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It is an old candid shot taken back in 2009 June. It is one of my favorite places in Yangon. A pagoda atop a hill with the blossom garden around, a very peaceful environment comparatively not crowded like other temples and pagodas. It is genuinely an ideal Buddha’s shade to do religious works and meditation. Yes, it is THE MAHA WIZAYA PAGODA of Yangon. Not always but seldom, I dropped by at this PAGODA on my way back from THE SHWEDAGON PAGODA. These two pagodas are adjacent to each other, only a single road is separated in between.

It was 10th June 2009. I wanted to capture THE SHWEDAGON PAGODA from THE MAHA WIZAYA PAGODA hill. I decided to go there in noon time because generally that is not crowded time and less pilgrims so that I can choose any preferential spot on the pagoda as my shooting angle. I arrived immediately at the main entrance I saw a middle aged man tranquilly meditating alone. At that time of the day, the sun was absolutely scorching and dire temperature. But he seemed too peaceful and unruffled doing his religious works. Our Lord Buddha gives him charm, his mind, his body and his soul.

WORSHIPING & MEDITATION

When you travel to Pagoda, Monastery, Stupa, Temple or any kind of Buddhist religious place in Burma, it is very common to see people keeping meditation. We, Buddhists, normally do these religious deeds to achieve Nirvāna. The Buddha described Nirvāna as the perfect peace of the state of mind that is free from craving, anger and other afflicting states. When one achieves the state of Nirvāna, there is no identity left, and no boundaries for the mind. The subject who is at peace with the world, has compassion for all and gives up obsessions and fixations. In Nirvāna the root causes of craving and aversion has been extinguished, so one day when fulfilled, that person is no longer subject to human suffering instead reflect peace in and out of mind all around. And Nirvāna is the wishful destination of every Bhuddist…

MY THOUGHT

I do not know whether he is going to achieve the state of Nirvāna. But for the moment during his meditation, he is in genuine peace, indisputable calmness and his soul is in tranquility. People nowadays have diverse level of belief in their religions. Some people do not believe in “FUTURE”, the time being after death. Excluding those non-believers or whatsoever, do try to have peaceful mind yourself sometimes. It’s is truly serene and peaceful. On one fine day, clear your mind, close your eyes and try to see LORD BUDDHA. You will see, sense and get blessing from him…

Have a nice weekend ahead, my friends…

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In Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), it is very common to see people keeping meditation…

Ye Phyo

This really reflects a peaceful Buddhism mind of a Myanmar and this photo gives great deal of peaceful sight. Love your work & documentary – like essay, bro.
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@ Ye Phyo >> Thanks bro… I love this kind of pics, sometimes… It gives you PEACEFUL feelings…
၀င္းထြဋ္

Nice shot bro! I’ll be your fan forever… :)
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@ ၀င္းထြဋ္ >> Thanks a lot for the supports, bro…
SSZ

Very nice photos KoYLO :)
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@ SSZ >> Thanks a lot, sis… It’s just an random Candid shots… I will be back to Bagan series soon… Just that I am too busy these days to write blog…
SSZ

Wow!!! Great to hear that… Can’t wait to see your shots!!! :)
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@ SSZ >> Thanks again, sis… Now I am half way preparing a series of LAW KA NANDA PAGODA photos…
Su Hnin

I feel like i want to meditate when i look at ur pic :D nice shot…
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@ Su Hnin >> Thanks for the praise, sis… You should meditate when you have spare time. My sister used to do when she was in Ygn. For now, I am not whether she still does!!!
Htut Yi Mon

Ko YLO. Ur photo express that the sign of an intelligent man is his ability to control his mind. Great… :)
Thant Thant

I feel your photo supports helpful hint for good living. Nice shot! Thanks for posting.
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@ Htut Yi Mon >> Thanks a lot for your thoughtful comment, sis…

@ Thant Thant >> Thanks, sis… People rarely like this kind of philosophy post… I like them sometimes though…
http://melodymaung.com MelodyMaung

Gud! I like Not only nice shot but also meaningful writing. Cheers!
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@ MelodyMaung >> Thanks for your visit and comment, sis…
Win Thiri Kyaw

