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ဓမၼိကာရာမ သာသနာ့ရိပ္သာ အမွတ္တရ ဓာတ္ပုံမ်ား

ထား၀ယ္တုိ ့ရဲ ့အလံေတာ္

[Tavoy People]

ထား၀ယ္က်က္သေရဗုဒၶအေမြ

ျမန္မာအမ်ဳိးမညွုိးေစရ အသွ်င္အဂၢဓမၼ

Issue: 2009

Campaigning Monks

Demonstration in Manhattan.  Photo courtesy of the International Burmese Monks Organization.
Demonstration in Manhattan. Photo courtesy of the International Burmese Monks Organization.
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Kovida dyed his newly-budding hair blond, stripped off his saffron robes and climbed over a brick wall. Carrying a false identification card and wearing a crucifix around his neck, he made his way toward the Thai border. For two weeks he hid in a tiny abandoned wooden hut in a small village 40 miles outside of Yangon. There was no running water, and little food. He was afraid to make any noise. Finally he left, running out barefoot in the middle of the night, diving into bushes and ditches whenever a car passed. By the time the October 18 edition of “The New Light of Myanmar” had falsely accused him of hiding “48 yellowish high-explosive TNT cartridges” in his monastery, Kovida was already in Thailand. He soon applied for asylum in the United States.
Stories of the Generation of ‘88
About 50,000 Burmese live in the United States, 2,000 of them in Elmhurst, a downtrodden neighborhood full of middle and working class immigrant families. Some Burmese here are families with children, looking for education; others are adults looking for work. But many are refugees, who simply don’t look back. And the monks who live in Elmhurst say they have no intention of returning soon.
The Elmurst Burmese community began forming after the last big spurt of anti-junta protests, in 1988, and the cancelation of a 1990 parliamentary election won by the party of democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains under house arrest. U Aggadhamma, an activist of the Generation of ’88, has a story to tell from that time.
The barefoot monks filed inside, to their acetic main room, with its single couch and big oriental rug. They pulled their white folding chairs into a circle and prepared to talk.
U Aggadhamma sat very still, lips pursed, looking nervous at the prospect of sharing his story. He hesitated, looking around the circle of his fellow monks. Spiritual Director U Pannya Vamsa nodded in encouragement, and said, in a low, hypnotically calm om of a voice: “She wants the truth.”
Shortly after the ’88 protests, U Aggadhamma said, he was sentenced to five years in jail. His crime was refusing alms from government officials—a thousand-year-old tradition specifying that monks may refuse aid from those they want to rebuke for breaking Buddha’s laws.
In prison, Aggadhamma was stripped naked, and forced to lie on the cold cement floor of the cell. His jailers tortured and beat him when he would not answer their questions. After five years, “I completed my suffering,” he said, and was released. He resumed wearing his saffron robe, and agitating against the regime, though he likely would have been punished had he been caught. Then in 2000, he won the green card lottery, and with it the right to live in the United States.
“He was a lucky monk,” U Nayaka, his translator, teased.
U Aggadhamma didn’t smile. He gazed at the wall, an absent look in his eyes. His chair was closest to a string of lights hanging over a 35-pound white pearl statue of Buddha carried from India, displayed on a shelf of the faux-wood bookcase. For a moment, the flashes of green, red, and yellow lights seemed to make his orange-red robe shine the brightest.
Most of the monks live in monasteries, but the organization keeps a small staff a headquarters. Every morning at 5, they rise and pray to the white pearl Buddha in a corner. “We don’t pray to the statue, but see it and our mind goes to Buddha,” explained U Khemissara, a youthful monk nicknamed “The Monk Star.” He got this nickname because, before he became a monk, he was the hottest rock musician in Burmese Elmhurst.
“Hard rock,” he specified.
U Khemissara came to New York at 17, and attended Cardozo High School in Bayside, one of New York City’s best public high schools. He became lead guitarist of Mahura (Black Stone), which performed for the Burmese community. The group’s most popular song was “Breaking the Law.” But in 2006 he found a new calling: he returned to Burma, and joined the monkhood.
“The junta tried to make it seem like I came to Burma to cause trouble and stir the people,” he said shaking his head.
By the time he’d returned to New York in May 2007, he’d shaved off his shoulder-length rocker hair. But he is still a kind of lead vocal, with a hard voice. He organized and led the protest in front of the Burmese consulate in New York in September 2007, urging compassion for the monks, nuns, and people he’d left behind in Burma three months before. He roared on behalf of those suffering from poverty, hunger and health problems.
“They have no voice,” U Pannya Vamsa said in a choked outburst. “They have no voice.”
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About 2,000 Burmese live in Elmhurst. Some are families with children, looking for education; others are adults looking for work. But many are refugees, who simply don’t look back.

