Lecture 1-1: 27 April 2026: Introduction To Abhidhamma | Sister MMAung

Ajouté : 2026-05-14

[00:00:17]Good evening everybody everybody. So nice to see you and now you have been talking about a bit of you already started.

[00:00:33]>> Yes I I already started.

[00:00:37]Actually um uh I supposed to talk about a little bit about >> Yeah. Yeah. That's why I I want you to talk uh about Abidama in the first opening day. Yes.

[00:00:58]>> Okay. Uh good evening.

[00:01:02]Uh nice to you.

[00:01:07]So a bit is a body it is about uh mind body mind and body and if you study aidama thoroughly uh you will understand about your mind and your body.

[00:01:43]I I think that is useful for uh everybody because uh we have been uh facing a lot of problem because we don't know about our mind also the mind other people uh we don't know about our physical phenomen phenomena in our body and also the physical phenomena uh the body of other people.

[00:02:21]So therefore uh if you study epidama uh you will uh start to learn I suggest that uh miss all uh to apply and in daytoday I think that that is the most important point I think because Um after learning um what is teaching uh we need to put it into practice then only it will be very uh meaningful you know that that will be the meaning of learning foreign speech Of course, most people they emphasize uh so many so they they about.

[00:03:30]So if you know about you know about sodas.

[00:03:38]So after learning aid if you read the soda It will be easier for you.

[00:03:46]It will give you uh a lot of clarity about teachings of the border.

[00:03:54]Therefore, learning epidemma will be very very useful. I think also I um especially when you are learning a bit my suggestion another suggestion is to ask question you to ask questioning will make you uh uh I'm questioning you will get uh how say more clarity about sometime the teacher may forget to cover some area if you ask question then you will get more clarification therefore questioning also important So after teaching questioning then the teacher can clarify important point or thing that you want to know.

[00:05:20]So therefore um I want to encourage everybody uh to make more effort you know to learn aid uh not like uh study of sodas aid uh continue learning. Continue learning because if you miss one lesson then uh it will be difficult to go to next lesson. A big you know one chapter and the other chapter you know they are connected each other connect each other.

[00:06:14]So therefore especially uh the first the first chapter.

[00:06:22]So without uh proper understanding about the first chapter in other cha it will be difficult for you to go to to to to study uh the rest of the chapter.

[00:06:41]So therefore uh maybe about uh until you finish the first chapter, I want you to make uh how to say more effort on me.

[00:06:56]So after you uh without understanding the first chapter, no it will be difficult to study. So beta money continue less connect each other.

[00:07:13]So that's also one point important one point to to know.

[00:07:19]So to conclude my uh entertainment bidama is study of mind matter mind and body mind and body.

[00:07:32]So if we know about if we know more about our mind and our body then we can solve some of the problem in our in our day-to-day life and also it will be helpful for you to uh to study the sas and also uh to ask question to the teacher. Don't afraid of questioning and also don't don't afraid of answering question. I think that that uh that is involving between teachers and students.

[00:08:12]Another thing is I want you to make extra effort you know for the first chapter.

[00:08:20]Then after you come uh you understand the first chapter so the rest will be easier for you.

[00:08:30]So that's how I want to uh talk then I hope you have a uh successful journey to learn about Bama to learn a bit.

[00:08:47]>> Okay.

[00:08:48]>> Thank you so much.

[00:08:50]Okay, >> thank you so much. Bendy Chabala is my Aidama teacher. Yeah, he always uh support me and encourage me to learn the Aidama. Without his guidance and encouragement, I would not be here today. So I pay homage to you.

[00:09:25]Hello. Can you please hear me?

[00:09:28]>> Yes.

[00:09:29]>> Yes. Yes.

[00:09:30]>> Okay.

[00:09:31]>> Yes, sister. Please start.

[00:09:33]>> Yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for joining me. So, I I saw the registration.

[00:09:42]Uh we have uh uh very surprising exactly 100 100 people register for this class.

