Nuns join Myanmar protests for the first time!

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9/23/2007 Agencies

Myanmar: Buddhist nuns joined the
growing protests against Myanmar's ruling generals on Sunday, a day
after a dramatic appearance by detained democracy icon Aung San Suu
Kyi to pray with monks now leading the marches.

About 100 nuns joined more than 1.000
monks to pray at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, devoutely Buddhist
Myanmar's holiest shrine, before marching to the centre of the former
capital.

The mood was cheerful, with many people
in Yangoon seeing the emergence of Suu Kyi from her lakeside villa as
a sign the military,which has ruled the former Burma for 45 years and
ruthlessly put down a 1988 uprising, was being flexible.

It was the first time she had been seen
in public since her latest detention began in May 2003 and for many
onlookers, already stunned by police allowing marching monks through
the barricades sealing off her street, overwhelming.

“Some of us could not control our
tears,” one witness told to Reuters after 1.000 monks held a
15-minute prayer vigil at the house to which Suu Kyi is confined with
no telephone and needing official permission, granted rarely, to
receive visitors.

Wearing an orange blouse and a
light-brown traditional wraparound skirt, she emerged from a small
door in the iron gate to the house, her hands held palm-to-palm in a
gesture of Buddhist supplication.

News of the incident spread rapidily on
a day when monks marched despite Yangon being lashed by 11.54 inches
of rain, the highest record in 39 years.

“I give credit to both sides for the
peaceful outcome of this incident,” a retired government official
said.

“The monks showed their courage,
strong determination and discipline while the regime showed
flexibility,” he said. “I think this incident has shown us that
we can sort out any problem among us amicably.”

On Sunday, the monks, one of them
wielding a bullhorn, chanted a new slogan:”Our uprising must
succeed”.

A group calling itself the All Burma
Monks Alliance urged ordinary people for the first time to join the
monks “to struggle peacefully against the evil military
dictatorship till its complete downfall”.

Until now the monks, fearing reprisals
against civilians and to ensure the protests in Yangon and other
cities remained peaceful, have discourage others from joining the
marches.

Only when we understand and we live up
to the truth that “Matter is Spirit at the densest and Spirit is
matter volatilized”, we, fully, are able to change the world.

When politics will not be separated
from spiritual issues, we shall finish to see spirituality as
something transcendent removed from daily life.

“Spiritual people, nuns and monks,
should have their voice herd in politics.

Today, in Burma, the masculine and the
feminine side of these “specialists in spiritual life”, give to
us an inspiring, strong, determinate input , embodying the fusion
between matter and spirit.

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