International Campaign for Freedom of Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma

Burma’s Voices of Freedom A Four Volume Set Conversations with Alan Clements An Ongoing Struggle for Democracy by Alan Clements & Fergus Harlow

2020-10-12T16:40:00.006-04:00

Through a series of intimate, feature-length conversations with Alan Clements, Burma’s Voices of Freedom brings together dozens of the country’s most respected and well-known politicians, pro-democracy activists, artists and religious leaders to provide one of the most detailed accounts of Burma’s decades long struggle for freedom ever compiled. Together, these voices describe the courage and conviction required to nonviolently confront injustice anywhere, whether on a stage, in a demonstration, or in solitary confinement.

Combined with extensive archival material spanning 30 years, and drawing upon Clements’ lifetime of connections within Burma, these four volumes provide an inside account of the ongoing struggle for democracy as it has evolved from the time of Aung San Suu Kyi’s release from house arrest in 2010, through the National League for Democracy election victory in 2015, and on to the upcoming national elections in late 2020, detailing their implications on the very future of freedom itself.

Volume 1: Key excerpts from decades of interviews, speeches and presentations by Aung San Suu Kyi, followed by expansive conversations with three of her longest and closest colleagues, U Tin Oo, U Win Tin and U Win Htein (542 pages).
Volume 2: Interviews with key National League for Democracy party members, prominent Buddhist, Muslim and Catholic leaders, and veteran activists such as Min Ko Naing and Ko Ko Gyi, both of whom served nearly two decades in prison (416 pages).
Volume 3: Includes interviews with a broader range of spoken-word activist comedians, musicians, award-winning artists, journalists, and renowned politicians (466 pages).
Volume 4: Finishes the series with a set of scholarly appendices, including historical speeches and articles and a lengthy detailed chronology and analysis of key political events over the last 30 years (570 pages).

ALAN CLEMENTS, author of The Voice of Hope: Conversations with Aung San Suu Kyi (1996) and one of the first Americans to ordain and live as a Buddhist monk in Burma, is the founder of World Dharma and the Burma Project USA and a veteran activist, author, artist, and speaker whose previous books have been met with critical acclaim.

FERGUS HARLOW has been Alan Clements’ assistant and co-author since late 2012, and an unaffiliated student of the Dhamma since 2004.

World Dharma Publications
http://www.worlddharma.com/books/

The Bravest Girl: Fostering Inclusive Education in Kayah State, Myanmar - Pact Myanmar (Video)

2020-09-21T13:30:00.005-04:00

To celebrate International Day of the Girl which is marked on October 11, follow the inspiring story of seven-year-old Han Su Lwin as she overcomes her disability to stand tall. Han Su Lwin exemplifies this year’s theme for International Day of the Girl – GirlForce: Unscripted and Unstoppable. Han Su Lwin is one of more than 63,000 students targeted to benefit from the Advancing Community Empowerment (ACE) project, which is supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). ACE consortium partner Save the Children is working together with communities and schools using a rights-based approach to foster child protection, positive discipline and the inclusion of marginalized groups, including women, youth, the very poor and people with disabilities. Find out more in this inspirational story of resilience, hope and “can do attitude”.
https://www.pactworld.org/country/myanmar

How to make a cloth mask with cloth ties --

2020-08-18T23:46:00.003-04:00

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=how+to+make+a+mask+with+cloth+straps#kpvalbx=_LJw8X-Vu_cDK0w-677co39

I find these more secure than the elastic, but it's a personal choice.

This is 2 layers, 3 layers are recommended, washable and washed cotton, not synthetic. Not lace, not silk, now towelling.

8-18-2020

မ်ိဳးထိုက္တန္သိန္း ၏ ေဒါသ - Anger Management - မျိုးထိုက်တန်သိန်း - Myo ...

