Saturday, March 11, 2023

2 pigs vs lion stories that the Buddha told: Old boar/monk covered in filth + pigs fight back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of9blcmZM1I Sakura Legend. Beautiful drawings, suitable for children. I was looking for boar vs lion as in Helsinki in 2008, Ashin Sopaka "Thawpaka" in Burmese helped me with my 2 big suitcases of paintings, he was abt 30 at the time, I was about 70+ Now, Burmese men and esp. monks mostly think it's beneath them to help a woman with her luggage. There might be longyis inside right? That would lower their "Soul Stuff" or Hpone. I was the only woman there and the oldest in the group. Yet no one even pretended to help me. Ashin Sopaka who walked all over N. America with only a GPS to draw attention to the Cause of Burmese Democracy at once said, “Dagamagyi (Great Female Donor) I'll help you" and smilingly helped me down the corridor to my assigned dorm room, which it turned out, was too cold for me, so event organizer poet ko ko thett switched his room in Arthur Hotel with my dorm room. As we walked along, a little slowed down by 2 large and heavy Samsonite suitcases, Ashin Sopaka started to tell me a pig and lion story, that the Buddha told. It wasn't this one. I said, "Is it like Napoleon/Stalin and Trotsky in Animal Farm?" Ashin Sopaka said, "No. It's the pigs fighting back. When the lion tried to scare them by pointing up his ears, they stuck their ears up. "When the lion pawed the ground, they did the same with their front trotters. "When the lion roared, they roared back." As my late Burma-expert mentor, political scientist Prof. Josef Silverstein used to say, "I'm very old and I remember everything and everyone hates me." Warm regards, K M Kaung 3-11-2023

Blake Lively sues co-star Baldoni with sexual harrassmen on set of It Ends with US.

I still have not read the book--waiting for price to fall. https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/blake-lively-sues-ends-us-134710634.html