ခႏၶာငါးပါး စုေပါင္းထားတာကို `သတၱ၀ါ´လုိ႔ေခၚတယ္။
-A 'carriage' is a composite of axle, wheels etc, a'being' is a composite
of the five Khandhas (aggregates of matter, sensations or feelings, perception,
volition or mental formations and consciousness).
-သီလျပည့္စံုရင္ သမာဓိ ပညာသည္ အလြယ္တကူ ျပည့္စံုနိုင္တယ္။
-If you can live a moral, blameless life (i.e. have sila), concentration(samadhi)
and wisdom (panna) are easy to obtion.
-သီလဆိုတဲ့ တံခါးပိတ္ထားရင္ ကာယဒြါရ ၀စိဒြါရမွ အကုသို္လ္ေတြ ၀င္မလာႏိုင္ဘူး။
-Your moral control (sila) can act as a closed door through which no evil can pass.
-အေျပာေကာင္းေပမဲ့ စိတ္ဓါတ္က ယုတ္ည့ံလွ်င္ ေရသဖန္းသီးမွည့္လို လူမ်ဴိးပဲျဖစ္မယ္။
-A person with a good and glib tongue, but evil of mind is like a ripe fig.
-သီလကို မွီခုိၿပီးေနရင္ မဂ္ဥာဏ္ဖိုလ္ဥာဏ္ ခ်က္ျခင္းမရေတာင္ ေထာင္က်ျခင္း၊အဖမ္းခံရျခင္း၊
အပါယ္ေလးပါး က်ေရာက္ျခင္းမွ ကင္းလြတ္ပါတယ္။
-A strict observance of the moral tenets
(sila) may not give you a shortened path to Nibbana,
but will surely make you free from being arrested,
being put in prison in this life and after death
save you from four undesirable abodes .
(the four apaya).
-အငွားေက်ာင္းေသာ ႏြားေက်ာင္းသားသည္ႏြားကို
ေက်ာင္းရေသာ္လည္း ႏြားနို႕အရသာကို မခံစားရသကဲ့သို႔ တရားမက်င့္သူသသည္
ပိဋကတ္သံုးပံုကို သင္ၾကားပိုခ် ေဟာေျပာျပသေနေသာ္လည္း မဂ္ဖိုလ္အရသာကို မခံစားရဘူး
-A paid cowherd never gets to enjoy
the milk from the cow although he looks after the cow.
So also a persom busy teaching buddha's
scriptures to the others, but not practising vipassana
himself will never enjoy the fruits of
vipassana fulfilment and contentment.
-ႏွမ္းေစ့ေလာက္ သူမ်ားအျပစ္ မၾကည့္နဲ႕၊အုန္းသီးေလာက္ ကိုယ့္အျပစ္
ျမင္ေအာင္ၾကည့္။
-Don't let yourself dwell on the faults of
others which may be as small as sesame seed.
Dwell on your own faults possibly as big as a coconut.
-သီလမရွိရင္ လက္မွတ္မပါဘဲ ရထားခုိးစီးတဲ့ လူလုိပဲ ဣေျႏၵရရ မေနနုိင္ဘူး။
A person devoid of morality is like a person riding atrain without a ticket.
He will not be able to keep himself calm and dignified.
He will always be afraid of being caught.
-သတိပ႒ာန္တရားေလးပါး မပြားမ်ားလွ်င္ သူေတာ္ေကာင္းတရားၾကာရွည္စြာမတည္ဘူး။
သတိပ႒ာန္တရားေလးပါး ပြားမ်ားလွ်င္ သူေတာ္ေကာင္းတရားၾကာရွည္စြာတည္မယ္။
-Without proper practice of the four foundation
doctrines of mindfulness (the four satipatthana),
it is impossible to keep oneself a good,
virtuous and worthy person. Only with
proper observance of the four doctrines
that religious virtue can be sustained.
-မိတ္ေကာင္းေဆြေကာင္း ဆရာသမားေကာင္းကို ေပါင္းရလို႔ရွိရင္မျဖစ္ေသးတဲ့
ကုသိုလ္တရားေတြလည္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ျဖစ္ၿပီးသား အကုသိုလ္တရားေတြလည္း
ဆုတ္ယုတ္သြားတယ္။
-A good friend or a good teacher can
encourage thoughts, words and deeds of
merit (kuso). They can even help
diminish demerit (akuso) of old.
-အျပစ္ကုိ ေဖာ္ျပၿပီး အက်ဴိးကိုလုိလားတဲ့စိတ္နဲ႕ေျပာဆိုဆံုးမတဲ့ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ဟာ
ႀကီးႀကီးငယ္ငယ္ ကိုယ့္ဆရာပါပဲ။
-Constructive criticism given by one,
whatever his age is, makes gim your mentor.
-ဟင္းတစ္စက္ လက္ႏွီးစုတ္ေပၚက်ရင္
မထူးျခားေပမယ့္ လက္ကိုင္ပ၀ါေပၚက်ရင္ေတာ့
ထင္ထင္ရွားရွားႀကီး ျဖစ္ေနတယ္။
မိမိကိုယ္ကို လက္ကိုင္ပ၀ါလုိ သေဘာထားၿပီး
သီလလံုၿခံဳေအာင္ထိနး္ပါ။
-A stain on a dirty rag is hardly noticeable;
a stain on a clean handkerchief is clearly visible.
Think of yourself as a handkerchief and protect
yourself from stains by means of good moral living (sila).