Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
with translation
by SUAN MOKKH INTERNATIONAL, THAILAND
BENEFITS OF CHANTING
1. Settles and calms the restless or agitated mind.
2. Mindfulness training: must be alert, nimble and attentive
to avoid mistakes.
3. Concentration training: focus the mind on the words and
their meaning.
4. Wisdom training: deepening understanding of the
teachings that can become direct realization.
5. Confidence (saddh) develops through familiarity and
reflection.
6. Cultivates energy (viriya), joy (pmojjha) and patience,
endurance (khanti).
7. Develops friendliness (mett) towards all beings.
8. Fills the mind with skillful, beneficial thoughts so that low
and impure thoughts dont enter.
9. Prepares the mind and body for meditation (bhvan).
10. Helps us to dedicate life to spiritual practice.
11. Familiarity with Pali, the language that preserves the
Buddhas words and its exquisite terms.
12. Thai people will appreciate and love you.
1
HOW WE CHANT:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Neither hurried nor overly slow, neither loud nor too soft.
6.
7.
far
baht
eat
feed
dew
food
ray, fate
go, slow
The stroke above some vowels indicates that they are long (in time), meaning
that they are pronounced approximately twice as long as their shorter mates.
CONSONANTS
K
go, give
T, TH, H, D, DH
KH, G, GH
kick, cat
N,
not, nose
sing
spite, spot
just
PH, B, BH
past
CH, J, JH
church
with
canyon
as in
as in
take, tot
2
1. HOMAGE TO THE BUDDHA
(HANDA MAYA BUDDHASSA BHAGAVATO
PUBBBHGA-NAMAKRA KAROMASE)
ARAHATO
The Worthy Undefiled One,
SAMM SAMBUDDHASSA
The Perfectly Self-Awakened One.
(3 times)
2. GOING TO REFUGE
(HANDA MAYA TISARAAGAMANAPHA BHAMASE)
3
DUTIYAMPI DHAMMA SARAA GACCHMI
A second time to the Dhamma for refuge we go.
4
3. THE FIVE TRAININGS
(HANDA MAYAM PANCASIKKHPADAPTHAM BHAMASE)
5
3.1. THE EIGHT TRAININGS
(HANDA MAYAM ATTHASIKKHPADAPTHAM BHAMASE)
6
VIKLA-BHOJAN VERAMA SIKKHPADA
SAMDIYMI
I undertake the training to intend not to eat in between after noon
and before dawn.
UCCSAYANA-MAHSAYAN VERAMA
SIKKHPADA SAMDIYMI
I undertake the training to intend not to sleep or sit on luxurious beds
and seats.
MANUSS BHAYATAJJIT
When danger threatens most people run away
to sacred mountains and forests, temples and shrines.
8
YO CA BUDDHACA DHAMMACA
SAGHACA SARAA GATO
CATTRI ARIYASACCNI
SAMMAPPAYA PASSATI
Those who go to refuge in Buddha-Dhamma-Sangha
through right wisdom realize the Four Noble Truths.
DUKKHA DUKKHASAMUPPDA
DUKHASSA CA ATIKKAMA
ARIYACAHAGIKA MAGGA
DUKKHPASAMA GMINA
They see suffering, its arising, the escape therefrom
and the Noble Eightfold Path to Perfect Peace.
9
5. VERSES ON A SINGLE NIGHT
(HANDA MAYA BHADDEKARATTAGTHYO BHAMASE)
ATTA NNVGAMEYYA
NAPPATIKAKHE ANGATA
YADATTAMPAHNANTA
APPATTACA ANGATA
One ought not to long for what has passed away,
nor be anxious over things that are yet to come.
The past has left us, the future has not arrived.
PACCUPPANNACA YO DHAMMA
TATTHA TATTHA VIPASSATI
ASAHIRA ASAKUPPA
TA VIDDH MANBRHAYE
Whoever sees the present dhammas
direct and clear just as they are,
is unshakable, immovable, secure.
They should accumulate such moments.
