Burma Out! It's Bingo Heaven Time (r)

[treved@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Subject: Re: Burma Out!  It's Bingo Heaven Time in Shwedagon

It is so painful to witness the strong exchanges when REASON knows its
right,
and the HEART knows its right and SOUL knows its right.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhg!! Help me Decartes, Pan, Christ, Derrida and Buddha.
te

Roger Bunn wrote:

> Once upon a time :   "Wasn't  the Pope a nazi?"
>
> What a nation respects or clings on to, has little (or nothing
> whatsoever) to do with Universal law as taught by the Buddha
> over 3000 years ago.
>
> How does this "respect" relate to what the Okkathing was
> suggesting was "pius"? Surely it is the pius who treat their
> roofs and walls to gold leaf while the poorest in the land toil
> and suffer under the yoke of the miiltary.
>
> Under such Circumstances. These are the actions of an over
> sentimental and twisted buddhism,  not of the original and not
> of the orthodox.  Actions that smack of the outa date
> interpretations of buddhist doctrine that such material relics
> sometimes manifest in those that know no better than to worship
> inanimate objects.  And who are open to those hell bent on
> manipulating any such blind faith to their singular advantage.
>
> Much like a Christian who finds some wood from the cross and
> who, stuck out in the snow alone, can only save his life by
> burning it on a fire.  And out there in the dark, while he wrestles
> with his single brain cell, the wolves are watching and waiting,
> and scared of fire.
>
> One can only suggest that once the junta is gone, the roofs
> are immediately stripped of their finery and given to those who
> need it the most. But one can never trust organised religions,
> at least not while the Church of England invests in the arms trade.
>
> (Now ain't that a neatly religious "national trait" for yuh)
>
> But if anyone wants to "trade licks" with me on this subject.
> First let me say that "through all the clinging mud, gold (as
> in the Universal law) is gold, whether it be in the hands of a
> wise man or a fool."
>
> And as I found it first, there is little that any man made
> philosophy, and not a thing that  the "gold roof agents"  nor
> military junti, can come up with, can ever loosen my grip upon
> their golden testicles.
>
> It's gonna be great kicking the junta outa Syd 2000.
>
> Roger Bunn (Oct1999)