Is Burma’s democratization at the point of U-turn?

The scope of this paper has two parts, as:

a)      The Multi-Cultural and Multi-religious nation founded in circa  AD 1664.

b)      The religious rightist extremism.

a)      The Multi-Cultural and multi religion nation founded in circa  AD 1664.

In the reign of the AVA/Ketumati –Taungoo King. He styled himself as Sri Pavara Mahadhamma-Raja. He was mentioned as Wanbe-ing-san Min by Burmese famous historian Dr Than Tun in his text “Searching of Burmese History =ျမန္မာသမိုင္း ရွာေတာ္ပုံ “ published in October 2003 by Daung (Peacock) Sar-Pay. Referring  to the palm leave inscriptions it is mentioned that there were 101 King and 101 races. But Dr Than Tun said that there does not have 101 races but (in his opinion) only 18 no. in the list. Who is this Wan-be-ing-san Min mentioned by Dr Than Tun in his text.

In fact the king mentioned is none other than King Minyekyawdin , the father of Sanay Min. We do not know why Sayar Dr Than Tun mentioned the king as Wan-be-ing-san Min rather than King Minyekyawdin.

We refer the following excerpt from the work “Palm Leaf Manuscripts from Burma” from http://www.burmese-buddhas.com. 

      {Pannasami, the nineteenth author and sangharajah (archbishop) of Upper Myanmar, claims in his   Sasanavamsa (History of Buddhist Religion) which he composed in 1861, that the method of enhancing the beauty of palm leaves by gilding, before inscribing the text, was introduced by King Minyekyawdin (1673-1698). In 1933, one of the original documents which corroborated this statement was traced t o a bookshop in London. It was a Pali manuscript which had been commissioned by Siri Pavara Maha Dhamma Raja (Minyekyawdin) stating that he and his queen, Atulasiri Mahadevi, had decided in 1680 to break from the traditional method of using plain palm leaves by first having them gilded.}

According to this work we get to know that those he is lesser king compare to Anuruddha (Anawratha), Kyansitta and Buringnaung , he and his queen(mahisi) Atulasiri Mahadevi are the patron of the Buddhism. Yet he allowed other religion and races to grow in his kingdom.The King is wise and liberal. He and also the citizens of the country  tolerated the development of multi-religious community.

The king had ordered to assign and gave the new migrants who were hire as mercenaries or soldiers to fight for them (the Kings) and the country as follow. The Mon craftsmen are located in Myingyan region. They were to make the uniform for royal army personnel and court staff and servants.nd Some Mon families are assigned at the Mahamuni Pagoda to take care of it requirements. On 21^st August 1787, the King order the decree that to locate the Muslims (who practiced Islam) to Myedu, Motsobo region, Pinya and Kantbalu in Sagaing region, Yindaw in Yamethin region, Letpan village in Kyakse, the Barigee or Christians in Paraimma in Sagaing region first and later relocated and distributed  them (Christians) to along Mu and Chindwin river valley.

     When the King   passed away his son King Sanay (1690-1784) succeeded the throne. He styled himself as Sri Maha Sihasura Dhamma Raja (Thiri Maha Thiha Thura Dhamma Yaza ). Then he also gave the lands in12 counties. These places are in Siputtara, Si-thar, Nyaung-yan, Ta-pin, Ta-pet-swel, Taungoo,Pintalae, baw-di, Mihitila(Meikhtilla), Mye-du, Yin-daw and Yamethin. Dr Than Tun mentioned that these people later became citizens. On 17 November 1807, the King Sanay appointed a man called Abisha Hussani as the leader of the Muslim community. He (Hussaini) brought Holy Koran (Quran) and translated it to Burmese language.  All these new migrant communities are working hard, produce more and there are surpluses.At the same time some or most of them are also the servicemen of the Royal Army (tat-ma-taw ). It was also reported that earlier some Burman Kings hire Indian Muslim soldiers, mercenaries to fight for the country. {Refer : Dr Than Tun (2003)}
Please refer the following page nos 131 and 136 from above mentioned Dr Than Tun (2003) book.

King  Sanay has also regulated the practice of Buddhist principle when the dispute rose up among the Sanga (Thanga) .Refer the following.

The correct wearing of the monastic robe became an issue during the reign of Sanay Min (1698-1714) when opinion was divided into two groups within the arannavasi monks (Mamaka 2002:58, Nanabhivamsa 1956;181). One group became known as ekamsika (one shoulder wearing robe i.e. atin in Burmese) and the second group was known as parupana (‘covering up’ or two shoulder wearing robe i.e. ayon in Burmese). Atula was the leader of the ekamska group. Many debates on this subject had previously been held in the Sudhamma zayat but no resolution was ever reached. When Atula failed to provide an authoritative text to convince the King of his views on how the robe should be worn, the King ordered him to be defrocked and he was sent into exile in 1784. The King issued royal edicts ordering the whole monastic community to adopt the parupana practice and whoever resisted was to be defrocked (Pranke 2008;6). In 1799, more than a decade after the royal edicts the same issue emerged again, this time by a forest monk called Indasara who attempted to use anoter text to support the practice of ekamsika. The King ordered him to be defrocked and all texts that supported the practice of ekamsika to be burnt (Charney 2006;98).{ Bhikkhu, Nagasena (2012)Pp89 : The monastic boundary (sīmā) in Burmese Buddhism: authority, purity and validity in historical and modern contexts. PhD Thesis. SOAS, University of London http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/17369}

