Burma

Posted on September 28, 2007
Filed Under Politics, Vietnam |

I’ve been thinking about Thich Quang Duc in Saigon in 1963 when Diem’s thugs attacked the monasteries & about the ongoing situation in Burma. James Wimberly catches the moral & political issues clearly in this post at the RBC. I’d go further than Wimberly in my defense of the Vietnamese revolution, but that’s not really the subject of his post . . .

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  1. Peter on September 28th, 2007 8:12 pm

    SUTRA

    They’re shooting monks in Burma again
    the next thirty-six hours are critical
    I look at their faces on the screen

    and though I don’t see mine among them
    I see we are all caught up in dreaming
    staring at the skulls coming down the streets
    reciting the lotus sutra for miles and miles

    if even for a moment
    I have entered extinction
    it will be as though I was
    scattering flowers

    how much more so
    giving a wide berth to arrogant minds
    will I respond to your faces with joy.