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Accidental revolutionary
I had been in a monastery just north of Yangon, training for almost four weeks with an incredibly gifted Buddhist meditation instructor called Sayaday U Tejaniya. That itself was a wonderful experience since it was the first time I felt like I'd trained with a master as opposed to a teacher...and I'd spent time with a lot of teachers. But since I was in the country and with only 3 days left on my visa I thought I'd go and see the downtown city so went and checked into a central hotel. When I went for a walk just after checking in, I ran into the first of the massive monk-led pro-democracy protests. So totally by accident, the 72 hours I spent in downtown Rangoon was also the most dramatic and challenging 72 hours in its recent history. And given what I'd been doing, what I brought to it was a sensitive mind and an open heart and it was just extraordinary. Not that that word does any justice to the scale of both beauty (of people) and ugliness (of military intervention) that I was witness to.
It put me in a situation I would never have imagined and demanded that I meet it
Be open to anything. But don't think you can understand everything.