[00:09:55]So even though some of you contact me uh saying that uh they may not attend every week due to their busy schedule. So they will follow the recordings. They they they would like to follow the recordings.

[00:10:11]So yeah, I see uh my BPU uh classmates also my university classmates, my friends joining me and I would like to say thank you to you all and uh this is uh my biggest class size I have ever touched. So I'm I'm very really happy to see you all. I hope that most of you will stay with me until the course is complete and also about the recording.

[00:10:48]Uh we do have plan to provide recordings of the Zoom sessions and there may be occasional uh delays in uploading them because we have uh less people to uh helping out but we will do our best to make them available as regularly as possible.

[00:11:13]actually uh in in my my plan I don't have a plan to do the the the uploading my recording video but uh my teachers uh uh they recommend me to upload all the recording video so I I I have to follow their instructions.

[00:11:36]So if you are not able to attend the live sessions, you are most welcome to follow along through the recordings at your convenience.

[00:11:47]And if you have any questions, you may send them offline and I will try to address them during the lecture where possible.

[00:12:01]And uh we have uh two admin uh assisting here.

[00:12:16]Yeah, we have had two admin members kindly assisting me with this class.

[00:12:23]Sister Nini and Sister Finte. they will help uh collect the questions after the sessions and some of them do not know. Uh what I mean is uh the during the the the the session uh if you may have any questions uh please raise your hand. I will stop talking and I will attend your questions. If you send the question to the chat then uh my my um friends two admin members they will collect all the questions and compile and then send it to me after the session is end. So thank thanks to both of uh my uh sisters Nimi and Tinte.

[00:13:14]So um yeah before yeah before we we start the class in our tradition Buddhist tradition also right uh we always pay home homage to the trib and to our teachers. So we do this so that we we our walk uh will be successful and have no hindrances.

[00:13:48]And also every uh so that every session whenever uh every session we start with the the homage to the Buddha and every session we end with the uh we hope to finish every lesson with the deifu su uh let's recite together >> oh that's for Okay. So this is our class for comprehensive study of the So uh yeah I have to introduce myself.

[00:15:11]Maybe uh uh some of you may not know me.

[00:15:16]So before I introduce myself uh I just want to uh mention my teachers here.

[00:15:26]Uh so yeah this is uh not uh this is uh the the the not all my teachers. Yeah actually of course I have many teachers some of them I learn from through books and recorded dama talks.

[00:15:46]Uh so for this uh Abidama uh it's a very important Abidama teacher for me uh was Seila Nanda uh even though he has passed away it is because of him that Abidama my favorite senior is not here not in this photo uh he was a renown Burmese meditation master and a key figure uh in bringing uh bring the the tiara Buddhism to the United States.

[00:16:27]He is a close he was close disciple of Mahasi and he gave many aidama lectures and also misnes.

[00:16:39]I think he came to Singapore long long time ago give a aid lectures too. So I am really very happy that uh I am living in Singapore and then I paying uh his gratitude to share my knowledge to all my Singaporean friends and the friends who living in Singapore. Al also uh this class uh some of my friends joined from other countries uh from India, from Canada and from MyAma, from Japan.

[00:17:17]>> Yeah. Different countries. So I'm very uh happy to uh share my knowledge with all of you.

[00:17:27]And uh Sad Usila Nanda is uh yes one of my favorite uh master and my teacher uh once he said that abidama is like a theoretical map uh for weasana meditation.

[00:17:43]It help us uh to see through the illusion of a self and understand the flow of mental and physical material phenomena. So actually I have learned abidama since 18 years old but um but that time I learn aidama I'm don't get essentidama I just uh learn by hearts and I don't get the real meaning of that because of the sead I start to understand aidama better So yeah I'm trying to say is actually I have many teachers but on that this slide uh I'm only showing the living teacher that I am still in contact with and who I'm very closely following now and also I am very close disciple of Chinese and of course uh Sad Chakala and also from Singapore. uh meditation um center uh the deepana meditation the deepana meditation center ura jana yeah these are my very uh close master and uh she is the lay person a very famous abidama teacher in my but unfortunately she only uh conducted in Bamese language because of her I uh understand a bit better. So I pay homage to all my teachers.

