Life is not about existing but about living to the fullest. Everyday we learn, grow, adopt new ideas and give meaning to our existence.
Learning is a continuous process: Education changes our thinking and lifestyle. Your knowledge defines your personality. As you acquire more knowledge, you tend to become more balanced and have more command over your life.
Live a healthy life: A healthy mind resides in a healthy body. The condition of our body has a serious impact on our lifestyle. We need to nourish our body. Balanced diet, regular exercise and good sleep are the primary requisites of a healthy body.
Spend time with your loved ones: Without family and friends, it would not have been worth living. We believe in sharing our thoughts. We love to nurture our relationships. It is the emotional bond with our loved ones that take us a mile ahead.
Do what you believe in: Apart from the daily chores, engaging in an activity of your choice brings happiness and satisfaction. Whether you want to give a spiritual touch to your life or want to take part in an adventurous sport, by the end of the day it should bring smile to your face. Doing something you strongly believe in to bring out the best in you.
Be at the summit of what you do: If we put our best foot forward, we are bound to excel in what we do. Develop a niche for yourself. Consistency at work will take you a long way.
Value resources: Value the resources that you have earned over the years. Do not let the materialistic world over rule you. The worth of your life is not defined by what you earn but how you earn. Manage your resources intelligently and save money for the rainy days.
Be self – dependent: With all your limbs active, do not live a crippled life. Believe in yourself and go ahead in life. Self dependence brings freedom and satisfaction.
Build a home not a house: The home is the place where you can “be yourself”. The home is the place where we feel at ease. The home binds the family together and defines the integrity of the house.
Be honest: Honesty can buy peace of mind. Life is simpler for an honest person. Respect everyone: One can earn respect only when one learns to respect others. Irrespective of age, sex, and ethnicity everyone should be respected equally.
Try something out of the box: Life is full of experiments. Instead of living a monotonous life, it is always better to try new things. Share your interesting experiences with your loved ones. Real life experiences are the most effective ways of learning practical lessons.
Be responsible for your actions: Your actions will reflect your personality. Taking ownership of your actions will make you feel proud and responsible.
Live up to your promise: Going by the marketing jargon, if you under sell your services and deliver quality output, it will act as “customer delight” but if your flowery selling pitch is not at par with your quality of service, you fail to match your customer’s expectations. Realize your potential and promise accordingly.
It is wise to spend less energy on talking and more energy on listening: Wise men are good listeners. They speak quality and deliver nothing but the best.
Do not be a jack of all trades and master of none: Multitasking can be good, provided you know your domain of expertise. Your involvement in diverse streams will not take you to your goal. Focus on what you can specialize. Being best in a domain is much better than being a mediocre in all fields.
Convert your weakness to your strength: If your life is restricted because of physical disability, use all your resources to discover your area of strength. Ray Charles Robinson was a world famous singer, who did not stop chasing his dreams because of his blindness.
Special moments add joy to our lives: We cherish and treasure the special moments in our lives. The compassionate touch of a friend, the affectionate words of a mother, and the smile of an innocent child can bring us joy.
Follow your dreams: If you intend to make it big, define your path to reach the goal.
Be prepared for the unexpected: Often we come across unexpected situations in life. Flexibility and adaptability can make life simpler for you.
Live in the present: We cannot live in the past or predict future. The present is in our hands. So we need to value every moment of our lives.
