The Karma Yoga of Activism/ the Fin (r)

[bina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Subject: Re: The Karma Yoga of Activism/ the Finance Minister's US Visa?

Hey, SOOSOO,

Sheee-it!  Wheah you from, girl?  I aint heerd that kinda talk since mah days in the HAIGHT!  Now, you aint really a 45 YEAR OLD WHAIT PERFESSUH COLLEGE TEACHER, is you girl?  How come you know so much about dem whait Burmese historians?  Where you been brought up, girl?  Wheah you been educated, an who PAID FOH IT?  WHEAH'S YOU MAMA?  SHeee-it caint hardly believe mah ears and eyes!  Whut kinda way is that foh a nice Chineese girl tuh talk.  EXACTLY WHUT COLOR IS YOU, GIRL?  Yellah, whait, chokolat?  Or BLUE??? Shee-it!  Wheah you at, girl?  I gonna come and see you foh mahself!!!!



At 01:55 PM 10/6/99 +0000, Sue Huang wrote:
>i never heard so much two people who love the sound of their own voices! you boys -- "everybody bad, uncaring capitalists, except us!"
>
>i tell you, this is self-serving twaddle. please take hand out of pants and get to work!
>
>ok you two? love, susu
>
>>From: Dawn Star <dawnstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Reply-To: dawnstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>To: Indiana <bina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, dohrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, burmanet2-l@xxxxxxxx,        burmanet-l@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: Re: The Karma Yoga of Activism/ the Finance Minister's US Visa?
>>Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 10:58:15 +0100
>>
>>Dawn Star wrote:
>> >
>> > Dawn Star wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Indy, time is limited, the day is short, you need your rest at night,
>> > > yes, do the important things first, there is always work left to be
>> > > done, and try to get to that next, yesterday i sent a card to rachel,
>> > > this morning i emailed the chap at yale to organize yale students to
>> > > campaign for the Supreme Court amicus brief, try to get as many people
>> > > as you can on this brief action
>> > > everyone has an agenda of action to complete each day.
>> > > remember, this is choice, action, determination, thoughtfulness and
>> > > consistency. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is most certainly right in her wisdom,
>> > > vision and understanding of the principles of her faith and party. The
>> > > generals are theives and bandits, gansters raiding the store, pirates
>> > > that have occupied the fort and sell to the cheapest bidder the loot of
>> > > their crime.  Expose that crime, expose that parter, I sincerely beleive
>> > > that americans do not condone the generals, but they are cynics and
>> > > despite their apparent naive nature, they can be generous when they want
>> > > to be.
>> > >
>> > > America must never abandon the Burma struggle. Write groups throughout
>> > > the country to heed Simon's call. And do it! We are all with you.
>> > >
>> > > I dont know too much about Karma, but i do know that time is short, and
>> > > tomorrow is near.
>> > >
>> > > We must be more attentive to the SPDC people entering into the states.
>> > > How is it that they had the VISA for the IMFand World Bank? And that
>> > > there werent demos, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, that is Washington DC territory.
>> > > And it was a miss.
>> > >
>> > > After Asia Society, there should have been better organisation on that.
>> > > I am part at fault as I did not post news about IMFand World Bank, and I
>> > > knew. But not the minister, i did not know.
>> > >
>> > > ps, dont be too theatrical, leave that to the SPDC actors. but go to the
>> > > movies or see a play from time to time, its good therapy.
>> > >
>> > > ds
>> > >
>> > > Indiana wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > At 12:50 PM 10/5/99 +0100, Dawn Star wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > >These generals just dont seem to get it yet, do they. That their
>> > > > >universal doom is inevitable. That an indefinite situation can not last
>> > > > >forever. That the center cannot hold and that all things will fall
>> > > > >apart. That nature seeks balance and harmony.
>> > > > >
>> > > > >Everyone knows they are on a doomed course of logical disintegration. If
>> > > > >only the world press would stop giving them a voice, but unfortunately,