These two kings may be lesser kings and not so famous. Referring to above text we noted that King Sanay has authority to purify and validate the Buddhism. The two kings are great in the perspective of nation building. They laid the foundations of multi-culture and multi-racial modern Burma. They had written the history of earliest multi-racial, multi-religious, multi-culture country in south-east Asia. As country and its people had the internal strength of unity they could counter and fight external threats in their reigns.

)   The religious rightist extremism:

       It is a religious rightist extremist suddenly arises in the name of nationalist “969” led by  the Buddhist Monk U Wirathu just after he was released from prison. At first it targets Muslims and their businesses, properties, and lives. He, U Wirathu instigated quite substantial arbitrary killings which he denies responsibility. But then he declares himself as radical and introduced himself to the world as Burmese Bin Laden. And some Burman and Rakhine people are polarized by “969”. If the readers would like to know more about it, can find on internet. The followings are some of the links. The contents are the view and opinions of the original writers.

THIRD WORLD RESURGENCE 

      

   The following is the original DVB news link for your information.

http://www.dvb.no/analysis/what-lies-beneath-the-rash-of-anti-muslim-violence-in-burma/28903 

   The following is the Special Report of Reuters 

 Special Report

    

Recently a group of Buddhist Monks stopped the literary talks arranged by NLD team which include two Muslim gentlemen without reasons. Apparently the group stopped them because they are Muslims . However there is hidden agenda which exposes as to bar the oppositions interacting and communicating with the people or just to exclude Muslims in the process of democratization or both. It is perplexed.

This phenomenon, deploying Buddhist Monks, is typical like the one came up in 1970’s in general.  Particularly in December, 1974 the phenomenon was symbolic in U Thant’s Affair. And also in 1975 Mhaing yar-pyi , 100 year anniversary of Sayar Gyi U Lun (a) Tha-khin Ko-daw-Hmaing. The phenomenon is not only dangerous but also suppressive. It is dangerous that it will jeopardize the process of democratic reform as well as disintegration of unity. Now there is obvious cracks among the Sangah (Thanga). Some Sanga(Thanga) mentioned that they disagree with these symbolic, suppressive activities. They even mentioned that these activities are against the principle of the Enlighten One, Gaudama Buddha’s teaching.

The 969 groups and U Wirathu mentioned their worry that Muslim are planning to take over the whole Burma and there are Muslim countries supporting Muslim community in Burma. This is unfounded. The most of the Muslim countries are having crises. Their own problems and are huge, numerous and complex. They will take long, long, long time to solve their own problems. So they cannot afford their time and resources to interfere in Burmese affair. Some small individuals in Indonesia and Malaysia may cry loud as if they will do something but their governments are not tolerating. The two governments take immediate actions and punished those responsible.

Earlier Turkey helped and try to mitigate to normalize the situation in Burma in general and Arakan(Rakhine) in particular. But now they also have their own internal, political problems and cannot think much about Burma.

Bengaldesh is also not interested to get involve it this matter. They have also problems as many as Burma if not more. They are more concentrating on their industrialization and modernization of their factories and would like to improve their infrastructures. They need more power. They have decided to go for nuclear energy and started the feasibility study. Now Bengaldesh GDP is higher than that of Burma. Therefore what “969” talks  are baseless and unfounded. 

  

This 969 group makes the divide in the Sanga(Thanga)  as well as among officials and normal citizens. They even mentioned themselves as nationalists. If one want to be nationalist, he should study history and would find the father of Burma Nationalism is Tha-khin Ko Daw Hmaing (a) Saya Gyi U Lun. I remember Tin Moe’s poem “

အဖုိးသခင္ကုိယ္ေတာ္မႈိင္း

ကြမ္းအစ္တလုံး၊ ေရာင္တထုံးနွင့္၊

ရင္ဖုံးအင္က်ီ၊ ဖ်င္ပင္နီနွင့္၊

ေယာထည္ပဆုိး၊ မင္ေႀကာင္ထုိးနွင့္၊

အဖုိးကဝိ ၊ ပညာရွိ  ၊

But Saya Gyi U Lun acknowledeged diversity and multi-racial and multi-religious community, in Burma.

Now is the time for all the ethnic races are to be united. Burmese should remember and bear on mind  two paramount principles which are vital for the democratization.

