My dear UKM,

With due respect, a time like this, in the wake of the disaster and devastation in Myanmar. While many unfortunate human beings are moaning we have to do some thing right to help these unfortunate people or to prepare to stand against this kind of disaster and devastation, to withstand this kind of human catastrophes in future.

Man matters most, UKM, it is the people, all people I must add.

All religions are for guidence only. They are not dictating you to do anything. Budddhism is the way of life, It concerns humna life, how to live in life, from the day your are born to the day you die. Buddha was not a dictator, He was a teacher.

Please let me go straight to the point. What I would like to say is prayers definitely won’t help

Let me start from " Gon Daw Ko Bar". The way I underestand it is ,what this Gon daw Ko Bar said is . the special qualities and powers of Gaudhama Buddha which no other human could attained.

Do you believe there is somebody in this world or on this earth who has this qualities and powers? Have you seen them or one of them? That may be an odd question.

What I like to ask you is just, by praising Buddha, his special qualities and his special powers will make your life better? No I don't think so UKM, No.

Let me be blunt again, by praising Sr. Gen Than Shwe or by praising Ma Su Kyi or denouncing them would not save anybody in Myanmar. Only their common sense will save them. Let me carry on.

What about other suttas. They only said what happened , when did it happened , how it happened who were involves.

For example " Ou Doung Min " sutta, Ingulimala Sutta. What did they say? Confess, admit, tell the truth

That is how understand . But people still asking what is the TRUTH ? That I do not how to answer. I can only say, You know the truth . Be truthful to yourself.

You questioned me if I am a Buddhist or not. I had given you my answer. I will answer you again. I am a Buddhist with good eye sight, and good hearing. I also told you about first summon of Buddha . "Dharma Setkya" they called it. Wheel of Dharma. What did they say? What did they actually say UKM?

My simple understanding to Four Noble Truth is suffering, cause of suffering , cessation of suffering and so on. Let us put them into practice , into reality, logically.

When you look at Myanmars from those angles the suffering of Myanmars to day, you know the cause of their suffering, Yes, there is a way or ways to stop them suffering , but who wants to know , who wants to stop it? Can you make these suffering stop. Only thing they whoever they are. want to do is to further these people to suffer.

What about Eight Fold Path, what about it? What does it tell you? To do eight right things. The right things UKM, not the wrong things. But how will you identify classify what is right and w hat is wrong? It depends on you, your common sense will tell you what is a right thing and what is a wrong thing.

And lastly , 38 Mingalas. The does and the don'ts for us so called human beings. How to live in life. Need I s ay more UKM? You know what they are, don't you

You talked about prayers not reciting. Do you believe in prayers. You do , other wise you won’t be telling us to pray You area Buddhist and you believe in praying , you make me puzzled. Are you sure you are a Buddhist? Are you a Jain religion . Then you are not a true Buddhist, you say you are.
Do you know for how long some people been praying? For many things for many reasons? Never mind about that.

Buddha teachings are not prayers. What Buddha taught was cause and effect.
Merits, good deed. They are all practical things.

Sorry UKM, I don’t remember that Buddha said the prayer will help us free from sufferings.

Now we are talking about the case of Myanmars. The disaster, the devastations.
Myanmar is facing” Do you know what would follow this disaster . COUld not imagine UKM , I could not.

“ Cutt Kyee Thone Bar.” Thut tandra cutt is having war among their own people. Yaw Gandra Cutt, Myanmars are suffering from all kinds of diseases. Dotebait Kandra Cutt. They are starving.

Do you think these Cutts will go away because of simple prayers?

Here Christian Bible is very clear. Because people commits sins of all kinds, that is the cause. And God punishes them.

In Buddhist you could say the people do what they are not supposed to do, they don’t do what they are supposed to do. Whatever they do and they don’t those are the causes and effects come on them.

From whichever angle you look at them UKM , politically , economically or socially. You cannot escape from “ Cause and effect ”

The other day, in one of my messages, I mentioned about people not doing what they should do. I could go to many details UKM it will never end. To recollect some of them. I mentioned the dykes along the rivers are to be rebuild. ( if the rivers are regularly dragged it would be better, these sands can be of great help to build dykes. The villages close to the river banks need to be moved to further away from banks etc. New building to be storm proof etc. etc. And I also said, “ bring me the monies I will build you a heaven on earth ”.

UKM, Myanmar is not under any normal circumstances. A person such as you should know. Too much bloody politicking is making the people suffer, day in and day out even today. Combined with the ignorance of the people.