We convince ourselves that life will be better once we are married, have a baby, then another. ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔သည္ အိမ္ေထာင္ျပဳလုိက္လွ်င္ ပုိမုိေပ်ာ္ရႊင္လိမ့္မည္ အထင္ႏွင့္ အိမ္ေထာင္ျပဳလုိက္ၾကသည္၊ ကေလးတစ္ေယာက္ရသည္၊ ေနာက္ထပ္တစ္ေယာက္ရသည္။
Then we get frustrated because our children are not old enough, and that all will be well when they are older. တစ္ခါ ကေလးမ်ား အရြယ္မေရာက္အခ်င္း စိတ္ပူပန္ရျပန္သည္၊ အရြယ္ျမန္ျမန္ေရာက္ၾကမွ ေကာင္းမည္ဟု ေတြးမိျပန္သည္။
Then we are frustrated because they reach adolescence and we must deal with them. Surely
we’ll be happier when they grow out of the teen years. တစ္ခါ သူတုိ႔ေလးေတြ ဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္အရြယ္ေရာက္လာေတာ့ ေျပာရဆုိရ ဆုံးမရ ခက္လာသျဖင့္
We tell ourselves our life will be better when our spouse gets his/her act together, when we have a nicer car, when we can take a vacation, when we finally retire. ကုိယ့္ခ်င္းကုိယ့္ခ်င္း လင္မယားခ်င္းၾကျပန္ေတာ့လည္း ဒုိးတူေဘာင္ဘက္ စိတ္ဓါတ္လည္း ရွိပါဦးမွ စိတ္ခ်မ္း သာရ သည္။ လင္ေရာ မယားပါ အၿငိမ္းစားယူၿပီးခ်ိန္မွာ ကားေလးတစ္စီးရွိဖုိ႔၊ ဟုိနား ဒီနား ခရီးေလးသြားႏုိင္ဖုိ႔ မအိုခင္က လင္ကုိယ္မယားဖက္ ရုန္းရျပန္သည္။
The truth is that there is no better time to be happy than right now. If not, then when? Your life will always be full of challenges. It is better to admit as much and to decide to be happy in spite of it all. တကယ္ေျပာရရင္ေတာ့ ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ဖုိ႔အတြက္ အခုထက္ေကာင္းတဲ့ အခ်ိန္မရွိပါ။ အခု မေပ်ာ္ဘူးဆုိရင္ ဘယ္အခ်ိန္က်မွ ေပ်ာ္မလဲ...စဥ္းစားၾကည့္ပါ။ ဘ၀ဆုိတာ စိန္ေခၚမႈေတြ အၿမဲျပည့္ေနတာပါ။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ အခုပဲ ေပ်ာ္ေအာင္ေနပါ။
For the longest time, it seemed that life was about to start. Real life. But there was always some obstacle along the way, an ordeal to get through, some work to be finished, some time to be given, a bill to be paid. Then life would start. I finally came to understand that those obstacles were life. ဘ၀ဆုိတာ ေနဖုိ႔ဟု ထင္ခဲ့ၾကသည္၊ တကယ္ေတာ့ လုပ္ရကုိင္ရ၊ ရွာရေဖြရႏွင့္ အခ်ိန္ကုန္သည္။ အခ်ိန္ကုန္ ေနတာပင္ ဘ၀ျဖစ္ေတာ့သည္ကုိးဟု အခုမွ သေဘာပိုင္ပုိင္ေပါက္ေတာ့သည္။
That point of view helped me see that there isn’t any road to happiness. Happiness IS theroad. ဆုိေတာ့ ဘ၀မွာ ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ဖုိ႔ဆုိတာ ဘာနည္းမွ တကယ္မရွိပါ၊ ေပ်ာ္ေအာင္ေနတတ္တဲ့စိတ္ကသာ ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ေစတာပါ။
So, enjoy every moment. Stop waiting for school to end, for a return to school, to lose ten pounds, to gain ten pounds, for work to begin, to get married, for Friday evening, for Sunday morning, waiting for a new car, for your mortgage to be paid off, for spring, for summer, for fall, for winter, for the first or the fifteenth of the month, for your song to be played on the radio, to die, to be reborn… before deciding to be happy. အခ်ဳပ္ေျပာရရင္ေတာ့ဗ်ာ အခုပဲ ေပ်ာ္ေအာင္ေနၾကပါ။ ေနာက္မွလုိ႔ မလုပ္ပါနဲ႔ေတာ့။ ေက်ာင္းမပိတ္ေသးလို႔၊ ေက်ာင္း၀င္ခြင့္ မရေသးလုိ႔၊ ပိန္ေအာင္ အရင္လုပ္မယ္၊ ၀ေအာင္ အရင္လုပ္မယ္၊ ရည္းစားေလး ရွာမယ္၊ မိန္းမ ယူမယ္၊ ေယာက်္ားရွာမယ္၊ ေသာၾကာညေနမွ၊ တနဂၤေႏြ မနက္မွ၊ ကားသစ္ရမွ၊ အေၾကြးေက်မွ၊ ေႏြဦးေရာက္မွ၊ ေဆာင္းဦး ေပါက္မွ၊ မဂၤလာႏွစ္ပတ္လည္က်မွ၊ ကုိယ့္ေတာင္းထားတဲ့ သီခ်င္းေလး ေရဒီယုိက လႊင့္ေတာ့မွ စတဲ့ အခ်ိန္တစ္ခုခု ေရာက္မွ၊ အေျခအေန တစ္ခုခုျဖစ္ထြန္းမွ ဆုိတာေတြ လုပ္မေနပါနဲ႔ေတာ့၊ မေသခင္ေလး... ဘ၀မကူးခင္ေလး အတြင္းမွာ ရသမွ် အခုိက္အတန္႔ေလးတုိင္းကုိ ေပ်ာ္ေအာင္ေနၾကပါ။
