Thank you for your letter and thank you so much for your wise and lightened words......
Once you asked me to not to forget to teach you...but after this your words I am sure that you can teach me.....
I think I can be in march in Burma.....I made a contact with the U Bha Khin Center in Rangoon and there they do old style Vipassana course ongoing from the middle of march.....so I hope and wish to arrive in Thailand begin of march and hopefully can make it to Burma soon after this....
well I definitely want to visit the
Shawedagon Pagoda.... the other places that you speak about I dont know.....
and as I said I am not a Buddhist in the religious sense...this might sound harsh but its true.....
in my last relationship I was so close to all kinds of Thai ceremony's my ex had carried out and I certainly was impressed with such a devotion ( in the end proven as false and cunning ) on display....but myself I am not into worshipping any statues or visiting so called sacred places....
I just try to keep sila practice samadhi as much as possible and hopefully sometime some panjy may come down my way....
:-)
I also think that to think positive is helping to meet the positive but I try not to forget that we live in a world of contradictions and every coin has two ( often more ) sides....
the yin yang principle....
good is only to understood cause there is also the opposite....sometimes I look close to the opposite to brighten up the good and appreciate it more....
but all things pass change come and go....good, bad, ideas, concepts, etc....a flow to be observed without to clinque to the so called good and and without to averse the so called bad...many times the opposites are so closed...so near so interactive....all we observe objectively and than its dissolved in something different unspoken....
the rule of the dumb is the sila....so important....we have to take any effort to keep it pure....
it is the neutral place ... the place beyond....it brings such deep results that we unenlightened beeings are unable to understand and the sila has many layers ..as we understand it we practice it and than we move from layer to layer ...the big shield ...and as it was prooven in my case the only refuge ( together with the practice of dhamma ) and shield that has saved me from financial psychological and personal disaster....and all this without noticing it at the time when dark things happened all around me...often in the past it sheltered me from doing very negative things...it always has prooven to lead me to the right places to meet the right people to meet a happy present....