1)      Unity ,

2)      Nationalism

1)      Unity : Ah Shin U Visara taught unity by describing the bundle of the bamboo and individual single piece of bamboo. The bundle of bamboo is very difficult to break while single bamboo pole can be easily broken. Therefore the statue of Ah-Shin U Visara is sitting on the concrete pillar which looks like a bamboo bundle. It was situated in U Visara( U Wisara) road, Rangoon (Yangon).နြား ကြဲရင္ က်ားဆြဲမယ္။ က်ားကေတာထဲမွာမဟုတ္ေတာ့ဘဲကုိယ့္အိမ္ထဲေရာက္ေနျပီဆုိတာကုိမေမ့သင့္ပါ။ ဒီက်ားကုိေမာင္းထုတ္ရန္သာ အေရးအႀကီးဆုံးျဖစ္သည္။
    The relevant literary talk by U Phone (datu)

2)     Nationalism :     To observe principle and practice of အဖုိးသခင္ကုိယ္ေတာ္မႈိင္း Tha-khin Ko Daw Hmaing (a) Saya Gyi U Lun. It has been mentioned briefly above described in Sayar (U) Tin Moe’s poem.

       Brief biography of Thakin Kodaw Hmine {From Hans-Bernd Zöllner (2009)}

      

      The Burmese poet Laureate and nationalist writer Saya (Master) Lun, or Thakin Kodaw Hmine was born on March 23, 1876, in Wale village in Shwedaung Township. He spent his boyhood mostly in Upper Burma, in the region around Monywa and Mandalay, where he studied in various monasteries. 

      

              Thakin Kodaw Hmine wrote forty books and edited another fifteen books.He was also given the

     Ah Liga Kyaw Swar title by the government, the highest award for literature and arts. He passed away on July 23, 1964, in Rangoon.{From Hans-Bernd Zöllner (2009)}

     

      Refer details in the following text.

  

       Biography of Saya Lun by Thein Pe Myint

      ဆရာလြန္း (ဆရာၾကီးသခင္ကိုယ္ေတာ္မိႈင္း) ၏ ျမန္မာရာဇ၀င္ခ်ဳပ္ စာအုပ္ အမွာစကား မွ ေကာက္နဳတ္ခ်က္

            

      ကၽြန္ဳပ္တို႔ဆႏၵ ။ မူလလိုရင္း အဓိပၸါယ္မ်ား မွာ ။ ဘုရားေဟာ က်မ္းစာေတာ္ႏွင္႔၄င္း ။ အေနာက္နိဳင္ငံသားတို႔အေလ႔ ။ အေတြ႕ အျမင္ ပညာရပ္မ်ိဳးႏွင္႔ေသာ္၄င္း ။ အေၾကာင္းအက်ိဳး မညီညြတ္ေစကာမူ ။ ျမန္မာလူမ်ိဳးတို႔၏ ေရွးေဟာင္း အတၳဳပတၱိအရ ။ ေဘာ္ျပေသာေပမူ ။ ပရပိုက္မူ တို႔ႏွင္႔ ။ တပ္တူညီမွ် ရန္ ။ စီမံျပသ၍ ။ ကာလအေလ်ာက္ ။ လူလားေျမာက္ေသာ ျမန္မာလူမ်ိဳး ကေလးသူငယ္ ။ ပညာသယ္ရွင္ လူအမ်ားတို႔မွာ ။ မိမိတို႔ကို ေမြးဖြားရာ ။ ျမန္မာျပည္၏ အေၾကာင္းအရာတို႔ကို ။ ေကာင္းစြာယူမွတ္ ။ တတ္သိၾကေစရန္ ။ ရည္သန္ေျမာ္လင္႔ျပီးခါ -----။
{Source : nyachitthukalay blog}

Now it is for Burmese leaders, Sanga (Thanga) and the educated intellectuals to decide if they should erase what their forefather King Sanay : Sri Maha Sihasura Dhamma Raja (Thiri Maha Thiha Thura Dhamma Yaza )  has officially written in the royal decree last three hundred years ago! Nevertheless the present government of Burma is promising the political reform. First and foremost it should be recognized that the teaching of “969” is destructive and extremely dangerous for the people, the country and democratization. Unless there are will and power to stop the monsters driven vehicle “969” which is explosive otherwise it is worrisome if  “Burma democratization is at the point of U-turn.”

{We have sincere intention. We request to stop those individuals who are using Buddha's teaching at the wrong direction, killings human being (panatipata kan), destroying the properties and resources, but we would like to see the genuine Buddha's teachings to prevail and help those who are less fortunate and extremely poor. Request to Sangha Taw Ashin Myat Myar :
အရွင္ဘုရားတုိ. ဆိတ္ဆိတ္ေနေတာ္ မမူပါနဲ.ဘုရား။ တရားျမတ္ကု္ိ မွန္ကန္စြာ နားလည္က်င့္ၾကံၾကရန္ မိန္.ၾကားေတာ္မူၾကပါဘုရား။}

Please also refer the following article on Dr. Lun Swe's Media Blog which is very relevant to the subject context of this work.
ႏိုင္ငံသားေတြရဲ႕ လြတ္လပ္စြာ ေဟာေျပာခြင့္၊ ဘယ္လို ကာကြယ္ရမလဲ  

Here the question arises if these monks are genuine or are they same as the groups involved when attacking and suppressing student protests during 1974 UN SG (United Nation Secretary General) U Thant's Funeral Affairs and 1975 Tha-Khin Ko-Daw-Hmaing's annivrsary?
The following article in Burmese language posted by Nay Phone Latt is also relevant to this subject. It is his view on what is happening in Burma after 2011.