[00:19:35]Yeah. Now uh a little bit about myself.

[00:19:39]Yeah. My name is Mang. Yeah. Uh you can just call me Mm for easier pronunciation.

[00:19:49]So I am a national. I have been living in Singapore for almost 30 years. 30 uh next year will be 30.

[00:20:01]I finished my engineering degree in I did my father's studies at N US Singapore in 1997 and now I'm working as a engineer at Seagate Design Center.

[00:20:21]Uh so yes yeah I I have been in Singapore for many years uh working in an so-cal international design center but my work uh doesn't really involve much of talking more in technical terms so every day I sit at my desk put on my earphone then write down the code It's a hardest strike code I'm doing.

[00:20:54]So I talk to my computer more than I talk to the people. So because of this my formal English is uh quite limited.

[00:21:06]So I told my data.

[00:21:12]So when I started uh conduct the the the English session I really scared I I'm teaching in YMPA I think about four to five years already and uh I told my master my teacher I was scared to teach because my English is a broken English then uh also of course living in Singapore mixed with some kind of sing English and uh my my teacher just smile when I told him and then he talked to me that you can tell you are students you may speak broken English but it is good broken English he told me that so it really stay with me so also uh it also remind me uh one of the the famous uh meditation masters guru gi goena.

[00:22:15]So by the way in yama we have a so many um uh uh meditation traditions. Uh I'm personally practice uh mainly two tradition one is a mahasi and um one is guruji kuinga uh traditions.

[00:22:35]So I met Guruji Goinga in Singapore. why I study in N US and I uh uh joined his uh retreat in Singapore 1998 and uh I listen uh so many of his dama talk and uh in in in day one of his discourse he sometimes uh joking about his English too. So actually guru gi Goinga was born in my mandeli is a middle middle part of he was a businessman.

[00:23:14]So he say his English was also businesslike and he explained that uh is uh his class 45 years of his life he was a businessman and uh daily uh uh interaction uh were pur purely functional of business terms. So his English uh remain uh restricted to those uh commercial terms. So, so then he say he notes that after he began uh teaching Dhma his language skill began uh to improve.

[00:23:54]Uh he he jokes about that uh he is now speaking from the heart and explaining complex mental phenomena rather than just uh buying and selling.

[00:24:08]So the language flows more naturally and his uh the the the the language has expanded through the service of others.

[00:24:19]So uh like like my masters I hope uh that that is really encourage me really encourage me.

[00:24:29]I hope that uh through this class as we go along my English will also improve. I hope for your benefit and truth.

[00:24:42]>> Yeah. So that's >> and uh yeah let's uh start uh our so today is uh we uh introduction so I will do some introduction of vama and some history of video.

[00:25:31]Okay. You have any question, please raise your hand and I will try to answer.

[00:25:38]Uh okay. Uh I just want to share with you this one first. Even though our class is uh nothing to do with exams, okay, because I think Singapore uh we don't have a exam center in Singapore for this uh the religious uh uh exam uh military sorry uh ministry of uh religious affairs in Yema. We have a asam center uh it's uh Malaysia and uh Indonesia but we don't have uh Singapore we don't have so in Yema we have some religious exam for lay people for abidama there are both written exams and recitation exam so for this class uh we are studying the abidama sanga which has nine chapters.

[00:26:40]Uh that's why the the the this government uh they help the the the exam. That's why the people in the they they like to take the exam and then uh the aid sang saha is a very popular inma. So after usually the the those uh people already taken this saha they continue to do that.

