Khoo Hock Aun, thank you for posting this.
I've been watching the news, searching
specifically for the details of this horrible event.
I'm not seeing much coming through the visual waves of
the TV on exactly what's been happening, and what lead
up to this horrible event. I did hear that this
country, I believe, has had a military dictator for 40
years now. I find this event to be mesmerizing due to
its' expressed clarity for all to see where the roots
of conflict find such basic expression where no hazy
middle seems to exist. The lines have been drawn
clearly. It is as if the earth has cracked larger
than any valley, and many may fall in to a dark,
endless middle that has been discarded and vacated.
As if heaven opened up the clouds to roar west and
east, and not even the vacuum of space and the events
of time hold together anymore as the fabric begins to
tear apart. The winds of compassion are seemingly the
last rope holding this together where without such a
true nothingness would prevail. These are the moments
where the most basic human expressions see the light
of day and the lines of history, geography, and
culture cannot even hide anymore.
This reminds me of an event of what happened
yesterday where I work. During a therapy group called
'Circle Group', for the past few weeks the topic has
been about 'problems on the residential unit'. The
discussions would last over an hour. People had much
to say. Last night the topic was 'positive events
that have been happening on the unit'. The air was
full of quiet much of the time. I kept coming up with
more questions, and at one point the group seemed to
be finished. I looked at the clock, and the group was
only 15 minutes long up to that point. I felt, even
for myself, the difficulty in pointing out one
positive aspect of a person in the circle that has
happened recently. I thought of many kind 'things',
but the difficulty was opening up something kind about
another person that is not that very close and is
sitting right in front of you. It was a little scary.
We were able to stretch the group out for another 15
minutes, and some commented on how they felt much
better after this group than the groups in the past.
Being kind doesn't always have the shock effect and
high people are looking for in life - the instance
jolt of something happening -, but looking back we can
see a moment when we were all trying to help and
support somebody directly, right in their face. Will
we be afraid, reject it, or open up to this love and
peace we yearn?
Thank you again for posting this. My computer
mouse was broken by my son pulling on it a couple days
ago... hahahah :-)..., but now that we have a new one
I've been wanting to go on-line and fine out more
detail about what's been happening in Myanmar. These
kind of events on the 'kind ones' goes directly to the
heart of the madness of this human population.
woods,
SA
[Khoo Hock Aun]
> It takes a certain kind of vile to shoot at buddhist
> monks
> They only offered you their loving kindness
>
> In 1988 this certain kind of vile claimed 3 thousand
> In 1978 this corrupting kind of vile killed one
> million
> In 1945 this disgusting kind of vile had killed 6
> million
>
> In 2007 they were prepared to assail the saffron
> clad
> They only offered you their loving kindness
>
> I tell you when they took up the 227 rules of the
> Patimokkha
> and offered their lives in blameless action
> they sought no harm on others
>
> It takes a certain kind of vile for the generals
> to be willing to beat up, torture and kill the
> buddhist monks
> They only offered you their loving kindness.
>
> It takes the worst kind of vile there is
> to beat up, maim and kill the buddhist monks
>
> It is like ripping out your own heart
> angry and hating it to be part of you
> full of derision for the blood it feeds you
> full of contempt for the life it gives you
>
> And yet the still beating bloodied heart
> these buddhist monks, of the Burmese nation
> tells you the Generals and the Soldiers
> We will pray for you and offer you our loving
> kindness.
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