>> > > > >many of those world press companies, are investor-held, and run by the
>> > > > >same administrators and individuals in the banks and institutions that
>> > > > >invest in their illegitimate regime.
>> > > > >
>> > > > >And anyone who doesnt know this is just not paying attention.
>> > > > >
>> > > > >Which once again is why there should be an international ban on
>> > > > >investment in Burma. Then we might be spared more of these outbursts of
>> > > > >wounded pride and knee-jerked outrages from the SPDC goons.
>> > > > >
>> > > > >ds
>> > > >
>> > > > Dear DS,
>> > > >
>> > > > Why is the world so slow in seeing the truth?
>> > > >
>> > > > I sometimes see us all as characters in a drama, playing (unconsciously) our pre-scripted roles.  We are also the audience, who see how Truth (and the denial of Truth) are played out in so many ways and through so many personalities.
>> > > >
>> > > > Even the world press is doing its job.  The capitalist owners and top management are ruthless and insatiable wealth accumulators. What great character roles!  On the level of writers and editors, these guys are proud of doing their job and getting the "news" (whatever the "news" is) out to the people, fresh, fast, and tasty.  Hey, they are enthusiastically playing their parts!
>> > > >
>> > > > And the "generals" are also doing their assigned "job", difficult as that may be to swallow.  Who else would dare to play Evil itself on the world stage?  (I dont want the job!)  They must have been given astral "lobotomies" by some clever deity, otherwise they would all surely die of shame and horror to see what they are doing and saying in the light of day.
>> > > >
>> > > > What does the activist do?  He (or she) continuously monitors the purpose and the results of this bustling human activity, and tries to point out when and where, in the light of our collective human goals, we may be going astray.  The activist is not the captain of the Ship, but the child pulling on the captain's pants leg and pointing to the iceberg drifting towards them.  You are a tireless example of this yourself, Dawn Star.
>> > > >
>> > > > As the audience, we have bought our tickets, and are settled in our seats, watching the show, caught up the the vast range of emotions.  Like children at the movies, we scream, laugh, and cry.  It is all very real to us.  And we feel the pain so intensely.  Why?
>> > > >
>> > > > This fantastic and frightening human drama has got to be the setting of our evolution in consciousness from animals to gods.  If we do not understand how the Truth can be twisted, perverted, and ultimately lost, how can we really know what is Truth?  And knowledge of Truth is the realm of the gods, surely.
>> > > >
>> > > >  From this perspective, too, the separation between "I" and "thou" is less clear.  A good actor can play any role.  As Trevor Edmond wrote in an e-mail a while back (I paraphrase), sometimes I see the arrogance and abusiveness of the junta generals in myself, albeit on a lesser scale.  
>>Perhaps in my worse moments, if I had their power, I would behave just as they do.
>> > > >
>> > > > Does this mean I cannot chastise them?  Not at all, I MUST chastise them!  And be chastised in my turn!
>> > > >
>> > > > We must not stop working, indeed we cannot stop, and stay sane.  But we are also the material to be worked.  The harder we strive to know the truth, and to reveal it,  courageously and compassionately, to others, then the faster we move through the pain, and the brighter becomes the inner light, the deeper the inner peace.
>> > > >
>> > > > So, Dawn Star, why isnt there an international ban on doing business with the SPDC?  You know very well yourself: If many of "us" do not yet understand the need for such a ban, it is because those of "us" who do understand are not doing our job of awakening the others.  I know I havent yet written to the California delegation to Congress about the Massachusetts Amicus brief, as Simon Billenness keeps reminding me.  Have you?  Dont tell me you are not a US citizen, we are all Americans at thi
>> > > >
>> > > > The world is a hell because "we" need to know what Hell is, and we need to work to change the Hell into Heaven.  As we do it, we may notice that we too are becoming divine.  This ugly and dirty world is our path to personal salvation.  This is why I can even say, "hurray for the SPDC!"
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