[00:27:14]This is a commentary of the abida saha and after that they continue to do the misuti mcca. So um this is called ordinary leather. This is called honors leather and um then this one also nine chapters and uh resuting mega has uh 23 chapters. It is very profound. So actually uh Bandandy Chakabala uh asked me to teach the visi mega in English uh at the moment uh because I'm teaching to Bame students to uh three to four years already. So I have written my own notes with expanded explanation based on verable mahasi text.

[00:28:15]In fact, there are so many uh text to refer in Bamese language for wut mega but for English it is very limited right. Um I think famous book is um Beong Jana Molly uh part of purification but uh that book is uh quite difficult to read without guidance and further explanation.

[00:28:46]Uh we need a lot of expanded explanation for this book.

[00:28:53]Uh Nanda given a lectures for mega but uh some of my friends Chinese friend uh the the the English speaking friends they told me that it is very difficult they don't understand very well so um so I have a yes >> I teacher that the they want the last the cream and last they they want the cream.

[00:29:34]>> Oh, larger. Okay.

[00:29:36]>> Yes.

[00:29:41]>> Yeah.

[00:29:45]>> It's okay.

[00:29:48]>> Yeah. I think okay. Okay. For me.

[00:29:52]Okay.

[00:29:59]It's okay.

[00:30:02]>> Yeah.

[00:30:06]>> Yeah. So, uh back to this uh Muki Mega.

[00:30:11]So, uh actually I have a plan uh I I started already. In fact, uh I already uh translate my own notes to uh Bali's notes into English and use them as my teaching notes for the Wuk Mega Mega uh for English session.

[00:30:38]But the problem is Mega is as I me I mentioned it is very profound. uh so I don't want to go directly into teaching the us to English participants without first teaching them to basit level foundation level abidama.

[00:30:59]So I prefer to start from the basit level using my own notes and my own style.

[00:31:08]So if all of you are interested we can continue with the mega after we complete this abida sanga course. It will also be easier for me to explain also because I can refer back to abidama concepts when teaching the mud mega. So be uh because uh without a good understanding of abidama it is very very difficult to understand that wisi mecca properly.

[00:31:42]Yeah. So I will show you uh some uh yeah soa is abidama plus ata plus saha. So a compendant of Buddhist Aidama. Aidama is a distinguished teaching later I will go on detail also and ata is a meaning essence or do significance and saha is a collection summary or compendium and it summarizes the five types of ultimate realities. Uh it's mind mental fetus meta nana and concepts and uh whistle mega whis mega is a 23 chapters I think this one is too small for you.

[00:32:47]Yeah, this is a whistle mega. Wish me we have um three trainings categorized three training sila samadi and pa and under the sila we have a sila dissa this is a purification of contact. So in this uh category uh we have learned description of baju uh and 30 kinds of assistic practices to maintain exceptional purity in morality. So these are and sila and after that samadi samadi is uh we have a the 40 types of um meditation objects right. So the we call uh every uh this uh learning we have uh call uh level one level two level three. So every this Tasangaha we have a three level one level had three chapters so altogether nine chapters three levels and the the commentary this one also n just now I say I will continue after this I will continue I I'm not teaching uh this because um the I may not have time to teach this one.

[00:34:32]So we will we will learn together this one. After we complete this we straight straight away we can go to musut mega and yeah so muti mega 23 chapters is two chapter is and 3 to 8 is 1 to 8 is under level one and 9 to 16 is level two. 70 to 23 23 is level three. So in Yama the people study uh this 9 years.

[00:35:21]Yes. Is it 9 years? Yes. Because this one is three years. This one three years. This one three years. Some people 9 years mean they taking their exam 9 years.

[00:35:34]Uh some people they are very smart or they are very hardworking they they they they take the exam uh three levels together one year one year one year so all together three years I think it is does it doesn't mean smart or whatever actually even this abidama or wut mega is not one day learning you continue to learn that's time I start learning abidama since 18 years old and I'm still learning I'm still not perfect so uh it is not a one day job or 10 years job also not okay so so the these are the three levels and uh they have 40 kinds of uh the the summit This one is for purification of mind.

