Do it yourself

ေရွးတုန္းက  ဆင္ျခင္တုန္တရားကင္းမဲ့တဲ့ လူတစ္ေယာက္ရွိခဲ့တယ္။  တစ္ေန႔ ေနမေကာင္းလုိ႔ ဆရာဝန္ သြားၾကည့္ေတာ့ ဆရာဝန္က တစ္ပတ္ေလာက္ အနားယူၿပီး ေဆးေသာက္ဖုိ႔  ေဆးတစ္ပုလင္းေပးလုိက္တယ္။

လူနာက အိမ္ျပန္ေရာက္တာနဲ႔ ဆရာဝန္မွာၾကားတဲ့အတုိင္း အိပ္ရာေပၚမွာ အနားယူေသာ္လည္း ဆရာဝန္ မွာၾကားတဲ့အတုိင္း ေဆးမေသာက္ပဲ  ေဆးပုလင္းကုိပဲ ၾကည့္ေနသတဲ့။

ေန႔ရက္ေတြ ကုန္းဆုန္းသြားေသာ္လည္း  ေရာဂါက သက္သာလာျခင္းမရွိဘူးတဲ့။  ဒီေတာ့ လူနာက ဆရာဝန္ အေပၚမွာ သံသယျဖစ္လာၿပီး  ေဆးကလည္း ဘာမွ အက်ဳိးသက္ေရာက္မႈမရွိဘူးလုိ႔ ထင္လာတယ္။ 

အဲဒီေနာက္ ေဆးပုလင္းေပၚမွာ ေဆးညႊန္း အေသးစိတ္ေရးထားတာကုိ ေတြ႕ရတယ္။

လူနာက.. “ အိမ္း…. လုိ႔ သက္ျပင္ခ်ၿပီး .. ေဆးပုလင္းက ေဆးညႊန္းကုိ ဖတ္ဖုိ႔ ေမ႔ေနတာပဲလုိ႔  ေတြးထင္ၿပီး  တစ္ေန႔ကုိ သုံးႀကီမ္ ေဆးညႊန္းစာကုိ ေန႔တုိင္းဖတ္ေတာ့တာပါပဲ။  သုိ႔ေသာ္လည္း ေရာဂါကေတာ့ ဘာမွ ထူးထူးျခားျခား သက္သာလာျခင္းမရွိပါဘူး။ ေရာဂါသည္ပုိၿပိီး စိတ္ဆင္းရဲလာပါေတာ့တယ္။ 

အမွန္တကယ္ေတာ့ ဒီအျဖစ္အပ်က္မွာ ဆရာဝန္နဲ႔ ေဆးမွာ ဘာမွ မွားယြင္းျခင္းမရွိပါဘူး။  ျပႆနာကေတာ့  လူနာကုိယ္တုိင္က ဆရာဝန္ရဲ့  ေဆးကုိ ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ  ညႊန္ၾကားခ်က္တုိင္း မေသာက္လုိ႕ေပါ့။

ထုိ႔အတူ. က်ဴပ္တုိ႔အားလုံး  အဲဒီလူနာလုိပါပဲ က်ဳပ္တုိ႔ စိတ္ေရာဂါေတြရဲ့ ရင္းျမစ္ျဖစ္တဲ့ ေလာဘ၊ ေဒါသ၊ ေမာဟေတြနဲ႔ ေရာဂါေတြျဖစ္ေနရတယ္။  က်ဳပ္တုိ႔ ဘုရားထံသြားၿပီး ေရာဂါေပ်ာက္ေဆး လုိ႔ ေခၚရတဲ့ တရားေတြ နာ ယူၾကတယ္။

ျမတ္စြာဘုရားရဲ့ တရားေတာ္ေတြကုိ နာယူၿပီး ညႊန္ၾကားတဲ့အတုိင္း မလုိက္နာ မက်င့္သုံးရင္  ပုံျပင္ထဲက ေရာဂါသည္လုိပါပဲ ဘယ္ေတာ့မွ  ဘဝေရာဂါေတြက ထြက္ေျမာက္ႏုိင္မွာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ 

The Bottle of Medicine 

Once there was a sick man. He  went to see a doctor who told him to stay in bed for a few days and take some medicine. The doctor then gave him a bottle of medicine. The doctor then give him a bottle of medicine.

When the sick man returned  home, he did  the doctor ordered and went to bed, but did not take the medicine. He just looked at the bottle.

Days passed. The sick man did not get well. He thought the doctor was not any good and the medicine worthless. But the he then noticed that there were some detailed instructions written on the bottle. 

" Ah !" he exclaimed. " I forgot to read the instructions on the bottle!" He then read the instruction there time a day, every day, but still he did not get well. He became more and more unhappy.

But there was nothing wrong with the doctor, nothing wrong with the medicine. The real problem was  that he did not have the common sense to follow the doctor's advice and take his medicine. 

In the same way, we are like that sick man. We are "sick" with the diseases of  the mind,  which are greed, hatred and delusion. We got to see a "doctor", who is the Buddha, and he gives us some "medicine" to take, which is his teachings. But if we study his teachings only and do  not put them into use, then we, too, like the sick man, will never be able to get " well"