လူမ်ိဳးတုန္းသတ္ျဖတ္မႈ(Genocide) ဆီ ဦးတည္ေနၿပီလား

 Regardless of whether you are Buddhists (Rahine) or Muslims (Kalar), all of you are Bengali. The people who are living around and at the coastal region of Bay of Bengal is called Bengali. In addition all of you (both Buddhist and Muslims in Rakhine state, people in Bengladesh and West Bengal, India) have more similarity than differences and descendants of same parent stock. So all of you are relatives, kin, brothers, sisters, and so on.You should not allow someone or some organizations who are dividing your community based on religion. The Rakhine (Buddhist) should not allow killings of their relatives Rakhines who are Muslims and vice-versa. Now, the Rakhine leaders (Dr Aye Maung, U Aye Thar Aung and U Shwe Maung) both (Buddhists and Mulims) should call each other “brothers”, shake hand and work together immediately for the unity of the Rakhine people and Rakhine-Desa. Brothers, only metta (Love) can ensure safety, security and peace.

(ညီေနာင္တုိ. -ေမတၱာျခဳံ မွ လုံပါတယ္။)

For the information for the entire history refer the following country report.
 Myanmar Update

 

ျမန္မာလူမ်ိဳးေတြ ဘာ့ေၾကာင့္မခ်မ္းသာၾကသလဲ by အရွင္ဇ၀န (ေမတၱာရွင္-ေရႊျပည္သာ)

ျမန္မာလူမ်ိဳးေတြ ဘာ့ေၾကာင့္မခ်မ္းသာၾကသလဲ  by အရွင္ဇ၀န (ေမတၱာရွင္-ေရႊျပည္သာ)

 ေမတၱာရွင္။ ။- ငါ ၾသစေၾတးလ်ႏိုင္ငံ ဆစ္ဒနီၿမိဳ႕ကို တရားေဟာၾကြေတာ့ ဆစ္ဒနီက ဗုဒၶဘာသာ လူငယ္ေတြက ျမန္မာတစ္မ်ိဳးသားလံုး သိသင့္တဲ့ ေမးခြန္းတစ္ခု ေမးတယ္။

အဲဒီေမးခြန္းက - ျမန္မာေတြဟာ အျမင့္ျမတ္ဆံုးျဖစ္တဲ့ ဗုဒၶဘာသာကုိလည္းကိုးကြယ္ခြင့္ရတယ္။ ဒါနကုသိုလ္လည္း အမ်ားႀကီးျပဳၾကတယ္။ အဲဒီႏွစ္ခ်က္ကို ေထာက္ၾကည္႕ရင္ ျမန္မာေတြဟာ ကမာၻမွာ အခ်မ္းသာဆံုး ျဖစ္သင့္တယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ထင္သေလာက္ မခ်မ္းသာဘူး။ အဲဒါ ဘယ္အေၾကာင္းေတြေၾကာင့္လဲ တဲ့။

ဒကာ။ ။ဟာ သိပ္ေကာင္းတဲ့ ေမးခြန္းပဲ ဘုရား။ ဆရာေတာ္က ဘယ္လိုေျဖလိုက္လဲ ဘုရား။

ေမတၱာရွင္။ ။- အက်ဥ္းခ်ဳပ္ ေျဖလိုက္တာက ျမန္မာေတြဟာ ဗုဒၶစကားကို နားမေထာင္ၾကလို႕ ဆင္းရဲေနၾကတာလို႕ ေျဖလိုက္တယ္။

ဒကာ။ ။အဲဒီေလာက္ က်ဥ္းလြန္းအားႀကီးေတာ့လည္း ဘယ္နားလည္ပါ့မလဲ ဘုရား။ နည္းနည္းအက်ယ္ခ်ဲ႕ ေျဖဦးမွေပါ့ ဘုရား။

ေမတၱာရွင္။ ။
ျမန္မာအမ်ားစု မႀကီးပြါးျခင္း အေၾကာင္း ၁၁ ခ်က္ကို ေတြ႕ရတယ္။အဲဒီ ၁၁ ခ်က္ကို ျပင္လိုက္လွ်င္ေတာ့ႀကီးပြါးခ်မ္းသာလာၾကမွာ။အဲဒီ၁၁ ခ်က္က -

