the Teaching of the Buddha on Killing - Bad Killing and Good Killing

From Buddhist point of view, killing can cause much suffering to the killer - in this lifetime, afterlife can be much more pain in lower world, and from that one would have to pay for many lifetimes. Only after all the karmic debt is paid back, one would live normal again. 

People, animals, etc are killed all the time. I don't know their past life crimes. But in the past long period, we all did something wrong - just have done something wrong in this very lifetime. Due to their past bad deeds, many animals, humans, etc have to be killed, robbed, etc. as paying back their debts. 

Existence is long, long in the past, and can be long in the future if one doesn't know the way out and escape. We all are in the ocean of existence - just the way fish are in the oceans. In the ocean of existence, we exists - death is nothing more than transformation. We transform inside the wombs (or eggs), or outside the wombs. 

Transforming into different forms of living things is very painful - it's called birth or rebirth. Everyone transforms by death, just the way one transforms from an embryo, toward a baby, toward a teenager, toward adult, toward old age, and finally toward death. At death, one transforms into whatever one deserves to become. 

If one has debts, in terms of greed, one will transform into a ghost (peta), or an asura (demon). If one has debts, in terms of anger, one can be reborn in lower world, to be suffering in the experience of lower world. If one has debts, in terms of ignorance/delusion, one will be transforms into an animal. 

Transformation is due to perception as well. Even a very good person, who has little debt to be reborn in suffering state, can be deceived by his/her own perception (or memory). 

By recalling something, one starts to desire - leading to attachment, leading to transformation related to whatever one recalls. 

If one recalls good thing, what one has done as good deeds, or truths learned by heart, or someone who lives by good deeds, one can transform into good, according to what one recalls. If one recalls bad things ... 

Perception works this way. It's very important to understand what perception is all about. 

The Buddha taught us that we must understand body and mind. He taught us the way to understand these. One must know everything changes. One must know whatever starts to exist must cease to exist too, and transformation takes place in the process of kammic law. 

The Buddha taught we must sit, still the mind, observe the physical body as we sit. Then we will notice what happening to the physical body and gradually understand how the physical is working. As we sit, still the mind, for long, the body will show its true nature to us. All we do is sit still and watch. We must not stand up and leave before the body shows us its true nature - if we want to know it. By doing so, by realizing, we will be able to KILL our ignorance once and forever. 

Then what will the body show? And how can we kill our ignorance? 

As the Buddha taught, if we sit, try to still the mind, and noticing in breath and out breath, we will gain mental strength in stilling. This must be developed first. If we can still the mind for long, with this help, we will be able to sit and observe our physical body for long till it starts to show its true nature to us, and through everything it has to show. Thus, we must develop our mind stronger so that we can keep it still for a long time. Gradually we can get there. As we sit, stilling the mind, and sitting for long, the body will start showing its true nature, as pain, as heat, etc. and eventually we will pass all these events. At the end of these events, we can experience something special. There we can conquer our own evil self or delusion. 

Gender in Buddhism

Buddhist view is -

When a person dies, he/she can become someone else with opposite sex. A male can become female, and a female can become a male. Although one is a male now, one could be a female in past life; the same to a male - he could be a female in the past life.

A woman may wish to become a man for whatever reason. For example, some women dislike the burdens of womanhood and want to become male. If they have appropriate deeds for support, they can become male afterlife. Men too can want to become women next life with appropriate support of kamma.

Some women became men but they still have the tendency to feel like women. Some men became women and they feel so uncomfortable about their womanhood. They feel misfit. Here a male who was a woman (several past lives) could act like a woman. For the same reason, a woman would act like a man. These people could be stuck in their old mindset.

Some women might have been women in many past lives, so might many men. In general, some women never became men in the past infinity of existence. Womanhood is not necessarily easier than manhood but for a man, womanhood is humiliating.  Men can become women due to their sexual misconducts.

