the Burmese New Year which falls on the 2 nd week of April every year, we make the Thingyan Pot or we called it ‘A Tar Pot’. (Thingyan Pot also known as 'A Tar Pot.) It is a pot of flowers representing the seven-day born to welcome Tha- Gyar-Min, king of the celestials who comes and visits the human abode during Thingyan festival. Thingyan Pot is culturally Burmese and Buddhist in nature. (Tha-Gyar-Min King of the celestials. - drawing by Maung Yit.) Burmese Buddhists show their loving kindness to all the human being by offering the ‘Seven-Day-Born’ flowers or leaves at the foot of the pagodas. (We believe there is no enemy among the ‘what-day-born’. All is given equally our loving kindness.) At the foot of the Buddha image, we recite: ‘I take refuge in Buddha; I take refuge in His Teachings, I take refuge in t...

DHAMMA - DANA – Sunlun Way of Vipassana Meditation

Related Link; 2023 June Updated Youtube Video https://juniorwin-english.blogspot.com/2023/06/dhamma-dana-by-junior-win.html (2023 June Related Video) (A Pagoda at Myingyan) I received letters from my readers who discussed with me the ‘ Sunlun Way of Vipassana Meditation ’ , and I heard their interest about the Sunlun Sayadaw; U Vinaya. I was familiar with the meditation since my childhood, because I was born in Burma, born as a Buddhist, and luckily I was born in the Buddhist family who are familiar with the Sunlun way of meditation. Here, I want to share you, this booklet that was written by my father, and he distributed to all the people around the world who are interested in Sunlun Way of Meditation. The book called ' THE SUNLUN WAY OF VIPASSANA MEDITATION. The Basics of the Method' in both English and Burmese language, is now freely for all the public to know the Sunlun way of meditation. Originally in Burmese was w...

A Memory of My Grandparents…. (U) Khin Maung Latt and (Daw) Khin Myo Chit

Their Brief Stories (My grandpa with a Traditional Burmese clothes in 1958-59.) (U) Khin Maung Latt (1915 – 1996), my grandfather, was an English teacher, already looked like a teacher. On his face there was something, which reminds one of Sherlock Holmes. If he wore a long coat with a cherrywood pipe in his mouth, he would be a living image of Sherlock Holmes. He never smoked, but he had once a habit of smoking cigar. I knew because I saw him smoking in the photograph. But I was told that he gave up smoking since we were born. He did not wish my twin brother to follow his smoking habit. (My grandpa had a habit of smoking cigar, I knew because I saw him smoking in the photograph.) My grandpa was a tall man in figure with a height of 5 feet 11. His smiling lips showed his kind and sympathy. He loved to teach English grammar, essays, Shakespeare’s Plays and Bernard Shaw’s Short Stories. He had a habit of doing preparation ...

2020 Silent Burmese Thingyan Festival

We welcome our Burmese New Year beginning with three days or 4 days of water festival begins on 13th April and will end on 15th or 16th of April. This year, 2020 Thingyan festival was now under the order of ‘stay-at-home’ from an authority by ordering residents to stay home except for family health care or going to the market to control Covid-19. People were not allowed to have nice clean fun with dear friends sprinkling water on one another in the Thingyan or Watering Festival. However there is no welcoming water festival for Myanmar New Year, we all have a chance to welcome Tha-Gyar-Min, king of the celestial. (Tha-Gyar-Min, King of the celestial) (Illustrated by Maung Yit) Tha-Gyar-Min, king of the Celestial comes and visits the human abode during Thingyan Festival. We welcome Thingyan Pot (Atar Owe) prepared by seven-day-born flowers or leaves, the symbol of Burmese New Year. We can buy Thingyan Pot including flowers and leaves at the market easily. (Thingyan pots...

A Visit To The Shwedagon Pagoda

(Still crowded, and crowded at the pagoda platform whether it rained heavily or under the bad weather.) People visited to the Shwedagon Pagoda frequently. Paying respect at the foot of the pagoda is one of the ways of Buddhist life. People crowded at the Pagoda platform every time we visited. Practice meditation, offering flowers, candles, incenses or colorful things, or walking on the pagoda platform mostly as keeping the Shwedagon Pagoda at the right side, or praying, etc that Buddhists usually do. (Watering stupa, and mythical symbol, at the birthday corner.) When I was young, I went to the Shwedagon pagoda with my friends the time final examination finished. We prayed, and wished for what we wanted at the foot of the pagoda. Surely we were wishing to pass the examination with distinction, or with credit. (We wish everything we want at the foot of the pagoda.) Today, I was going to ...

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