Burma: Two-child limit on Rohingya families opposed by Aung San Suu Kyi

Posted: 27 May 2013 08:00 AM PDT
As Reuters reports today: "Myanmar opposition leader and pro-democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi condemned on Monday a policy by a district government to limit Muslim Rohingya families to two children in an effort to curb their population growth." "This is against human rights," declared Suu Kyi. Read the full Reuters report here, or see the recent New York Times coverage provided by the Associated Press, here.
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Posted: 26 May 2013 02:00 PM PDT
Posted: 26 May 2013 12:00 PM PDT
The Shambhala Sun is pleased to present a livestream of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche's teachings on Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's foreword to The Rain of Wisdom, a collection of songs of realization from the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. The teachings will take place on Friday, May 31, and Saturday, June 1, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. They will be the first of the Shambhala Sun's new "Direct Dharma" series of livestreamed talks, offering access to premiere Buddhist teachers from lineages across North America.
The livestream will be free to watch — information on how to access it will be made available here and on the homepage of ShambhalaSun.com on the morning of Friday, May 31.
To learn more about Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, read these articles from the Shambhala Sun archives:
What Changes and What Doesn't: An Interview with Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
If I'm Lucky They'll Call Me Unorthodox: An Uncommon Lama
You can read more about and from Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche on the Shambhala Sun's Chögyam Trungpa Spotlight Page.
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Posted: 26 May 2013 11:00 AM PDT
"Not a single one of you people at this meeting is unenlightened. Right now, you're all sitting before me as Buddhas. Each of you received the Buddha-mind from your mothers when you were born, and nothing else. This inherited Buddha-mind is beyond any doubt unborn, with a marvelously bright illuminative wisdom. In the Unborn, all things are perfectly resolved. I can give you proof that they are. While you're facing me hearing me speaking like this, if a crow cawed or a sparrow chirped, or some other sound occurred somewhere behind you, you would have no difficulty knowing it was a crow or a sparrow, or whatever, even without giving a thought to listening to it, because you were listening by means of the Unborn."
(Bankei Yotaku Zenji)

The above quotation comes from the Zen Master Bankei (1622-1693). For more on him, read the following: Review: Bankei Zen, by Peter Haskel.
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