Happiness is a voyage, not a destination.There is no better time to be happy than… NOW!Live and enjoy the moment. ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္မႈဆုိတာ အဆုံးသတ္မဟုတ္ပါဘူး၊ အစပါ...ဒါေၾကာင့္ အခုပဲ စလုိက္ပါ။ အခုစရင္ အခုပဲ ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ၾကမွာပါ။
Some critics have a tendency to label Buddhism as a religion with supra-mundane goals, devoid of the concept of love and friendship for living in this world. But the Tripitaka furnishes us with ample evidence to prove that the Buddha considered living in harmony and friendship without disputes (Samagga Sammodamana avivadamana) an important human relationship based on love.
Metta or Loving Kindness envelopes much more than mere love. Etymologically the word Metta means the nature of a friend - (mittassa sabhavo). In other words, a friendly spirit which is edified, not only on love, but on loving kindness. In modern parlance, the word "love" has rather a cheap connotation, but Metta when taken in its real perspective encapsulates all the noble human feelings a person could shower on another." Metta (loving kindness), Karuna (compassion), Muditha (altruistic joy) and Upeksha (equanimity), which are known as Satara Brahma Vihara or the Four Noble patterns of behaviour form the very sheet anchor of Buddhist friendly, ethical conduct. The spirit of love and friendship promulgated by these, cover a much wider spectrum than mere love, which is supposed to be lacking in Buddhism.
It is mentioned in Samyutta Nikaya that once Ven. Ananda approached the Buddha and remarked that "half of the dispensation is based on friendship, companionship and association with the good." to which the Buddha replied " Ven. Ananda, do not say so. Not half, but man's entire life is established on friendship, companionship and association with the good."
The friendly disposition among the Bhikkus towards each other was so admirable and imitable that King Ajatasattu who was not so well disposed towards Buddhism had remarked according to Samananaphala Sutta of the Digha Nikaya that "the monks lived in unity talking to each other with mutual friendliness ..... mixing with each other like milk and water and seeing each other with pleasing eyes." (Nirodha Ki Dhuta annamannam Piya Cakkhuhi Sampassamana) and had even gone further and said, "How nice it would be if my son Udayabhadda too could possess these friendly qualities."
Again, it occurs in Majjhima Nikaya that once the Buddha questioned Ven. Anuruddha how the Bhikkhus were getting along with each other, and the Venerable replied thus, "Lord, we have diverse bodies but assuredly only one mind." (Na na hi kho pan a bhante kayam ekam ca kho manne cittam).
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