2020-07-18T20:05:00.001-04:00

Minmahaw School - Minmahaw in 3 minutes (Video)

2020-06-17T22:03:00.000-04:00

Minmahaw is a post-secondary school for underprivileged Myanmar students (aged 17 - 23). It introduces the students to an international-style experiential education taught by foreign and local volunteers in an immersive English environment.

https://minmahawschool.org/

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency - Rohingya refugees: Preparing for coronavirus at world’s largest refugee site (Video)

2020-06-16T18:55:00.000-04:00

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people.

https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/myanmar.html

donate.unhcr.org

WIDE HORIZONS ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (Video)

2020-06-11T06:37:00.002-04:00

Wide Horizons Organizational Development Program (WH) has been running since 2006 aiming to build capacity of young adults from Myanmar and along the Thai-Myanmar border in order to become agents of positive change in their respective civil society organization and communities. The program is done over two years; a ten month academic and personal development program, followed by a 10 month work placement in a CBO/CSO, NGO, clinic or school.

Website: https://widehorizonsmaesot.wixsite.com/widehorizons
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/widehorizonsmaesot/
Email: widehorizons.myanmar@gmail.com

Pact - ACE: Request for applications for strengthening inclusive governance in Southeastern Myanmar

2020-06-07T15:15:00.000-04:00

The Advancing Community Empowerment in Southeastern Myanmar (ACE) project, funded by USAID, is pleased to announce a request for applications (RFA) seeking to fund projects that improve the inclusion of vulnerable and excluded groups in Southeastern Myanmar in governance and decision-making.

The total estimated amount of funding for the RFA is approximately USD $1,500,000; however, ACE reserves the right to adjust the RFA and subaward ceilings or issue no subawards at all.

This RFA is issued as a public notice to ensure that all interested, qualified, and eligible organizations have a fair opportunity to submit applications for funding. For the purposes of this RFA, “organizations” are defined as non-profit, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society organizations (CSOs), community-based organizations (CBOs), or faith-based organizations (FBOs).

Note the closing date for applications is June 29, 2020.

To learn more about ACE and to apply, please go here.

Or click to download the entire zip folder here.

Any inquiries about this announcement and applications can be directed to the ACE project at myanmargrants@pactworld.org

https://www.pactworld.org/blog/ace-request-applications-strengthening-inclusive-governance-southeastern-myanmar

Safe Haven Orphanage

2020-06-06T23:46:00.001-04:00

Safe Haven Orphanage is located at Ban Tha Song Yang (also known as Mae Tawo), a couple of hours north of Mae Sot on the Thailand / Burma border. Our mission is to provide an orphanage that is a "safe haven" to children throughout Thailand. Safe Haven Orphanage is a home that provides disadvantaged children with proper nurture, nutrition, shelter, clothing, medical care, and education. Safe Haven Orphanage is open to children from all communities of faith and culture and is non-threatening to the child's pre-existing belief systems.

https://safehavenorphanage.org/

https://safehavenorphanage.org/support-us/

Pact Myanmar - Women and Water (Video)

2020-06-05T20:00:00.000-04:00

Captured and told by women and girls from Noe Htaa Baund village, Hlaingbwe Township Kayah State, this video highlights the shortage of clean water access in their village, which forces women to carry water from far away. Due to the lack of water, women and children face challenges that men don’t. For example, women lack clean water for giving birth, breastfeeding and menstruation.

https://www.pactworld.org/country/myanmar

Pact Myanmar - Health and Hope: Promoting Access to Quality Health Care Services in Kayah State (Video)

2020-06-05T19:46:00.001-04:00

To commemorate the recent International Nurses Day which is celebrated around the world every May 12, the Advancing Community Empowerment (ACE) project supported by USAID, showcased how the project is promoting access to quality health care services in Southeastern Myanmar.

Since May 2019, ACE local partner and grant recipient Civil Health and Development Network (CHDN) has been implementing a two-year healthcare project. To date, CHDN has trained 115 traditional birth attendants (TBAs) to provide more effective health services in remote communities, including providing 805 pregnant women with antenatal care (ANC) and assisting in 344 deliveries. Find out more in this short video about how CHDN's activities are bringing impact in Kayah State.

https://www.pactworld.org/video/health-and-hope-promoting-access-quality-health-care-services-kayah-state

Mae Tao Clinic With Your Help_English Subtitle (Video)

2020-06-05T19:35:00.000-04:00

With your help we keep life going.
Without your help, we can't help.

Find out more about Mae Tao Clinic: https://maetaoclinic.org
You can help us here: https://bit.ly/2UUXO0A

Script, Camera, Editing, Music and Sound by Sappalot Productions (https://www.sappalot.org/)

Rev. Al Sharpton will lead a march on DC Aug 28.

