ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာကို “ကမာ္ဘ့ အကောင်းဆုံး” ဘာသာတရားတရားအဖြစ် ဆုရွေးချယ်ချီးမြှင့်

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  kai

  August 14, 2010 at 8:37 am

  အခုဇတ်လမ်းက အောက်က ဝက်ဘ်ပေ့ဂျ်က စခဲ့တာလို့ဆိုပါတယ်။
  http://blog.beliefnet.com/onecity/2009/07/freedom-from-religion-buddhism-wins-best-religion-in-the-world-award.html
  အဲဒီထဲက (ICARUS)ဆိုတာ တကယ်မရှိပါတဲ့။
  ဒီသတင်းစဖတ်တော့ ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာဝင်ဖြစ်တဲ့ ကျုပ်လည်း ထပဲခုန်ရမလိုပေါ့။ အဲဒါနဲ့ အင်တာနက်ကြီးထဲလိုက်နှိုက်တာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။
  မြတ်စွာဘုရားက ကာလမသုတ်မှာ ပြောထားတယ်လေ..။
  “သင်တို့သည်ပြောသံ ကြားကာမျှဖြင့် (ဟုတ်ပြီ မှန်ပြီဟု အတည်) မယူကုန်လင့်ဦး၊
  အစဉ်အဆက် စကားမျှဖြင့်လည်း (ဟုတ်ပြီ မှန်ပြီဟု အတည်) မယူကုန်လင့်ဦး၊
  ဤသို့ ဖြစ်ဖူးသတတ်ဟူသော စကားမျှဖြင့်လည်း (ဟုတ်ပြီ မှန်ပြီဟု အတည်)
  မယူကုန်လင့်ဦး။
  ပိဋကတ် (မိမိတို့ရှေးဟောင်းကျမ်းဂန်) စာပေနှင့် ညီညွတ်ပေသည်ဟူ၍လည်း
  (ဟုတ်ပြီ မှန်ပြီဟု အတည်) မယူကုန်လင့်ဦး၊
  ကြံဆတွေးတော၍ ယူခြင်းမျှဖြင့်လည်း (ဟုတ်ပြီ မှန်ပြီဟု အတည်) မယူကုန် လင့်ဦး၊
  နည်းမှီးယူခြင်းမျှဖြင့်လည်း (ဟုတ်ပြီ မှန်ပြီဟု အတည်) မယူကုန်လင့်ဦး၊
  အခြင်းအရာကို ကြံစည်သောအားဖြင့်လည်း (ဟုတ်ပြီ မှန်ပြီဟု အတည်) မယူ ကုန်လင့်ဦး၊
  (ငါတို့) ကြံစည်နှစ်သက်၍ ယူထားသောအယူနှင့် တူညီပေသည်ဟူ၍လည်း (ဟုတ်ပြီ မှန်ပြီဟု အတည်) မယူကုန်လင့်ဦး၊
  ငါတို့လေးစားသော ရဟန်း၏ စကားဟူ၍လည်း (ဟုတ်ပြီ မှန်ပြီဟု အတည်) မယူ ကုန် လင့်ဦး။”

  တဲ့..။
  အဲဒါနဲ့ အမှန်ကို သိတော့တာပါ။
  ဆိုတော့…အင်း…သတင်းက …ပေါက်ပေါက်ရှာရှာ လို့ပဲ ပြောရတော့မှာပဲ..၊
  အောက်ကနောက်တခုက…အဲဒါကို သုံးသပ်ထားတာပါ။ ဖတ်ကြည့်ပေါ့။
  အမှန်တရားကို လက်ခံသိကြပါစေ။
  —-

  July 16, 2009
  Best Religion In The World? Not!
  Go back to Todayinreligion.com

  I think Beliefnet got snookered.

  They printed an article entitled: Freedom From Religion: Buddhism Wins Best Religion in the World Award.

  It said that a Geneva-based group called the International Coalition for the Advancement of Religious and Spirituality (ICARUS) gave the award to the Buddhist Community after a panel of 200 religious leaders from every part of the religious spectrum chose Buddhism.

  Criteria included factors such as promoting personal and community peace, increasing compassion and a sense of connection, and encouraging preservation of the natural environment.

  I am ashamed to admit I was ready to run with this story without fact-checking it. Fortunately, I read the blog comments before I began typing. Several people claimed it looked like a story from the satirical fake news organization, The Onion. It may or may not be the work of the Onion, but it sure looks like someone has been playing around.