[00:36:38]And after samadi then go to the this foundation of weasana and the this this is the most difficult part.

[00:36:55]This is the most difficult part. Even I teaching to Bame students even though they have a lot of reference books uh very very very difficult. Yes. So unless we really um have a good foundation of aimma we you you won't understand uh fully for us.

[00:37:25]Okay. Any questions so far.

[00:37:49]Okay. First we because we are learning about aidma we uh should know uh different abidama traditions.

[00:38:01]So um first uh it is important to know uh that the abidama was preserved by se several different traditions. The one we know best is the tara bashin. I myself I only uh know well of the Tiraabashi which is the heart of Buddhism in Mama also uh Sri Linga and Thailand and but there were others also. Sawi Wada school was very popular in Asian northwest India while their living tradition eventually fade away. uh we can still find their root change together uh today in Chinese and Tibetan translation.

[00:38:51]Uh in in my studies uh at the Buddhist and Pal University, I have had the chance to uh look into uh those uh other schools like the SA water. Uh it is a yes fascinating history. However, my old roots are uh just now I mentioned firmly in the Tiraada tradition. So everything I'm sharing with you today comes directly from Tiraara perspective.

[00:39:25]And the third one is a si potra abidama tradition. It is also normal uh living tradition. So only tawada abidama is still alive and practice.

[00:39:45]Yeah. And also before uh we continue the course uh I may need to admit that in uh teaching and sharing these lectures.

[00:40:00]uh some parts maybe uh I have to refresh from my master my teachers because um even the the my bameis uh class before I start the the aidama uh until now I listen my teacher uh dama talk so many times like uh have a Um have a damage lecture as well. I think I listen his lecture for so many times. I I I I don't know how to count on him. I listen so many times and also the the the late person talking that I listen her so many times. So sometimes the words come out from my my mouth is uh actually they are words.

[00:40:58]So so yeah um when we we we we share them we are not uh uh presenting our own teachings but sharing the teachings of the Buddha.

[00:41:17]So we should try to present the teachings faithfully as they are found in the text and traditions rather than adding personal opinions or interpretations also.

[00:41:34]Uh however however sometimes when we do share our own reflections and uh reflections or thoughts we should clearly say that this is our own personal understandings so that there is a clear distinction between the Buddha's teachings and our own view. So around the course I will I will mention that uh this is my own opinion like uh I I like uh big body very much because body always saying this is this is from text this is his own opinion something like so so uh sometimes if you hear something oh this one uh is You have heard before of course those master what they talk also I follow they are teaching so I I repeating they are they are talking also yeah so let's start with the historical trans transmission of the Buddha's teaching We need to understand how the Buddha's teaching were recorded and transmitted to the present day. Uh this is a brief history of how the teachings were resolved.

[00:43:10]Uh the of you may know right the Buddha did not write anything down in his uh time. His teachings were preserved through oral transmission by his direct disciples.

[00:43:28]So after Buddha passing just three months later the first Buddhist council was held and vulnerable verable maha kasapa at this council 500 arands recited and verified the Buddha's teaching together only teachings that were collectively confirmed as authentic were accepted it.

[00:43:56]This process of recitation is called sana jana sa jana in pi.

[00:44:06]So the teachings were then organized into the five nikayas. Later I will go into that. And second council second council was held about 100 years later to reaffirming their teachings.

[00:44:23]And third council took place during king Ashoka time about this uh 234 years after the Buddha. again confirming the tradition and supporting supporting the spread of Buddhism through missionary activity.

[00:44:45]From this point the teachings continued orally for centuries and around this um 450 years later due to the the the the enress situation in Sri Lanka uh the Buddhist monks resolve the tip daka carefully through strong oral memorization.

[00:45:11]After the saturation stabilized, the recited text from different groups were compare and found to be consistent.

