Discussion on Mind and Matter, and self.

In Suttanta, there is talk on 'I', mine, self. In Abhidhamma, there is only mind-matter. But we need to conventional truth or concept to communicate with people and to live harmony with people. We need to respect those who are older than us, wiser than us etc. There are human, people, dogs and cats etc. At the same time, we need to keep the truth in the mind, there is only mind-matter. As the mind thinks, the body acts. There is no self.

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Analytical study of the some Pāḷi words

In January 2016, we will start with the analytical study of some Pāḷi words

-Hupeyya, kilasu, Uppilāvita, kutthita sahoddha

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to All!

Below is the Burmese study lesson through New Year Wishes.


The wish at the Beginning/Foremost  of New Year

The old year finishes and fades away, and the new year has arrived.

May there be light and bright blessing

At this time the auspicious new year,  may the mind be free from all dirts (defilements).

May you be use pure mind and has only happy and serene smile in the whole year.

May the meritorious deed, property, wisdom and business be accrued (increased) just like a tide.

ႏွစ္သစ္ ဦးဆုေတာင္း

ႏွစ္ေဟာင္းကုန္ေပ်ာက္ ႏွစ္သစ္ေရာက္

ထြန္းေတာက္  မဂၤလာရွိပါေစ ။

ႏွစ္သစ္မဂၤလာ   ဤခ်ိန္ခါ စိတ္မွာညစ္မဲ ကင္းပါေစ။

တႏွစ္ပတ္လံုး  စိတ္ျဖဴသံုး ရႊင္ျပံဳးႀကည္သာ  ရွိပါေစ။

ကုသိုလ္      ဥစၥာ ပညာ စီးပြါး       

ဒီေရအလား တိုးပြါးႀကပါေစ။

We encourage you to learn the Burmese of this poem. This poem is written by Sayadaw Chanmay.

Pali and Abhidhamma teaching at Thabarwar Centre, Than Lyin.

Teaching 12 days course - Introduction to Pali and Abhidhamma,and Dependent Origination in Thabarwar Centre, Than Lyin.
Date: 5th Dec to 17th Dec 2015
Book used: Pali Made Easy, Fundamental Abhidhamma, A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma
Teacher: Sayalay Cala Theri

Two new topics

Publish two new topics today:
1. Tipitaka Listing
2. Saddhammappakasini-Yuganaddha (under Vipassana page).

Dhamma talks and recordings

Paṭisambhida-Yuganaddha (Coupled Practice in Discriminating Knowledge)
-as on February 1-6, 2015
-Contains Pali and English Translation, word-by-word translation and some elaboration by Sayadaw Dr. Nandamālā

Rebuilding Two Flood-affected schools at Kyaunggone, Irrawaddy Division.



Aggacara ITEMC has offered 12 lakhs (1200,000) to rebuilding new school for Kun Sa Pal Yun village and 10 Lakhs (1000,000)for Apin Nha Sel village