Maung Tha Cho - Green Families

Music and house

( one)

Leather

Just as a forest where you can't hear the sound of a bird's song, a house where you can't hear the sound of a song is also very lonely. It's amazing that there are people who have never been able to sing a single song from beginning to end in their entire lives, and there are also families who live in perpetual silence, like a desert, without the habit of listening to a song sung by anyone.

I don't know if you remember. Not far from my father's room was a professor's house. He and his wife had one son and one daughter. There was nothing in their room that made sound. There was no radio, cassette, television, VCD, or anything. What surprised me was not that they didn't buy it because they couldn't afford it, but that their family's mentality was always quiet and dry, with the idea that music and songs were unnecessary things in life. When it was time, someone went to the office, someone went to school, someone cooked, someone cooked, someone ate when it was time to eat, read when it was time to sleep, and then when it was time to sleep, the whole family slept in the dark. It was one of those families that mistakenly thought that music was an extra matter, son.

Is there really no need for singing in the world? It's something that anyone who wants to create a green and refreshing family life should think about.

( 2 years)

You must know Albert Einstein. He was a Nobel Prize winner in physics, the Man of the Century of the 20th century . He was born in 1879 and died in 1955. Einstein loved music very much. He loved classical music, Bach , Mozart , and Schubert . My father also read about it in Time magazine , 31 Dec 99. When he was confused about physics, he would put his violin on his ear. The great physicist said that after a song or two, he would get lost in the violin and return to physics. If that's the case, music must be a refuge for our father's intellectual exhaustion and spiritual exhaustion, my son.

I think you have heard of the great writer Paragu. He is a scholar and writer who is very close to my father. On one page of Weekly Eleven, Paragu once quoted a saying of the great monk Janaka Bhiwamsa. The saying of the great monk Janaka Bhiwamsa (1900-1977) of Amarapura. The saying is that the eightfold path of victory that the monk sings is more powerful than the sermons of the monks. Yes, my son. When I heard the eightfold path of victory, I immediately fell in love with the Buddha. It is true that music can easily captivate and transform our minds.

Aristotle (384-322 BC) is a name that is familiar to us among the Greek thinkers. I also really liked what he said about music. Mental Catharsis . I came across this word in Saya Mya Than Tint's book Return from the Northern Highlands. Saya Mya Than Tint translated it as the act of cleansing the mind. That's a really nice interpretation. Yes. Singing a song or shouting out loud is like washing away the impurities in your mind.

There are many songs to sing for those who are sad because of separation from their lover. Men also have a heart, Let your lover go far away, Even though the summer and winter have changed, When the sister is giving up, Let all lovers cry, If you miss the village, You miss your mother and your sister, Let's sing. If you miss your hometown, Just sing the memories of your birth and your never-forgotten hometown. A lot of songs to sing when you remember your mother's grace and love. Thank you, mother, Mother's little pot of trouble, How are you, mother, Mother's beloved son, Mother's house, There are many true shadows, son. For the anger that cannot be found, I will say I punched the wall of Sai Htee Shop. For the courage to fight, I will sing Khaing Htoo's Must Overcome Everything. For a beautiful woman, I will say Khin Maung Toe's Maha San Thu. For the respect of your own morals, Khaing Htoo's noble deeds, For my son, Pitha Thu, Zaw Win Htut's heavenly mother, for the warmth of the family, for the joy of the Mandalay jewel, songs

You may want to listen to it with your family in front of the VCD player. You may want to listen to it alone with your child in ear phones. You may want to turn on the karaoke machine and sing along. Or you may want to iron, clean the house, plan for cooking, wash clothes, draw up schedules, plant rice, weed, drive a bullock cart, wash the car, change the Buddha vase, wash rice, pick whole grains. If you want to sing, sing, son. Either way, every family needs songs to take a break from the hustle and bustle of life, to refresh their minds, to wash away the impurities, to go back to the past for a while, son.

I read some experiments about music on some pages, Dad. There were two flower beds. In one of them, soft music was always playing. When the flowers bloomed, the flower bed bloomed more. Then, the same thing happened with two chicken coops. In one of them, music was always playing. And the chicken coop with the soft music laid more eggs. Modern medical scientists say that expectant mothers should listen to soft music from the time they are pregnant. And it is also accepted that children who live with music have higher intelligence.

There is a stone inscription from the Bagan era, written by a great minister named Singha Thu. In his prayer, he prayed that every time he wakes up from bed, he would wake up to the sound of pleasant music. My father's friend, an editor, always had music playing in his office. It was very quiet. In the morning, there were calm songs, in the morning, there were sad songs, in the evening, there were sad songs, cold songs, and because they were played on MP3, I fell asleep to music and woke up to music. In my father's mind, I always felt fresh and clear, my son.

( three)

It is true that houses without music are like big cracks, son. Father, mother, daughter, son, alone with their own problems. They could be a cigarette. They could be an old piece of clothing. Or a textbook. But they have no music. They don't hear any music in their houses. It's dry, gloomy, and barren, like a desert without a drop of moisture.

My father, son, thinks that music is also necessary for making our family prosperous.