Articles on Burmese community with the following sub sections – Letters, Memory, Portrait, Talks, Experience, Travelogue, Others, Burmese Overseas
We still lived under the Stay-home order since 8th September 2020. Last night I heard the night curfew announcement between 12PM and 4AM from 28th December to 28th February in our township. No public gatherings will be allowed for the…
Between June and August of 2020, Yangon seemed to have Covid19 under control. People might not need to wear masks in the normal state. Schools reopened. Sunlun Vipassana Meditation Monastery reopened. So, we went to the Sunlun Monastery and started to…
Freedom From Fear During the pandemic situation in 2020, we stayed 2 or 3 months at home except for buying food and medicines. Most of all I was happy to stay at home. But under the covid-19 situation, staying at…
Since the time the covid-19 was far away from Rangoon (Yangon), Burma, I bought one packet of masks at a reasonable price for just in case. When I met some friends who came from China and they had a problem…
Draw A Line For Covid-19″Yesterday, Covid-19 seemed so far away…” The Covid-19 virus infected first in Wuhan, China in December 2019. The WHO recognized the spread of COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11 March 2020. Italy, Iran, South Korea, and…
We welcome our Burmese New Year beginning with three days or 4 days of water festival begins on 13th April and will end on 15th or 16th of April. This year, 2020 Thingyan festival was now under the order of…
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spread globally since the last two months. Still severe deaths were arising in some countries. There are no cases of COVID 19 heard in Burma until the 24th March announcement confirmed in Myanmar news. That announcement…
(Sunlun Sayadaw U Vinaya, ‘You can practice meditation at any place, at any time.’) I fell ill one day in the month of February. My brother said it was because I ate some food outside and it was not good…
The Festival of Nationalities (They looked real! They wore their National dress, very colourful and good!) The festival of (Burmese) Nationalities or Myanmar Ethnics Culture Festival was held at Kyaik-ka-san sports ground situated at Bahan township, Saya San (north-east) Road,…
(The festival was held at the busy road.) (Shops were blocking the road!) Visiting the Moegaung Pagoda Festival every December was not to be missed. There was 10 days fair with Burmese foods and snacks. It was located at busy…
(At Sunlun Gukyaung Monastery, 7th Mile, celebrating the Festival of Light!) This year 2019, 12th, 13th and 14th were three days of light, Thadingyut Festival, and 10th, 11th, 12th, Tahsaungmone Festival. We illuminated and light candles around our house, in…
‘You are not alone’ ‘We are the same’ There were three meditation sessions daily, at 7o’clock in the morning, at 12:30, and lately at 7 o’clock in the evening at the Sunlun Meditation Centre, 7th Mile. The people could come…
Meditation is Meditation! We tried to go to the Sunlun monastery and practising Sunlun way of Vipassana meditation in the morning session. Apart from some busy days, we do not miss to go. Sit in the place and shut tight…
The next visit for today was going to the Museum of Archaeology. But unluckily, it was closed in the evening. We are late. (Museum of Archaeology) But wandering around the museum, there were many interesting things awaited. The wall far…