2020-06-04T23:18:00.001-04:00

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/politics/al-sharpton-geroge-floyd-march-on-washington/index.html

2020-06-04T18:43:00.001-04:00

Thursday, June 04, 2020

NBC Lester Holt--George Floyd Memorial Service-today in Minneapolis--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr5ftH86tIk

Moving speech by Rev Al Sharpton and 8 mins 46 secs of silence.

6-4-2020

WHO warns of 2nd peak.

2020-05-25T22:52:00.001-04:00

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/sounds-warning-coronavirus-peak-live-updates-200526002031517.html

CNN Cyclone warning S and SE Asia

2020-05-19T05:30:00.002-04:00

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/19/asia/super-cyclone-amphan-india-banglash-intl-hnk/index.html

Also watch out for the other side of the cyclone once it has "passed" --that's a short period of calm but the other side will come.

5-19-2020

Shan Spotlight: A woman MPs' experiences and suggestions !

2020-04-30T04:32:00.001-04:00

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Shan Spotlight

Highlighting the agency of Shan women, their communities and the causes they believe in

Shan Spotlight is a bi-monthly advocacy series highlighting the agency of women from SWAN's women's leadership training. Learn more about the Women's Empowerment program here.

Meet Nang Sam Howm!

In our first Shan Spotlight of 2020, we speak with a member of state parliament who was won election in 2015 Nang Sam Howm, on her experience before election and get her suggestions.

ကျမတို့၏ ၂၀၂၀ ခုနှစ် ပထမအကြိမ် Shan Spotlight ကတော့ နမ္မတူမြို့နယ်၊ မဲဆန္ဒနယ်အမှတ် (၂) ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ် နန်းစံဟွမ်နှင့်တွေ့ဆုံပြီး သူမ၏ အတွေ့အကြုံများကို ဆွေးနွေးဖလှယ်ထားပါသည်။

English

Burmese

E N G L I S H

Shan Women's Action Network (SWAN): Please introduce yourself and state your current position?
Nang Sam Howm (NSH): My name is Nang Sam Howm. I won election in 2015 and got to be a Member of State Parliament of Namtu.

SWAN: What did you prepare Before election?
NSH: Before the election and becoming an MP, I have learnt Election Laws, General Laws, Responsible for Members of Parliament, the situation in the community such as social, economy, political history and current situation of voter information. Otherwise, I also prepared the budget for election expenses and collection party members for cooperating in the campaign period of election.

SWAN: Please share your experience being MPs during 5 years?
NSH: During 5 years as a woman parliament member, even I had worked for public development as suitable, it is still needed to concentrate on the implementation of the real and main political expectations of our people

and women parliament members participation rate were very few and needed to consider and work out for more women participating in every level.

SWAN: What is your suggestion to the government or political parties for women's participation in the 2020 Election?
NSH: To evaluate and implement based on the needs of living in Myanmar, I believe that the government and political parties should not leave, and cooperate with women, who are the group of precious peace, more than the half of the country's strength who are full with mother spirit at every level.

SWAN: Your message for women candidates for the 2020 Election?
NSH: My message for women candidates for the 2020 election, be strong in spirit and try to overcome everything maturely, treat people with a sincere heart. Additionally, I wish you get to see the best recognized by the majority instead of the best from our onw views.

B U R M E S E

ရှမ်းအမျိုးသမီးရေးရာဆက်သွယ်လှုပ်ရှားဆောင်ရွက်ရေးအသင်း (စွမ်း): နာမည်နဲ့ လက်ရှိရာထူး (သို့) လုပ်ငန်းတာဝန်ရဲ့ အကျဥ်းချုပ်ကို ပြောပြပေးပါ?
နန်းစံဟွမ်:ကျမ နန်းစံဟွမ် ၊ နမ္မတူမြို့နယ်၊ မဲဆန္ဒနယ်အမှတ် (၂) ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ် ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