ေအးခ်မ္းေပစြျမတ္ဗုဒၶ

သမုိင္းအရျမန္မာ(၇)မ်ဳိး

ျမန္မာစကားမွာ လူမ်ိဳးတရာ႔တပါးဆိုတဲ႔ ဆိုရိုးစကားရိွပါတယ္။ဒါဟာလည္းျမန္မာျပည္တြင္းရိွ လူမ်ိဳးေတြကို ဆိုလိုတာမဟုတ္ဘဲ ကမၻာေပၚရိွလူမ်ိဳးေတြကို ဆိုလိုတာပါ။ ဒီဆိုလိုခ်က္ကိုလည္း ဘယ္ေခတ္၊ဘယ္အခါက မွတ္တမ္းစတင္ခဲ႔လည္း ဆိုတာကုိလည္း အစရွာဖို႔ ခက္ပါတယ္။လူမ်ိဳးတရာ႔တပါးမွာ--
၁။ျမန္မာ ၇မ်ိဳး
၁။ ျမန္္မာ၊
၂။ ျပဴ၊
၃။ ေတာင္သူ၊
၄။ ကမ္းယံ၊
၅။ ေယာ၊
၆။ ရခိုင္၊
၇။ ထားဝယ္။

 

ကိုယ္ ့အလုပ္ကိုယ္လုပ္ေစခ်င္ပါသည္

ကြ်န္ေတာ္ျမန္မာျပည္သူျပည္သားရဟန္းရွင္လူေက်ာင္းသားေက်ာင္းသူ
လုပ္သမားလယ္သမားစစ္သားအားလုံးကိုေလးစားခင္မင္ပါေသာေၾကာင့္
ရပ္ေ၀းကေနေပမဲ ့အၾကံေတြေပးပါရေစလုိရင္းနဲ ့တုိ ရွင္းေျပာရရင္မိမိ
တုိ ့တာ၀န္ကိုမိမိတုိ ့ေက်ျပြန္စြာထမ္းရြက္ၾကေစခ်င္သည္အက်ယ္ဖြင့္
ေျပာရမယ္ဆုိရင္စစ္သားသည္ျပည္သူ ့ဖက္ရပ္တည္ျပီးုျပည္သူအတြက္
ကာကြယ္ရန္ျဖစ္သည္ ၊ရဟန္းသာမေဏတုိ ့သည္ျမတ္ဗုဒၶႊရဲ ့တရားေတာ္
မ်ားျဖစ္ေသာပရိယတၱိ ပ႗ိပတၱိတုိ ့ကိုကိုယ္တုိင္သင္ၾကားျပီးမလိမၼာမယဥ္
ေက်းသူအားလုံးကိုလိမၼာယဥ္ေက်း၍မဂၢဖုိလ္သို ့ေရာက္ေအာင္သင္ၾကား
ျပသဆုံဆုံးမနည္းလမ္းျပသင့္ေပသည္၊ျမတ္ဗုဒၶသည္လူမ်ဳိးဘာသာမခြဲပါ
သတၱ၀ါအားလုံးသည္ရုပ္နဲ ့နာမ္ဘဲ့ခြဲျပထားပါသည္ထုိကဲ ့သို ့ေသာအ
ေၾကာင္းအခ်က္လက္ေတြကိုေဟာေျပာညြန္ျပသြန္သင္ဆုံးမေပးခ်င္း
သည္ျမတ္ဗုဒၶကအထူးကိုလက္ခံပါလိမ့္မည္အေၾကာင္းကိုဆုိရပါမူသိၾကား
မင္းႏွင့္ျဗဟၼာမင္းတုိ ့အေကာင္းဆုံးစကားတုိ ့ကိုျပိဳင္ေျပာၾကရာ၀ယ္
ျဗဟၼာမင္းကမေကာင္းသူမွန္သမွ်ကိုအကုန္လုံးသုတ္သင္ရွင္းလင္းသတ္
ပစ္ရမယ္တဲ ့တခ်ဳိ ့နတ္ေတြကလက္မခံဘူးအားလည္းမေပးဘူးတဲ ့တခ်ဳိ ့
ကေတာ ့လက္ခံတယ္ဆုိပါစုိ ့သိၾကာမင္းအလွည့္ေရာက္ေတာ့သိၾကား
မင္းကသတၱ၀ါေတြအားလုံးကိုေမတၱာထားျပီးမလိမၼာသူကုိလိမၼာေအာင္
မယဥ္ေက်းသူကိုယဥ္ေက်းေအာင္၇ုပ္ရင္းက်န္းထမ္းသူကိုႏူးညပ္သိမ္ေမြ ့
ေအာင္သူတုိ ့ရဲ ့စရုိက္ေတြကိုၾကည္ ့ျပီးေတာ္ေအာင္ေကာင္းေအာင္
ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးရမယ္တဲ ့အဲဒီအခ်ိန္မွနတ္ေတြအားလုံးကလက္ခုပ္