  The International Coalition for the Advancement of Religious and Spirituality (ICARUS) is not on the Web, and neither is its head, Hans Groehlichen.

  That said, I think an award is an interesting idea. Why not come up with an award for the most peaceful religion in the world? It might embarrass the rest of them into behaving better.

  I think it would be appropriate to give one to a Western religion and one to an Eastern religion. In the West, I would pick the Quakers. In the East I would have to go with the Jains.

  Peace between countries and communities doesn’t have much of a place in religion. On a lark, I went to the online Bible at BibleGateway.com and did a keyword search on the word peace. I came up with 247 passages. I didn’t read them all but the ones I read were mostly along the line of “peace be with you” and “go in peace.” There was nothing about peace between countries or being peaceful to the people in the next town.

  I did another search on the word “war” and the good news is there were only 137 entries!

  Here is the Beliefnet article, in case the link stops working.

  Freedom From Religion: Buddhism Wins Best Religion in the World Award
  Wednesday July 15, 2009
  In light of the ongoing Freedom From Religion Foundation case, I found this news item interesting.
  Linda Moulin | 15.07.2009 | 16:55

  Tribune de Geneve

  In advance of their annual Leading Figure award to a religious figure who has done the most to advance the cause of humanism and peace, the Geneva-based International Coalition for the Advancement of Religious and Spirituality (ICARUS) has chosen to bestow a special award this year on the Buddhist Community. “We typically prefer an under-the-radar approach for the organization, as we try to embody the spirit of modesty found in the greatest traditions,” said ICARUS director Hans Groehlichen in a phone conference Monday. “But with organized religion increasingly used as a tool to separate and inflame rather than bring together, we felt we had to take the unusual step of creating a “Best Religion in the World” award and making a bit of a stir, to inspire other religious leaders to see what is possible when you practice compassion.”

  Groehlichen said the award was voted on by an international roundtable of more than 200 religious leaders from every part of the spiritual spectrum. “It was interesting to note that once we supplied the criteria, many religious leaders voted for Buddhism rather than their own religion,” said Groehlichen. “Buddhists actually make up a tiny minority of our membership, so it was fascinating but quite exciting that they won.”

  Criteria included factors such as promoting personal and community peace, increasing compassion and a sense of connection, and encouraging preservation of the natural environment. Groehlichen continued “The biggest factor for us is that ICARUS was founded by spiritual and religious people to bring the concepts of non-violence to prominence in society. One of the key questions in our voting process was which religion actually practices non-violence.”

  When presenting the information to the voting members, ICARUS researched each of the 38 religions on the ballot extensively, offering background, philosophy, and the religions role in government and warfare. Jonna Hult, Director of Research for ICARUS said “It wasn’t a surprise to me that Buddhism won Best Religion in the World, because we could find literally not one single instance of a war fought in the name of Buddhism, in contrast to every other religion that seems to keep a gun in the closet just in case God makes a mistake. We were hard pressed to even find a Buddhist that had ever been in an army. These people practice what they preach to an extent we simply could not document with any other spiritual tradition.”

  At least one Catholic priest spoke out on behalf of Buddhism. Father Ted O’Shaughnessy said from Belfast, “As much as I love the Catholic Church, it has always bothered me to no end that we preach love in our scripture yet then claim to know God’s will when it comes to killing other humans. For that reason, I did have to cast my vote for the Buddhists.” And Muslim Cleric Tal Bin Wassad agreed from Pakistan via his translator. “While I am a devout Muslim, I can see how much anger and bloodshed is channeled into religious expression rather than dealt with on a personal level. The Buddhists have that figured out.” Bin Wassad, the ICARUS voting member for Pakistan’s Muslim community continued, “In fact, some of my best friends are Buddhist.” And Rabbi Shmuel Wasserstein said from Jerusalem, “Of course, I love Judaism, and I think it’s the greatest religion in the world. But to be honest, I’ve been practicing Vipassana meditation every day before minyan (daily Jewish prayer) since 1993. So I get it.”

  Groehlichen said that the plan was for the award to Buddhism for “Best Religion in the World” to be given to leaders from the various lineages in the Buddhist community. However, there was one snag. “Basically we can’t find anyone to give it to,” said Groehlichen in a followup call late Tuesday. “All the Buddhists we call keep saying they don’t want the award.” Groehlichen explained the strange behavior, saying “Basically they are all saying they are a philosophical tradition, not a religion. But that doesn’t change the fact that with this award we acknowledge their philosophy of personal responsibility and personal transformation to be the best in the world and the most important for the challenges facing every individual and all living beings in the coming centuries.”