Some people want Myanmar people to be ignorant, Or some people are trying to teach the Myanmars the Buddhism which is a way of life as a religion . For whose benefits ? In my own words the teachers are rich, the pupils are still poor in Myanmar Its been like that for centuries, if not thousand of years. .

If you want to blame SPDC for this , you have a right to do so.

To conclude this , I would like to say a very simple in Myanmar “ Be Thu Ma Pyu Mi Mi Mhu ”. That is pure Myanmar UKM very simple. You don’t need any translation, you don’t need and interpretation. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to understand that.

Nobody should preach to others what they themselves cannot follow. Buddha taught only after he experienced it Himself and He told everybody to experience it by themselves and accept or reject it. Her we are UKM, the word “experience”. is used . Not to be blinded. Buddhism is not a blind faith.

As Buddhist you must understand the Buddism thoroughly , the real meaning of it. Because this is the way of life, this will help you and your neighbours life if you follow it correctly. That's all I can say.

Nobody, I mean nobody even Buddhist Monks ( Ngo Zar Ye Zars) or lay people should misterpret BUddhism and mislead the ignotrant people . That's the way I see it.

Almost all Buddhist countries are poor countries, because they are weak. They are manipulated by others, undermind by others. It would be a gift , if they are treated as human beings at all.

UKMyaing, please open your eyes and ears. I invite you to come out to the real world we are living in.

Nice talking to you.

Regards,

Thunderbolts.

Dear Thunderbolt,

I do not think I need to say much.

Doing the beads reciting "Arahan" or "Gone Daw Koe Bar" Buddha Nussati.

I did not invent this. This has been with us in the Theravada tradition for many years ever since this tradition came to our shores.

The answer is very very simple.

If you believe it, do it.

If you do not believe it, do not do it.

Purification of the mind has been taught by the Buddha and many other spiritual leaders all over the world.

I will write more on this matter later. In the meantime: ---

May you have peace of mind and when you die, may you be reborn in the good abodes.

May you and all your family members be happy and well, in mind and body.

Metta,

Km

Dear UKMyaing,

Are you listening to the barks? Don't be disturbed by these howlings.

Why is it happening to Myanmars? Why not others? Why are Myanmar God forsaken people ? If you have time to read on, you will know why. “ Be Thu Ma-pyu- Mi Mi Mhu ”

Some foreigners referred to Myanmars as dacoits, robbers and thieves. When I heard it I was so furious . I could not stand it. So I retaliate with all the words I could find saying that in every society there are robbers, dacoits and thieves murderers , rapist s, cheats, con men and con women , etc. Nobody can deny it and nobody can do anything about it. No matter who they are and what they are I cannot abandon them, I cannot denounce myself as Myanmar.

Right or wrong this is my country, right or wrong these are my people. U Kyaw Myaing may have some thing to say about it.

We witness many times , in many other countries including United States of America, when disaster struck and the devastations. Tornados are everywhere in US. When Katrina struck New Orleans we saw some looters, that is the only polite language I could fine regarding them. The disaster and the devastation in many forms and in various scale are striking US everyday. They are becoming common, familiar things of everyday life.

Talking about everyday life. It is difficult to separate religion from politic as all religions are the teachings of the wise people , it is connecting with daily life. As Buddhism itself is known as “ the way of life, ” we can never separate Buddhism from politic, economy or social matters.

What is Buddhism and who are the Buddhists? It may be a silly question. We know Buddhism is the teachings of Buddha, and Buddhists are those who follows His teachings. Next question is how good are the Buddhists as Buddhists? We that question can only be answered by the Buddhists themselves.

Myanmar is a Buddhist country, most Myanmars are Buddhists they said. What I have seen in Myanmar and seeing now is nothing to do with being Buddhists or the teachings of Buddha. Buddha did not teach them to be dacoits, robbers thieves, rapists con-men and con-women. But in the Buddhist stories there are many of them.

As I have said many times that I have never seen the kind of disaster to this magnitude in Myanmar in all of my life. Thank God or Buddha. . Now I am seeing with my own eyes. And I study it, analysis it , I accesses it, it all come to one conclusion, that is Myanmar are becoming sinners. How? They are corrupt in many possible ways breaking all the rules laid down by Buddha.

Myanmars regardless of what national race they belong to, what religion they belong to are not afraid to do the killings , they are not afraid to steal or to take what is not theirs, they are very good at telling lies, they rape and enjoy, and they take pride of being a drunkard or drug addict. They are doing everything against the teaching of Buddha. That says it all. Is it because they are poor or is it because they commit these sins that make them poor?

