What is "First name" and what is "Last name"?

today is that I do think about name of the people how to be called by the tradition why they have first name and last name. I have usually have difficulty to put the name when I usually to Immigration or University, because I have only first name. I did not consider about my name in my country, but when I have been in other countries, I am facing to write the first name and last name. now is that I do think due to the naming of the people which is also important, as much as I was finding with some references as following.

What is "First name" and what is "Last name"? zero_88 Jun 11th, 08, 12:16 PM

#1

First name is Surname? and Last name is your name right?

If my name is TAN AH KAO

should I put....

A. "FIRST NAME" = TAN "LAST NAME" = AH KAO

or

B. "FIRST NAME" = AH KAO "LAST NAME" = TAN

Which one is correct?
since I was small, I always put LAST NAME as my surname....then every time what I get is AH KAY TAN....

ColdFusion Jun 11th, 08, 12:19 PM

#2

B

First name is how they address u.
Lastname is your surname.

Eg:

TAN AH KOW

AH KOW = First Name
TAN = Last Name

In case you have an english name:

STANLEY TAN

STANLEY = FirstName
TAN = 

 LastName 

 

val_wilder Jun 11th, 08, 12:26 PM

#3

Jackson family
Micheal Jackson - Bro
Janet Jackson - Sis

Micheal = First Name
Jackson = Last Name  

Don't know why we have to follow the westernised way... but... First Name: Kao Middle Name: Ah Last Name/Surname/Patronymic: Tan Like Homer Jay Simpson. They'll usually call you "Kao" rather than "Ah Kao" so Kao would be your first name in practice. Better than being called "Ah". However, when filling up forms, you're unlikely to find a space for the middle name so putting "Ah Kao" as first name is fine. So you WILL end up like Ah Kao Tan. Coz they put the patronymic last. If they followed our way you would have "My name is Simpson Homer"... sounds funny right?

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RxC6 Jun 11th, 08, 12:52 PM #7 Ah Kow, Tan (First Name), (Last Name) First Name = Your Given Name Last Name = Surname

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The Gratitude of our Parents which should not be forgotten,

Introduction:  According to the teaching of the Buddha,  even something has ever been eaten by others must be remembered having gratitude on each other. Buddha deeply spoke to monks about gratitude of Father and Mother, in which His teaching is because Parents are the first teachers of children to be development of knowledge and life.
in case of that They have to look after their children, the gratitude of parents out not to be forgotten as long life.
1. The reason is  since the child was born was being treated and looked after his or her development.
2. The reason is  that every parents have five kinds of  hoping for their children when they are to be old and after to be death.
3. The reason that there is even any parents who have loving-kindness on the children.
4. The reason that every parents are hoping for  their children to be educated and honest persons in future.
Conclusion: As the following kinds of the reasons, to be educated and rich person to lead a good moral life in societies,
any one ,who are educated and rich person, are supported and shown by the way of parents.

Key Points About the Way to Nibbāna

1. Nibbāna is the cessation of craving, so the way to it opposes defilements. The purpose of insight meditation is not to get ‘blissed out,’ though one will experience plenty of joy and bliss if one practises energetically. At the higher stages of insight one must become thoroughly weary of the mental and physical processes. Only such world weariness can lead to nibbāna.
2. The Middle Way is not the easy way. Progress may be relatively pain free for an individual with very little attachment, and it may be swift for someone of keen intellect, but for the average person it will require prolonged and strenuous effort. One should expect to encounter difficulties on the way.  Be wary of teachers who claim that it there is an easy route.
3. Insight meditation must focus on realities that can be known in the present moment. All mental and physical phenomena must be investigated as soon as they occur within one’s mind to realise their true nature.
4. Thinking and theory are far away from direct insight knowledge. Thinking must be observed with bare awareness to realise its true nature. Reading and listening to discourses are only an aid to practice.
5. All conditioned things are impermanent, unsatisfactory, and not-self. If meditation does not reveal these three characteristics, it is not insight meditation, and does not lead to nibbāna.
6. In the discourse on the Eight Thoughts of a Great Man to Venerable Anuruddha, the Buddha said, ”This Dhamma [Nibbāna] is for one who wants little, not for one who wants much; for the contented, not for the discontented; for the secluded, not for one fond of society; for the energetic, not for the lazy; for the mindful, not for the unmindful; for the composed, not for the flustered; for the wise, not for the unwise; for one who is precise and who delights in precision, not for the vague or for one who delights in diffuseness.” (A. iv. 227)http://www.aimwell.org/Books/Pesala/Nibbana/nibbana.html

Where is Nibbāna?

“Is there a place, Nagasena, where nibbāna is stored up?”

“No there is not, yet it does exist. As there is no place where fire is stored up yet it may be produced by rubbing two dry sticks together.”

“But is there any place on which a man might stand and realise nibbāna?”

