
Burmese: 
Is that your question, whether Buddhism is more a religion or a philosophy?
 ဗုဒၶဘာသာဟာ အဓိကအားျဖင့္ ဘာသာအယူဝါဒလား ဒႆနိကေဗဒလားလို႔ ေမးခ်င္တာလား
Depends on how you take it,
 ဒကာရဲ႕ ရႈေထာင့္ေပၚမူ တည္ပါတယ္
and depends on what do you mean by religion and what do you mean by philosophy.
 ဒကာက ဘာသာအယူဝါဒ နဲ႔ ဒႆနိကေဗဒ ဆိုတဲ့ စကားလုံးေတြကို ဘယ္အနက္နဲ႔ သုံးတာလဲ ဆိုတဲ့အေပၚမွာလည္း မူတည္ပါတယ္
Religion from the modern definition of the word religion - re + ligio,
 ဘာသာအယူဝါဒ ဆိုတဲ့ စကားလုံးကို ေခတ္သစ္အနက္အဓိပၸါယ္နဲ႕ ရွင္းျပထားတဲ့အတိုင္း ဘာသာအယူဝါဒ (religion) ဟာ re နဲ႔ ligio အပိုင္းေတြကို ခြဲေပးလို႔ ရပါတယ္
means repeated connection, repeated application.
 ဘာသာျပန္မယ္ဆိုရင္  အဖန္ဖန္ဆက္သြယ္ျခင္း၊ အဖန္ဖန္ အားသြန္ခြန္စိုက္ ျပဳျခင္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္
Applying yourself again and again and again to a supernatural object -
 ေလာကကို ေက်ာ္လြန္တဲ့ တရားကို ထပ္တလဲလဲ အာရုံျပဳျခင္းျဖစ္္တယ္
either a god/God or a supernatural goal or
 ဘုရားသခင္ျဖစ္ေစ၊ ေလာကကို ေက်ာ္လြန္တဲ့ ပန္းတိုင္ျဖစ္ေစ
a utopian imagination or whatever it is that would make a religion.
 မျဖစ္ႏိုင္တဲ့ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္ကိုျဖစ္ေစ ဒါမွမဟုတ္ ဘာသာအယူဝါဒ ျဖစ္ေစတဲ့ ဘယ္တရားကိုမဆိုလည္း ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ပါတယ္

English: 
Is that your question, whether Buddhism is more a religion or a philosophy?
Depends on how you take it, and depends on what do you mean by religion
and what do you mean by philosophy.
Religion from the modern definition of the word religion - re + ligio,
means repeated connection, repeated application.
Applying yourself again and again and again
to a supernatural object - either a god/God or a supernatural goal or
a utopian imagination or whatever it is that would make a religion.

Czech: 
Je to tvá otázka, jestli je buddhismus více náboženstvím nebo filosofií?
Záleží na tom, z jakého pohledu se na to podíváš
a také záleží na tom, co myslíš náboženstvím a co myslíš filosofií.
Náboženství, z moderní definice slova náboženství - re + ligio,
znamená opakované spojení, opakované úsilí.
Když se znovu, znovu a znovu věnuješ nadpřirozenému jevu -
buď bohu nebo nadpřirozenému cíli nebo
nereálné představě nebo cokoliv by to bylo, co by stačilo k náboženství.

English: 
Because you are repeatedly applying yourself to a paradigm,
you are applying yourself to a supernatural thing, this would be a religion
from the scholarly point of view.
But maybe you think "religion, aha, that means I'll find a statue and bow to it."
So, no, that would not be the scholarly explanation of the word religion.
Philosophy, if we compare philosophy to religion, that's much easier.
Philosophy counters the religion in terms that religion is accepting the things
in the way the teacher or the supernatural
paradigm dictates it, whereas (in) philosophy (you) try to get deeper and deeper and find it out by yourself.
And in Buddhism I would say that on the path