Sexual misconducts are generally adultery, sexual relationship with a minor (a kid age under 10), sexual relationship with a young person without the permission of his/her guardians (such as parents, grandparents, uncle, aunt, sister, brother, teacher, etc.).

Sexual misconduct (Kamesu micchacara) can cause a man (or woman) to be born in boiling copper molten hell, after that to be born as hermaphrodite, to be born as male but castrated, to be born as a woman who doesn't want to be woman, etc. This person can also be born in several different life forms either as god, human or different animals but with above physical and mental defects. 

Only the bodhisattas (who are to become Buddhas or Paccekabuddhas) cannot be born female. Once they a man is recognized as a bodhisatta by a Buddha, his gender is determined that he will not want or do anything to become a woman. This is the kamma vipaka of bodhisattas.

It's all about kamma vipaka (cause and effect or causality).

Gender is not a problem in Buddhism. A being may wish to be either male or female anytime he she can change the mind. Some people are either or neither. Some people seem just confused that they can’t decide to be male or female. Culture is a very big impact to cause confusion. Ideally, we should be straight – in spite of confusion and indecision. We don’t have the right to say who should be what. People may want whatever they want.

Gays, lesbians, transsexual and true hermaphrodites are free in their own rights. But I cannot say anything about the cultures in Buddhist countries. Culture is just the agreements of the people which have existed all along for generations – that means it’s hard to change in a short time.

The best is not to criticize others. We Buddhists are to mind our own business (mindful of passing phenomena – insight meditation) to free ourselves from the recurring life i.e. sufferings. Freedom (nibbana) is the best bliss. Buddhists who practice Dhamma toward freedom shouldn’t see gender, shouldn’t see species, and shouldn’t hold any concepts of any kind so that they will only see the reality the Dhamma.

More on Paccekabuddha: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.116.piya.html

Hermaphrodite: http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/jamieleecurtis/a/jamieleecurtis.htm  

Let’s Meet At Alice Springs

The future reality is quite predictable and inevitable. Only countries with realistic preparations will be able to keep their desired destinations. The economy and modern lifestyles that are heavily relying on energy efficiency and affordability will demand more energy for sustainable productivity. Design, technology and good planning will help the leaders with clear vision of the future reality to be able to use their full capabilities. Population planning and infrastructure planning will make everything different. Australia can be different because of its great potentials. They are unique to Australia as opportunities. Domestic structures and domestic production and consumption might become more important during the low time of international economy.  

Sustainable population growth is a solution for economy. Should Australia invite more immigrants who want to stay as Australian citizens or foreign citizens or just visiting and doing business from here? Australia could provide residential and business venues that are not any lesser quality than anywhere in China and the Middle East.

Empty buildings in modern ghost towns aside, success stories should be looked into. Australia can take similar achievements. That depends on how fast Australian businesses can change from producing the products for export to producing the products needed domestically in a short period whenever international economy is down. But that’s not possible unless there are a huge number of visitors coming in for all reasons, especially for shopping for the products they can’t online and elsewhere. Although that’s the solution, how can Australia do to bring them in?

The vast land mass of Australia is both for now and future because of its desirable characters:

Yes, Australia can. It has a good selling point – transparent politics. A recent good economic management must be an example for foreigners not to overlook Australia in the future whence this is one of Australia’s strengths.

Yes, the stability of the natural environment, social environment and political environment are quite above average for desirability for settlement, for visiting, for educating the young and for doing business. The point is Australian population will (and must) grow gradually. It has to cope with such growth and dealing with aging population. Australia needs population growth that is not for environmental disaster.

Yes, Australia can say this is a safe haven for good people.

 The value of Australian currency is also not too high at the moment – it should be. Once Australia stops exporting the natural resources, other than coal, that are now on demand, Australian economy will become only to base on the smart brains. Exports of Australian products to the world will be based on arts, engineering and designs that come from human resources. The current high value in currency is good for now although being “over-valued” is not. The economic nature is – it needs stability in everything – including currency. When Australia has to focus more on visitors, it must have its currency value that is welcoming the visitors.

