ရေသ႔ပ်ံ ရတနာလွဳိက္ဂူေတာ္ အလည္လာေရာက္ဖိတ္ေခၚပါသည္

ဘားအံျမိဳ႔နယ္ ရေသ႔ပ်ံရြာသည္ လူသိထင္ရွားေသာ ရြာၾကီးတစ္၇ြာျဖစ္ပါသည္.ရေသ့ပ်ံရြာရွိ ရေသ့ပ်ံလွဳိက္ဂူေတာ္သည္ ဗုဒၶဘာသာသမုိင္းလွဳိင္ဂူေတာ္ၾကီးျဖစ္သျဖင့္ ျမန္မာျပည္သာမက နဳိင္ငံျခားတုိင္ျပည္ရွိ ပညာရွင္ေတြ လာေရာက္ေလ့လာၾကေသာေနရာတစ္ခုျဖစ္ပါသည္.ထုိအျပင္ထုိ၇ြာ၏အနီးနားတြင္ မြန္းလူမ်ဳိးတုိ႔၏ လက္ရာမ်ားျပဳလုပ္ထားေသာ ေက်ာက္ခြက္အေျမာက္အမ်ားရွိသျဖင့္ နာမည္းၾကီးလွဳိက္ဂူေနရာတစ္ခု အျဖစ္လူသိထင္ရွားလွပါသည္.ရေသ႔ပ်ံရြာသူ၇ြားသားမ်ားသည္ စိတ္သေဘာထားျဖဴစင္ျပီး လူတုိင္းကုိခင္မင္ေရြတတ္ေသာဓေလ႔မ်ားရွိၾကသည္ ထုိ၇ြာၾကီး ဘားအံျမိဳ႔နင့္ မနီမေ၀း တည္ရွိသျဖင့္ လမ္းပန္ဆက္သြယ္ေရး အဆင္ေျပေသာေနရာတစ္ခုလည္းျဖစ္ပါသည္.ထုိေၾကာင့္သာယာလွပေသာရေသ့ပ်ံရြာၾကီးကုိလာလည္းဖုိ့ရန္ဖိတ္ေခၚပါတယ္.

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THE NATURE OF LOVE AND PLEASURE

There are different kinds of love, and these are variously expressed as motherly love, brotherly love, sensual love, emotional love, sexual love, selfish love, selfless love and universal love.
If people develop only their carnal or selfish love towards each other, that type of love cannot last long. In a true love relationship, one should not ask how much one can get, but how much one can give.
When beauty, complexion and youth start to fade away, a husband who considers only the physical aspects of love may think of acquiring another young one. That type of love is animal love or lust. If a man really develops love as an expression of human concern for another being, he will not lay emphasis only on the external beauty and physical attractiveness of his partner. The beauty and attractiveness of his partner should be in his heart and mind, not in what he sees. Likewise, the wife who follows Buddhist teachings will never neglect her husband even though he has become old, poor or sick.
"I have a fear that the modern girl loves to be Juliet to have a dozen Romeos. She loves adventure... The modern girl dresses not to protect herself from wind, rain and sun, but to attract attention. She improves upon nature by painting herself and looking extraordinary." - (Gandhi)
Sex
Sex by itself is not "evil", although the temptation and craving for it invariably disturbs the peace of mind, and hence is not conducive to spiritual development.
In the ideal situation, sex is the physical culmination of a deeply satisfying emotional relationship, where both partners give and take equally.
The portrayal of love by commercial groups through the mass media in what we call "western" culture is not "real" love. When an animal wants to have sex, it shows its "love", but after having experienced sex, it just forgets about love. For animals, sex is just an instinctive drive necessary for procreation. But a human being has much more to offer in the concept of love. Duties and responsibilities are important ingredients to maintain unity, harmony and understanding in a relationship between human beings.
Sex is not the most important ingredient for happiness in a married life. Those who have become, slaves to sex would only ruin love and humanity in marriage. Apart from that, a woman must cease to consider herself as the object of a man's lust. The remedy is more in her hand than in a man's. She must refuse to adorn herself simply to please a man, even if he is her husband. If she wants to be an equal partner with a man, she should dress so that her dignity is enhanced, and she does not become a sex symbol. "Marriage for the satisfaction of the sexual appetite is no marriage. It is oncupiscence." -- (Gandhi)
Love may indeed be a product of sex, but the reverse is likewise true: sex is an expression of love. In the ideally happy married life, both love and sex are inseparable.