ၾသဘာေပးၾကတာတဲ ့သိၾကားမင္းနဲ ့ျဗဟၼာမင္းဘယ္သူအနုိင္ရမလဲ
ဒါဆုိရဟန္းသံဃာေတြဘာလုပ္ၾကရမယ္ဆုိတာသိျပီလုိ ့ထင္တယ္
ေက်ာင္းသားေက်ာင္းသူေတြပညာေရးနိမ္ ့ၾကလာတာအႏွစ္ေျခာက္
ဆယ္ေက်ာ္ျပီယခုလက္ရွိအေျခအေနအရအနွစ္မပါတဲ ့ပညာေရး
ေတြေၾကာင့္ဘယ္ေနရာဘယ္တုိင္းျပည္မွာမွသုံးစားလုိ ့မရျဖစ္ခဲ ့တယ္
နုိင္ငံအေရးေတြလုပ္ခဲ ့တယ္ပညာေရးေတြဆုံးရုံးခံရတာျမန္မာ
တျပည္လုံးေက်ာင္းသားေလးသိန္းေက်ာ္ငါးသိန္းနီးပါးဆုံးရုံးသြားတယ္
အဲဒါဘာေၾကာင့္ဆုံးရတာလဲအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သူလူတန္းစားတရပ္ရဲ  ့အနာ
ဂတ္အတြက္တြက္ခ်က္မွဳမရွိလုိ ့ဘဲ ့ဒီခ်ိန္မွာဆုိပညာတတ္ေတြ
မ်ားျပီးတုိင္းျပည္တုိ းတက္ရမဲ ့အခ်ိန္ျဖစ္တယ္ေနာင္လာမဲ ့ေက်ာင္း
သူေက်ာင္းသားေတြစာေပကိုအထူးကိုၾကိဳးစားသင္ ့ၾကတယ္
မိမိတုိ ့ကမက်ဳိးစားၾကရင္ေတာ့တပ္မေတာ္ကေျပာတဲ ့ေဂ်ာက္
ထဲ ကိုေရာက္မွာမုိ ့လုိ ့ပါဆုိတဲ့စကားဟာျပန္ေပၚလာဦးမွာပါ
ေခတ္သစ္စနစ္သစ္ေတြေျပာင္းျပီးတုိင္းျပည္တုိ းတက္ဖုိ ့ဆုိသည္
မွာေမာင္ေက်ာင္းသားေမာင္ေက်ာင္းသမီးတုိ ့မွတာ၀န္ၾကီးတရပ္ရွိ
တယ္ဆုိေခါင္းထဲအျမဲထည္ ့ထားၾကပါဒါေၾကာင့္ပညာေရးကိုအထူး
က်ဳိးစားဖုိ ့လုိပါသည္။လယ္သမားလုပ္သမားလူတန္းစားတ၇ပ္က
ယခုခ်ိန္မွာဘာမွလုပ္လုိ ့မရေသးပါဒီမုိကေရစီ လုိ ့အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သူလူ
တန္းစားတရပ္ကမ်က္လွည္ ့ျပေနတာကိုအထူးသတိၾကးီစြာထား
ၾကရပါလိမ့္မည္၊ယခုခ်ိန္ဟာဒီမုိကေရစီလုံး၀ကိုမဟုတ္ေသးပါ
ဒီမိုကေရစီအေရာင္ဆုိးထားတယ္လုိ ့ဘဲ ့မွတ္ယူၾကေစခ်င္သည္
ထုိ ့ေၾကာင့္ငါတုိ ့ေရွ ့ဆက္ဘာလုပ္ၾကရမည္နည္းဟုစဥ္းစားဆုံး
ျဖတ္ၾကပါ။ယခုအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သူလူတန္းစာတရပ္ကမိမိတုိ ့ရင္၀ယ္
သားေတြသကဲ ့သို ့တုိင္းျပည္အတြင္းေနထုိင္သူအားလုံးအတြက္
ကိုယ္က်ဳိးစြန္ ့အနစ္နာခံၾကပါဒါမွအေနေကာင္းအေသေကာင္း
သံသရာမွာလဲေကာင္းမွာပါစိတ္ထားတတ္ရင္ျမတ္တယ္ဆုိတာ
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