  When asked why the Burmese Buddhist community refused the award, Buddhist monk Bhante Ghurata Hanta said from Burma, “We are grateful for the acknowledgement, but we give this award to all humanity, for Buddha nature lies within each of us.” Groehlichen went on to say “We’re going to keep calling around until we find a Buddhist who will accept it. We’ll let you know when we do.”

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  timothy

  August 15, 2010 at 7:41 am

  Yes, Buddhism is the religion of forgiveness, loving kindness, empathy and compassion. More people in the modern stressful world now seek the nature of peace by practising insight meditation. The religion is flexible and tolerant that one does not need to be a Buddhist to practice meditation. I agree with the award given to this great religion.
  I ponder _ _ _ _
  Our military leaders are saying that they are devout Buddhists and yet they kill the Monks, create the Karen Buddhist army to divide and rule the ethnic Karen and incredible thing recently was for Than Shwe to visit Buddha Gaya thinking that he could wash away his bad karma by it. The junta does not practice what they preach. They are sinking so deep in the greed and mad power that losing the status of human being is obvious according to what they are practising. They have absolutely reached the low levelled devil lives aiming for eternal lives in Awisi. It is understandable for junta being able to harm the Buddhism systematically without realising themselves the bad karma they are collecting. The beings in devil lives could not know the consequence of their action. We knew that by getting the valuable human life, we can practice vipassana meditation to attain enlightenment. Our ancestors teach us about the value of being a human and to use this life intelligently to reach Nirvana. Sadly the generals in the deep water of Devil mode can no way avoid reaching the lowest level of Awisi. They are not human beings. They can no way be the Buddhists at all.

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  kai

  July 21, 2012 at 11:59 pm

  ဒီရွာထဲ.. သတင်းမှားကို ထပ်ခါထပ်ခါတင်ကြရင်း..နောင်လေးငါးဆယ်နှစ်ရောက်တော့.. အမှန်ကြီးလို့ထင်ကုန်ကြမှာစိုးပါတယ်..
  ဘယ်သူမဆို.. ကိုယ်ကိုးကွယ်ယုံကြည်ရာကို ထိပ်တန်းရောက်ချင်..အကောင်းဆုံးဖြစ်ချင်တာ..သဘာဝပါ..
  ဒါပေမယ့်..
  အမှန်တရားကတော့..အမှန်တရားပဲဖြစ်ပါကြောင်း..

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    ကြောင်ကြီး

    July 22, 2012 at 2:37 am

    သဂျီးကိုးကွယ်တဲ့ မွတ်စလင်ဘာသာအကြောင်းလည်း ပြောပါအုံး… ။ 🙄

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      kai

      July 22, 2012 at 3:51 am

      မွတ်စလင်က.. အစ္စလမ်ဘာသာကိုးကွယ်သူကိုခေါ်တာပါ..
      မွတ်စလင်ဘာသာရယ်လို့.. မရှိကြောင်း..

      ဆိုတော့..
      သူတို့လည်း.. သူတို့အတိုင်းအတာနဲ့.. ကမ္ဘာ့အကောင်းဆုံးများဖြစ်ကြကြောင်း..

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        San Hla Gyi

        July 22, 2012 at 7:44 am

        ဪ ဟုတ်ကဲ့ ဟုတ်ကဲ့ပါခင်ဗျာ။

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        ဘဲရှုပ်

        July 22, 2012 at 8:01 am

        ဂျီးက မာမူဂျီးပါ တားတား တိပါတယ် ခိခိ

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        ဘဲရှုပ်

        July 22, 2012 at 8:08 am

        မွတ်ဆလိမ် ဘာသာ အကောင်းဆုံး သဂျီး ယူဆပါရင်
        အများသိအောင် ဘာဘာညာညာ လုပ်ပေးပါလား
        ကျနော်တို့လဲ ဗဟုငှက်တ ရသပေါ့ဗျ ။

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  htoosan

  July 22, 2012 at 7:48 am

  ကိုယ့်ဟာကိုယ် ကြေညာကြဖို့ ဘယ်နှစ်ဘာသာ ကျန်သေးပါလိမ့် 🙄

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