[00:45:23]This led to the decision to write the tippy taka down on palm leaves at aluihara in Sri Lanka. So this one is a first time that Tibbita was committed to writing on farm leads to prevent loss.

[00:45:44]So yeah I know some of you may already be familiar with all these background but according to our registration more than 60% of participants are the totally beginners. So please bear with me as I go through the basic. I want to make sure everyone has a clear and solid uh level uh foundation before we move into the next chapters. So it is uh important to know all these history tools.

[00:46:20]Yeah. So after approximately more than 2,400 years of the Buddhist year there was a gap about 2,000 years between food and faith council.

[00:46:36]Yeah. So that uh during this long period the thumb leaf manuscript were not durable enough to withstand climate condition and insert damage. Right? So as a result concern arose about reservation and variation in the text also began to appear.

[00:46:59]So later in 1871 King Mind King Mind is a very devoted king.

[00:47:09]So uh he had the tibida engraved on se 729 marble slept in manderlay to reserve it father this left still exit today at the kudo doa is here it's a tiba tablets at buda it is in manderly it is in manderly Okay. Yeah, it's uh inside the the this kind of uh small temple house.

[00:47:50]So finally uh yeah so finally in 1954 the six Buddhists council was held in Yang with 2500 monks from Tiraak countries the TB daka along with the commentaries and sub commentaries was reviewed edited and published in printed form.

[00:48:19]So yeah, so the king Lindo is a yeah very devoted king. So the the the the the he wished to accomplish uh what Alia kings had not done. So he preserved on he preserved the the DB engrave on the marble slap.

[00:48:41]Uh so I think this one survive uh second world war. Second war the the the they are not the the the n of slap were damaged by bombs. They remain intact today in the compound of the the this small boda.

[00:49:04]So uh in this way tiba tbid daka was preserved and transmitted through a series of Buddhist council until the fifth uh fifth council there were no printed edition in my but during the british period uh British period uh the chibida was later printed in book form. So um at the SIDS council all these printed texts along with their commentaries uh are published and um today you all know right the TV daka is also available in digital form and we now have a online resources such as suda central and as well as the tbaka online platform. I personally use two or three online platform. Uh it it is a very uh uh good resources for us.

[00:50:07]So you you can see that the his historical historical transmission of the Buddha's teaching is a memory or a transmission and palm leaves and marble permanent inscription and now books actually I should add here is a digital format. Yes. uh for bameies there are so many bameies uh digital format it's very useful for us when uh learning the the uh the tippa and um actually the the the division into nikayas is not a subdivision of the paka because uh it is a separate system of the classification And uh because uh some some they confuse that the nikaya is uh uh um uh part of the paka actually is nothing to do with the paka uh in in fight nikaya later the fight nikaya the kodat nikaya it's aidama is included and but you see three paka The aida is a separate. Yeah. In it in in on its own.

[00:51:45]And uh I believe that the fully understand the uh Buddha teachings we should study we should study all these three pakas.

[00:51:59]That is my my my my my belief because um we I I'm come from the the very devoted uh Buddhist family and um but I I have learned uh mostly santa since very young aidama I started learn 18 years old but I never ever touched the wa before because the the I I I thought that I did do not need to land the wia because I am a lay person. Uh actually I I have never just now I mentioned I have never opened the wia text before I I study it in BBU is a BBU is a Buddhist and Bali University Serena. I attended with my dhama friends uh joining this class in uh Mandala Wiihara.

[00:53:03]So uh the the I think in our BA1 I think BA1 uh I began to study the the chapter on medicine. chapter on medicine is that uh chapter when I our teacher Bendy Anma uh asks us to do the project and that uh that topic then my perspective changed completely. I realized that what I had thought was uh uh the the winga is a just rules actually contain uh but actually wya contain uh rich body of uh especially that uh um the bite sorry because in language we call but the Roman language sometimes I I I cannot pronounce Roman language because I used to pronounce in Burmese language. So B sa kandaka is actually the rich body of ancient medical knowledge.