စွမ်း: လွှတ်တော်အမတ်မဖြစ်ခင် ဘာတွေပြင်ဆင်ခဲ့ရပါသလဲ?
နန်းစံဟွမ်: လွှတ်တော်အမှတ်မဖြစ်ခင်မှာ ကျမအနေနဲ့ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲဆိုင်ရာ ဥပဒေ၊ နည်းဥပဒေ၊ လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်၏ တာဝန်ဝတ္တရား၊ ဒေသနှင့် နိုင်ငံအတွင်း လူမှုရေး၊ စီးပွားရေး၊ နိုင်ငံရေးသမိုင်းကြောင်းနှင့် လက်ရှိအခြေအနေ၊ မဲဆန္ဒဆိုင်ရာ အချက်အလက်များကို ကြိုတင်လေ့လာခဲ့ပါတယ်။ ထို့အပြင် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲကုန်ကျစရိတ်အတွက် ကြိုတင်ပြင်ဆင်မှု နှင့် စည်းရုံးရေးကာလတွင် ပါဝင်အားဖြည့်မည့်ပါတီဝင်စုစည်းခြင်းများကိုလည်း ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။

စွမ်း: ၅ နှစ်အတွင်း အမျိုးသမီးလွှတ်တော်တစ်ယောက်အနေနဲ့ ကြုံတွေ့ရတဲ့ အတွေ့အကြုံလေး မျှဝေပေးပါ?
နန်းစံဟွမ်: ၅ နှစ်အတွင်း အမျိုးသမီးလွှတ်တော်တစ်ယောက်အနေနဲ့ ဒေသဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးကို အထိုက်အလျောက် ဆောင်ရွက်နိုင်ခဲ့သော်လည်း ပြည်သူများ အမှန်တကယ်လိုအပ်လျက်ရှိသော နိုင်ငံရေးမျှော်မှန်းချက်များကို အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ဆောင်နိုင်မှုတွင်လိုအပ်နေပါသေးတယ်တယ်။

အမျိုးသမီးလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်ပါဝင်မှုနှုန်း နည်းပါးပြီး နိုင်ငံ၏အခန်းကဏ္ဍတိုင်းတွင် အမျိုးသမီးကဏ္ဍထည့်သွင်းစဥ်းစားမှုကို အားစိုက်လုပ်ဆောင်ရန်လည်း လိုအပ်နေပါသေးတယ်။

စွမ်း: လာမည့် ၂၀၂၀ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲတွင် အမျိုးသမီးပါဝင်မှုအတွက် အစိုးရနှင့် နိုင်ငံရေးပါတီများကို ဘာအကြံပြုချက် ပေးချင်ပါသလဲ?
နန်းစံဟွမ်: လာမည့် ၂၀၂၀ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲတွင် အမျိုးသမီးပါဝင်မှုအတွက် အစိုးရနှင့် နိုင်ငံရေးပါတီများအနေနဲ့ နိုင်ငံအတွင်းမှီတင်းနေထိုင်သော လူသားများ၏ လိုအပ်ချက်ကို ရှူမြင်သုံးသပ်အကောင်အထည်ဖော်နိုင်ရန် ငြိမ်းချမ်းမှုကိုမြတ်နိုးသော၊ မိခင်စိတ်ဓာတ်ပြည့်ဝသော နိုင့်ငံ့အင်အား၏ ထက်ဝက်ကျော်ဖြစ်သော အမျိုးသမီးထုကို မေ့လျော့ချန်လှပ်ထားခြင်းမရှိပဲ လက်တွဲပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်နိုင်ပါက ကဏ္ဍပေါင်းစုံတွင် ပိုမိုအောင်မြင်လာမည်ဟု ယုံကြည်ပါတယ်။

စွမ်း: ၂၀၂၀ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲတွင် ပါဝင်ယှဥ်ပြိုင်မည့် အမျိုးသမီးကိုယ်စားလှယ်လောင်းများအတွက် အမှာစကားလေး ပြောပေးပါ ?
နန်းစံဟွမ်: ၂၀၂၀ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲတွင် ပါဝင်ယှဥ်ပြိုင်မည့် အမျိုးသမီးကိုယ်စားလှယ်လောင်းများ အနေနဲ့ စိတ်ဓာတ်ကို ကြံကြံခိုင်ခိုင်ထားပါ။ အကြောင်းအရာတိုင်းကို တည်ငြိမ်စွာနဲ့ အကောင်းဆုံးဖြေရှင်းနိုင်အောင်ကြိုးစားပါ။ ပြည်သူအပေါ် စိတ်ရင်းစေတနာမှန်ဖြင့် ဆက်ဆံပါ။ ကိုယ်တစ်ယောက်တည်း သတ်မှတ်တဲ့အကောင်းဆုံးထက် အများက သတ်မှတ်တဲ့ အကောင်းဆုံးကို ပိုင်ဆိုင်နိုင်ကြပါစေလို့ ဆန္ဒပြုပါတယ်။