၁။ တကယ္ လိုအပ္ေသာ ေနရတြင္ မလွဴဘဲ နာမည္ႀကီးမည္႕ ေနရတြင္သာ စုၿပံဳလွဴၾကျခင္း။ ဥပမာအားျဖင့္ စာသင္တုိက္တစ္တိုက္မွာ ကုဋီ (အိမ္သာ) လိုေနတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ လွဴမယ့္သူ မရိွဘူး။
ဘာက်ေတာ့ လွဴသလဲ ဆုိေတာ့ ဘုရားခန္းထဲမွာ ရုပ္ပြါးေတာ္တစ္ဆူ ရိွၿပီးျဖစ္လ်က္နဲ႕ ေနာက္ထပ္ ရွစ္ဆူေလာက္ ထပ္လွဴေတာ့ ဘုရားကိုးဆူဟာ က်ပ္က်ပ္တည္းတည္း စံေနေတာ္မူၾကရတယ္။

ဗုဒၶဘာသာအမ်ားစုဟာ ဘုရားဒကာ၊ ဘုရားအမသာ အမည္ခံခ်င္ၾကတာ။အိမ္သာဒကာ၊ အိမ္သာအမ အမည္မခံခ်င္ၾကဘူး။ လွဴတယ္ဆိုတာ ကိုယ့္အတြက္ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ အလွဴခံအတြက္ပါ။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ အလွဴခံ လိုအပ္တာကို ေရြးခ်ယ္ၿပီး လွဴသင့္တယ္။ ကုိယ္လွဴခ်င္တာကို ရမ္းၿပီး မလွဴသင့္ဘူး။

၂။ ျမတ္စြာဘုရားက အဂၤုတၱိရ္ပါဠိေတာ္ ဇဏုေသာဏိသုတ္မွာ သမၼဒါေလးပါးနဲ႕ ျပည္႕စံုရင္ ႀကီးပြါးခ်မ္းသာမယ္လို႕ ေဟာခဲ့တယ္။ ဗုဒၶဘာသာအမ်ားစုဟာ တစ္ပါးမွ မျပည္႕စံုဘူး။

၃။ ဘာသာေရးအေပၚမွာ ထားတဲ့ ေမတၱာ ေစတနာမ်ိဳးကို စီးပြါးေရးအေပၚမွာ မထားၾကလို႕လည္း ျမန္မာအမ်ားစုဟာႀကီးပြါးသင့္သေလာက္ မႀကီးပြါးၾကဘူး။

၄။ ပ်င္းရိျခင္း အကုသိုလ္ကို ေရာင့္ရဲဲျခင္းကုသုိလ္လို႕ အထင္မွား က်င့္သံုးေနတ ဲ့အတြက္လည္း ျမန္မာေတြဟာ ႀကီးပြါးသင့္သေလာက္ မႀကီးပြါးၾကဘူး။

၅။ အတၱသမာပဏီဓိ မဂၤလာခ်ိဳ႕တဲ့လို႕ တစ္နည္းအားျဖင့္မိမိကုိယ္မိမိ ေကာင္းတဲ့အလုပ္မွာ ေဆာက္တည္ေနႏိုင္စြမ္း မရိွလို႕လည္း ျမန္မာအမ်ားစုဟာ ႀကီးပြါးသင့္သေလာက္ မႀကီးပြါးၾကဘူး။

၆။ အခ်ိန္တန္ဖိုးကို မသိၾကတဲ့အတြက္လည္း ႀကီးပြါးသင့္သေလာက္ မႀကီးပြါးၾကဘူး။ အခ်ိန္တန္ဖိုး သိတဲ့သူမ်ားဟာ ဥစၥာစည္းစိမ္ကို ရျခင္း၊ ကုသိုလ္တရားကို ရျခင္း၊ ပညာဗဟုသုတကို ရျခင္း အမ်ိိဳးမ်ိဳးနဲ႕ အခ်ိန္ကုိ တန္ဖိုးရိွစြာ အသံုးခ်တယ္။ အခ်ိန္တန္ဖိုး မသိတဲ့သူမ်ားကေတာ့ ျမဴးထူးေပ်ာ္ပါးကစားျခင္း၊ ျငင္းခံုခိုက္ရန္ စကားမ်ားျခင္း အခ်ိန္ကိုတန္ဖိုးမဲ့စြာ အသံုးခ်တယ္။

၇။ ကိုယ့္ထက္သာလွ်င္ မနာလိုျဖစ္ၿပီး သူတစ္ပါးအက်ိဳး ပ်က္စီးေအာင္ ဖ်က္ဆီးတတ္ၾကတယ္။ ဒီအခ်က္ဟာလည္း ျမန္မာအမ်ားစု မႀကီးပြါးျခင္းရဲ႕ အေၾကာင္းတစ္ခုပဲ။

ကိုယ့္ထက္သာလို႕ ဝမ္းသာရင္ မုဒိတာလို႕ ေခၚတဲ့ ကုသုိလ္တရားျဖစ္တယ္။ ကိုယ့္ထက္သာလို႕မနာလိုျဖစ္ရင္ ဣႆာဆိုတဲ့ အကုသိုလ္တရား ျဖစ္တယ္။ ပညာရိွ ပညာမဲ့ဆိုတာ ဒီေနရာမွာ ကြဲသြားတာပဲ။ ပညာရိွက ကုိယ့္ထက္သာတဲ့ လူကိုေတြ႕ရင္ ဝမ္းေျမာက္ျခင္းဆိုတဲ့ မုဒိတာကုသိုလ္ကို အရယူတယ္။ ပညာမဲ့က ကုိယ့္ထက္သာတဲံသူကို ေတြ႕ရင္ ဣႆာလို႕ေခၚတဲ့ အကုသိုလ္ကို အရယူတယ္။

