Inquest of wisdom and compassion: Finding Siddartha's last days

Friday, November 2, 2007

Finding Siddartha's last days

Dear Ko Moe,

The first thing I would like to speak about myself is I have not so much pleasure in
studying in the United States.But I find great pleasure in learning a diversity of books that is not available in Burma. If I decide to stay in the U.S, the only reason is I cling to "availability of books" but not for the common materials that we all humans hook around up.

Another thing is I have not so much great pleasure in my standing.Sometimes I like to be a great Bodhisattva. Sometimes I don't like to be any great thing.Sometimes I like to have a girl friend or wife who can really tolerate my crazy luck and ideas and understand me with a smile. Sometimes I want to go back to the unforgettable teashop chatter with you.As I have ever confessed, I have no aptitude, no special ambition, no special target and likely to take a risk than anybody else.A paradoxical and very awkward man.

"Vitet, Boundary of imagination is the highest in its area and the lowest in its
intensity" particularly for me. I had got to the botanical garden of Washington. I sat under a very shady tree. The soft breeze coming through the green leaves enlightens me like Siddhatha's last days of life.I really found it, my vinyan(flash of mind) appearing under this tree supersedes every vitet I have had in my whole life. How many times and how many cycles of birth,do you have a chance to be peaceful and totally have equanimized your love about anything else.

The topic you are speaking is somewhat related or absolutely influenced by
existentialism. I can't deny (I think nobody can deny existentialism: U San Lwin's
greatest mistake is he tried to prove existentialism is wrong showing that he was not an arahat/saint) existentialism too. But I find a way how you can escape from the sequences in existentialism. Find the peace under a tree,and it is the practice of Nikhama(relinquishment) that Buddha has practiced several times in finding the way of liberation. Imagine yourself under a green tree while you are free from these tiring vitets. There is no wife, no son, no love but love for this peace and enjoyment to be free from vitet.

This is my solution

Thanks for refreshing my mindfulness,
Burmakin

2 comments:

Unknown said...: My two cents,
non-forgettable -> unforgettable
equanimized(no such verb)-> equanimity
:-)
mna; November 5, 2007 at 2:05 AM
Anonymous said...: we should allow words to come from creativity and not from the spelling dictionaries.

Chan; November 21, 2007 at 10:10 PM

A reflection of "inhuman" totalitarian control of Burma

Democracy without the values of liberalism is worse than any dictatorial government. Free choice can exist under a dictatorship that can limit itself whereas the tyranny of Burmese democracy will practice in such a way that no kind of freedom can get at its limitlessness. This form of the government in its voidness to understand the limitations of mankind will viciously revolt against “the spontaneous order” of Heaven and ultimately destroy the nation in Darwinism and Narzism. (Burmakin’ 2011)

The devil’s prevailing power has begun: The ghost most fearfully chained by founding fathers of America now has escaped and fled to Burma. It will deploy its far superior power of destruction on our moral foundations of Buddhism and our liberty than military monarchy has devastated. The unleashed devil without conscience but is more legitimate, ravenous, arrogant and agreeable to our despot-ridden people is “the tyranny of the majority”. (Burmakin ’Mar 09, 2010)

After institutionalizing this evil constitution, if you want a picture of Burma's future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face – forever.

-Burmakin '08

As long as we Burmese are thinking in a way to believe
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH,
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY and
MILITARISM AS PEACE,
we can't say that we have ever been on the way to Democracy.

-Burmakin ‘07

The worst dogma of Burmese from misunderstanding of the Karma and Saddha is “moral relativism”. The heaviest obstacle and burden to both mental and physical development of Burmese as well as the world of all other Buddhists is “inductive reasoning” from the Nirvana. (Burmakin ’09)

False philanthropy

Burma has to deal most painstaking with two problems: the physical scenario is resource curse for which we need Keynesian economics; the spiritual scenario is pestilence of moral relativism for which we need public enlightenment from liberalism. One essential step is to replace the professionally “learned”, competent and humane who “understand” to manage complex public affairs for the hypocritical impotent who dominate our present society with their frugal judgmental ability. (Burmakin 2012)

For our unborn brilliant children

All men are created free and equal

"I have never said anything to the contrary, but I hold that notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects---certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. " (By Lincoln in his debate with Stephen Douglas)

An inconvenient truth

Concerning metaphysics.., I admit that my formulations may here or there have been insufficiently conditional and cautious. Yet I do not wish to hide the fact that I can only look with repugnance.. upon the puffed-up pretentiousness of all these volumes filled with wisdom, such as are fashionable nowadays. For I am fully satisfied that.. the accepted methods must endlessly increase these follies and blunders, and that even the complete annihilation of all these fanciful achievements could not possibly be as harmful as this fictitious science with its accursed fertility. (Kant's argument against conventional wisdom)

Sprouting from a deep psychological root, the Bodhisattva ideal

‘Hero worship is a sure road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship, there is no room for hero-worship in a true political struggle made up of human beings grappling with human problems’

-Aung San Su Kyi, a Burmese Buddhist woman

*Aung San wanted to discourage popular perception encouraged by writers such as Thahkin Kodawhmaing, which vested in him the role of the concentration meditation wizard, the mental cultivator cum universal ruler.

'We must take proper care that we do not make a fetish of this cult of hero-worship'. -Aung San in his first AFPFL speech

'At this time I am a person who is very popular with the public. But I am neither a god, wizard nor a magician. Only a man. Not a heavenly being. I can only have the powers of a man'

-Aung San, Sep 1, 1946 *

Inquest of wisdom and compassion

Friday, November 2, 2007

Finding Siddartha's last days

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