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Myanmar people celebrate traditional Thadingyut lighting festival

www.chinaview.cn 2009-10-04 19:12:1
YANGON, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Roadside stalls were filled with various kinds of candles, electric lighting, paper lantern, fireworks on sale and shopping centers were offering discounts on items such as foodstuff, clothing and gifts.
With streets lit with electric lighting and residential doors and windows with colorful bulbs and lanterns hanging on, Myanmar people have been celebrating the Thadingyut Full Moon Day Lighting Festival at a grand scale for a series of three days in the biggest city of Yangon since Friday.
According to Myanmar people's belief since ages, the festival is so held in a form that people light their candles and colorful paper lanterns at homes across the country to celebrate the descend of Lord Buddha back to earth after the Buddha paid gratitude to his mother for giving birth to him.
During the festival, younger people paid homage to their parents, teachers and elders and asked for pardon for whatever misdeeds in speech, thought and act they might have committed during the past year and in return the elders extend to them loving-kindness and forgiveness.
As part of the celebration, family members, especially youngsters and kids in groups, visited the zoo, gardens and parks where special provisional bazaars were erected introducing sale promotion and entertainment programs for them.
The fall of the Thadingyut lighting festival is also a festival which marks the end of three months' Buddhist lent and couples used to hold their marriage function then.
At this time, wedding dress shops, photo studios, furniture shops and model agencies also organize bridal shows at hotels filled with attractive and smiling couples.
All the pagodas like Shwedagon, Botataung, Sule were also crowded with pilgrims and the voice of monks reciting Buddha's teachings filled the sky which bring peace to the earth.
The entire platform of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda was illuminated with 9,000 oil lamps and perfume sticks.
Meanwhile, the Uppatasanti pagoda in the new capital of Nay PyiTaw is being packed with Buddhish devotes and pilgrims on the full moon day and was also offered with 9,000 oil lamps. Other places such as, zoological garden, and fountain garden were also crowded with people.

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Myanmar needs peace, stability for democratization

www.chinaview.cn 2009-10-04 10:59:41

YANGON, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar official media said on Sunday that the country needs peace and stability for a successful holding of the upcoming multi-party general election next year, the 5th step of its democratization process under a seven-step roadmap.
"Myanmar is now in democratic transition. The new constitution has been approved. Multi-party general election will be held next year and a new government will be formed by a Hluttaw (parliament) in accord with the constitution," said the New Light of Myanmar in its editorial.
Holding that sanctions pose a barrier to the economic and social development of the people of developing countries, the editorial said some powerful nations have been resorting to economic sanctions to influence the political and economic systems of those countries.
"They can not only adversely affect people from different backgrounds but also make a form of violence," the editorial commented.
The editorial complained that sanctions are being employed to pressure Myanmar politically.
Dealing with climate change across the world which brings about natural disaster as well as many other issues which the world is facing such as food crisis, energy security, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorist attacks and pandemic disease, the editorial stressed the need for global nations to make cooperative efforts to overcome these problems and challenges.
"Although many countries, large and small, are facing the financial and economic crisis, the small developing countries have been the hardest-hit," the editorial said, calling on the developed countries to increase their overseas development aid to the developing countries.
For over a decade, the United States and some European Union countries have imposed various sanctions including economic sanction on Myanmar out of political reasons.
Myanmar Prime Minister General Thein Sein demanded at the recent U.N. General Assembly in New York an end to economic sanctions, saying that sanctions are being employed as a political tool against Myanmar and such acts must be stopped.
Meanwhile, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under 18-month house confinement, proposed in a letter dated Sept. 25 to Senior-GeneralThan Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), to cooperate with the government in seeking ways of removing Western sanctions on Myanmar and also asking in her letter to meet and discuss with U.S. and European Union countries' diplomats as well as Australian's on the issue.
In response to Aung San Suu Kyi's letter, the government arranged a meeting between Liaison Minister U Aung Kyi and her on Saturday for further talks.

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