“Yes there is; virtue is the place; standing on that, and with reasoning, wherever he might be, whether in the land of the Scythians or the Bactrians, whether in China or Tibet, in Kashmir or Gandhara, on a mountain top or in the highest heavens; the one who practises rightly realises nibbāna.”

“Very good, Nagasena, you have taught about nibbāna, you have explained about the realisation of Nibbāna, you have praised the qualities of virtue, shown the right way of practice, raised aloft the banner of the Dhamma, established the Dhamma as a leading principle, not barren nor without fruit are the efforts of those with right aims!”

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The Milinda Pañha was written over two thousand years ago, not very long after the time of the Buddha. Venerable Nagasena was reputed to be an Arahant, though I suppose that Milinda (Menander), being a Bactrian Greek king, was a non-Buddhist from birth. It is apparent from the range of his questions that he had a thorough knowledge of Buddhist teachings. Though the dialogues probably did take place — it may not have been in the form that we now have. The Milinda Pañha could have been compiled by a Buddhist scholar to please the Greek king, perhaps being based on conversations in the Greek king’s court. Whatever its origin may be, it is included in the Pali Canon, and is regarded by Theravadins as a masterly exposition of the Buddha Dhamma.http://www.aimwell.org/Books/Pesala/Nibbana/nibbana.html

Nibbana

Nibbana is the highest bliss, a supramundane state of eternal happiness. The happiness of Nibbana cannot be experienced by indulging the senses but calming them.
Nibbana is the final goal of Buddhism. What is Nibbana then? It is not easy to know what Nibbana really is; it is easier to know what Nibbana is not.
Nibbana is not nothingness or extinction. Would the Buddha leave his family and kingdom and preach for 45 years, all for nothingness?
Nibbana is not a paradise. Several centuries after the Buddha, some of the Buddhist sects began to introduce Nibbana as a paradise. Their purpose of equating Nibbana with a heavenly world was to convince the less-intellectually-gifted and to attract them to the teachings of the sect. Striving for Nibbana came to mean looking for a nice place where everything is beautiful and where everyone is eternally happy. This might be a very comfortable folktale, but it is not the Nibbana that the Buddha experienced and introduced. During His time the Buddha did not deny the idea of paradise as it was presented in the early Indian religions. But the Buddha knew that this paradise was within Samsara and the final liberation was beyond it. The Buddha could see that the Path to Nibbana led beyond the heavens.
If Nibbana is not a place, where is Nibbana then? Nibbana exists just as fire exists. However, there is no storage place for fire or for Nibbana. But when you rub pieces of wood together, then the friction and heat are the proper conditions for fire to arise. Likewise, when the nature in man's mind is such that he is free from all defilements, then Nibbanic bliss will appear.
You can experience Nibbana. Until you experience the supreme state of Nibbanic bliss, you can only speculate as to what it really is. For those who insist on the theory, the texts offer some help. The texts suggest that Nibbana is a supra-mundane state of unalloyed happiness.
By itself, Nibbana is quite unexplainable and quite undefinable. As darkness can be explained only by its opposite, light, and as calm can only be explained by its opposite, motion, so likewise Nibbana, as a state equated to the extinction of all suffering can be explained by its opposite?the suffering that is being endured in Samsara. As darkness prevails wherever there is no light, as calm prevails wherever there is no motion, so likewise Nibbana is everywhere where suffering and change and impurity do not prevail.
A sufferer who scratches his sores can experience a temporary relief. This temporary relief will aggravate the wounds and cause the disease to be enhanced. The joy of the final cure can hardly be compared to the fleeting relief obtained from the scratching. Likewise, satisfying the craving for sense-desires brings only temporary gratification or happiness which prolongs the stay in Samsara. The cure for the samsaric disease is Nibbana. Nibbana is an end of the cravings which cause all the sufferings of birth, old age, disease, death, grief, lamentation and despair. The joy of Nibbanic cure can hardly be compared to the temporary Samsaric pleasure gained through fulfilling the sense desires.
It is dangerous to speculate on what Nibbana is; it is better to know how to prepare the conditions necessary for Nibbana, how to attain the inner peace and clarity of vision that leads to Nibbana. Follow the Buddha's advice: put His Teachings into practice. Get rid of all your defilements which are rooted in greed, hatred, and delusion. Purify yourself of all desires and realize absolute selflessness. Lead a life of right moral conduct and from all selfishness and illusion. Then, Nibbana is gained and experienced.

