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Dear Patriots,
“ GOD helps those who help themselves”. This is avery familier phrase don't you think? I cannot say that is right or wrong. I can only say that is different from Buddhist teachings.
If that is the case and if those who can help themselves, why should they need help from God?
Encouraging those to do something for themselves by themselves, may be. That is how I want to understand it. We have to do it ourselves, nobody will do it for us.
In Myanmar there was once “ Ko Htu Ko Hta Sanit ”. For example when building a new road, or repairing the old one, the cost of it will be half by half between the government and the public.
Is the Government God? Who is that GOD who will help those who helps themselves?
Visiting the Pagodas on a regular basis, meditating in the centres and Phongyi Kyaungs or Churches or Temples or Mosque and saying prayers to have peace of mind, won’t help a thing for the nation, for the people . You will be lucjy that you won't be accuse of living in fear. By sitting in those places quoietly won't make what is happening around get better, instead, it could get worse.
Are you responsible or not responsible for your own nation, for your own people, for your own family and for yourself. If you are not responsible for these, then who is? If you are then take the responsility.
Myanmars used to be very proud people with very beautiful tradition and cultures, who used to help others as well as themselves, something like community works, with full of family spirit.
Where are these family spiritgone? Where that beautiful tradition and that pretty culture gone? Some people told the Myanmars that volunteering is considered as forced labour. They make Myanmars believe that they should not do anything for anybody unless they are paid for their labour. Helping each other free is violating human rights, undesirable.
Ko Htu Ko Hta system is gone. Today Myanmar solely depends and relying on others. They expect payments. or they want government to do something for them yet they don't pay the government(tax) to do things for them.
If that is the case, why are they feeding the Monks free, why are they making Danna and donations giving away their earnings without getting anything back. Without knowing there is a place for them in Nirvana? How can they be sure there is a place for them in Nirvana if they look after the Buddhist Monks? Are they defying Buddha who said, “ Thada Wah Takhu - Kan Takhu ”. How many steps we have to go through to get to Nirvanna? There are books about Buddhism to read in every language, no need to listen to the Buddhist Monks. You read the books and you will learn. The books are teachers.
Are we following the wrong translation of Buddhism or are we practicing the wrong interpretation of Buddhism or are we taught wrongly about Buddhism by the Buddhist Monks? That is for learned people to discuss.
When Bogyoke Aung San warned the people of Myanmar in his very last speech that they cannot expect “ Paday Thar Bins ” will come out of the ground, they did not understand him. When he said people have to work hard, they did not know what he was talking about. The people think these have nothing to do with them. These are the responsibilities of a government. The peoples’ are to enjoy their lives. Their only duty is to vote and elect a government. As long as a government is elected by them, all the responsible are with the government, nothing to do with them,the people, is that it?
Myanmnar is a free nation The PEOPLE of Myanmar are FREE, FREE from any responsibility. They can say what they like, they can do what they like , they will do what they like and so on.
Do the Myanmars need to change or not? Will they change or somebody has to make them changed ? Who will change them and how?
There may be a change of government in Myanmar sooner than later, possibly in 2010 as you all already know. When I asked are we ready nobody answered.
Some people are saying the time slot ( May 2008 & 2010)is rather tight. They forgot that is what many want, speedy towards democratization. If SPDC takes longer, they will get the blame, now when SPDC declared when, SPDC cannot escape the critics either.
Whether time slot is tight or not SPDC has to do it, because it is necessary and it is the right thing to do. How will the people respond to it , is the peoples’ business. That is what they want that is what they are getting .
If you have doubts, if you have suspicions about SPDC, as always or as usual then, let us have a doubt. Let us suspect SPDC about May referendum and 2010 elections .
Do they want to wash their hands?
Why is SPDC doing this? Nobody expected , everyone was surprised when they announced. Why not it was unexpected why was it a surprise? What was the meaning of this? SPDC said long ago what they would do, step by step. By announcing it SPDC said, the time is right, conditions are right.
If I bel;onged to a political party , if the time is right and if the conditions are right, that is what I would do. while it is to my favour, in my favour I wopuld call the elections. Sadly SPDC is not a political party.
Then what was that people were expecting? Do they want SPDC to hold on longer or forever? Do they want to see them gone? Do they want no referendum, no elections, but to handover power to NLD? That will be over their dead bodies.
Let us suppose that referendum and elections were there or they were finish and there was a new government in place.
Let us suppose, during or after the elections in 2010 , if there was anew government and incidents like 1988 happens. People with Dotes and Dahs roam around started killings and looting,
Let us suppose during or after the elections in 2010 if incidents like anti Chinese riots happens. Properties of the Chinese were set on fire destroyed
Let us suppose that during and after the election Police Station and military units were attacked by the mob.
Let us suppose during and after the elections, people of ethnic insurgents take the advantages Shan seizes Shan States , Kayin seizes Kayin States . Mon seizes Mon State and so on,
Let us suppose during or after the elections, if these kinds of incidents happens and the security forces such as Police and military units lock themselves in their Police Stations and in their barracks , doing nothing only prepared and ready to defend themselves from being attacked?
Let us suppose during and after the elections , when Muslims killing the Buddhist Monks, what will Bamars or other Buddhists do ? Will they go up to the Shwedagon and Sule and Botahtoung and say prayers? Will the Buddhist Monks recite the Pritta Suttas. Mitta Sutta?
How long can the people wait, how long can they have their patient ? Because new government is not a wizard. It will take time four or five years is nothing and nothing will happen within those years.
Foreign governments will be watching closely the steps and the moves of the new government.
Because there is more then politic in Myanmar . There is “ hatred”. This hatred is growing inside some people whoever they are supporting. Some people strongly believe Myanmar is going down because of SPDC and Sr Gen Than Shwe, some people strongly believe it is because of NLD and Ma Su Kyi.
In this sense this division is so great, it could be said “ the nation is divided.”
U Nu and U Ne Win were no exception. For Myanmars nobody was good enough for them. Lucky, Ko Aung San died so young. If he had lived long enough he won’t escape from the Myanmars.
In the country where Myanmars never think too much of anybody. Who will be in the NLD for the coming elections in Myanmar where people expect too much of too many things from too few people in too little time?
Who would be the fall guy this time ?
Thunderbolts,
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