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Pha-khin U Aung San tho
- Subject: Pha-khin U Aung San tho
- From: nin@xxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 03:41:00
Reply-To: "Dr. Khin Ni Ni Thein" <nin@xxxxxx>
Dear "Father U Aung San"
When I come across the following piece, I pay homage to you with the
piece, for you have/had been such a person to us all. You are the one
whom we love and remember!!! Above all, thank you for leaving your
daughter Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to Burma in order to give us a great
vision, the vision that let us see the truth.
One of your million-followers
NN
The piece
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He whom we love and remember is not he who thrusts upon us his
own dusty chart of the Supreme Reality, scored over with his
arguments, prejudices and opinions; nor he who will draw a map
of heaven on the blackboard and chastise us with scorpions if
we will not fall down and worship it; but he who will pull the
curtain away from the classroom window and let us see our own
heaven with our own eyes. And this enablement of mankind, I take
to be the function of true education, for the very word means a
leading-out, and to lead out the spirit of man, through the wise,
liberating self-discipline of learning and wonder, has been the
glory of great teachers and of great Universities since
civilization began to flower.
We are citizens, but we are men and women; we are men and women,
but we are spirit, though we are instructed in the mind__
The mind, that ocean where each kind,
Does straight its own resemblance find;
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other worlds and other seas.
And to these, and to the truth that dwells in them, we come not
by instructions but by vision, the vision that penetrates to the
spirit through the senses.
Excerpt from "Liberties of the mind" by Charles Morgan, 1951)