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  • Generalist and Specialist

    A Generalist is a person
    who knows less and less
    about more and more
    until finally
    he knows nothing about everything.

    A Specialist is a person
    who knows more and more
    about less and less
    until finally
    he knows everything about nothing.

  • Kan So & Kan Kaung

    • Kan So means “Unlucky“.
    • Kan Kaung means “Lucky“.
    • One can be unlucky at times, but Good Luck might come your way unexpectedly.
    • A cousin brother was riding a bus back to Rangoon.
      He sat in the seat nearest the driver.
      One person demanded him to give up the seat.
      My cousin felt Kan So.
    • Sometime later, there was an accident.
      The truck in front was carrying logs (or similar).
      A log crashed the glass of the bus, and hit the “arrogant” passenger, who died.
      My cousin felt Kan Kaung.
    • U Than Lwin lost his beloved spouse due to a “hit-and-run” driver.
      She went out to buy some food.
      U Than Lwin felt Kan So.
    • Later, he studied Japanese at IFL (Institute of Foreign Languages) and received his Diploma.
      He was requested to help the “Ah Yoe Kauk Ah Phwe” from Japan.
      He helped several teams led by a Veteran Officer who was in Burma.
      One day, the leader asked how he and his team can repay his service as a kind and diligent translator.
      U Than Lwin asked, “Can you help some of my children study in Japan?”
      The answer was affirmative.
      The children returned from Japan and became successful entrepreneurs.
      U Than Lwin felt Kan Kaung.

  • Macro

    • A Macro is a text pattern with one or more arguments (or parameters).
    • Assembly Languages and Scripts support Macros.
    • We will illustrate Macros with some prayers.

    Example of a Macro

    Some people take the Three Refuges as follows.

    • I take refuge in the Buddha.
    • I take refuge in the Dhamma.
    • I take refuge in the Sangha.

    Macro Refuge

    Let us define a Macro called M with a parameter Y as follows:
    Refuge(Y) = “I take refuge in the ” + Y

    Then, the prayer can be written as
    Refuge(Buddha)
    Refuge(Dhamma)
    Refuge(Sangha)

    Macro Repeat

    Some repeat the Three Refuges three times.

    For the first time, I take refuge in the Buddha.
    …
    For the second time, I take refuge in the Buddha.
    …
    For the third time, I take refuge in the Buddha.
    …

    Let us define a Macro Repeat with a parameter X :

    Repeat(X) = “For the ” + X + ” time“

    Macro Pray

    Finally, define a Macro Pray with two parameters X and Y as follows :

    Pray(X, Y) = Repeat(X) + Refuge(Y)

    Then, Pray(second, Dhamma) yields “For the second time, I take refuge in the Dhamma.”

  • Mangala / Mingalar

    Mangala

    • Auspices
    • Blessings

    Mangala Sutta

    • First of the 11 suttas covered in “Paritta Pali (Protective Verses):”.
    • Discourse on Blessings
      38 Blessings
      Some are related to Loki (mundane)
      Some are related to Lokotra (supramundane)
    • Mingalar Kabyar
      Dagon U Tun Myint’s verses about the sutta
    • U Thu Kha’s book discusses the sutta using lay people’s terms

    Highest Blessings

    by Sayadaw U Silananda

    Excerpts from Paritta Pali (A Collection of Eleven Protective Suttas) and Protective Suttas (An English Translation with an Introduction)

    Not to associate with fools, to associate with the wise and to honor those who are worth of honor.

    To live in a suitable place, to have done meritorious deeds in the past, and to keep one’s mind and body in a proper way.

    To have much learning, to be skilled in crafts, to be well-trained in moral conduct and to have speech that is well-spoken.

    Caring for one’s mother and father, supporting one’s spouse and children and having work that causes no confusion.

    Giving, practice of what is good, support of one’s relatives and blameless actions.

    Abstention from evil in mind, abstention from evil in body and speech, abstention from intoxicants and non-negligence in meritorious acts.

    Respectfulness, humbleness, contentment, gratitude and listening to the Dhamma on suitable occasions.

    Practice that consumes evil states, a noble life, seeing the Noble Truths and realization of Nibbana.

    The mind of a person (an Arahant) who is confronted with worldly conditions does not flutter, is sorrowless, stainless and secure.

    Having fulfilled such things as these, beings are invincible everywhere and happiness everywhere. This is the highest blessing for them.

  • Member

    • A group’s health depends upon its members.
    • Active members help the group grow by posting interesting, informative and often nostalgic articles and photos, by providing facts and data in the comments, by sharing selected posts and last but not the least inviting their friends to join the group.
    • “To err is human”
      The accuracy of posts is enhanced by readers who report discrepancies, errors and omissions.

