Burma Out! Village Idiot gets bad (r)

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Subject: Re: Burma Out!  Village Idiot gets bad dose of religion

When the pius people hear the sound of Dhamma their heart will be filled with 
happiness. 

When the dogs hear the sound of Dhamma they may bark.

No one can prevent this nature.

So, Let the pius people do the pius people's work

 and let  the dogs do the dogs' work.


ok


In a message dated 10/24/99 5:23:09 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
policy.office@xxxxxxxxx writes:

<<                   Dear fellow freedom loving buddhistas,
 
 We could not believe our eyes this morning at the 
 unadulterated downright cheek of those who wish to 
 bring peace (at any price they can afford) to "their land" . 
 
 Today on Burma1 we have one of our lovable "village idiot" 
 talking to us about religion!  As if the opium of the people 
 actually kept up-to-date with what's happening on the ground.
 
 Y'see, it does not matter where one lives, nor what colour
 nor nationality one happens to be born, nor even how 
 many thousands of volumes of buddhist sutras one has digested. 
 
 It's the power to recognise when one is on a downward spiral
 that gives a person the right to reflect and change. Right at this 
 particular point in time, and as reported so widely by the BBC 
 this week in a long documentary by the incredibly wonderful 
 journalista Sue Lloyd-Roberts. The causes being used by 
 the junta are not in anyway similar to the theories and practice
 of any of the wonderfully enlightening doctrines of buddhism. 
 Nor do they lead to any form of human enlightenment..
 
 In that : While the people of Burma are being starved and 
 enslaved by the ruling military, in their hopeless quest for tourism, 
 the junta has spead 120 tons of gold over the golden shell of some 
 Burmese shrine.
 
 I bet that old Shakyamuni himself , resting quietly upon his 10 
 kinds of clouds, would have "hit the roof" at such tragic tokenism
 and  misalligned (junta family) wisdom, compassion and courage . 
 The tenants of all buddhism. 
 
 If alive today, and there are some who say that he may well be 
 still "alive" today, he probably would take up arms and fight
 such blatant ABUSE OF HIS TEACHINGS AND POWER by a 
 few ruling Burmese families .
 
 We see some sick sides of the junta on this newsgroup. Over
 this week, while the international community has taken a major 
 leap forward in their learning about the awfulness of the Burma  
 truth. And during a week wherein we have had to report junta 
 cyber abuse to those with the power to both track, pounce and 
 defeat.  The next posting was a perfectly laughable example of 
 how the junta families continually and religiously, shoot themselves 
 in the collective foot. >>