But that cannot happen without the right planning: in building future towns and in the kind and quality of architecture. They are also vital to make Australia a secure place, both in economic sustainability and in environmental sustainability, in the future.

Future security of energy can come from Australian solar sector. The right planning must include energy security and affordability. Renewable energy can also be very affordable if the costs in infrastructure are low. Energy exists where sunlight exists, and wind too, in the Australian desert. It’s the place geographically and geologically stable, and inviting from the future.

The true challenge for developing into the desert is salinity – not the heat. But the dryness of the desert can be a favour to such developments.

Affordability will come from living inside energy field – i.e. the desert. Australia is a dry place but it can afford to have sufficient water. Although draught is a challenge for Australia, it’s not as bad as floods that usually cause most expensive destructions in Australia. If Australia can harvest all flood water it gets annually without depriving its natural environment, its need for water is not a problem anymore. That will need lots of dams and underground dams. But dams too must not become environmental disaster. As there might be no underground rivers in the desert, these underground dams are for storing the excesses of flood water. Long reservoirs that are built under the roads, just to reduce the costs from building infrastructures separately, will have good capacity for water supply. Australia could even afford to have farmlands that don’t irrigate the river water (too much).

When developing into the desert, underground reservoirs will be where to store these excessive amounts of water. Roads, railways, powerlines, water pipelines, telecommunication lines, and other services can incorporate together in one single structure. That means it’s the best to build them in straight line. They are to come from all major cities and they can meet somewhere in the middle of the desert. High rise and low buildings can be built along them with the right pace and space with greenhouse parks and other civilian infrastructures.

Wherever a traveller wants to go, just go and will be there without any mistake – only to need to make sure this way or that way. As all in straight line, construction and maintenance costs will be cheap – that means running cost will be cheap and affordable. Everything can become high speed.  To keep these advantages, there should be no branching roads etc. but only a single line from everyone major city.

Australia wants to see environmentally friendly electric cars, right? And also they must become driverless, right? As long as the computer in the car can cope, the passengers will always be safe, right? Also they must have the right speed and roads should have no traffic jam, right? The future should also be free of noisy jets, flying over our heads day and night – although we will need them for overseas, right? These are the reasons why straight line must be applied in everything. Just as much as we need straight people, we should have straight cities too.

Let the forest lands for the trees. We need them as much as we need the wildlife for national dignity, food security, water and energy. And free from major flood too. In the desert, Australia, rich with natural resources, can have solar harvesters and cities under their shades, with a-kilometre-wide roads and world’s fastest electric trains that attract the tourists who would like to have fun rides.  Those who want to live in the bush may live. Those who will need to live in modern buildings will move to these new areas whilst the population will be gradually growing. Also solar technology will become its best quality. Existing cities will dwindle in population but wealthy people may still enjoy the deep forest areas even as their private lands.

Is rebuilding Australia possible? If not, why not? If it doesn’t happen in a hundred year, it could happen in three hundred years. Australia started without a city.

As everything in straight line, everything will be seen. This is where Australian architects and designers have to put their best practices. It must be for Australians only environment because it’s for the making of Australia to have a new look. To be preserving Australianness with its roots and backgrounds, Australia must come up with a solution to achieve another unique ability for making Australian culture that includes all types of Australians and half Australians. Repeating a basic design, growing up upon it, and branching out from it, will bring up Australianness in culture. A group of leading designers and architect might come up with an agreeable foundation in Australian design to start as a seed of future Australianness in culture.

My dream is about high-rise buildings and residential buildings put together along the single line highways. Future constructions are my hope. I would like to see lots of construction. The high-rise buildings can be closer to the roads for the workers to work there and they should be kilometres apart where residential buildings locate between two skyscrapers. Those skyscrapers will have education sector, health sector, business sector, etc. The residential buildings will be placed at a distance from the main roads for good comfort.

