Incredible Crisis in Burma

[sleepinthewoods]

Burma. I'll ride with the nations and organizations that don't call it Myanmar. Myanmar was a name given to Burma in 1989 by the illegal, oppressive military dictatorship that currently rules the demolished country. Calling the country Burma is a refusal to recognize the legitimacy of the current regime

Comments

[reckless_saturn]

It is actually kind of funny that you ascribe the idea of oneness to a new age idea when discussing burma/myanmar. Only because the idea of "oneness" is actually an ancient one coming from the Buddhist. One of the biggest group of people that are struggling in that area. The Buddhist believe: that one effects one, effects all. So you can have those feelings, those understanding without being into the new age trend. Not that its bad to be new agey. Anyway.

[sleepinthewoods]

Any understanding I do have of "oneness" comes from Buddhism. But I shy away from the language because I was turned off from it by some new-agers in college :)