Some politicians might argue that Myanmars are poor because they are being exploited. Then who are exploiting them? Politician might like to say “ by the foreigners.” They may be right to a certain extent. Some people might like to say by their own people. There are possibilities to that argument. In which way are they being exploited? There may be many views, from many perspectives from many angles.

Today in Myanmar, there are not very many foreigners . So it could not be right blaming foreigners totally. They may be scapegoats. On the other hand foreigners are ganging up on Myanmars, and Myanmars are suffering. In this case, Myanmars are also responsible for Myanmars being suffers. Need I say more?

What about Myanmars on their own? Let’s have a look , lets go back to Myanmar as Kingdom. Everything on land, underground and under the sea in the belongs to the King. If and when King permitted a few people can own something including land. But most land in Myanmar are own by the King and Buddhist Monks. The King‘s land, Paya land and Phongyi ‘s land. And there are workers on these lands. To this day in Myanmar, most land belong to government or to the Phongyis, called Tharthana - Myey , Kyaung Myey.

Myanmars are committing killings after killings, they are stealing after stealing,
they are telling lies after lies, they are committing adulteries after adulteries, and beer gardens are everywhere. every corner shop is a beer garden. Drugs of all kind are easily available in Myanmnar.

Myanmars are proud to be Myanmars they are proud to be Buddhists. There are many other religion in Myanmar. But what they are doing or how they are behaving is nothing to do with us. Even the government does not bother, as long as these religions do not get involved in politic. This Buddhism as a religion may also be not permitted by the government in the politic. But as a way of like, there is nothing government can do to keep Buddhism away from politic.

Buddhism in Myanmar is beginning to fade away. In the hands of dirty and wicked people. it is already being exploited. It may be in the hands of dirty and wicked, but Buddhism as religion or a way of life can never become dirty and wicked, no matter Myanmars are becoming dirty and wicked, but those who tries to make it dirty and wicked will be destroyed on their own. What happening in Myanmar is just the beginning. A warning, perhaps.

Buddhism is a way of life, very delicate, fragile, tender, gentle. If we handle it wrongly we can get into trouble, into disasters . Bad name for the Buddhism. All teachers of Buddhism should be aware and be careful what they teach or how they teach. If we mistranslate Buddhism it can also make us weak. Lets face it, all Buddhist countries are weak nations in the world. Because they have interpreted Buddhism in wrong way. Some scholars even goes so far, saying that a Buddhist country does not need an army, or soldiers.

Look at Tibet. Lamas led by Dalai Lama instead of building Tibet as a modern developed nation. They drag it down, making it a waste land. As far as Dalai Lama is concern he lives like a God King sitting on a gold plated chair. All the Lamas living on the nation doing nothing producing nothing. They could not defend their country from foreign invasions in the end annexation. They don’t even know what Dalai Lama is. Is he a living God, a God King, a Spiritual leader or a political leader?

Once there were Kings ( rulers) in Myanmar who came out of Monk-hood to become King to rule. Again this Buddhism made Myanmar Kings weak. These weak Kings made Myanmar weak. In the end Myanmar was robbed from Myanmars’ hands. it was invaded and annexed .

Thibaw the last King of Myanmar was said to have passed the exam of Tipitika three times. His father Mindon loved him so much he made him crown prince to become King after him.

Mindon himself was very much influenced by the Sangha Raja , he even stopped making weapons to protect or defend his country. For that Myanmr paid the price.

Here we are seeing, Monks becoming Kings, half monks like Thibaw became King, the ruler. Buddhism influencing in country’s matters in wrong way All these Myanmar Kings were so dedicated to the Buddhism What is Myanmar going to be this time?

Yet Myanmar still haven’t learn anything. They are too narrow minded, no good education or good knowledge can get through their mind . Myanmars most of them have learning difficulties. They can learn nothing so that they can stand up on their feet. They are weak they depend on others and rely on others. They can be manipulated very easily.

Some people are still trying teaching Myanmars the right Buddhism in a very wrong way. Why are they trying to make things worse and more complicated I don’t understand. Buddhism as it is has nothing wrong, but the people who follow it making it wrong. They call themselves Buddhists but they cannot observe the Buddha’s teachings in a right way Not even the Buddhist monks can observe their rules , these monks cannot teach the people right way either. Because most of them are fakes and bogus. Escapists and they are yello robe wearing pests.