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Burma Children Medical Fund - BCMF Wheelchair Project in Northeast Thailand (Video)

2020-04-27T16:18:00.000-04:00

Each child is unique, no one is the same!

Before the Thai government urged residents to stay home due to COVID-19, Burma Children Medical Fund (BCMF) helda a wheelchair fitting training and distribution in northeast Thailand. BCMF worked with Thai health care professionals from Kuchinarai Hospital in Kalasin Province, the Department of Public Health in Surin Province, and Khu Muang Hospital in Buriram Province. According to Khun Paitoon, the manager of the rehabilitation unit at Kuchinarai Hospital, "This type of adjustable wheelchair [from BCMF] is what our children need. We only received standard adult sized [manual] wheelchairs from the central government program.The children that are under our care, they are not standard sized." Sitting in adult wheelchairs is not only extremely uncomfortable for small children but it is also unsafe. One mother was very happy to receive a children's wheelchair for her daughter. In the past, her daughter used to lay on the floor when they carried her outside or to the local music festival. Now, her mother planes to bring her around their village and to the festival in her individually fitted children's wheelchair.

Looking after children with disabilities under difficult circumstance is not easy for their carers, yet they continue to do so with love. Thank you for your tireless work. Thank you also to Khun Ranu from Sirindhorn Hospital in Khon Kean for connecting us to our new partners. To our local partners including Khun Paitoon, Khun Satit, Khun Panwadee, Khun Eddy, Khun Sirirat, Khun Duanchai and their teams, thank you for making this project possible.

And a special thanks to Wheelchairs for Kids, Rotary Club of Wanneroo and Chiang Mai International Rotary Club. With your support and kind donation of the wheelchairs BCMF was able to improve a part of the lives of these children requiring child wheelchairs.

[New post] Happiness is Right Here

2020-04-17T13:07:00.001-04:00

Happiness is Right Here

by Chan Niem Hy

A 43-minute segment on the third door of liberation – aimlessness. The talk takes place on August 17, 2007 during the Stonehill College retreat during the U.S. Tour. The retreat theme is Mindfulness, Fearlessness, and Togetherness and this is part four of a four-part series.

Aimlessness

You don't put something in front if you and run after. It is a wonderful practice. It can bring you peace. We have the habit of running after something. Fame. Profit. Wealth. Even enlightenment. People imagine that monastics are running after enlightenment. But that is not the practice.

If you have received the Five Mindfulness Trainings, you belong to the lineage of Linji. His teaching is very strong on this aspect of running. Don't run after what you already are. Stop running. Happiness is right here. In this very moment. Just one step. Peace. Joy. Healing. Enlightenment. Are all in the present moment. This is the teaching of aimlessness.

Are you enlightened already? But how can we make plans for the future? The answer lies in the teaching of aimlessness.

Enlightenment is not something you strive for. The moment you are aware you are breathing in, that is a moment of enlightenment. We also practice to be aware of the present moment. We don't live in a dream anymore. There is no way to enlightenment. Enlightenment is the way.

To be there for each other. At the breakfast table. There are things we can do so that mindfulness is there. If we organize well, breakfast can be a celebration of life.

So, let us take care of the present moment. The future is contained in the present moment. And let us not lose ourselves in regret about the past.

Nirvana

In the Buddhist tradition they speak of nirvana. Nirvana is the absence of notions. Notions like birth and death. Nirvana is not a place or space located in time. We have a notion of time. That we have birth and death.

We hear the story of the flame.

Pairs of opposites.

Birth and death
Being and nonbeing
Coming and going
Sameness and otherness

Sangha building.