ေဒါက္တာဘြဲ႕ႀကီးရထားပါေစ၊မနာလိုတတ္တဲ့သူဟာ ပညာမဲ့ပါပဲ။ ဘာအတန္းပညာမွ မတတ္ရင္ ေနပါေစ၊ ကိုယ့္ထက္သာတဲ့သူအေပၚမွာ ဝမ္းေျမာက္ရင္ ပညာရိွပဲ။ဣႆာျဖစ္ေနသလား မုဒိတာျဖစ္ေနသလား ဆိုတာ သူ႕ရဲ႕ႏွဳတ္က ထုတ္ေဖာ္ အစီရင္ခံပါလိမ့္မယ္။

ေတာ္တာကို ေတာ္ပါတယ္လို႕ လိွဳက္လွိဳက္လွဲလွဲ ခ်ီးမြမ္းစကားေျပာရင္ သူ႕သႏာၱန္မွာ မုဒိတာတရား ျဖစ္ေနတယ္လို႕ သိႏိုင္တယ္။ မခ်ီးမြမ္းဘဲ ႏွဳတ္ဆိတ္ေနျခင္း၊ မေျပာပေလာက္တဲ့ အားနည္းခ်က္ကို ေထာက္ျပၿပီး အျပစ္ေျပာေနျခင္းဟာ သူ႕သႏာၱန္မွာ ဣႆာျဖစ္တယ္လို႕ ျပတာပါပဲ။

ပညာမဲ့က သူ႕သႏာၱန္မွာ ဣႆာတရားျဖစ္ေနတယ္ ဆုိတာကို သူတစ္ပါးရဲ႕ အျပစ္ကို အတံုးလိုက္ အတစ္လိုက္ျပၿပီးထင္ထင္ ရွားရွား ျပတယ္။

ပညာတတ္ေတြက်ေတာ့သူတုိ႕သႏာၱန္မွာ ျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ ဣႆာကို ထင္ထင္ရွားရွား မျပဘူး။ မသိမသာဘဲ ျပတယ္။ပညာတတ္က သူတို႕သႏာၱန္မွာ ဣႆာျဖစ္ေနတာကို သူတစ္ပါး သိသြားမွာကိုလည္း စိုးရိမ္တယ္။ အဲဒီေတာ့ ပညာတတ္က ေအာင္ျမင္ေနတဲ့ လူတစ္ေယာက္ရဲ႕ မေျပာပေလာက္တဲ့ အျပစ္ကေလးကို ခပ္ပါးပါး ေထာက္ျပၿပီး အမွတ္ယူတတ္တယ္။

အေပၚယံ ၾကည္႕ရင္ေတာ့ ေအာင္ျမင္ေနတဲ့ လူေရာ၊ သူ႕ေနာက္လိုက္တပည္႕ေတြကိုပါ မွားမွာစိုးလို႕ သတိေပးတဲ့ ပံုစံမ်ိဳးေပါ့။ အမွန္က မိမိရဲ႕ဣႆာကို သူတစ္ပါး မသိေအာင္ ခပ္ပါးပါး လွစ္ျပတာပါပဲ။

၈။ ျမန္မာအမ်ားစု မႀကီးပြါးျခင္းရဲ႕ နံပါတ္ရွစ္ အေၾကာင္းကေတာ့ စာေပဗဟုသုတ မရိွတာပါပဲ။

၉။ နံပါတ္ ၉ အေၾကာင္းကေတာ့ ေဒသႏၱရဗဟုသုတမရိွတာပါပဲ။ဒါေၾကာင့္ စာေပဗဟုသုတရိွေအာင္ စာမ်ိဳးစံု ဖတ္သင့္ၿပီး တစ္ႏွစ္ တစ္ႀကိမ္ေဒသႏၱရဗဟုသုတခရီးကို သြားသင့္ပါတယ္။

၁၀။ နံပါတ္တစ္ဆယ္ အေၾကာင္းကေတာ့ ေခါင္းေဆာင္စိတ္ နည္းပါးတာပါပဲ။ ေကာင္းတဲ့ အလုပ္ဆုိရင္ မခိုင္းဘဲ လုပ္တာ။အလုပ္ကို အမ်ားႀကီး လုပ္ၿပီး အခြင့္အေရးကို နည္းနည္းယူတာေတြဟာ ေခါင္းေဆာင္စိတ္ပါပဲ။ ဆန္႕က်င္ဘက္အားျဖင့္ ခိုင္းမွ လုပ္တတ္တာ။ အလုပ္ကို နည္းနည္းလုပ္ၿပီး အခြင့္အေရး အမ်ားႀကီးယူတာဟာ ေနာက္လိုက္စိတ္ ေခၚ ကၽြန္စိတ္ပါပဲ။