Since 1948, when Myanmar declared independent U Nu democratically elected leader, who was known as Paya Dagar nationalised some industries which belonged to foreigners without compensation. A Paya Daghar stealing other peoples’ properties. In the name of nationalisation. And then again during Revolutionary Government of U Ne Win not only his Government stolid other people properties , the people , yes the people the Myanmars so called Buddhists,
trespassing and invading other peoples’ land and make them their own.

This is how the leaders of Myanmar taught the people of Myanmar, how to steal.

Even today for instance , there are lots of buildings in Yangon , their roof ( zinc sheets ) are blown away in recent disaster. Other people pick them up and took them away as their own in front the owners. There are many instances like these which will make my heart break , and ashamed of being one of Myanmar Buddhists.

Nobody wants to take responsible to repair, not even to contribute anything to wards the cost of repairing , when other take initiative to repair. They want to have a free ride. Instead they took the good zinc sheet from other part of the roof, which belong to other side of the building to their side of the house.

That is dirty, very dirty, this is wicked very wicked, that is a sin, they are the sinners. These are the people who have to suffer. These will be God forsaken people. No surprise, Myanmars are poor, they are in poverty, they can blame no one, they can take pride for being poor they can be pests.

From time to time we refer to religion, especially at the time when we are in
troubles., helpless, desperate. But its no use, to be a Khwey Mi Kout which - Kyi Dout cannot help.

No matter what the Buddhism said, no matter what the Christian said, no matter what Islam said. Even what Hindu said. I do not mentioned Jews here , because I believe Jews and Muslims are the same. Though they might deny that. When one said Salam another one said Shalom . When one eats Halaled meat , the other one swallow Kosha meat . One said Saturday is Sabbath day, the other said Friday is . After all, they all are the grand children of Abraham or Ibrahim . Whatever they want to call themselves.

How good are we as Buddhist, and how good are Christian, Muslims or Hindus.
Whichever God said what, the fact is we will be punished for the bad things we have done or we will be rewarded for good things we have done.

Natural disasters are known as the act of God. When He displeases with us he punished us, in this way. How does he rewarded us for what we are not sure.
Comfortable life, less worries, less troubles may be, nothing more than that. Because according to Buddha . Living is suffering everything is Dhukha until we get to Nirbana, If we read his Mahaprinivana Sutta we will under stand very clearly. .

Especially Christian Bible told us how we were punished by God. Buddhist says a lot of things. We can be punished in many ways( sufferings /Dhukha) including going to hell. Reward will be Nirvanna, before that we could be awarded with one of the seven heavens. But we will still be subject to death and subject to circle of life.

Many different ways. If you are a Buddhist you will know what they are If you don’t know ask your nearest Buddhist Monks. Not all the Buddhist Monks could answer to many questions. Buddha said something about cause and effect, bad cause will have bad effect, good cause will have good effects as simple as that for us to understand. Small punishment for small offences, big and severe punishments for big and severe offences. That’s for sure.

These punishments are for those who do not listen to Gods words or teachings. These are for those who breaks all the rules, who wants to break rules, who a ask others to break rules.

True or not , we will hear no words about Buddhist in next 2500 years time.
We are now in the “ Sote Kutt ”. or we are going back to the beginning where there was no Gods. . What we have created gradually , all the good things we have done are deteriorating , disappearing gradually such as civilisation. Bad things are more common now a day. From here this earth together with us will end by means of fire.

How do I know, because the Bible( Christian, Buddhist ) tells me so.

Myanmars are seeking freedom, fair and justice. Amidst this terrible, horrible intolerable disaster and devastation. Myanmars have exercise their freedom all right, freely stealing things which belong to other people. Freely telling lies which are not true. They call themselves Buddhists. In my view they are non-other then fake Buddhists and they are bogus Buddhist following the teaching of fake and bogus Buddhist Monks.

If there is no laws to protect other people from these robbers, dacoits , and thieves . God has to do something about them. Punish them . It has been the case when God punish them . Nobody can help anybody. It hurts and very hard.

But do they know why God punished them? No, I don’t think so. They don’t know themselves, nobody can tell them. Those who tell them do not tell the truth , they also lies These Myanmar are those without “ Ko Jint Ta Yar ” themselves are making comments , remarks, passing judgements on SPDC and its leaders’ “ Ko Jint Ta Yar ” . SPDC may not be elected, but they may be from the people who have no “ Ko Jint Ta Yar ” . Because they are Myanmars.