Nibbana and Samsara

A well-known Mahayana Buddhist scholar, Nagarjuna, says that Samsara and Nibbana are one. This interpretation can easily be misunderstood by others. However to state that the concept of Samsara and Nibbana are the same is to say that there is no difference in voidness of component things and the unconditioned state of Nibbana. In accordance with the Pali Tipitaka, Samsara is described as the unbroken continuation of the five aggregates, four elements and twelve bases or sources of mental processes whereas Nibbana is described as the extinction of those relative physical and mental sources.
However, it is admitted that those who gain Nibbanic bliss, can experience it during their existence in Samsara. In any case, after their death, the link with those elements will be eliminated, for the simple reason that Nibbana is unconditioned, not relative or interdependent. If there is to be anything at all after Nibbana, it would have to be 'Absolute Truth'.
You must learn to be detached from all worldly things. If there is any attachment to anyone or to anything or if there is any aversion to anyone or anything, you will never attain Nibbana, for Nibbana is beyond all opposites of attachment and aversion, likes and dislikes.
When that ultimate state is attained, you will fully understand this worldly life for which you now crave. This world will cease to be an object of your desire. You will realize the sorrow and impermanence and impersonality of all that lives and that does not live. By depending on teachers or holy books without using your own effort in the right manner, it is difficult to gain realization of Nibbana. Your dreams will vanish. No castles will be built in the air. The tempest will be ended. Life's struggles will be over. Nature's process will have ceased. All your worries, miseries, responsibilities, disturbances, burdens, physical and mental ailments and emotions will vanish after attaining this most blissful state of Nibbana.
To say that Nibbana is nothingness simply because one cannot perceive it with the five senses, is as illogical as to say that light does not exist simply because the blind do not see it.
Nibbana is attainable in this present life. Buddhism does not state that its ultimate goal could be reached only in life beyond. When Nibbana is realized in this life with the body remaining it is called Sopadisesa Nibbana. When an Arahant attains Pari-Nibbana, after the dissolution of the body, without any reminder of physical existence, it is called Anupadisesa Nibbana.

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The voice of invitation of Dhamma

Published : 9:39 AM Author :Ashin Thuseitta

This is a good chance for meeting of Buddhist Religion. Someone who are good person, with getting good chance, has been practicing on the way of the teaching of the Lord Buddha.The following  which is, is the truth of Dhamma by lord Buddha.Those which teaching are, (1) to follow by which Rule  ( Keeping Morality) or Precepts, are called ( Vinaya Pitaka),What concentration is, is to do work or business or meditation by taking carefulness in any action by every moment.By keeping concentration of any action which may be working or doing business, that should be mindfulness on the mind, so every doing of working or business whatever we are doing, our goal  will be able to end of success-fulness  in all. (3) Highest Knowledge ( Abhidhamma Pitaka) which is make sure to get the right way or middle way how to practice Meditation , is to try to see as it is in mind and matter or mind and physic or body.To understand those ways of teaching is to  be studied step by step.

(1)Studying of the ways or three Pitakas , is called ( Pariyatti Sasana).

 (2) By studying the teaching of the Lord Buddha, it is not enough, so we need to

Follow and practice to be able to really be understood by those ways which is the best or most love to practice one of the ways, being called ( Patipatti Sasana).

 (3) Having understood and practiced on the ways, by keeping the Morality, getting Concentration, or Mindfulness, and Wisdom ( Insight Knowledge or Highest Knowledge),

Those which are making sure us to get goal of life that can be peaceful, and be free from suffering of life,  by called ( PatiVeda Sasana).

In which there are many ways of teaching by lord Buddha, it is expressed anyone who want to practice Dhamma or Meditation,  he or she can choose one of them which he or she most like to do in any way of them.There has been the truth Dhamma or ways,which was not able to be seen or found, but Lord Buddha by Himself had found ,then He spoke or declared about Dhamma to the beings by tow ways which are Adhamma  (untruth) not to be followed, and Dhamma ( truth) to be followed step by step.

The Dhamma is noblest way to be practiced, which has been  welcoming to all to able to come and try to practice. In Pali word ( Ehi – Passi ko) which is quality or the voice of invitation of Dhamma or Meditation etc).

All beings always by eating, drinking , working to get worthy of success fulness of life in  the  simple rich,  were  wasting the time.The time which  has been spend ed or wasted by carelessness, has forgot  forever.

The  Buddhist Teaching ( Sasana)  respect Practical  doing more than speech, which is also  a Religion to do piratically.Lord Buddha used to go to teach Dhamma by loving-kines  in the Societies for 45 years until He had passed a way ( MahaPriNabbana).

The Education or way of life how to be practiced  can cause to be noble person to get highest knowledge or wisdom which is worthy for not only in being peacefulness of present life, but also in future life to be standing on  highest class which will be free from all suffering ( Sansara).In case that, Dhamma expresses the way to be avoided from evil or bad action, and the way to be kept or practiced by Lord Buddha.The Dhamma in Meditation is like good medicine to be able to treat the defilement which are greedy ( Loba) Hatred ( Dosa) and ignorance ( Moha- not able to see the truth)so as to be treated by Dhamma, without spending money, Lord Dhamma is taking care-of to be from  diseases of defilement of mind and body, so all are being  invited warmly by sweet  and peaceful voice of Dhamma to be practiced.

May all beings well an happy and get noble Dhamma!

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Ashin Thuseitta ( Mahachulalongkorn University, Chiang Mai)