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Welcoming What We Want

I was watching a travel documentary on Bulgaria, Slovakia, Sarajevo, Kosovo, and Bosnia one night, and was impressed and slightly amazed by how much these places have changed and transformed since they had terrible civil war and impoverishing communist dictatorship. Most of them are now flourishing beautifully; the destroyed buildings are now being rebuilt, and the streets have been cleaned up attractively, their countryside is still beautiful, but unfortunately places such as Bosnia still have landmines which are being cleared slowly, but apart from that the people are doing better with money coming in from jobs created by the tourist trade and new businesses.

One day, I tell myself wistfully that Merng Tai will become like these places, when the Burmese Military Dictatorship is no more. This dream gives me a lot of hope and enthusiasm for a better future for the people of Shan State.

Very many people of Merng Tai, especially the young generation have experienced really tragic situations because of the Burmese Regime, losing or having to leave family and/or loved ones, losing and having to leave our country, having to start a new life in a strange country with strange people with very different ways of life and culture. Some are still in Burma, but many of us are abroad.

Some of us are doing well, improving our lives, learning to move on, albeit it was not at all easy, and some of us are still struggling, mentally and/or physically.

One of the facts of life that we are learning is that although we were victims of the regime, we do not have to be victims forever. Before we change the situation of our surrounding environment, we have to change our inner environment first.This means our attitude about ourselves, about others, our life and circumstances.

At the moment the Sangha in Burma are taking a huge stand by demonstrating peacefully and very determinedly to improve the situation in Burma.They are very brave to do so. I feel that they have been very mindful of their decision for action, no matter in what danger they are placing themselves. They know that they can be shot, arrested, tortured, but they chose to sacrifice themselves for the good of all. This is very courageous and admirable.

I also have a great respect and compassion for the Sangha who choose not to demonstrate, because they choose to improve the lives of their fellow country men and women in a different way; a much more low-key and quiet way, away from the limelight or public scrutiny.

These Sangha are very important to all of us, no matter what religion we are, because they are bringing everyone together spiritually, and there is a lot of truth in the saying: “In spirit we are all one”.I believe they are creating unity for all, even globally.

The Sangha are teaching us by their example.

This is the age of great change. It is the age where we can create the life we want, manifesting a better world. This is also the age where we can get what we ask for, when and if we know what we want, and we have to be persistent and patient, and not give up on our dreams because we feel that we have been waiting so long already. Life is unpredictable, and we have to know what we want, be ready to accept, receive and welcome what we ask for and most of all, to know what to do when our dream materialises.

We are all interdependent, and we need each other’s energy to spur us on. Therefore, wanting the same or similar outcome will give it more energy to make our dreams come true.

The energy of today and of the young is very different from the olden days. We have to move on with different ways of thinking and doing things. The old ways of thinking and doing do not work any more, and it is important that we are not fixed in our ways and attitudes.We need to be more flexible, centred, calmer, learn to use our intuition and be more aware that everything on this planet is changing and evolving. Nothing is standing still. Little by little our dreams will manifest themselves, even if we are unaware of it. All our efforts are not wasted one little bit.

Each human being is made up of male and female energy and we have to balance these two energies, if we have an excess of one, we are unbalanced, mentally and emotionally. The Burmese Regime is clinging on to the old male energy; which is aggression and control.They are unbalanced; they do not know how to evolve with the times. Their way of doing things will not work any more for they are out of place and out of time. At the same time, we must not cling on to the old female energy of negativity and fear. Instead, utilisting or cultivating the positive energies of the male and female such as courage, optimism, compassion, restraint, will help us in our lives, at home, with our relationships, and at work, with our colleagues.

Apart from doing things physically to better our lives, many of us will be aware that it is of paramount importance that we lead a positive harmoniously balanced life so that we are healthy emotionally, mentally and spiritually; giving us a healthy body to be able to accomplish what we want in life. Knowing when to rest our minds and bodies when we are tired is very necessary.

We can all help the present situation greatly by strongly praying for ourselves, all the Sangha, all our friends and enemies and for the peaceful transformation of our homeland, and we can bring about these changes by visually manifesting the outcome we truly desire. Great works always start from our mind’s imagination and effort.

Feraya

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