The Latest Joke (oops) Prayer from Burma

ဴပည္တၾင္းက ေနာက္ဆုံးေပၞ ဘုရားရႀိခိုးအသစ္အေဳကာင္း
ေကာင္းကင္ဴပာ
ေအာက္တိုဘာ ၁၇၊ ၂၀၀၇

ဴမန္မာဴပည္မႀာ ဘုရားရႀိခိုးအမဵႂိးမဵႂိးေတၾ ရႀိေနတဲ့ဳကားက ယခုေခတ္နဲႚအခဵိန္နဲႚ အကိုက္ ဘုရားရႀိခိုးအသစ္ ထၾက္လာပၝတယ္။ ဳကားရသေလာက္က ဒီလိုပၝ …

တေလာက ဖမ္းထားတဲ့ လူရၿင္ေတာ္ အႎုပညာရႀင္ကို ေထာက္လႀမ္းေရးက ေမးပၝတယ္။ မင္းမႀာ ဴပက္လုံးအသစ္ေလး ဘာေလးမဵား ရႀိသလားတဲ့။ သူက 'ေလာေလာဆယ္ ငၝ ဘုရားရႀိခိုးေနတယ္' လိုႚ ဴပန္ေဴဖပၝတယ္။ ေထာက္လႀမ္းေရးက - 'ကဲ … ခုခဵိန္မႀာ မင္းမႀာ ဘုရားရႀိခိုးစရာ ဘာရႀိေသးလိုႚလဲ' လိုႚ ေမးေတာ့၊ သူက အခုလို ဴပန္ေဴဖလိုက္ပၝသတဲ့။

"ဗုဒၭံ သရဏံ ဂစၥာမိ …
ဓမၳံ သရဏံ ဂစၥာမိ …
အဲ ... သံဃံသရဏံ ကေတာ့ 'ဂန္းစာမိ' ဴဖစ္သၾားဴပီ။
နင္တိုႚစစ္တပ္က သံဃာေတာ္ေတၾကို ေသနတ္နဲႚ ပစ္လိုက္လိုႚ… "

ဆိုဴပီး ဘုရားရႀိခိုးအသစ္ကို ရၾတ္ဴပလုိက္သည္နဲႚ တဴပိႂက္နက္၊ ဘုရားရႀိခိုးအသစ္တန္ခိုးနဲႚ "၀ုန္း … " ဆို မီးခုိးလုံးေတၾ တက္လာဴပီး၊ ေထာက္လႀမ္းေရးေတၾ ေပဵာက္၊ သူႚအိမ္ ဴပန္ေရာက္သၾားတယ္ဆိုလား။

ဴပည္တၾင္း၊ ဴပည္ပက ဗုဒၭဘာသာ၀င္အေပၝင္း သူေတာ္ေကာင္းတိုႚလည္း ဒီလို တန္ခိုးဳကီးလႀတဲ့ ဘုရားရႀိခိုးအသစ္ကို မဵားမဵား နာနာ ဖိရၾတ္ဳကပၝစိုႚလိုႚ တိုက္တၾန္းလိုက္ရပၝေဳကာင္္း။

(သံခိတ္ဴဖည့္စာ - ဂန္း = Gun ဴဖစ္ပၝေဳကာင္း၊ နားေ၀းသူမဵား နားရႀင္းေအာင္ ရႀင္းလိုက္ရပၝတယ္)

The Latest Joke (oops) Prayer from Burma
Kaung Kin Pyar
October 17, 2007

In Burma, among Burmese people, we have variety of prayers for our Buddhist religion. But in those tiring days, came a new kind of prayer for our true believers.

The story goes like this; while one of the renowned comedian (you know who …) was arrested for his participation in recent monks' boycott to the Burmese junta, he was continuously harassed and interrogated by the army officers at the unknown location (you know where …).

Then at one point, one of the military intelligence officer asked "Do you still have any jokes left for us, now?"

Replied the comedian "Do not disturb, I am praying."

"Who will answer your prayer after we have taken care of all the monks on the streets" asked the officer.

The comedian then slowly explained as follows;

"Here is a new prayer for our Buddhists. It goes like this –

We pray for Buddha …

We pray for Dhamma …

But you guy (the army and the generals) prey on our Sangha (with guns and bullets)…

May we all be in peace …"

Soon after he finished his new prayer, there came a big smoke out of nowhere making the military officers disappeared and then the comedian was found back at his home (safe and sound) still praying his new summon.

So to make our story short, let's all the Burmese Buddhists all over the world pray the new powerful prayer to make a better change and better future of our Burma.

Translated by Maung Yit