ေဆာင္ထားသင္႔ေသာ မွတ္ေက်ာက္

တစ္ႏွစ္ေႏြရာသီ သၾကၤန္တရားစခန္းတစ္ခု ေမေမႏွင္႔အတူတရားစခန္း၀င္ခဲ႔စဥ္က အားလပ္ခ်ိန္မွာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ဖတ္ခဲ႔ဘူးေသာ အဂၤလိပ္ဘာသာစာအုပ္တစ္အုပ္မွ ဘာသာေရးယုံၾကည္မႈ/ အရာရာကုိယ္ပုိင္ဆုံးျဖတ္ပုိင္ခြင္႔ႏွင္႔ပတ္သက္ကာ ကုိယ္တုိင္မွတ္ေက်ာက္တင္နုိင္ေသာ ဗုဒၶဘုရားရွင္ေပးခဲ႔ေသာ မွတ္ေက်ာက္ပါ။ သူငယ္ခ်င္းမ်ားလည္း အရာရာကုိ ဆုံးျဖတ္မႈမမွားေစဖုိ႔ မွတ္ေက်ာက္တစ္ခ်ပ္ကုိ ေ၀ငွေပးတာပါ။ အေရးၾကံဳက အေတြးဉာဏ္မွတ္ေက်ာက္ေဖာ္သုန္းနိဳင္ပါေစ…
ရုိးရုိးေလးစြမ္းနိဳင္သမွ် ျမန္မာဘာသာပါ ျပန္ေပးထားပါတယ္။
ဗုဒၶဘုရားရွင္ ေကာသလတုိင္း ေကသပုတၱရြာ၌ ေနစဥ္ ဘာသာေရးအယူ၀ါဒႏွင္႔ပတ္၍ သံသယျဖစ္ေနေသာ“ကာလာမအမ်ိဳးသား/အမ်ိဳးသမီး”တုိ႔အား ေျပာၾကားခဲ႔ေသာ ဘာသာတရားစသည္ကုိ ကုိယ္ပုိင္ဉာဏ္ျဖင္႔ ဆုံးျဖတ္နိဳင္/လက္ခံနိဳင္ေသာ ဥပေဒစည္းမ်ဥ္း ၁၀ခ်က္-
1. Do not accept anything on mere hearsay (i.e., thinking that thus have we heard it from a long time).
သတင္းစကားကုိ ၾကားရုံမွ်ျဖင္႔ နားမေယာင္/လက္မခံေလႏွင္႔။
2. Do not accept anything by mere tradition (i.e., thinking that it has thus been handed down through many generations).
အစဥ္အလာျဖစ္ေပသည္ဟူ၍လည္း လက္မခံေလႏွင္႔။
3. Do not accept anything on account of rumors (i.e., by believing what others say without any investigation).
လူေျပာသူေျပာ တစ္ဆင္႔စကားကုိၾကားယုံမွ်ျဖင္႔လည္း မယုံ/လက္မခံေလႏွင္႔။
4. Do not accept anything just because if accords with your scriptures.
ဘာသာေရးက်မ္းၾကီးမ်ားကုိ ကုိးကားေျပာ၍လည္း မွန္လွျပီဟု မွန္ထင္ကာ မယုံၾကည္/လက္မခံေလႏွင္႔။
5. Do not accept anything by mere supposition.
မွန္းဆနည္းႏွင္႔ ဆင္ျခင္ၾကံဆ ယူရုံမွ်ကုိလည္း နားမေယာင္/လက္မခံေလႏွင္႔။
6. Do not accept anything by mere inference.
ပုံပန္းအျမင္ သ႑ာန္ၾကည့္၍လည္း မဆုံးျဖတ္/လက္မခံေလႏွင္႔။
7. Do not accept anything merely considering the appearance. ေရာ္ရမ္းမွန္းဆယူရေသာသေဘာ ထင္ျမင္ခ်က္ကုိလည္း အမွန္ဟု မမွတ္/ လက္မခံလႏွင္႔။
8. Do not accept anything merely because it agrees with your preconceived notions.
ျဖစ္နိဳင္ေကာင္း၏ဟု ထင္ျမင္ရရုံျဖင္႔လည္း မယုံၾကည္/လက္မခံေလႏွင္႔။
9. Do not accept anything merely because it seems acceptable (i.e., should be accepted).
လက္ခံသင္႔သည္ဟု အထင္တစ္လုံးႏွင္႔လည္း မယုံၾကည့္/လက္မခံေလႏွင္႔။
10. Do not accept anything thinking that the ascetic is respected by us ( and therefore it is right to accept his word).
အသင္တုိ႔ ကုိးကြယ္ဆည္းကပ္ရာ ဆရာသမားျဖစ္ေပသည္ဟူေသာ သေဘာေၾကာင္႔လည္ မွန္လွျပီဟု တထစ္ခ် မမွတ္ၾက/လက္မခံေလႏွင္႔။
“But when you know for yourselves – these things are immoral, these things are blameworthy, these things are censured by the wise, these things, when performed and undertaken, conduce to ruin and sorrow – and then indeed do you reject them.
“When you know for yourselves – these things are moral, these things are blameless, these things are praised by the wise, these things, when performed and undertaken, conduce to well-being and happiness – and then do you live and act accordingly.”
ဒါေပမယ္႔ သင္တုိ႔သည္ အခ်ိဳ႕ေသာအေၾကာင္းတရားသည္ အကုသုိလ္ျဖစ္သည္၊ မမွန္ကန္၊ မေကာင္းက်ိဳးကုိျဖစ္ေစသည္ဟု သင္တုိ႔ကုိယ္တုိင္ကုိယ္က် သိရွိ၏။ ထုိအေၾကာင္း တရားမ်ားကုိ စြန္႔ပယ္ၾကကုန္။
အခ်ိဳ႕အေၾကာင္းတရားမ်ားမွာမူ ကုသုိလ္ျဖစ္သည္၊ ေကာင္းက်ိဳးျဖစ္ေစသည္ဟု အသင္တုိ႔ ကုိယ္တုိင္ကုိယ္က်သိ၏။ ထုိအေၾကာင္းတရားမ်ားကုိ ႏွစ္သက္စြားလက္ခံ၍ လုိက္နာ က်င္႔ၾကံၾကေပေတာ႔။
These Wise sayings of the Buddha, uttered some 2500 years ago, still retain their original force and freshness even in this enlightened twentieth century.
လူလိမ္ေပါတဲ႔ေလာကၾကီးမွာ free from လိမ္ညာခံရမႈအေထြေထြမွ.....