Chan Niem Hy | April 17, 2020 at 10:06 am | Tags: 2007, 2007 US Tour, aimlessness, English, English language, flame, nirvana, pairs of opposites, Stonehill College, Three Doors of Liberation | URL: https://wp.me/p1NZGk-MN

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[New post] Falling in Love with a Cloud

2020-04-15T17:51:00.001-04:00

Falling in Love with a Cloud

by Chan Niem Hy

A 13-minute segment on the second door of liberation – signlessness. The talk takes place on August 17, 2007 during the Stonehill College retreat during the U.S. Tour. The retreat theme is Mindfulness, Fearlessness, and Togetherness and this is part three of a four-part series.

Signlessness

The second door of liberation. Sign here is the appearance. When we look deeply we have to see the nature of signlessness. The seed of corn has an appearance, we see it as a seed of corn. But when it grows, it no longer appears as a seed of corn. But the seed of corn is still there; it's only changed how it appears.

Say you fall in love with a cloud. Thay helps us smile by recognizing our beloved cloud. It has not died. A cloud never dies. This too has been confirmed by scientists.

Piece of paper. Can you establish the birthdate of this sheet of paper? Was it at the paper mill? But the paper hasn't come from nothing. Even if we burn the sheet of paper, it will continue. Being and non-being are just ideas. They do not apply to reality. These are conventional designations.

More examples. A drop of water falls from the sky. What happens? Does it become nothing? Before you were born. Were you there? Did you exist before the moment of conception? It is all a continuation. The same applies to "so called" death.

In the moment of great despair, great anguish, signlessness is there to rescue you.

Chan Niem Hy | April 15, 2020 at 2:50 pm | Tags: 2007, 2007 US Tour, English, English language, signlessness, Stonehill College, Three Doors of Liberation | URL: https://wp.me/p1NZGk-MF

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Tremendous waste of food during a pandemic

2020-04-15T17:18:00.004-04:00

Tremendous waste of food during a pandemic--if you have the means, go get it and redistribute free

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/business/coronavirus-destroying-food.html

This is hard to understand--markets are supposed to work.

This is more like USSR under Stalin. Next year they will plant less. People need to learn how to cook and store and dry food too,

[New post] The Raft is not the Shore

2020-04-13T12:22:00.001-04:00

The Raft is not the Shore

by Chan Niem Hy

A 38-minute segment on the first door of liberation – emptiness. The talk takes place on August 17, 2007 during the Stonehill College retreat during the U.S. Tour. The retreat theme is Mindfulness, Fearlessness, and Togetherness and this is part two of a four-part series.

Three Doors of Liberation

Today we are going to talk about the Three Doors of Liberation. In several discourses reminds us his teachings are only a device to help us liberate ourselves. They are not absolute truth. They are like a raft helping us to the other shore. The raft is not the shore. Make use of the raft. It is also like a finger pointing to the moon. It is not the finger. The finger is only a means to help us see the moon. Don't be caught by the dharma of the Buddha. We can practice being non-dogmatic.

The Three Doors of Liberation are like the finger or the raft. These three doors are in all schools of Buddhism. We can use any door to help us get out of suffering. The practice is to have real insight.

Everything is impermanent. Intellectually we know this. But the notion of impermanence alone will not help us. We need to understand the truth of impermanence. We hear an example of our relationship with a loved one. We need to look deeply to see the true nature of impermanence. The insight will help us to behave wisely. Impermanence makes life possible. It gives us a chance to heal.

Concentration is to focus your attention on one thing deeply. To see the nature of that thing. It could be your love, you hate, your depression, your fear. To discover the true nature of what is there.

It can also be the guide offered by the Buddha. To see the true nature of things. This can be liberating.

The Three Doors of Liberation have also been called the three concentrations.

Emptiness

The first door of liberation. Emptiness has to do with our suffering and our happiness. We can get out of our suffering through the door of emptiness. It does not mean non-being. Thay teaches us what emptiness means.

Empty of what? The glass. The flower. Is there a separate existence? Thay offers several examples of emptiness ranging from parent/child, seed/corn, and cells.

When we touch the true nature of emptiness, we transcend all fear, all discrimination, all suffering. Let's be less busy in our daily life so we can touch this truth. But remember, it is only a device. Striking a match to get a flame. Making use of the match. The fire is what I need for my liberation. I don't need the match. A concept. We live each day in a way so we can touch the nature of emptiness.