Here energy is abundance and pollution free. Wherever geologically stable, geothermal sector can thrive too. And there will be more benefits. I just can’t think of any failure except if there was WWIII but it would be better than having major cities in blocks as we live now. Here, all city areas will be clean and free from vandalism as will be always seen. But white collar crimes would be the only things for Australia to have to fear. 

Australia will also have (enough) robots in the workforce. But all humans should be workers too that they can support reasonable lifestyles – sharing is everything, both for peace and dignity. Robots can work in the heat of the sun where it’s too much for humans. Where humans can work, robots must not become ideal tools. And that restriction is for cool Australia with its dignified population. Australia could become an important country globally. Many migrants from hi-tech countries would be attracted into Australia to call it their (second) home as affordability will be what Australia could constantly offer. Australia can be for both Australians and foreigners.

Here the quality of the right educations will become more important than ever. I hope Australian governments will invest more in the right educations and support and equip its future workforce with ever besting effort. I believe Australia will be ready for the future if not yet.

Herein, I think the business sector has been supporting the educational sector in two ways already: selecting and supporting the right students and supporting institutions for particular courses and teachers teaching these courses. In Australia, collectively or privately, I think, the way supporting and investing for the desired education is important. Investing in the future productivity guarantees stability growth. Investing morally will guarantee a good future. The brightest students from all levels of education should be able to achieve as much as they are capable of. It must not be the lack of money and the lack of facility that prevent them from achieving. Nurturing the students, who have the potentials which are definitely what the business sectors want, can ascertain to get the needed number of skilled workers. The institutions that are responsible for such skilled workers should definitely get support too so that they won’t have any shortages. The teachers who are responsible for nurturing future workforces should also get what they need and deserve. Focusing on all three – students, institutions and teachers, is necessary. I believe that investing in those who have potentials, not waiting until they show up with their achievements, is what business sector should do. This should become a normal cultural activity so these students should achieve what they have aimed to do in their lives. The participation of the parents and relatives, the government, the institutions and business should be the form of supporting the students. Investing in own children is of course natural, cultural and necessary. However, that only guarantees who will become rich later but not how the national economy should take shape to compare with the economies and skilled labours of other countries. This direct involvement is, I think, better than blindly relying on annual results of students. Instead on working on unrewarding jobs and wasting time, all students who are capable of achieving should be focusing on achieving.

AH! I forgot to consider the protesters (like myself sometimes). A single road means traffic disaster if the protesters go on the highway as it seems that’s the only place to do the blockades. I don’t know I have any solution for that at all. But it might be 300 years away from now.

The need of a cool leadership isn’t dubious. A good planning is a must. It must be to wrap the right ideas, technologies and designs together. The future is tomorrow and it’s not far away. Facing the reality needs courageous decision makers with clear visions – not the risk-takers. Australia must produce a mass of visionaries through its high standard education systems. It’s all for the better future for the human environment and natural environment Australia can’t risk losing.

Disclaimer:

With a sincere belief, I am dreaming and will keep doing so. Now all I see is the bright side of such an idea that has been developing. I write as much as I know. Although my writing seems crossing the academic highway, I don’t intend to make it get the other side that I don’t know anything about. Instead of in-depth discussion, I only intend to express my view and how I see. 

Multiverse Vs Universe

1.

nobody knows - what's the truth is.
but based on big bang theory, you must get multiverse because our universe is thought confined. there is no theory for is outside our universe.

if a big bang can cause a universe, and if our universe is not infinite, a question arises: why are there no other big bangs out there?

there you get multiverse of universes. the number is infinity.

two condition emerges:
if our universe is really expending, it might have crushed into the universes around it; then it can be like detergent bubbles in a washing machine.
If it has not crushed into these universes, then universes exist quite apart from one another, like soap bubbles floating in the space freely.