AJJEVA KICCAMTAPPA
KO JA MARAA SUVE
NA HI NO SAGARANTENA
MAHSENENA MACCUN
Effort is the duty of today,
even tomorrow death may come.
For it is beyond our power
to delay Death and its great armies.
10
EVA VIHRIMTPI
AHORATTAMATANDITA
TA VE BHADDEKARATTOTI
SANTO CIKKHATE MUNI
The Sages of Peace speak of that one who strives
never lazy throughout the entire day and night:
Praise the one who truly lives for even a single night.
SABBAPPASSA AKARANA
Never doing the least evil,
KUSALLASSPASAMPAD
in virtue always ready,
SACITTAPARIYODAPANA
purifying ones own mind.
11
ETA BUDDHNASSANA
These three are the teachings of the Awakened Ones.
NA HI PABBAJITO PARPAGHTI
those who destroy life are not gone forth.
ANPAVDO ANPAGHTO
Not speaking evil, not doing harm,
PTIMOKKHE CA SAMVARO
restraint within the Training Discipline.
MATTAUT CA BHATTASMI
Knowing what is right in taking food,
PANTACA SAYANSANA
sleeping and sitting in secluded places,
ADHIGITTE CA YOGO
devoted in training the mind ever higher,
ETA BUDDHNASSANA
these six are the teachings of the Awakened Ones.
12
7. VERSES ON THE BURDEN (KHANDHA)
(HANDA MAYA BHRASUTTAGTHYO BHAMASE)
BHRAHRO CA PUGGALO
the person foolishly shoulders them.
BHRANIKKEPANA SUKHA
tossing away these burden is bliss.
AA BHRA ANDIYA
without picking up any new ones.
NICCHTO PARINIBBUTO
desire is stilled, quenched in coolness.
13
8. THE FIRST WORDS OF THE BUDDHA
(HANDA MAYA PATHAMABUDDHABHSITAGTHYO BHAMASE)
GAHAKRAKA DIHOSI
PUNA GE HA NA KHASI
Now I know you Builder of this house!
You wont imprison me anymore.
VISAKHRAGATA CITTA
TAHNA KHAYAMAJJHAG
My mind has entered into that state
in which nothing can stir it up again.
Arriving at cravings final end,
the unsurpassed peace of Nibbana.
14
9. THE FINAL WORDS OF THE BUDDHA
(HANDA MAYA PACCHIMABUDDHOVDAPHAM BHAMASE)
VAYADHAMM SAKHR
All concocted things disintegrate.
APPAMDENA SAMPDETHA
You ought always to be carefully alert.
15
SABBE DHAMM ANATT
All things, those that are Sakhra and that which is not, are not self,
are not soul, should not be taken as I, as mine, as my self, my soul.
ADHUVA JVITA
Life lasts not long.
DHUVA MARANA
Death is long lasting,
MARANAPARIYOSNA ME JVITA
Our lives have death as their completion.
JVITA ME ANIYATA
Our lives are uncertain.
MARAA ME NIYATA
Our deaths are most certain.
VATA
Alas!
AYA KYO
This body
ACIRA
will not last.
16
APETAVINO
When consciousness is gone
CHUDDHO
they throw it away
ADHISESSATI
to lie
PATHAVI
upon the ground
KALIGARA IVA
like a fallen log
NIRATTHA
useless
11. REFLECTION ON
METT, KARUN, MUDIT, UPEKKH
A. SABBE SATT SUKHIT HONTU
May all beings be joyful.
17
SABBE SATT SUKH ATTNAM PARIHARANTU
May all beings preserve their well-being.
YA KAMMA KARISSANTI
KALAYNA V PPAKA V
Whatever they will do, for good or for ill,
18
12. PATICCASAMUPPDA
(The Sutta on Dependent Origination)
Samudaya-Vra
AVIJJ PACCAY PHASSO
Ignorance gives rise to Contact;
19
13. NPNASATI SUTTA
(The Sutta on Mindfulness with Breathing)
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
()
()
(13) ANICCNUPASSI ASSASISSMITI SIKKHATI
That bhikkhu trains himself: Contemplating impermanence I will breathe in.
()
(This is part of the Full Sutta)