၁၁။ ျမန္မာအမ်ားစု မႀကီးပြါးျခင္းရဲ႕ ၁၁ ခုေျမာက္ အေၾကာင္းကေတာ့ ကိုယ့္အားကုိယ္ကိုးလိုစိတ္ နည္းပါးတာပါပဲ။ အေနာက္တိုင္းႏုိင္ငံ အမ်ားစုက အေရွ႕တုိင္းႏိုင္ငံ အမ်ားစုထက္ ခ်မ္းသာၾကြယ္ဝေနရျခင္းရဲ႕ အဓိကအေၾကာင္းဟာ ၁၈ ႏွစ္ျပည္႕တာနဲ႕ ကိုယ့္အားကိုယ္ကိုးၿပီး စီးပြါးေရး အလုပ္လုပ္ၾကလို႕ပဲ။ အေနာက္ႏိုင္ငံက လူငယ္ေတြဟာ ၁၈ ႏွစ္ျပည္႕ၿပီးတာနဲ႕ လူႀကီးျဖစ္ၿပီလို႕ သတ္မွတ္ၿပီး စီးပြါးေရးလုပ္ငန္း၊ တစ္နည္း ေငြဝင္တဲ့ လုပ္ငန္းတစ္ခုခုကို မျဖစ္မေန လုပ္ၾကေတာ့တာပဲ။

ျမန္မာအမ်ိဳးသမီးတစ္ဦး နယူးဇီလန္ႏိုင္ငံကို ပညာေတာ္သင္ ေရာက္သြားတယ္။ တစ္ေန႕ ကိစၥတစ္ခုရိွလို႕ တကၠစီ ငွားစီးသြားတယ္။ကားေမာင္းသမားေလးက အသက္ ငယ္ရြယ္သူေလး ျဖစ္ေနလို႕ ေက်ာင္းမတက္ဘူးလားလို႕ ေမးၾကည္႕တဲ့အခါ ေဆးတကၠသိုလ္ ေနာက္ဆံုးႏွစ္ ေက်ာင္းသားျဖစ္ေနတယ္။

ျမန္မာအမ်ိဳးသမီးဆုိေတာ့ ျမန္မာျပည္ရဲ႕ အေလ့အထအတိုင္း မိဘက မတတ္ႏိုင္လုိ႕ တကၠစီ ေမာင္းေနရတာလို႕ ထင္သြားတာေပါ့။

ဒကာ။ ။အဲဒီအတိုင္း ဟုတ္ပါသလား ဘုရား။

ေမတၱာရွင္။ ။ ဘယ္ဟုတ္ရမွာလဲ။ ေမးလိုက္တဲ့အခါ ဟုိက ဘယ္လို ေျပာသလဲဆိုေတာ့ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႕ ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ အေလ့အထက အေနာက္တုိင္းဆန္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ၁၈ ႏွစ္ ျပည္႕ၿပီးတာနဲ႕ မိဘကို အားကိုးၿပီး မေနၾကပါဘူး။ ကိုယ္ပိုင္လုပ္ငန္း တစ္ခုခုလုပ္ၿပီးေငြရွာပါတယ္။ အဲဒီေငြနဲ႕ ေက်ာင္းတက္ပါတယ္။ ၁၈ ႏွစ္ ျပည္႕ၿပီးရင္ လူႀကီးျဖစ္ၿပီလို႕ သတ္မွတ္ပါတယ္။

လူႀကီးဘဝေရာက္ေနၿပီ ျဖစ္ရက္နဲ႕ မိဘလုပ္စာ ထိုင္စားရမွာ မိဘလုပ္စာနဲ႕ ေက်ာင္းတက္ရမွာကို အင္မတန္ ရွက္ၾကပါတယ္။ ၁၈ ႏွစ္ျပည္႕ၿပီး သူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြ ေတြ႕ၾကတဲ့အခါ ဘယအလုပ္ လုပ္သလဲလို႕ ေမးျမန္းႏွဳတ္ဆက္တတ္ပါတယ္။ ၁၈ ႏွစ္ျပည္႕ၿပီးသူ ျဖစ္ရက္နဲ႕ စီးပြါးေရး အလုပ္တစ္ခုမွ မလုပ္တဲ့သူကို လူရာမဝင္သူလို႕ သတ္မွတ္ၿပီး ဘယ္သူမွ အေပါင္းအသင္း မလုပ္ၾကပါဘူးလုိ႕ အားရပါးရ ျပန္ေျပာတယ္။

ဒကာ။ ။တပည္႕ေတာ္တုိ႕ ျမန္မာလူငယ္ေတြနဲ႕ ကြာလိုက္တာ ဘုရား။ ဒီမွာေတာ့ ကုိယ့္ေက်ာင္းစရိတ္ ကုိယ္ရွာၿပီး ေက်ာင္းတက္တဲ့လူကို ဆင္းရဲသားဆုိၿပီး ဝိုင္းအထင္ေသးၾကတယ္။ မိဘလုပ္စာစား၊ မိဘအိမ္က ကားနဲ႕ စတိုင္က်က် ေက်ာင္းတက္ႏိုင္သူကိုမွ သူေဌးဆိုၿပီး အထင္ႀကီးၾကတယ္။