I wonder if a kid is blowing universes out one after another.

no guarantee if it's true, i think not, but just a theory- a theory built on another theory, (that's also built on an uncertain theory? see homogeneity and isotropy of space), is funny, isn't it?

we cannot go out and look. we cannot go toward the future or back into the past and look. the reality out there far, far away.

if Big Bang is wrong, not saying if it is, how should we view the universe? of course that bubble of multiverse will burst too.

if the universe has alternate reality other than God, as the kid blowing the soap bubbles, or Big Bang, we might never be able to pin that truth down, we might never accidentally find that ancient treasure.

the universe might not even have a start. it might have been as we see it no since the infinity of time. the galaxies and their arrangement in the universe might just changing like sand dunes over the chemical reactions and gravitational puppet shows.


2.
Leave that part and let's approach the Buddhist view.

The Buddha didn't mention the start of the universe but this is what he said something about the infinity of universe and space:
NO matter how fast or how long you can travel, you'd never reach the end - there will be more and more of the universe, never ending of them.

A Buddhist scripture describes how the Buddha and Venerable Maha-Moggallana traveled through the universes with their supernatural psychic power. That was to confirm how universe is endless.

Ven. aha-Moggallana took an alms-bowl of mustard seeds and dropped each upon the mount Meru locatein at the centre of each world formation. My assumption is they might be galaxies. After all the mustard sees were gone, they returned to earth.

I know everything was fine until it comes to psychic powers. Science will dismiss everything it has no idea. That's the funny side of science with its blind faith and big broom.

3.

We're curious smart a** but not smart enough to know everything. Life's short and lots to know. We don't know if we'd be able to know about our own earth with enough information to make us more intelligent.

Two Halves Make One

We coexist.
We need each other.
We make a life in a world. We might not be unique but we don't need to know another world. We make contentment. We make understanding, agreement and share of investment. We invest everything known by us, owned by us and limited to us.

We don't want to live in a world that is only half - imagine if we have the halved earth! It cannot be beautiful. It can't be working. It can’t be meaningful. It can’t be for us. We must live a world that is full, a whole, marvellous...

That’s how we need both of us
That is to exist as long as we exist
That is to last as long as we last
That’s how we share
We give up to possess
Only to possess ourselves
But we only possess each other to give, even more and more,
We are to fertilize the shoots of love inside each other’s hearts
We will make it grow well
We must


But we must not be attached to each other.
We are individuals with differences.
We must be always being aware that we have invested these differences to make them into a good use. We have our freedoms that are also invested in our world.

We must recognize we are only the length that we live. We must accept the reality of each other. And from this we must grow, mature and become wiser... simply for each other.

Everyday we live and we live for the good of us, the wisdom we can share that is also reinvested in our world.

That is the purpose of our lives.
We are who we are and must not be changed by nonsense. We must be always open to each other but not to nonsense.

That is because we want the beautiful world.

Ten Enigmas

I’m not sure how many people have asked the same questions before. But I know some of the questions I’m asking have been asked. And so my questions are just complementing them. I’m not trying to change the world or anything like that. It’s just a work to inspire the readers to have fun for a while. Adding more questions will be great. Questions just come to everyone anyway. I think questions are fun; especially for the truth seekers! Questions based on reason encourage free thinking I think – although no thought can ever actually free as we have to base a thought on something existing which encourages us to ask. And it’s more than fun when our thoughts inspire ourselves for good – if inspire others as well, then it’s a bonus. So these are only ten questions (to become enigma, they must not be answered).

1. Based on a classic question: If what God doesn’t create cannot exist either physically or mentally (such as thought, etc), did God create evil on purpose?
a) Then does God want people to avoid evil His creation deliberately?
b) Then God did create evil to exist – as evil, evil doers, and the devil?
c) Does that mean God wants people to fight against evil or just avoid it?
d) Is that Free Will?
e) If yes, God created Free Will as well?