The question is where does the egg come from ? Some people might like to say that it is SPDC, leadership which cause this disaster. . Some like to say it’s the people. SPDC members are the people they are from the people , they are Myanmars. SPDC or not. The people are Myanmars. SPDC are Myanmars .In that sense they are all the same.

Where will this end. The ancient sayings are “ Mogyo Let Ne Thajar Set ”. and
“ Thajar Thar Tha Nar ” These are all Myanmars words. There will be some one who will act like King of the Devas ( Thajar Min ). He will see to it. He will clean the bed ones from Myanmar, he will help the good ones.

Never the less, Myanmars need somebody like SPDC to be firm with them The country is at stake. Myanmars need some one like them for sure. Sr. Gen Than Shwe is not the one yet . In my view he is too soft in a way., he is still merciful . lenient. Nobody can pin point his ugliness, his brutality. etc. He is in a way,
“ Thudaw Koung ”. So like Buddha Himself had experienced. What some people are doing is launching smear campaign , character assassination. These tricks have been done time and time again against Myanmar rulers. U Nu, U Ne Win,
Sr Gen Saw Maung , Sr Gen Than Shwe. In this century. In the past against Bodaw, , Thayawaddy Min, Bagyidaw, Mindon and Thibaw. No Myanmar rulers were good, according to them.

Who are the good ones and who are the bed ones in Myanmar ? At least God knows who they are . Thajar Min will know. So he will do what he has to do. as they deserve against the sinners. You can called God a dictator, you can call him tyrant, you can call him brutal thug. Call him what you will.
Myanmar saying is “ Khoung Moe - Moe Malon ” the roof is leaking. Who is the roof? Some people said it is the rulers. Because they are corrupt these things happened. Some said Buddhist Monks are the roof in Myanmar . They are at the top. What are they doing? They are doing everything against Buddha’s teaching, they are interpreting their own way to Buddha’s teaching, to suit themselves. They are some of the richest in Myanmar while other Myanmars are sufferings. Why Myanmars are suffering, because they happened to follow the fakes and bogus Buddhist Monks. Buddhist Monks are corrupt. Myanmars have become “ Mate Sar Datehti “ because they follow the corrupt monks.

Even helps are too late, helps cannot reach them. They are in living hell.

If we are looking for somebody for a scapegoat , or someone to put the blame on. We don‘t need to look far, the people are to blame, for they are sinners and those who turn them into sinners are fake and bogus Buddhist Monks.

I know most people in Mon state are Buddhists, Bamars became Buddhist through Mons. I am not sure of the people in Kayin State or Irrawaddy delta. I assumed most of them are Kayin Christians.

“ Karma Thagar “ whatever will be will be or let nature takes its course, is very easy to say. What I am saying now is this “ Karma Thagar ” or cause and effect. Because of what I do the effect is on me.

When Myanmars pray they repent by saying to forgibve them if they have ever committed any sin through Kaya Kan,( physically) Wasi Kan ( verbally ) and Ma Naw Kan( mindfully ). That means with these three KK, WK and MK, we can do good as well . According to whatever we do, the result will be there, we have to take it, we cannot escaped from it, we won’t be speared.

Compassion is something, sympathy is another. Buddhism is something, but a good Buddhist is another.

We have air planes, ships and submarines and spaceship . We can go through the air, land and sea and under the sea. We travel from one place to another.
Are these be called Zan travelling, according to Buddhism? Or are we still in need of Zan travelling to travel from one place to another? Buddha said. mind over matters. Its all in our mind

Buddhism is not a religion, it is the way of life. How many Buddhists take it as a way of life and put into practice?
I will say it again , the first summon of Buddha namely Four Noble Truth, Eightfold Path, and 38 Mingala are the beginning of becoming a good Buddhist.
We need to understand the Buddhism thoroughly. Monks also remind us again and again to understand the meaning of it. Do we? What more can I say?

If some body tells yo, praising Buddha’s Holiness , His Qualifications and His Qualities known as “ Gon Daw Ko Bar ”, every day for one thousand times will make you healthy, wealthy, rich and happy that is up to you to believe it or not.
Because there are other ways to make yourself healthy , wealthy , rich and happy. Just by following his teachings, not by praising Him.

Praising Buddha , worshipping Buddha , and praying can get you nowhere.
Praising Sr Gen Than Shwe, Praising Ma Su Kyi and worshipping them and praying will get Myanmars no where either.

What Buddha already said was if you respect Him , love his you should follow His ways .

