Saffron Monks Leader Health is in Danger.

(News Source: http://www.narinjara.com/)

Please read the news in Burmese at this link: http://www.narinjara.com/detailsbur.asp?id=1038



The health of U Inthariya the leader of the Saffron Revolution in Araken state was in Danger. U Inthariya was currently held in the Boo-thee-Daung Prison, Araken State.

According to the one of the relatives, U Inthariya was not allowed to meet by his family and it is so difficult to tell how bad is his health condition but the news leaked out from the prison said U Inthariya health condition was really bad. he was severely tortured and mentally and physically.

U Inthiriya was arrested at Myoma Monestary, Maung Taw town while he tried to escape from Sittwe(capital of Arakan State) to Bangladesh.

U Inthiriya was disrobe at Maung Taw town and then send to Sittwe Prison and then on 10 October 2007 he was sentenced(without trial) to 7.5 years jail sentence and sent to Boo-Thee-Daung Prison and his family was not allowed to meet him.

During at Sittwe prison he was tortured very badly by military Intelligence agents and now he was mentally very badly effected. This information was told by the one student leader who was release from prison recently.

U Inthiriya is 28yrs old and studying at Saik-ta-Thu-Kha monestary and he was one of the leader during the saffron revolution.

Because of the severely torture, not only his health is in danger but his mantel is also badly affected.

(မွတ္ခ်က္။ ။ နိရဥၥရာမွ သတင္းမ်ားႏွင့္ ဓါတ္ပံုမ်ားအား မည္သူမဆို လြတ္လပ္စြာအသံုးျပဳနိုင္သည္။ နိရဥၥရာ သတင္းရင္းျမစ္ကို ေဖၚျပေပးရန္ ေမတၱာရပ္ခံပါသည္။)
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To be a Good Buddhist "Our Cause " Sermon (Part 2)

The Abbot ask the devotee: Isn't you devotees require to refuge to 3 jewels; Buddha, Dharma and Sangha?
(The Devotees: Yes Abbot)

The Abbot: Isn't we require to become good Buddhist?
(The Devotees: Yes Abbot)

The Abbot continue:
If we want to become a good Buddhist, we must respect and must refuge to 3 jewels; Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.

But now in Burma, Buddha statue were beheaded, cut here, cut there and do all the inapproriate things that means it is disrespectful to Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.

Not pay attention to the Dharma, Not practise as according to the Dharma, even though Buddha said "Abstain for Killing one Life, Abstain from stealing from others property but if one ignore and doing the all killing and stealing, do you think it is practising the Dharma?
(The Devotee reply. No, it is not practising.)

The Abbot coninue:
If this is happen the Buddhist religion will disappear.
Now things were happening in Burma which would lead to the disappear of Buddhist religion.
Only Buddhist religion will last long for ever if you follow the Buddha teaching(Dharma), example Buddha said abstain from killing, then don't kill anyone. Only then it is only meaningful to say "Dhammam Saranam Gacchami "( I go for refuge to the Dharma ).

Also only when you treat and talk to the Sangha(monks) with respect then it is meaningful to say "Sangham Saranam Gacchami"( I go for refuge to the Sangha ).

Now in Burma, some people are criticising and insulting the monks by saying "Fake Sangha, Sangha Pretender with the robe, Politics Sandha".
Do you agree or not(Ask to the Devotees).
Don't critise or insult the monks, if you say so then there is no more "Sangham Saranam Gacchami"

Don't accuse the monks "Fake Sangha, Politic Sangha, Sangha Pretender with the robe", if accuse so then you will become the member of "that" GANG.

Do you want to become the member of "that Gang"? (ask to Devotees)
(Devotees reply:No we don't want !!)

If you don't want to become a member of that Gang then don't criticise and insult the monks by saying "Fake Sangha, Politics Sangha, Sangha pretender with a robe"

Don't say the monks from this Monastery is this and that, the monks from that monastery is this and that.

If you say so, then you will become a person whose intelligence level is lower than the animal. You will become a person whose intelligence level is lower then the animal.(Abbot repeats 2 times)

To be continue

To be a Good Buddhist "Our Cause " Sermon (Part 1)

The Abbot preaches .....

• If you TALK with good intention, if you DO with good intention and if you PLAN with good intention you will get back good results.
• if you TALK with bad intention, if you DO with bad intention and if you plan with bad intention you will only get back bad results.
• And after life you will ended in a bad place.
• This is the simplest way of explaining about the "Patthan"(Buddhist Philosophy-The Law of Causal Relation )in a layman term.

The Last thing, I want to tell all of you is .. since now these days there are so many "our causes" everywhere, we the monks, also have to tell about "Our Causes Sermon" to all of you. (Probably the abbot sarcastically mentioned this because the Junta force all kinds of media to print or to show their "our(Junta) three causes" on every news magazine, newspaper, before TV shows, even on the first page of the novel and cartoons everyday and also put on the big Signboard everywhere especially in front of US Embassy ..baydah)

The Abbot lead the Devotee: "To become a Good Buddhist"

The Devotee reply "Our Cause..Our Cause"

The Abbot: "To become a Good Buddhist"

The Devotees: "Our Cause..Our Cause" (devotees replied louder)

The Abbot: "Yes..this is Important..this is important." (said in smile)

(The Devotees chuckled with satisfaction because they understand what the Abbot means and which/what/who he is targeting.)

(to be continued)