2. If Free Will exists:
a) If Free Will is created by God, is it really FREE?
b) Then God is not controlling anyone?
c) Then God is not showing everyone to see the good and not evil?
d) Or does God show good to someone and evil to another?
e) God doesn’t show good or bad to anyone but the good shows what is good and the devil shows what is bad?

3. If God is the same, why are heavens different?
a) Do Christians go to Jesus’ heaven, Jews to Judaist heaven (the abode of Jehovah the God of Israelites), and Muslims to Islamic heaven?
b) If so then what’s the point arguing and fighting as they are just destined to different heavens?
c) Do different Christianities go to different Heavens?
d) And different kinds of Muslims – such as Shiites, Sunni! Do they go to their different heavens too?

4. God is just:
a) Then do all people get the same rewards in different Heavens?
b) Do both kids and adults get the same rewards?
c) Do both males and females get the same reward?

5. Is a religious culture on Earth the same to the religious on a heaven?
a) Then does a heaven have different religious cultures of its own? i.e. Catholics have different Catholic cultures – for example.
b) Do priests become priests in heaven?
c) Do monks, etc become what they were as humans in heaven?
d) Or do all people become just the same – in justness and fairness unlike on earth?
e) Then do both male and female become equal in heaven?
f) If not, do man and woman become not to need being equal?

6. Heaven has eternal life for everyone:
a) Can God cease eternality from anyone He thinks an evil doer?
b) Then heaven is only for the good because heaven is perfect for everyone who gets there?!
c) Satan or a certain powerful evil committed sin and was sent to hell from heaven:
i. Then can there be another such evil doer? If not why not?
ii. If a person can become evil doer, does it support the claim ‘heaven is perfect and only for the good’?
iii. As long as God exists, as long as heaven exists, as long as hell exists, do more and more creatures go to hell for mistakes and unforgivable sin?!

7. God created heaven to be perfect but He did not create His angels, archangels etc to be perfect:
a) Why doesn’t heaven have everything perfect?
b) What is the definition of perfection in religious view?

8. A child dies and arrives to heaven, In this scenario, the child is either male or female:
a) Does the child keep growing into adulthood?
b) Does the child can get married later with its opposite sex?
i. If yes, does the child have to take a role, duty and lifestyle which are similar to of the earth?
c) Does the child maintain the traditional values it was born in?
i. If circumcision is to be performed to the child but the child died before that, does that child still require circumcising?
d) Does the child require learning the religious scripture?
e) Is a family in heaven allowed to have children of their own?

9. An old person dies and gets to heaven:
a) Does that old person maintain the age?
b) Does that old person get freed from old age – if that person desires?
c) Or can that old person change into any age at all any time?

10. If the good go to heaven and the bad to eternal hell, Gehenna, Jahannam, Jaina,
a) how does the earth need to be destroyed?
b) Is the earth to exist eternally at all?
c) Is the earth to exist with nobody on its surface but in hell only – in the Abrahamic view?

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A Stray-cat Story here with me!
*
In Thailand It was...;
Black kitten I found a tiny male
Some fish an’ chicken I gave it
Made it strong like a right batman
And let it roam as cat would in nature –
Making plentiful kittens – he the father!
Many more blackish kittens – I wasn’t able to see them all!
Glad then I Was! Yeah! Just go out an’ make kittens more!
**
Two white kittens
Ran an’ hid from me – chicken!
The mother cat, white too,
Came and asked for food – adapted
Fed cat food
Just grew up – hot bonfires
So soon so quick arrived in first fast fiery season
In love-making – love is for every catman!
Two white bellyful kittens – runnin, runnin
When one reached the horizon – her belly deflated!
And the mother too created the mixed coloured four!
The neighbour said ‘cat farming’
The other kitten still keeps runnin!*
But they aren’t even one year old!
And they’re gonna live nine years more?
***
15 years ago In Thailand
I was found of cats quite strong
A perspective of mine weren’t wrong
Now too many kittens surrounding me...
Two more on a roll mothers to be
How’s the cat population supposed to be?
****
What’s wrong with pregnancy?
Mankind we have no idea how growth should be!
For cats, then I’m not writing a moral song!
Ha-ha! The Neighbours will feed them now!