Burmese: 
Because you are repeatedly applying yourself to a paradigm,
 စံနာမူနာတစ္ခုခုကို ထပ္တလဲလဲ အာရုံျပဳတဲ့အတြက္
you are applying yourself to a supernatural thing, this would be a religion from the scholarly point of view.
 ေလာကကို ေက်ာ္လြန္တဲ့ တရားကို ထပ္တလဲလဲ အာရုံျပဳတဲ့အတြက္ ပညာရွင္တို႔ရဲ႕ ရွင္းျပခ်က္နဲ႔အညီ ဒါ ဘာသာအယူဝါဒလို႔ ေခၚပါတယ္
But maybe you think "religion, aha, that means I'll find a statue and bow to it."
 ဒါေပမဲ့ ဒကာရဲ႕ အယူအဆအတိုင္း ဘာသာေရးဆိုတာ ရုပ္တုတစ္ခု ရွာၿပီး အဲ့ဒီမွာ ရွိခိုးလိုက္မယ္လို႔ ထင္လိမ့္မယ္
So, no, that would not be the scholarly explanation of the word religion.
 အဲ့လိုေတာ့ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး၊ အဲ့ဒါက ပညာရွင္တို႔ရဲ႕ ဘာသာအယူဝါဒ စကားလုံးကို ရွင္းျပတဲ့ပုံ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး
Philosophy, if we compare philosophy to religion, that's much easier.
 ဒႆနိကေဗဒ၊ ဒႆနိကေဗဒကို ဘာသာအယူဝါဒနဲ႔ ႏႈိင္းယွဥ္လိုက္ရင္ ပိုလြယ္ပါတယ္
Philosophy counters the religion in terms that
 ဒႆနိကေဗဒဟာ ဘာသာအယူဝါဒနဲ႕ ဆန္႔က်င္ဘက္ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဘယ္လိုလဲဆိုေတာ့
religion is accepting the things in the way the teacher or the supernatural paradigm dictates it,
 ဘာသာအယူဝါဒဟာ ဆရာကျဖစ္ေစ ေလာကကို ေက်ာ္လြန္တဲ့ တရားကျဖစ္ေစ သင္ေပးတဲ့အတိုင္း လက္ခံၿပီး
whereas (in) philosophy (you) try to get deeper and deeper and find it out by yourself.
 ဒႆနိကေဗဒမွာေတာ့ နက္နဲတဲ့ အဆင့္ကို တျဖည္းျဖည္းနဲ႕ တိုးတက္ၿပီး (အမွန္တရားကို) ကိုယ္ဘာသာ ေတြ႔ရွိေအာင္ ႀကိဳးစားအားထုတ္ရပါတယ္
And in Buddhism I would say that
 အဲ့ေတာ့ ဗုဒၶဘာသာမွာ ဦးဇင္း ေတြ႔တဲ့အတိုင္းေတာ့
on the path you start with Buddhism as a religion
  ဘာသာအယူဝါဒကို  ဗုဒၶဘာသာလမ္းေၾကာင္းအျဖစ္  စက်င့္ႀကံၿပီး

Czech: 
Protože se opakovaně věnuješ nějakému vzoru,
věnuješ se nadpřirozenému jevu, bylo by to, z pohledu učenců, náboženství.
Ale možná si myslíš "náboženství, no, to znamená, že si najdu sošku a budu se jí klanět."
No, tak to ne, to by nebylo učenecké vysvětlení slova náboženství.
Filosofie, pokud porovnáme filosofii s náboženstvím, bude to mnohem snazší.
Filosofie je opakem náboženství v tom smyslu, že
náboženství je přijetí věcí tak, jak je učitel nebo nadpřirozený vzor nakázal,
kdežto ve filosofii se snažíš dostat hlouběji a hlouběji (k pravdě) a nalézt ji sám.
A v buddhismu bych řekl, že
na cestě začínáš s buddhismem jakožto náboženstvím

Czech: 
a jak rosteš, zdokonaluješ se v buddhismu jakožto ve filosofii.
Takže nejprve začínáš důvěrou v učitele.
Věříš, že "možná co říká je pravda, zkusím to."
A pak, jak se snažíš a snažíš, protože věříš, snažíš se.
Věříš znovu, snažíš se, nejde to, věříš víc, snažíš se víc a víc
a pak najednou vidíš sám.
Sám si prozkoušíš - tohle tělo dělá tohle,
tahle mysl dělá tohle, skutečnost je taková, nikoliv onaká.
Vidíš to sám a jdeš hlouběji, hlouběji a hlouběji ve svém zkoumání.
Máš plnou moc ve svém průzkumu pozorování skutečnosti.
Instrukce (učitele) ti k tomu pouze poskytuje rámec.
Říká ti "hele, můžeš se na skutečnost podívat tímto způsobem, takto, takto, takto.
Zkus to a uvidíš na co přijdeš."

