tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51809041996935988412012-02-01T13:47:14.375+07:00Thai Freemason News & EventsStay updated with the news and events from Thailand's Masonic community. This blog provides updates to special events and interesting tidbits to Freemasons in Bangkok, Pattaya, Phuket and all around Thailand.
<p><b><a href="http://www.thaifreemason.com">www.thaifreemason.com</a></b></p>The Editorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00344437564885459222noreply@blogger.comBlogger1761100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5180904199693598841.post-35571584402959326032011-10-01T12:48:00.000+07:002011-10-01T12:50:17.366+07:00<p></p><br /><br /><p>The Thai Freemason is the independent voice of Freemasonry in Thailand.</p><br /><br /><p><b>Visit <a href="http://www.thaifreemason.com/">http://www.thaifreemason.com/</a></b></p><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5yfm3T1_s1Y/S82EgiSTH0I/AAAAAAAAABA/8n8n__xVFQg/s1600/Morakot+logo.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 138px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462167617564516162" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5yfm3T1_s1Y/S82EgiSTH0I/AAAAAAAAABA/8n8n__xVFQg/s200/Morakot+logo.JPG" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#009900;">Brethren All<br /><br />The Installation meeting of Morakot Lodge No 945 I.C. is being held on Sat November 5, 2011. Tyling at 4:30pm prompt at The Amari Atrium Hotel, 1880 New Petchburi Road.<br /><br />Ladies and Non-Masonic guests are invited to dine at the following banquet - ฿2,000 per person.<br /><br />For bookings and further details please contact the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">secretary</a>.<br /><br />Sincerely & Fraternally<br /><br />Bryan Kelly<br /><br />W. Bro Secretary</span><br /><b>Visit <a href="http://www.thaifreemason.com/">http://www.thaifreemason.com/</a></b><br /><br /><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Visit www.thaifreemason.com
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//--><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5180904199693598841-6428722573326658761?l=thaifreemason.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Jim Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306160372808092674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5180904199693598841.post-86857841156342849772011-07-07T13:43:00.001+07:002011-07-07T13:45:29.751+07:00<p></p><br /><br /><p>The Thai Freemason is the independent voice of Freemasonry in Thailand.</p><br /><br /><p><b>Visit <a href="http://www.thaifreemason.com/">http://www.thaifreemason.com/</a></b></p><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5yfm3T1_s1Y/S82EgiSTH0I/AAAAAAAAABA/8n8n__xVFQg/s1600/Morakot+logo.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 138px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462167617564516162" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5yfm3T1_s1Y/S82EgiSTH0I/AAAAAAAAABA/8n8n__xVFQg/s200/Morakot+logo.JPG" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#009900;">Brethren All<br /><br />Morakot Lodge will hold their next regular communication on Weds August 3, 2011. Tyling at 6:30pm prompt at The Amari Atrium Hotel, 1880 New Petchburi Road, Bangkok.<br /><br />Ladies and Non-Masonic guests are invited to dine at the following harmony.<br /><br />For bookings and further details please contact the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">secretary</a>.<br /><br />Sincerely & Fraternally<br /><br />Bryan Kelly<br /><br />W. Bro Secretary</span><br /><b>Visit <a href="http://www.thaifreemason.com/">http://www.thaifreemason.com/</a></b><div class="blogger-post-footer">Visit www.thaifreemason.com
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From my inbox today:</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="0" class="MsoNormalTable"><tbody><tr> <td style="padding: 7.5pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: brown; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The Cornerstone Society is back</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.5pt;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">As you know we haven't had a conference for a while but the Cornerstone Society is back with what should be a fascinating and informative conference for this year.<br /><br />See details below or visit our website </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.cornerstonesociety.com/Events/future.html?dm_i=AH5,99UG,14QBWL,OIHM,1"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">[click here]</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"> to see more details and apply.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.5pt;"> </span></div></td> </tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" class="MsoNormalTable"><tbody><tr> <td style="padding: 7.5pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: brown; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Unfolding the Mysteries</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.5pt;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Cornerstone Society is pleased to announce its 2010 conference to be held at<br /><br />Tapton Hall<br />Sheffield<br /><br />on 13th November 2010 at 2.00pm (1.30pm for registration)<br /><br />Speakers are:</span> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Kai Hughes</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Initiation! 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/>The Cornerstone Society<br />29 Beaconfield Avenue<br />Epping<br />CM16 5AX<br /><br />Tickets are <br /><br />£ 19.50 for the conference <br /><br />or <br /><br />£ 44.50 for the conference and dinner.<br /><br />Cheques should be made payable to <br />"The Cornerstone Society"<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cornerstonesociety.com/Events/2010form.html?dm_i=AH5,99UG,14QBWL,OIHM,1">[APPLICATION FORM] </a></span> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><br /></span></span></span></span></div></td> </tr></tbody></table><b> </b><br /><b> </b><br /><br /><b>Visit <a href="http://www.thaifreemason.com/">www.thaifreemason.com</a></b><div class="blogger-post-footer">Visit www.thaifreemason.com