* I think she's seen her kittens already. I haven't seen her since this morning - she didn't come for food.

14/10/2010: there are 8 kittens, 2 are really cool. the mother has 4 and now she also has 4 granddaughters.

DIFFERENT WAYS TO NIRVANA (NIBBANNA)

Awareness of the body as a collection of organs is a wa y to unconstruct...

The four foundations of awareness is a wa y to this uncreated dimension...

Serene calm and profound insight is a wa y to this unconditioned sphere...

Concentrated directed thought & sustained examination is such a wa y ...

Absorption into emptiness, signlessness, and into the uninclined is a wa y ...

The four right efforts is a wa y to this unconditional state...

The four roads to force is a wa y to this unchanging state...

The five pure abilities is a wa y to this unfailing state...

The five pure powers is a wa y to this undeca y ing state...

The seven links to awakening is a wa y to this deathless state...

The Noble 8-fold Way is a wa y to this immaculate state...

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Africa! Unite...!

African solution lies within the integrity of Africa. Any solution for Africa, it’s Up to the level of its integrity. Asking for help is a right thing to do. Complaint and blame will not serve anything but hypocrisy. No country on earth is responsible to make Africa to become as rich as richer countries on earth.
Africa can grow its crops, produce what it needs and makes free trade among African countries with treaty and good manner.
Africa is dry; nobody can deny this, nor change it. Whenever draught occurs, African people suffer. The world can help with food and technology to tackle dry conditions.
Africa is also at war; nobody can deny this, nor change it but Africans themselves. The world can help for negotiation and political agreements but not African integrity.
Africa has to face its problem directly. This is the only solution.
But Africa is divided between ethnic lines, political differences and worse of all - the bullies. If Africa wants to keep them, then Africa has to pay for them with its prosperity.

oil and burma, also water

now oil is $100 per a barrel!!!
Next year? $200? If not yet next year, it could become $200 a barrel within 5 years!!!

Certainly we will have to ride horses and donkey as speedy transportation unless ... there is successful alternative energies. I don't like to ride horses but want to be one :)))

We, Burmese, know how important horses were and we've read how good they were and we even know there were (are) horses that the divines have to rely on even though these powerful divines have (had) full of powers - mythology or whatever I believe in ghosts because I believe they exist because I believe I saw one with my own eyes!!!

Now I shall go back to oil...

What will Burma do if oil is not affordable anymore? We will be worse-off certainly! I have suggested that we'll sell gas and oil and the money we get from this must be invested in alternative energies or renewable energies that we must build wind towers everywhere as we have 3000 miles long shoreline from the north of Rakhine State to the souther tip Kosaung. Then we won't have any trouble about energy for ten or twenty years. Once we become well-off, much more developed, we would be able to invest in similar projects off-shore for wind, wave and solar sectors. Then we would be able to go on another two decades. I don't think I should suggest for the next 60 years as I wouldn't be alive any longer.

Certainly I will oppose any dam building for hydroelectric projects. I hate to see losing our beautiful landscapes and wildlife. We must preserve them as treasure. A Burmese saying is u-tu ya-thi Taw ko mhi ii or the weather is up to the forests. We had wisdom so we must have it in the future even though we don't have it now...

On the other hand, we must build dams anyway just for drinking water - we have to know global warming will affect Burma too that our fresh water reserves - such as silver caps, rivers and streams could become less sufficient. Here we must build dams near villages, towns and cities that wouldn't severely affect or damage our environments...I think our cities must become smaller but higher in the future.