    Netiquette
    (Etiquette when using networks)

    • No spam and advertising
    • No link to irrelevant sites
    • No flames
      e.g. avoid calling names
    • Be courteous
      e.g. disagree diplomatically

  • Medical Education

    *** ဆေးပညာရေး Medical Education တချို့

    (ရှေး)

    မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ မှာ LMP / Licensed Medical Practitioner ဆေးကုသခွင့်လိုင်စင်သင်တန်း ဘဲရှိတယ်။

    MBBS, MD စတဲ့ သင်တန်းတွေကို နိုင်ငံခြားမှာ သွားသင် ရတယ်။

    ဦးကိုကိုအေး (ကွယ်လွန်) အဆိုအရ LMP ကျောင်း ဟာ Scott စျေး / ဗိုလ်ချုပ်စျေး နားမှာဖွင့် ခဲ့တယ်။ ဗုံးဒဏ်သင့် ပြီးပျက်သွားတယ်တဲ့။

    ဦးမောင်မောင် (LMP, ကွယ်လွန်၊ ဦးမောင်မောင်ကြည်ရဲ့အဖေ) ဟာ ဂျပန်ခေတ် ရန်ကုန်ဆေးရုံကြီးမှာ ဒေါက်တာဘသန်း ရဲ့ Staff ဆရာဝန်အဖြစ် တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။

    —-

    (နောင်)

    ရန်ကုန်မှာ MBBS သင်တန်းဖွင့်တယ်။

    LMP တွေ အတွက် MBBS (Condensed) သင်တန်းဖွင့်တယ်။

    ဗမက လှဟန် ဟာ LMP, MBBS ရ။ Commodore သန်းဖေ ကွယ်လွန် တဲ့ အခါ ကျန်းမာရေး နဲ့ ပညါရေး တာဝန်ခံ / ဝန်ကြီး ဖြစ်။

    —

    Prank

    လူတယောက် ဟာ LMP လို့ရေးထားတဲ့ သေတ္တာ (လေး) ကို ကိုင်တယ်။

    ဆရာဝန် လား လို့ မေးတော့ Licensed Master Plumber လိုင်စင်ရ ပိုက်ပြင်ဆရာပါ တဲ့။

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    ** ဆက်နွယ်

    Medical Pioneers

    Faculty of Medicine

    IM (1)

    IM (2)

    Mandalay Institute of Medicine

    Burma Medical Association

  • Dhammakahtika

    According to my late beloved father, Dhamma-ka-hti-ka Sayagyi U Hla Thein mentioned the following anecdote:

    “Four people were looking at a symbol on the table.
    The first said, “Ka Gyi”
    The second said, “Da Dwe.”
    The third said, “Ya Pa Let.”
    The fourth said, “It’s Nga Thut.”
    Who’s right?”

    Depending on the point of them, each one will feel that he or she is right.

    Spectators might add, “Three” or “W.”

  • Pianists

    From the early days

    • Gita Lu Lin Maung Ko Ko
    • Sandaya Chit Swe
    • Sandaya Hla Htut
    • Sandaya Sein Thaung

    Others

    • Sandaya Tin Win Hlaing
    • Sandaya Kun Maung
    • Sandaya Kun Zaw
    • Hla Moe
    • Dr. Hla Bu
    • Tin Ko Ko

    Sayas and Alumni

    • Saya U Thet Lwin
    • Uzin U Bo Gyi (A59)
    • U Kyaw Oo (M67, GBNF)
    • U Tin Tun (M71)
    • U Than Po (M75)
    • Daw Cho Cho Yin

  • Palmistry

    • Cheiro (Count Louis Hammond) popularized Palmistry with his readings of the rich and the famous, and his writings on Palmistry and Numerology.
      He classified seven personality types based on the structure of the hand.
      He also covered the major lines and signs.
    • There are several books on Palmistry by European, Indian and Burmese writers.
      Examples:
      Benham
      Palmistry for Pleasure and Profit
      Bo Nyunt Maung
    • U Sein Win (Win Kyaw, C69, GBNF) was an amateur but proficient palmist.
      He had several discussions with a professional palmist. They tied the knot.
    • Saya San-da-ra was a famous Palmist in his days.
    • San Zarni Bo was suspended from his studies due to his antics (during a Union Day celebration, and during a Minister’s visit to RIT).
      He elected to study Palmistry.
    • Saya U Aung Zaw (UCC, GBNF) wrote about his uncle Bogalay U Kywe and his predictions.
    • Saya U Myo Win (M/Ag65, GBNF) told some of his students that he would find a better pasture abroad (according to the lines and signs on his palm).

  • Second Buddhist Council

    Source : U Silananda

    • Date : 100 (Sasana Era)
    • Place : Vesali (India)
    • King : Kalasoka
    • Leader : Yasa Thera (Vinaya Athakatths)
      Revata Thera (Mahavamsa)
    • Number of Monks : 700
    • Duration : 8 months
    • Accomplishment : Reaffirmed the Texts accepted at the 1st Council after a group of monks tried to relax the rules of discipline (oral)

    References :

    • Culavagga-Pali pp. 490 – 508
    • Dipavamsa 5.30
    • Mahavamsa 4.9 – 64
    • Vinaya Atthakatha I 25 – 29