You really got the superb capture of peaceful moment! Good job, bro.
Nay Yee

Nice shot, bro !
ေက်ာ္ဇင္

ကိုရဲလြင္ဦး ေရ
ပံုေလးက အေရာင္အေသြးေရာ အခုိက္အတန္႔ပါ အေတာ္ကို ေအးေအးခ်မ္းခ်မ္း ရွိတယ္ဗ်ာ တရား ထုိင္ေနသူရဲ႕ ေအးခ်မ္းမႈကိုပါ ခ်က္ခ်င္း ကုိယ္တုိင္ ခံစားမိလိုက္ သလုိပါပဲ အခ်ိန္ေလးမ်ားရရင္ ကၽြန္ေတာ့ ကိုလဲ နည္းနည္းေလာက္ သင္ျပ ေပးပါဦး ဗ်ာ :)
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Love to read your photo deacriptions brother. You are the one. :)
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@ Win Thiri Kyaw >> Thanks a lot for the positive comment, sis…

@ Nay Yee >> Thanks a lot, sis…

@ ေက်ာ္ဇင္ >> ဟိုး ေထာင္႔တစ္ေနရာမွာ ေ႐ႊတိဂံု ဘုရား ကို လွမ္းျမင္ေနရတယ္ ဗ်။ အဲဒီ ႐ွဳေထာင္႔ေလးကို ႀကိဳက္လို႔ ႐ိုက္ျဖစ္သြားတာ ဗ်။ ကာလာ ကိုေတာ႔ နဲနဲ အၿငိမ္ဖက္ပါေအာင္ ခ်ိန္ထားတယ္။ ကိုေက်ာ္ဇင္ အားရင္ ေျပာပါ။ တစ္ရက္ ခ်ိန္းၿပီး ဟိုဟိုဒီဒီ သိသေလာက္ေလး ေျပာျပတာေပါ႔…။

@ Myo Thaw Tun >> Thanks a lot bro. You’re the one…
Su Hnin

Yes bro… I’m trying to do so :)
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@ Su Hnin >> Oh… I am impressed, sis… Keep it up!!!
Dana

The photos are magnificent, also love the blog. I am sure to be visiting here frequently for some inspiration. I must say a huge thx to Myo TT to send me the link. Meditation and temples/pagodas are my most favorite things in the world, and of course the only Shwedagon. :))
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@ Dana >> Thanks for your visit, appreciation and comment. Ko Myo TT is my very close friend who has been supporting me since I was a beginner photographer. Here on my blog, I mostly share Burmese cultures, Burmese architectures, Burmese street lives and of course Pagodas / Temples… Hope to see your future visits…
Pon Gyi

Well (it’s with capital “W”… ;P) finally i’m here to glorify ur blog page… lolzzz… O.K… i don’t wanna give any excuses… but let me tell ya one thing… being absent to comment ur pics shows i haven’t got time for look at ur pics carefully during those days… & that means i’ve been out of touch with decent pics & touchy feelings only those pics can give… ;D

at a glance, this pic remind me ur old post “meditation”… but u gave different taste this time… in the last post, it’s a night shot & i could get the sense of serene night at pagoda right away… but here, i see the lil bit difference… i’m not so sure but i think u used some kind of “juxtaposition”… the scene of sunny sky gives the sense of typical scorching afternoon in Yangon… on the other hand, the man looks so calm & peaceful… & the way he sits simply tells how much he is absorbed in holy teachings of Buddha… i think the peaceful & glory nature of Buddha’s teachings become more prominent ‘caze of that juxtaposition… & the image of Shwe Dagon Pagoda also reinforces the whole concept the pic… ;D… i think i don’t need to say how much i adore this pic my bro…
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@ Pon Gyi >> All I wanna say is that I give up. You always win with those bluffing words. Well, the difference between “MEDITATION” and this “WORSHIPER” is subject. Attention in “Meditation” goes to the golden pagoda where the focus in “Worshiper” is the main in his peaceful meditation. After all, I really miss those shooting days in Yangon. And yes I wonder when would I be able to make these shots again…

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