[00:54:19]It also show me how something like very the the how comp compassionate and practical the Buddha was. um how he addressed real health problems faced by his disciples with this uh rational and affected remedies. So it totally change uh my my opinion on MIA. So I like to study MIA also uh stuff uh from that uh incident. So I really thanks to my university and my teacher with my my friends we are working on this project together uh maybe my my classmate here remember so this experience experience convinced me that to understand the Buddha Buddha's teaching fully we need to study all three pits then later I will I will uh explore about the abidama why we need to study the aidma and also the many people sometimes I saw some of the YouTube videos some master or some teachers they they say that aidma is not necessary um it's abidama is not essential why it is necessary or essential they ask so many questions Actually the aidama is important for a correct understanding of the Buddha's teaching just now Bandi already mentioned right so I my my personal experience without knowledge of Abidama even the sas may not be fully or actually understood yeah I have listened so many suda dama talks since very young I understand very well after I learn systematically a bit teaching I understand better that that is on my own opinion and my own experience so I find that our understanding may be incomplete or even mistaken so us in his lecture he he explain one one by one something like the in damaba the damaba have a so translation, right? So he he mentioned that some translation are not accurate because the the the they the they not really u uh understand the abidama then translation may be a little bit uh not accurate. Yeah. So um in in in my my experience without a knowledge or aidama it is very difficult to fully and correctly understand the uh teaching found in the sudas. So uh again the the Seattle Silang Nanda mentioned that aidama is something like road map road map or uh you are when you go to visit to somewhere that uh road map and the guide is uh give you go to the right way. uh then I I I remember my last trip I think my my friends attending this course my my very beautiful friends from India it's uh from Ba is I Isa and Abina yeah uh thanks thank you so much for joining me today and uh last December I I went on pilgrimage to India and uh when we arrived to Popo to visit the grace tupa of Sani this uh to my lovely uh local friends who are actually um uh offer us their guidance and support. So so you see of course I I we can go to the the the Sani without them also but we we will have walked around with a lot of dogs on our own. It is very strange place right and but because of their help and friendly support uh our trip is was transformed uh they they knew the history they knew the best parts to take they handle the obstacle for us uh it's um could have been very confusing or difficult trip become a very smooth deeply meaningful and joyful experience so when I think about uh the how how to explain then I I think come this incident come to my mind. So uh really I I find like a bidma is uh something like the Seattle explanation is it is like um like a road map for us because I uh I have a lot of experience is uh um the I do the mahasi uh uh meditation practice also since uh I was 18 years old but um my meditation is uh uh practice is uh better only after I learn uh I learn um systematically uh aidma study. So that that that that is my opinion and uh experience. Yeah.

[01:00:10]Yeah. So uh tipaka the the Buddhist canon. So uh the Buddhist canon have uh three uh um collection waudaka and abidama.

[01:00:30]So wa paka have a quite uh uh division is uh it is made up of rules of discipline laid down for regulating the conduct of the Buddha's disciples who have been admitted as beus and beuni into the order. Then suda pitaka consists of discourses preached by the Buddha and in some cases his chief disciple. Then we have a seven text. It it is uh four ultimate things and consciousness mental fetus meta and neighbor and these are the five books major offenses I I won't go detail on this minor offenses but I will I put in my slides uh later if you want uh all the information just for your information I put everything together.

[01:01:40]So these are the five decks. Ma offenses, Magna offenses, break session and lesser session summary and analysis and suta paga is digaya majima samioda angodora and kodaga and baker body. I listen um body less also.

[01:02:07]I I I I like him a lot. I uh read his uh suta explanation uh a lot and uh I uh listen his abidama lectures as well. So in his abidama lecture he mentioned that um his spe uh his uh opinion it's abidama is uh derived from Samaya that is a big body opinion I just uh just uh share with you and so these are the original 15 uh division but uh after um this Buddhist council in my after s council the mama edition added this these three.

