The Yin Ye Monastic School held its first annual event entitled “Meditation and Education for Students” from the 22nd to the 26th of April, 2006. The second annual event took place on 6 to the 12th of May, 2007. The school’s Supporting Association and Volunteer Committee organized the event. The aim of the event was to help the students enjoy a taste of Buddhist meditation, to train them to be intelligent public speakers, to encourage their sense of community, and to have fun. A total of 200 students, including some students from neighboring schools, participated in the events each year.
The event schedule was as follows.
Time Table for the Events
5: 00 am - Morning Chant
5: 30 am - Environmental Hygiene
6: 00 am - Breakfast
6: 30 am - Lessons on Buddhism
7: 30 am - Happy Learning: Educational Games
8: 30 am - Meditation: Breathing in and out
9: 00 am - Personal Hygiene
10: 00 am - Meditation: Breathing in and out
10: 30 am - Lunch
11: 00 am - Rest
1: 00 pm - Lesson on Buddhism
2: 00 pm - Happy Learning: Educational Games
3: 00 pm - Meditation: Breathing in and out
3: 30 pm - Creative Talk
4: 30 pm - Dinner
5: 00 pm - Happy Learning: Educational Games
6: 00 pm - Personal Hygiene
7: 00 pm - Dhamma Talk
8: 00 pm - Evening Chant
Time interval of each section is 5 to 10 minutes.
During the event, the three sections “Meditation,” “Educational Games,” and “Childish Debate,” were particularly significant.
Meditation Section
This was the first exposure to basic meditation for many of the students. They expressed great interest in a subject that might otherwise be considered “unfamiliar” or too “difficult” for them.
Educational Games
This included three subsections, namely: “Mental Repetition and Verbal Recitation,” “Looking and List,” and “Quick Reply.” In the first subsection, students had to memorize and repeat words and numbers spoken by a teacher. In the second subsection, students were asked to memorize a collection of things lying on a table and write a list of the contents from memory. In the third subsection, students had to give verbal quick replies to questions based on animate and inanimate things in their environment and on subjects they had learned.
Childish Debate
In this section, students were asked to form two groups and participate in creative debate. Members of the two groups had to debate such questions as “Which is better, a well or a lake?,” “Who is better, a monk or a novice?,” “Which palm is better, toddy or coconut?,” The students were encouraged to creatively argue and defend their positions.
And in other sections as well, the students proved their abilities and enthusiasm.
The event was beneficial to the students and they are eager to participate again in a similar event.
We hope to organize similar events every year during the coming summer holidays. The organizers hope to collect sufficient fund for the purpose. Donations of food, water, and electric generators are essential needs of the events.
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Some other educational events, such as Drawing Competitions, Essay Writing Competitions, and Poetry Recitation Competitions, are also occasionally held for the students. All of the events at the school help to stimulate the students’ artistic creativity and sense of social unity.
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ေက်ာင္းသားပြဲေတာ္မ်ား
လူငယ္ပညာေရးႏွင့္ လူငယ္သာသနာေရး။ ။ လူငယ္တို႔၏ ပညာေရးႏွင့္ သာသနာေရးကို ျမႇင့္တင္ေပးရန္ ရည္ရြယ္၍ ဤပြဲေတာ္ကို ၂၀၀၆-ခုႏွစ္ ဧၿပီလ (၂၂)ရက္ေန႔မွ (၂၆)ရက္ေန႔အထိ (၅)ရက္တိုင္တိုင္ ပထမဆုံးအႀကိမ္ က်င္းပခဲ့သည္။ ႏွစ္စဥ္လည္း က်င္းပလ်က္ ရွိသည္။ ပြဲေတာ္အခ်ိန္ဇယားမွာ ေအာက္ပါအတိုင္း ျဖစ္သည္။
နံနက္ ၅း ၀၀ နာရီ - ဘုရားရွိခိုး
နံနက္ ၅း ၃၀ နာရီ - ပတ္၀န္းက်င္ သန္႔ရွင္းေရး
နံနက္ ၆း ၀၀ နာရီ - နံနက္စာ
နံနက္ ၆း ၃၀ နာရီ - ဗုဒၶဘာသာသခၤန္းစာ
နံနက္ ၇း ၀၀ နာရီ - ပညာေပးကစားနည္းမ်ား
နံနက္ ၈း ၃၀ နာရီ - အာနာပါနသတိပ႒ာန္
နံနက္ ၉း ၀၀ နာရီ - တစ္ကိုယ္ေရသန္႔ရွင္းေရး
နံနက္ ၁၀း ၀၀ နာရီ - အာနာပါနသတိပ႒ာန္
နံနက္ ၁၀း ၃၀ နာရီ - ေန႔လယ္စာ
နံနက္ ၁၁း ၀၀ နာရီ - အနားယူ
ညေန ၁း ၀၀ နာရီ - ဗုဒၶဘာသာသခၤန္းစာ
ညေန ၂း ၀၀ နာရီ - ပညာေပးကစားနည္းမ်ား
ညေန ၃း ၀၀ နာရီ - အာနာပါနသတိပ႒ာန္
ညေန ၃း ၃၀ နာရီ - စကားေျပာစြမ္းရည္
ညေန ၄း ၃၀ နာရီ - ညေနစာ
ညေန ၅း ၀၀ နာရီ - ပညာေပးကစားနည္းမ်ား
ညေန ၆း ၀၀ နာရီ - တစ္ကိုယ္ေရသန္႔ရွင္းေရး
ညေန ၇း ၀၀ နာရီ - တရားနာ
ညေန ၈း ၀၀ နာရီ - ဘုရားရွိခိုးၿပီး အိပ္ယာ၀င္
ဇယား၀င္း အခ်ိန္တစ္ခုႏွင့္ တစ္ခုအၾကား (၁၀)မိနစ္မွ (၁၅)မိနစ္အထိ အနားေပးရန္ ျဖစ္သည္။
အျခားပြဲေတာ္မ်ား။ ။ ဤပြဲေတာ္အျပင္ အျခားေသာ ပုံဆြဲၿပိဳင္ပြဲမ်ား၊ ကဗ်ာရြတ္ၿပိဳင္ပြဲမ်ား၊ က်ပမ္းစကားေျပာၿပိဳင္ပြဲမ်ား၊ စာစီစာကုံးၿပိဳင္ပြဲမ်ားကိုလည္း အခါအားေလ်ာ္စြာ ႏွစ္စဥ္က်င္းပ ပါသည္။ ေက်ာင္းသားပြဲေတာ္ အားလုံးသည္ ေက်ာင္းသားသူငယ္မ်ား၏ ပညာေရးႏွင့္ သာသနာေရးအတြက္ အေျခခံ အေထာက္အပံ့ေကာင္းမ်ား ျဖစ္၏။ ထို႔ျပင္ ေက်ာင္းသား သူငယ္မ်ား၏ စည္းလုံးညီညြတ္မႈ, အျပန္အလွန္ နားလည္မႈ စေသာ လူမႈေရး အသိကိုလည္း တိုးျမႇင့္ေပး၏။ စိတ္ဓာတ္ခြန္အား ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးမႈကို မွီတည္ရသည့္ ခံစားမႈစြမ္းရည္, ဖန္တီးမႈစြမ္းရည္, ထုတ္ေဖာ္တင္ျပႏိုင္မႈစြမ္းရည္စေသာ ဗီဇအစြမ္းသတၱိမ်ားကိုလည္း ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေစ၏။