FAID

Today, I would like to share a new English word, which is ‘FAID,’ that I create through out the Buddha’s teachings. Grammatically, ‘faid’ could be a ‘verb’ or a ‘noun.’ For the term of verb, faid means – somebody say / act / do something wrong or inappropriate whether he or she knew / know that was/is wrong or inappropriate or not. For the term of noun, faid stands for incorrect or inappropriate action or activity of somebody whether he or she know / knew that action / activity is/was wrong or inappropriate.

Each letter of ‘F’ ‘A’ ‘I’ ‘D’ stands for different specific reason and all four combinations become the new English word, ‘faid.’

In the word, ‘faid,’ the letter F stands for ‘Fear.’ I believe in that any one of us has had enough experience that we say/act/do something because of fear even though we know/knew it is/was incorrect or inappropriate. We did/are doing/will be doing those incorrect or inappropriate matters because of fear. We fear of dying. We fear of losing our jobs. We fear of losing relationship with somebody. We fear of losing something. We fear of ……..

Let me give you a true example for this. We often hear that many soldiers and officers in Burmese Army say they are doing many kinds of army duties even though they know those orders and duties are not right or inappropriate; but they are doing it because of fear – fear of their future, fear of losing their promotion, fear of consequences, etc. Next month, people of Burma will be voting an election, which will have invisible result/s because of many reasons. Any result of the election can become ‘illegal; any party in the election can become ‘illegal; any candidate in the election can become ‘illegal’ or ‘violence of state law’ or something like that for any reason of any mean by any high authority in any time. But Burmese people will be voting it because of fear though they all know / knew the election is inappropriate or not in the right way. And yet, some years or a few decades later, children or grand children of current voters might have chance to vote again in another new election for new kind of invisible future because of the election that their parents and grand parents voted was ‘illegal.’ But they all also will be participating in it because fear. That’s an example of F – Fear.

The letter A in ‘faid’ stands for ‘Anger.’ I knew it was inappropriate but I hit several times to my kids already because of my ‘anger.’ How many people are in the jail already because they did things those were not suitable or not right but they did it because of anger? I believe in that millions! Some people even kill some people because of anger. Any way, we all have had more than enough life-long experiences about these kinds of consequences of anger by ourselves and by the others as well. That’s A – Anger.

I stands for ‘ignorance’ in this word of ‘faid.’ We often do wrong or unsuitable things because of we do not know which is the right or suitable way. We did it; we are doing it; and we will be doing those matters because we do not know exact the right way/s. We often see in the courts – people say that they did not know it was right or wrong at that time, and so on, and so forth… That’s I – Ignorance.

The last letter, D of ‘faid’ stands for Desire. We often say/act/do incorrect and inappropriate things because we desire; we want; we wish though we know it is incorrect and inappropriate. But we are doing it because of our desire, which could be our greed, our jealous, etc.. That’s D – Desire.

So now, we have new English word, which is ‘faid,’ and we know the meaning of it, already.
I have a frank question for you my friend that how many times do you faid in a day? How many times other human beings in the world are faiding? Can you imagine about it? Since then, the world (humans’ world) is full with those ‘faids.’ In other words, whether we / you like it or not, we or you are living with FAIDs.

Thank you and have a great day!