Burmese: 
and you grow and become accomplished in Buddhism as a philosophy.
 တိုးတက္ၿပီးေတာ့ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ အယူဝါဒအျဖစ္ ျပည့္စုံသြားပါတယ္
So, first you start with the faith in the teacher.
 ဒါဆို ဆရာမွာ သဒၶါယုံၾကည္မႈနဲ႔  ပထမဆံုး စတင္က်င့္ႀကံရပါတယ္
You believe that "maybe what he says is true, let me try."
 "သူေျပာတာ အမွန္ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ပါတယ္၊ စမ္းၾကည့္စို႔"လို႔ ယုံၾကည္ပါတယ္
And then as you try and try, because you believe, you try.
 အဲ့ဒီမွ ႀကိဳးစားအားထုတ္ရင္း ယုံၾကည္လို႔ ႀကိဳးစားအားထုတ္တယ္
You believe again you try, it doesn't work, you believe more, you try harder and harder
 ယုံၾကည္တယ္၊ ေနာက္အခါ ႀကိဳးစားတယ္၊ မေအာင္ျမင္ဘူး၊ ပိုမ်ားမ်ား ယုံၾကည္တယ္၊ ပိုမ်ားမ်ားလည္း ႀကိဳးစားအားထုတ္ပါတယ္
and then suddenly you see for yourself.
 ၿပီးရင္ တစ္ခါတည္း ကိုယ္ဘာသာ လက္ေတြ႔ ျမင္ေတြ႔ရပါတယ္
You examine yourself - this body works like this,
 ကိုယ္ဘာသာ စစ္တယ္ - ဒီ ခႏၶာကိုယ္ဟာ ဒီလို လုပ္တယ္
this mind works like this, reality is like this, it's not like that.
 ဒီစိတ္က ဒီလို လုပ္တယ္၊ သေဘာတရားဟာ ဒီလို ျဖစ္တယ္၊ ဒီလို မျဖစ္ပါဘူး
You see it yourself and you go deeper and deeper and deeper in your own investigation. 
 ကိုယ္ဘာသာ ေတြ႔ျမင္လိုက္ၿပီး မိမိရဲ႕ ကိုယ္ပိုင္ စစစ္ေဆးမႈကေန နက္နဲတဲ့ အဆင့္ေတြကို တျဖည္းျဖည္း တိုးတက္ေနပါတယ္
You yourself are entirely empowered in your research of looking at the reality.
 သေဘာတရားကို ၾကည့္ရႈျခင္း သုေတသနာမွာ ဒကာက အျပည့္အစုံ လြတ္လပ္ပါတယ္
It's just that the teaching gives you the framework.
 ဒီသင္ၾကားမႈက ဒကာကို (ကန္႕သတ္နယ္) ေဘာင္ တစ္ခု ေပးပါတယ္။
It tells you "hey, you can look at reality this way, that way, that way, that way.
 အႀကံေပးပါတယ္ - "သေဘာတရားကို ဒီလိုလည္း ၾကည့္လို႔ ရပါတယ္၊ အဲ့လိုလည္း ရပါတယ္၊ အဲ့လို လည္း ရပါတယ္၊ အဲ့လုိလည္း ရပါတယ္
Try it out and see what you will find out."
 စမ္းၾကည့္ၿပီး ဘာေတြ႔မလဲ ၾကည့္လိုက္ပါ"

English: 
you start with Buddhism as a religion and you grow and become accomplished
in Buddhism as a philosophy. So, first you start with the faith in the teacher.
You believe that "maybe what he says is true, let me try."
And then as you try and try, because you believe, you try.
You believe again you try, it doesn't work, you believe more, you try harder and harder
and then suddenly you see for yourself.
You examine yourself - this body works like this,
this mind works like this, reality is like this, it's not like that.
You see it yourself and you go deeper and deeper and deeper
in your own investigation. You yourself are entirely empowered
in your research of looking at the reality.
It's just that the teaching gives you the framework.
It tells you "hey, you can look at reality this way, that way, that way, that way.
Try it out and see what you will find out."