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It's the Summer Oration given by Bro.: John Casson at the Loge Erasmus <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">St John's</st1:place></st1:city> Celebration held on July 12th, 2009. It's longer than I normally post, but its very good reading.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">Jim.:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">During the last few months I have came to the conclusion that there is a certain amount of confusion amongst you, and Robert Lomas described in one of the Hiram books what I can see, when he said that when considering Freemasonry the world is divided into two sets of people.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The first are non Masons who look at our rituals and traditions and ask “what is this all about”. The second are the brethren themselves who sit through these rituals but also ask themselves, “What is this all about”.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I will in fact be looking at three areas, and these come directly from talking with a number of brethren: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Firstly, could we make Freemasonry more relevant and start to address the world’s problems, by discussing topical matters such as global warming, the economic situation, third world problems etc.?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Secondly, why don’t we get onto the more interesting stuff in Freemasonry - the mystical element and the elusive ancient secrets? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Lastly, if the JW educates the EA’s and the SW educates the FC’s, who educates the Master Masons? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So, a lot to cover, let’s get stuck in and consider first whether we should be discussing more worldly matters, even though politics and religion are specifically no go areas.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A good starting point to discover why we are actually sitting here today is our Founders Declaration, which states:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">Freemasonry is a spiritual movement arising from an inner need,….<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And the Loge is founded ……<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">on a fundamental trust in the spiritual and moral principles that stimulates the world and its progress.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Another way of saying this is, by concentrating on spiritual and moral matters, as individuals we have a direct, positive influence on those around us and our world. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And let’s just ponder a moment on the words of our Grand Master on this very subject, who said:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">“We are not material beings on a spiritual path but<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">spiritual beings on a material path”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And with regards how Freemasonry interacts with the outside world he says:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">I’m sure that every individual mason is concerned with particular aspects of the current world situation. Yet, masonry itself does not aim to influence the world situation. I full heartedly agree with the Pro Grandmaster of the United Grand Lodge of <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">England</st1:place></st1:country-region>, who said, “the only influence masonry should be seeking is over itself and its members”. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I will come back to our Grand Master’s words when I look at who educates the Master Masons.<span style=""> </span>For now, lets say that we are a collection of individuals who think alike on a number of matters, not all matters, but we choose deliberately to concentrate on those things that unite us: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">The spirituality<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">The times for sharing & lending a helping hand<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">The fellowship – the fun we have together <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Rather than deliberating on the things that divide us, amongst them - politics & religion. I would say we do not ignore politics & religion; we simply relegate them to our world in the “west”, and deal with them there. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Our Loge is our sanctuary. Our place to stop a while, ponder and recharge our batteries to tackle our worldly problems. Mahatma Gandhi encapsulated in a few words the essence of the message I wish to leave with you, when he said:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">"We must become the change we wish to see in the world."<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Which brings me on nicely to my second point which is about the more “interesting” stuff in Freemasonry - the esoteric, the mystic, the ancient secrets which seem to be so elusive. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I would partly answer this by simply saying that “complicated is not necessarily better”, and with that thought I would suggest we consider Puff the Magic Dragon. This song was written in the late 1950’s, and was very much a part of my formative years as was my mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It is only in recent years that I realised my mothers advice had prepared me for Freemasonry. She was a wonderful woman, full of good honest common sense, love for her family and friends and a deep belief in God and it is her words that still echo through my mind to this day: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">Play fair<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">Everything in moderation<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">Clean up your own mess<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">Don’t take things that aren’t yours<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">Stand up and admit your mistakes <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">Be proud of your achievements<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">If you’re wrong, say you’re sorry<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">Always say thank you for any kindness<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">With all of these I see simple Masonic messages - doing unto others as you would wish they would do unto you – acting on the square to name but two.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Is there a lesson for all of us here? I think so. There is a tendency as we grow older, with greater knowledge and sophistication, to lose sight of the basic, common sense life lessons taught to us by our parents. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Now, whilst it is important to make a daily advancement in Masonic knowledge there is a danger in becoming lost in the more “intellectual” side of the Craft.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">My mother would call it “not seeing the wood for the trees”, and my point is - if you do not understand and apply the basics, there will be so much in Freemasonry that will slip through your fingers. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">For this reason all of us should not lose touch with some of our most basic tenets and should try and retain just a little bit of this past world. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This brings me nicely to Puff the Magic Dragon. For those of you not familiar with this song, it is about the lost innocence of childhood. The loss of the wonder of imagination - the loss of dreams - of having spontaneous fun - laughing until your sides hurt.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Little Jacky Paper no longer visits his old friend Puff, because he has other toys, perhaps we would say more adult, sophisticated toys. How many of you realise that this song about innocence lost was banned in a number of countries, and the reason? Apparently the lyrics were said to be drugs related, more specifically about smoking marijuana, and the reasons, well...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">Puff was an obvious name for a song about smoking pot isn’t it?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">little Jackie Paper's surname referred to rolling papers<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">"autumn mist" was either clouds of marijuana smoke or a drug-induced state<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">the land of "Hannah Lee" was really the Hawaiian <st1:place st="on"><st1:placetype st="on">village</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st="on">Hanalei</st1:placename></st1:place>, known for its particularly potent marijuana plants; and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Unfortunately none of it is true (Google it if you like). It is just one example of supposedly sophisticated minds, a few years later, seeing things which are just not there. The point I want to make is that there is always the danger of reading a situation or a person incorrectly. Using our own perception of reality to judge something or someone, and Puff is a fine example of this. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">To illustrate the point further there is a cautionary tale from Zen Buddhism. Many, many years ago pilgrims would travel very large distances to a remote monastery in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Tibet</st1:place></st1:country-region> to learn from a famous spiritual teacher.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">When his disciples began their evening meditation, the cat who lived in the monastery made such a noise that it distracted them, so the teacher ordered that the cat be tied up during the evening practice. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Years later, when the teacher died, the cat continued to be tied up during the meditation session, and when the cat eventually died, another cat was brought to the monastery and tied up in its place.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Centuries later, learned descendants of the spiritual teacher discussed at great lengths, held weekend seminars and wrote scholarly treatises about the religious significance of tying up a cat for meditation practice.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So, we have a few diverse threads to bring together:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">my mother’s advice<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">Puff the Magic Dragon<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">and a Tibetan monk and his gagged cat<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I hope you see my thread of thought, but if not, here’s a summary of my message in second part.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Firstly, especially for our newer brethren, do not get distracted by the more remote areas of Masonic study, these are very worthy areas of future study but, for now, they are for another day.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Secondly, a message to us all, bear in mind that our increased knowledge and sophistication may have distorted our view of many matters which should be straight forward.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We all view the world through the lens of our own prejudice, what psychologists call “confirmation bias”. By this they mean we seek evidence that confirms our beliefs and ignore or reinterpret evidence that refutes them.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I am sure many of us here have experienced “confirmation bias” in relationships. You do something wrong, and no matter what you do to try and make amends (the flowers, the chocolates), those good and worthy actions are viewed in a negative light.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">For now brethren, my advice is learn your craft; concentrate on the basics; remember, complicated is not necessarily better; and most importantly, have fun. Enjoy it. <span style=""> </span>If your time in Loge gives you nothing else, having fun is a wonderful feeling to take with you back to the west. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">My last point related to the question:<span style=""> </span>If the JW educates the EA’s and the SW educates the FC’s, who educates the Master Masons?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I would suggest we expand the question further to ask how we apply what we learn in the Loge to the real world. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Just to set the scene lets have the briefest of retrospects of the three degrees <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Firstly, one who works with his hands is a labourer Remember that the tools of the first degree are ones of manual labour; - the mallet and the chisel.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Secondly, one who works with his hands and head is a craftsman and in the second degree tools of design are added, for the completion of the rough ashlar. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Lastly, one who works with his hands, head & heart is a master, which is the essence of the third degree.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Now, the JW’s role of educating the labourers of the first degree, and the SW’s of educating the craftsman of the second are very, very different to the skills a master will use, when applying not only his head & hands but his heart.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Let me tell you another story to illustrate my point. A philosophy professor stands before his class. He picks up a large empty mayonnaise jar and proceeds to fill it with rocks, about 2 inches in diameter. He then asks the students “is the jar full?”, and they agree it is.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The professor then picks up a box of small pebbles and pours them into the jar, he shakes the jar and the pebbles roll into the open spaces between the rocks, and he asks them again if it is full, they laugh and agree it is. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">He then picks up a box of sand and pours it into the jar, and the sand fills all the space left.