ေမတၱာရွင္။ ။ေအး ဟုတ္တယ္။ ျမန္မာ အမ်ားစုဟာ ဂုဏ္မယူသင့္တာေတြကို ဂုဏ္ယူၿပီး ဂုဏ္ယူသင့္တာကို ဂုဏ္မယူတဲ့အတြက္ႀကီးပြါးသင့္သေလာက္ မႀကီးပြါးၾကတာဘဲ။

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အစၥလာမ့္ေရာင္ျခည္ ဘေလာ့ဂ္မွ

This is historical news from အစၥလာမ့္ေရာင္ျခည္ ဘေလာ့ဂ္ for information.

Why I did not become an Infantry Commander?

Since I was in primary 5, when I was asked, I used to say I wanted to become Infantry Commander.

I was studying hard and passed my high school final (HSF) examination in 1967. This qualification met the educational requirements for admission to Defense Services Academy (DSA) then. I also met all other criteria such as physique, height, age and all. But my father strong objected citing he has an only son, me. He (my father) also mentioned that my uncle (his youngest brother) was also in army for many years and so that he has concern for his (uncle’s) safety and wellbeing. If I was successful I would have attended in 1968 and graduated in 1972 if everything went well. But I was not because I could not get my father’s consent. Again when I passed my matriculation examination list “B”, I requested my father gain. This time around my uncle was there with us. He said I should learn their (soldiers’) lives before deciding to become an infantry officer. Then I was not happy. As I was also becoming involve in love affairs. I was always thinking about poem and infantry commanders Na-wa-dae Gyi and Nat-shin-naung. I read and learn the poems so-called Ra-tu of these to poets as well as Shin Maha Silavamsa title “Wunna Paba”.

       Nat-shin-naung’s famous Ra-tu was “Tint-hla-pay-han …”. Then I lost my girlfriend and became love-lorn. This made me losing interest in study and I did not complete my exam to pass “A” list for BEHS. That was the time I did not want to even stay in my home tome due to sad and embarrassment. Luckily I uncle was transferred from Tat-khone ( Kha-ma-ya 109) to No 13 light infantry regiment stationed in Myitkyina, Kachin State. Then it was situated next to the state airport , runway and near No 5 Infantry Division Head Quarter. That was the last division of Army Divisions. Later it was changed to Burma Army Northern Command. I was only able to attend Night Class (Lunge Yay-yar Nya Kyaung) located in Shan Su Quarter, Myitkyina.  

{source: YouTube}

{ Nat Shin Naung Video - Source: YouTube}

One day when I visited tan-phel near the Myit-sone (Junction point) of Mae-kha and Malikha rivers. I met a young lady who looked like my aunty (aunt Ma Pane). Really she was a complete resemblance of my aunty. I am touched and think that the Kahins are my/our kin. Her image is still in my mind and the following picture found in internet reminds me to remember her. The young  woman in the picture looks like the young Kachin lady in Myitkyina. There is no doubt about the blood relationshwith Burman, Kachin, Karen, Chin and some Indian tribes.

  

{Picture Source: Courtesy of Google}

       Also I used to talk to the privates, corporal, sergeants and young officers Second Lieutenants when occasionally I met them what was their objectives, their perceptions, their reflections and if they were happy with their current positions and challenges. I learned from them most of the time that they are fighting with own ethnic tribal insurgents. I thought and asked them why  should we fight with our own people involving in civil wars and kill my own kin. That was the time I read and heard the news about the White Flag faction Communist (Tha-khin Than Tun’s group) had killed their members in internal conflicts and purging of the reformists or traitors as they were accused by the hard liners. Ko Soe Win (the son of Ludu U Hla and Ludu Daw Ah-mar) was included in the purging. Pho Htu killed his own father Ye-baw Htay. The young woman who was famous by the name “Ar-zar-ni San San” who cut the victim’s throat and used his blood to wash her feet. It was so cruel and ruthless. I am quite sad to be involved in civil wars and fighting among kin, own people. I abandoned my ambition to become Infantry Commander. The story does not end here. To be continue.

New Engery Source - Sewer

Do you know that there is new energy source which is sewer? See the following. So no need to grow Kyet-su Pin which takes a lot of valuable farm land.

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/sewage-derived-hydrogen-fuel-sparks-global-interest-sBEZgbVcRvOepfDcWSRluw.html

Click on above link

Feedback and constructive criticism(2)-Getting clean water

 Dear Brothers and sisters,
Again as an engineer, I am embarrassed. I blame myself why I cannot offer the solutions for the clean water problem.
See the following. It is small problem to get clean water for a small village. There are several solutions. The most cost effective solution can be installation of ECM.

                                                        {News from DVB}
 The following is a simple solution to install an ECM Machine to get clean water. Please click on the text to view ECM
                                               ECM machine for clean water