Meditation is Meditation! We tried to go to the Sunlun monastery and practising Sunlun way of Vipassana meditation in the morning session. Apart from some busy days, we do not miss to go. Sit in the place and shut tight…
The next visit for today was going to the Museum of Archaeology. But unluckily, it was closed in the evening. We are late. (Museum of Archaeology) But wandering around the museum, there were many interesting things awaited. The wall far…
(The inside images of Mingalarmanaung Pagoda.) (Goodbye dear little sheep! Sweet dream!) After an hour of wandering around the Mingalarmanaung Pagoda, we decided to return. The return-walking never tired us. I could not help looking back the road I trod…
(“The Sakyamanaung Pagoda was built by the King Thiridhammayarzar and his Queen NatShinMay in AD 1629.”) We headed next to the Sakyamanaung Pagoda. There were many scriptures represented strangest figures like ogres. They stood big! They guarded the pagoda with much…
(A museum we left behind at the place of Sandamuni Buddha Image.) (On the passing by, we saw an old wall that we missed from the ancient time. ) Zina-Man-Aung Buddha Image was our next drop. It was donated by…
(Illustrated by Maung Yit, Translated by Junior Win.) Here my translation in Burmese of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland for the third edition now appeared. Thanks to my brother, Maung Yit – my twin brother for his illustrations of Alice…
(A breakfast the hotel served us was great!) After having breakfast at the hotel, we were walking nearby and had a very nice view around. Then we returned to the place we rest and prepared for seeing the town. Paying…
To every meditation session, we had to sit cross legs. Breathe hard for 50 minutes, and another 50 minutes for watching sensation of pain, cramp, ache, numbness, heat or cold arisen in the body. For those total 100 minutes, we…
At the pagoda near Kyauktaw where Mahamyatmuni Buddha Image was situated, we saw interesting seeing around. Among them, a sacred pond whose looking was very romantic. There also were historical legends which were sculptured amazingly. (Inside what I saw looked…
(Burmese Days and Flowers by Junior Win, was on Amazon since 2013 December 29.) ‘Here critics of my book, some I came across. Whatever they write, they have a right to write. So I have a right to copy.I posted here…
I had a trip to Sit-Tway a year ago. Sit-Tway, is a district of the Rakhine State in western Burma. We planned to visit a town, called ‘Myauk-U’ – is a township of Myauk-U district in the Rakhine State of…
(Sunlun Vipassana Monastery.) The head of the Sunlun Vipassana Meditation Centre, Venerable Sayadaw U Wara returned from the Kyaukpadaung and a short visit to Maymyo (Mandalay Division, Burma) on the 7th January of 2019. After His final visit from the…