Chan Niem Hy | April 13, 2020 at 9:21 am | Tags: 2007, 2007 US Tour, Emptiness, English, English language, Stonehill College, Three Doors of Liberation | URL: https://wp.me/p1NZGk-Mv

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[New post] The Wisdom of Nondiscrimination

2020-04-11T20:20:00.001-04:00

The Wisdom of Nondiscrimination

by Chan Niem Hy

A 15-minute segment on the Wisdom of Nondiscrimination. The talk takes place on August 17, 2007 during the Stonehill College retreat during the U.S. Tour. The retreat theme is Mindfulness, Fearlessness, and Togetherness and this is part one of a four-part series.

The Wisdom of Nondiscrimination

Togetherness is not possible without a kind of wisdom. The wisdom of non-discrimination. The practice of looking deeply helps remove our discrimination.

Teaching on the umbilical cord. The art of being an expecting mother. Everything you do as a expecting mother, you do for your child. And the father is there to support. Even after the umbilical cord is cut, you are still linked very deeply with your parents. Even if we think are different person as we grow older. This is discrimination. And looking deeply we see are still linked. Non-discrimination.

Teaching on Thay's right hand. There is no inferiority and superiority between the two hands. Writing a poem. Hammering a nail. This is the wisdom of non-discrimination. Low self-esteem (inferiority) and high self-esteem (superiority). And even equality. In Buddhism, these three complexes are also a symptom of discrimination. If we have the wisdom of non-discrimination then we will not suffer. We inter-are.

Chan Niem Hy | April 11, 2020 at 5:19 pm | Tags: 2007, 2007 US Tour, hands, three complexes, umbilical cord | URL: https://wp.me/p1NZGk-Mn

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2020-03-31T22:35:00.002-04:00

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

How to make yr own coronavrus mask--this is only for "casual use" Medical professionals need better protection.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/opinion/coronavirus-n95-mask.html

This template will be a better fit.

I tried (nylon) scarves, but slippery and tend to slip off.

This design has curved nose seam.

I just made mine of pure cotton, finished is 4 1/2 by 11 inches.

Old clean sheets, T shirts are very comfortable to use.

I put on 4 "ribbons" or stitched ties, each abt 12 inches long.

the top 2 ties should be level with the tops of yr ears.

The bottom 2 ties with the bottoms of yr ears.

I just cut off the seams of runner I cannibalized and used those.

Cut piece 1/2 inch extra all round.

Sew: lay 2 pieces face to face

Look in mirror and mark level of ties with pencil.

lay 2 ties each side INSIDE the face to face pieces, sew sides shut with sewing machine.

That will secure the ties.

Turn mask inside out, pull out corners. Try it on, ties go behind yr head.

The template design may be a better fit due to curves, but I have made mine my way.

Make about 4 masks per household member.

After each use (say each time you go to market) when you get home, sterilize in assigned pot you keep for each person, bringing to a ROLLING Boil for maybe 10 mins. You can do this on a hot plate. Don't sue pot for anything else.

Hang to dry on clean line--store dry masks in a new ziplock bag.

It is best for each person to have his or her own fabric--eg. pink is Kyi's, C's is blue stripes etc-- and not to boil them together.

I hope this helps.

I will test mine tomorrow when I take out trash and do my laundry.

It's more secure fit than scarves. If you want better fit use the templates wh are in 3 sizes incld children's

best

Posted by Kyi Mayat 7:34 PM

How to sterilize food you bring home--

2020-03-30T19:17:00.003-04:00

Whole Foods is going on strike tomorrow--as is Insta Cart.

I just went to Whole Foods today, just now.

Here is Jeff Van Wingan on how to sterilize your food, incld washing each fruit in soap and water. Wiping down outside of frozen food (plastic) with antiseptic. Microwaving food bf you eat is good.

https://twitter.com/nowthisnews

Freezer is not safe bc viruses live in cold for centuries. I suggest you open a Twitter acct and follow accts like Now This.

Twitter is very fast with news.

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How to make yr own coronavrus mask--this is only for "casual use" Medical professionals need better protection.

How to sterilize food you bring home--