[01:03:00]So uh inma printed bulb or digital version we have these three extra.

[01:03:09]So uh I have a a teacher in Singapore.

[01:03:13]He is a PR 10. He is a very uh famous master uh for the this uh sunda explanation and whenever uh he he write so many papers and uh whenever he do write the papers he refer is a bamese version uh Thailand version and uh Chinese version something like that. So the bameis bashing is uh after s council is uh including this uh tree session and abidama.

[01:03:54]Yeah, abidama is a seven abidama text. It's a damas damasi. It's a collection of demats consciousness, mental fats and material properties. I will explain in a little bit detail next week also. This the today is I will I will read out uh brief only. Uh we banga is analysis of dhma which definition and simonians.

[01:04:25]Dadu kata is discussion of dama talk in dama sanami and pala pati designation of types of the beans using commercial terms.

[01:04:40]Actually this one uh some people doesn't want to call and katawu katawu is after council is a debate on test debate testers and yamaga yamaga is bulk of pairs with questions and answer and batana patana is a bulk of kuala relation most comprehensive and profile so we are now learning now already 8:30 but Let me let me go through something first.

[01:05:13]We are learning uh our class is saha is the of this these seven books not all seven books. I have uh um attend the diploma course uh teaching all these seven books. Seven books is some are very very profound and very difficult.

[01:05:37]Yeah. So a bit saha is a summary of uh these seven books. So um we just now I me uh mentioned that uh I explained that there are nine chapters and uh the first chapter is cha the companion of consciousness. So in that uh end of that sessions what we learn is uh how many according to uh tradition uh how many cha consciousness are there and from that uh yeah we have defined 89 uh brief and expanded one to one. So what is the what is the intention of knowing this consciousness because people act and speak according to their their their minds every day right. So, so from there we we we want to differentiate how many types of minds are there. Based on what kind of mind we are uh acting and speaking and thinking we we we will learn uh from that kind of uh perspective and uh what kind of mind is arising at any given moment. So that chapter will explain the number of uh something like and hosen minds rooted rooted in uh the greed, hatred and delusion and from from that uh that uh chapter uh we the insight is uh we can learn that even um you you know even we we are eating something good meal also form of and hosen bridge and hosen bridge and by recognizing these small accidents of the mind then we can develop a healthy fear of larger evils.

[01:07:49]So uh we will dist distinguish uh between doing good and wisdom uh versus doing good without wisdom. Also also uh it will also explain details about the higher state like Janna absorption and path trusion mega pala consciousness also. And second one, second one is a companion of mental fetus.

[01:08:21]Is actually something like the the the the manipulates manipulates the mind which uh mental fat does manipulate our mind.

[01:08:35]Yeah. we we will land enter that uh the the companion of mental factors. Then after that level uh chapter three is a compendion of miscellaneous miscellaneous topic. So that is uh the um that chapter is uh we linking chapter one and two together again focusing on consciousness and it categorize them into six groups uh something like feeling rules dogs object and basis. So this is a level one I just want to mention about level one first. So you may you you may find that in the the basic one you you you see wow we are learning only numbers and tables oh a bit mind is like numbers and tables it's not how how to apply in daily life actually later part like uh uh cognitive process if you don't understand the level one you will not understand cognitive process.

[01:09:52]So first that's why Bendy mentioned you have to understand the basic foundation level first.

[01:10:01]If you understand very well you in progress you will understand better. If you don't uh really understand or not uh very um clear about their basic level, the more you go, the more you are confused.

[01:10:22]Yes. So um I think we shall we caught it today. Uh 8:30 already.

[01:10:32]I hope you enjoy our class. Any questions so far?

[01:10:44]>> I just want to know if there will be notes. Are you going to share those?

[01:10:49]Yes.

[01:10:50]>> Yes, brother. I share the notes. Yes.

[01:10:54]Thank you very much.

[01:10:55]>> Yeah.