English: 
And then, because you believed, because you had faith, you try it out
even thought there would be difficulties. But as you try out,
it starts to be easier, you start to get the habit,
the skills to be a real philosopher and you find the reality as it really is.
But you will finally end up in... in... evidence.
It's no more religion, it's no more philosophy, it ends up
with evidence, with your own experience. Philosophy is not experiential.
Philosophy is not meant to be experiential.
Because as soon as you find out a real truth it's no more philosophy, it becomes a religion.
So, philosophy always criticizes, criticizes, criticizes, criticizes. Science also should be like that but it's not.

Czech: 
A pak, protože jsi věřil, protože jsi měl důvěru, snažíš se i přesto, že je to obtížné.
Ale jak se snažíš, je to snazší, začneš si zvykat,
začneš získávat schopnosti opravdového filosofa a nalezneš skutečnost takovou, jaká je.
Ale nakonec dojdeš k... k... důkazům (prozkoušené pravdě).
Už to není náboženství, už to není filosofie, stane se z toho
prozkoušená pravda, tvá vlastní zkušenost.
Filosofie není závislá na (vlastní) zkušenosti.
Filosofie nebyla určena k tomu, aby byla závislá na (vlastní) zkušenosti.
Protože jakmile nalezneš skutečnou pravdu, už to není filosofie, stane se z toho náboženství.
Takže filosofie neustále hledá chyby, hledá dál, hledá stále, hledá znovu. Věda by také měla být taková, ale není.

Burmese: 
And then, because you believed, because you had faith, you try it out even though there would be difficulties.
 ၿပီးရင္ ဒကာက ယုံၾကည္လို႔၊ သဒၶါျပည့္စုံခဲ့လို႔ အခက္အခဲေတြ႔ေပမဲ့ ႀကိဳးစားအားထုတ္တယ္
But as you try out, it starts to be easier, you start to get the habit,
 ဒါေပမဲ့ ႀကိဳးစားအားထုတ္ရင္း လြယ္ကူသြားတယ္၊ ဒကာမွာ အက်င့္ရသြားတယ္
the skills to be a real philosopher and you find the reality as it really is.
 ဒႆနိကေဗဒပညာရွင္အစစ္ရဲ႕ ကၽြမ္းက်င္မႈမ်ား ရသြားပါတယ္၊ သေဘာတရား ျဖစ္တဲ့အတိုင္း သေဘာေပါက္ပါတယ္
But you will finally end up in... in... evidence.
 ဒါေပမဲ့ ေနာက္ဆုံးမွာ ဘယ္ေရာက္မလဲဆိုတာေတာ့ ... သက္ေသသာဓကရွိတာေပါ့
It's no more religion, it's no more philosophy, it ends up
 အဲ့ဒီမွာ ဘာသာအယူဝါဒလည္း မဟုတ္ေတာ့ဘူး၊ ဒႆနိကေဗဒလည္း မဟုတ္ေတာ့ဘူး။ ေနာက္ဆုံးမွာ
with evidence, with your own experience.
 သက္ေသသာဓက နဲ႔ အတူ မိမိ ကိုယ္တိုင္ အေတြ႔အႀကံဳ ရသြားပါတယ္။
Philosophy is not experiential.
 ဒႆနိကေဗဒဟာ လက္ေတြ႔ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး
Philosophy is not meant to be experiential.
 ဒႆနိကေဗဒ ဆိုတာ လက္ေတြ႔ မျဖစ္ရပါဘူး
Because as soon as you find out a real truth it's no more philosophy, it becomes a religion.
 ဘာေၾကာင့္လဲဆိုေတာ့ သေဘာတရားအစစ္ကို ေတြ႔ေတြ႔ျခင္း ဒႆနိကေဗဒ မဟုတ္ေတာ့ဘူး ဘာသာအယူဝါဒ ျဖစ္သြားၿပီ
So, philosophy always criticizes, criticizes, criticizes, criticizes. Science also should be like that but it's not.
 ဒါဆို ဒႆနိကေဗဒက အမွားရွာတယ္၊ အျပစ္ရွာတယ္၊ အမွားရွာတယ္၊ အျပစ္ ရွာတယ္။ သိပၸံပညာလည္း အဲ့လိုပဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္၊ ဒါေပမဲ့ မတူပါဘူး