What are His ways. What more can I say?

Thunderbolts,

Dear Thunderbolt,

I never said that we can get what we want by just praying.

What I said was a combination.

What I said was that all of us are the result of our Karma.

Past action, present action and future action.

All actions start from thought but we must do good ACTIONS.

But good ACTIONS come from good THOUGHTS.

So there you are.

Thanks for your explanations.

Nice talking to you.

May all members of the Asia Observer forum be Happy and Well.

May they be well in Mind and Body.

May they be able to look after their well-being in happily!!

Km

UKM,

I thought you are running away again like the last time. When things become deeper, when they become serious.

Thank you for your understanding. I think you and I can talk to each other .I don't want you to think I am against Buddhissm or against Buddhists. I have told you that I am Buddhist but not blind. Buddha was a practical man.
I am not a theory man but apractical one like Him. Because he told everyone to experience themselves,

I have seen many people of other religion, you have seen them as well. In the name of religion they are kiiling They are called extreamists, and later they are called terrorists by the opposite.

I don't want Buddhists to be like them. By I am seing what the Buddhist are becoming of.

I do not know about the situation over 2500 years ago in the world. We did not even know what the situation was at that time all over INdia, let alone the world. But I know the situation of the world and Myanmar at this moment.

If we are Buddhist it is important to become the 21st centuary Buddhist. Because we are living in the 21st century.

We should take Buddhism as our guidence but we should never allow it to over rule us. I gave you Tibet. I talked to you about many Buddhist countries being poor, they are among the third world countries. That is the proof.

If anybody want to translate for being poor is a kind of Nirbana, because you don't have to be worry for being robbed, you don't have to be afraid of somebody going to steal from you. OK you should be happy and glad for not having any thing. If poverty is to be happy about, then be happy .

BUT don't groan and don't moan for being poor, having nothing, and don't blame others for being rich.

It has to be balance. That is Buddhism which is Mizzima Patipadar or the middle way.

I have no doubt that you understand that.

When I talked to you about, Four Noble Truths, Eight Fold Path, and 38 Mingalas. If we all observed only these three, we could go no wrong. MYanmars won't suffer that much.

We are what we are and who we are, depend on our own merits which in your own words " karma ". That is the essense of Buddha's teachings, I believe.

Dana, Thila, Bawana the three things. Lawba , Dawtha, and Mawha are others
We think we know these things, but it is difficult, very difficult for uns to put into practice isn't it? That is the problem . Sme people are taking advantage on those, who are trying to observe these six. We must not allow them.

We know more about Dana then. Myanamrs give away everything, because they hope to get to Nivana. How much Thila and Bawana doi they have to get to Nirvana. THis unlimited Dana of kind and gentle people of Myanmar is making people poor and others rich.

This Dana is making the Myanmars poor and making others (Monks) rich. I have said it many time. Monestries are build with timber and bricks, electricity and may other 21st century modern living while poor people stioll lib=ving in the bamboo huts, now even these huts are blown away, they have nowhere to stay.

Foreign aid coming , would you like to interpret it as they are coming in because of the Danas, the people past/previous merits? SO the people have to make more Dana? The people recieved the aid and next day they take them to the market and sell them for money.

Did you see how the aid were distributed? Throwing them from the van, as if they are feeding the pigs and dogs and other animals. Are you happy to see those scenes UKM? Do you want to blame this on SPDC?

People are suffering because of this disaster, the country is facing the devastation, and some people with threatening behaviour still playing political games.

If you are in Sr. Gen Than Shwe's position, I am sure, your priority will be to secure the country, national security. Those dead are dead, damaged are damaged, there is nothing you can do about that. Especially,unfriendly US, Brits, France warships and aircraft carrier at your door step. You have to be 1000% sure, there are no enemies aropund , behind your back who will stab you.

True and I will agree with you, actions are louder than words.

If Myanmar was not ready and prepared to help the people in disaster, that is because opposition do not let Myanmar earn any money, oppsition blocked everything.

Who actually are paying the price UKM?

The liers accused others are telling lies. They think others are liers.

We just have to be good, God will look after the good people. You don't need to pray for anything. Because praying won't help, that is for sure.

If prayers would help, Jesus Christ would not have to die on the crucifix. He had to die after he taught us that famous prayer" Our father - - - ". If we are Buddhists, we must be good Buddhists, not fakes or boguses. We must believe in our merits.

Nice talking to you UKM.

Regards,

Thundrbolts