Czech: 
Víš, lidé věří tomu, co vědci říkají. To pak už není věda. Stává se z toho náboženství.
Věříš, že byl velký třesk? Tak pak je to náboženství. Je mi líto.
Rozumíš mi? Věříš, že nic není, nebo že něco je, v černé díře?
Tak pak je to náboženství. Je mi líto. Už to není věda.
V buddhismu jdeme přímo do skutečnosti,
do přítomného okamžiku a vidíme, prožíváme jej sami.
A tak překonává náboženství a filosofii a stává se tvou vlastní zkušeností.

Burmese: 
You know, people believe what scientists say. Then it's no more science. It becomes a religion.
 သိလား၊ သိပၸံပညာရွင္ေတြက ေျပာတဲ့ဟာကို သာမန္လူေတြက ယုံၾကည္ၾကတယ္။ အဲ့ဒီမွာ သိပၸံ မဟုတ္ေတာ့ဘူး၊ ဘာသာအယူဝါဒ ျဖစ္သြားၿပီ
You believe that there was a big bang? It's a religion. Sorry.
 မဟာစၾကဝဠာႀကီး စတင္ျဖစ္ေပၚလာေစတဲ့ ေပါက္ကြဲမႈႀကီးကို ယုံၾကည္ပါသလား။ အဲ့လိုဆို ဘာသာအယူဝါဒ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဝမ္းနည္ပါတယ္ (ဒါ သိပၸံပညာ မဟုတ္ေတာ့ဘူး)
You know? You believe that there is nothing or there is something in the black hole?
 သိလား။ အာကာသႀကီးအတြင္း မည့္သည့္ျဒပ္ထဲမွာ ဘာမွမရွိဘူးျဖစ္ေစ၊ တစ္ခု ရွိတယ္ ျဖစ္ေစ ယုံၾကည္ပါသလား
That's a religion. Sorry. It's no more science.
 အဲ့ဒါ ဘာသာအယူဝါဒပါပဲ။ ဝမ္းနည္ပါတယ္။ ဒါက သိပၸံပညာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး
In Buddhism, we go there into the reality,
 ဗုဒၶဘာသာမွာ သေဘာတရားထဲကိုပဲ ေရွ႕ရႈပါတယ္
into the present moment and we see, we experience it ourselves.
 ျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ သေဘာတရားထဲကို ေရွ႕ရႈၿပီး ျမင္ေတြ႔ရတယ္၊ ကိုယ္ဘာသာ ေတြ႔ႀကံဳရပါတယ္
So, it surpasses religion and philosophy and becomes your own experience.
 ဒါဆို အဲ့ဒီမွာ (ဗုဒၶဘာသာဟာ) ဘာသာအယူဝါဒကိုေရာ ဒႆနိကေဗဒကိုေရာ ေက်ာ္လြန္ၿပီး ဒကာရဲ႕ ကိုယ္တိုင္လက္ေတြ႔ အေတြ႔အႀကံဳ ျဖစ္သြားပါတယ္

English: 
You know, people believe what scientists say. Then it's no more science. It becomes a religion.
You believe that there was a big bang? It's a religion. Sorry.
You know? You believe that there is nothing or there is something in the black hole?
That's a religion. Sorry. It's no more science.
In Buddhism, we go there into the reality,
into the present moment and we see, we experience it ourselves.
So, it surpasses religion and philosophy and becomes your own experience.