<span style=""> </span>"Now," says the professor, "I want you to recognise that this is your life. The rocks are the important things - your family, your partner, your health, your children - things that if everything else were lost and only they remained, you would be happy & your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else. The small stuff. If you put the sand into the jar first, there is no room for the pebbles or the rocks. The same goes for your life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">"Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out dancing. Attend your Lodge. (OK, I added that one) There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, and fix the waste disposal. Take care of the rocks first - the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There is absolute silence.<span style=""> </span>Then a student approaches the podium, takes the jar and proceeds to pour in a glass of beer, which of course fills the remaining spaces, making the jar truly full.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And the moral of this tale is: No matter how full your life; there is always room for a BEER. <span style=""> </span>Seriously though, there should always be time for a beer, for G&T’s, for fun - whatever you perceive that to be; without detriment to yourself, your family or friends.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">However, coming back to the question of who educates the Master Masons.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It is our duty to know what each others large rocks are, and to help recognize and acknowledge what is important in our lives.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I will come back now, full circle, to the words of our Grand Master:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;" align="center"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">We don’t only need to learn to practice our rituals but we also need to learn to see and to hear how our ritual is mirroring the essence of who we are, and who we may become in our hearts and lives.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;" align="center"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">Most of all, we need to learn to share our individual insights with each other in the Lodge. The Masonic Lodge of the 21st century needs to become the place where modern men support each other to reveal and practice this essence in their individual lives outside the Lodge</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The simple answer Brethren is that we educate each other, and I see my duty during the rest of my tenure as Orator of Loge Erasmus to assist each of you in this task.<span style=""> </span>That for me is our road ahead - not just dispelling Masonic clichés, articles and books, but getting as close to our brethren as a real brother, understanding the big rocks, and what are just pebbles and sand - the small stuff.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So brethren, that brings me to my final few words. I cannot think of a better conclusion to the message I wish to give you today than to borrow some words from the English ritual.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;" align="center"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">“I therefore hope that you will have but one aim in view,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;" align="center"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">to please each other and unite in the grand design<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;" align="center"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">of being happy and communicating happiness to others”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><b>Visit <a href="http://www.thaifreemason.com/">www.thaifreemason.com</a></b></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Visit www.thaifreemason.com
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//--><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5180904199693598841-1194061272633476608?l=thaifreemason.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The Editorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00344437564885459222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5180904199693598841.post-15177564999058128682009-05-19T05:00:00.004+07:002009-05-19T05:21:43.773+07:00From a Sikh Brother<p></p>Brethren all, as I keep telling you, the Masonic community in Thailand has to be the most diverse in the world. The following is a description of the Sikh religion and how it links to Masonry from one of my dear friends and brothers. Sorry its a bit long, but I think you'll enjoy it.<br /><br />Jim.:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >From a Sikh Brother</span><br /><br />I was born in <st1:country-region st="on">Myanmar</st1:country-region> (<st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Burma</st1:place></st1:country-region>) in a family which at the time was earnestly practicing a monotheistic religion based upon the philosophy of Sikhism.<o:p></o:p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The year of my birth saw the beginnings of the WWII, which eventually engulfed most of <st1:place st="on">Asia</st1:place> in the 1940’s.<span style=""> </span>This forced my family to move from Burma to our ancestral home in Northern Pakistan (then India) near Peshawar, then to Nasik (near Bombay) and eventually back to Burma in 1946.,<span style=""> </span>From 1946 to 1949 I lived with my family in the small district town of Minbu.<span style=""> </span>Then I was packed off to <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Rangoon</st1:place></st1:city>, the capital, to continue my education at the best school in the country run by Catholic Missionaries.<span style=""> </span>Before arriving at this <st1:placename st="on">Christian</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">School</st1:placename>, I had spent various number of years at a predominantly Muslim school in <st1:country-region st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region>, a Hindu school in <st1:city st="on">Nasik</st1:city>, and a Buddhist Monastery plus a <st1:placename st="on">Buddhist</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Public school</st1:placetype> in central <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Burma</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">This might explain why in my late teens I was coldly aloof and not particularly influenced by any religion.<span style=""> </span>I refused to accept any religious teachings merely because people in my surroundings believed it to be true.<span style=""> </span>I could not persuade myself to imagine that I had a religion because everybody whom I might trust believed in its value. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Thus my mind was brought up in an atmosphere of freedom – freedom from the dominance of any creed that had its sanction in the definite authority of some scriptures, or in the teaching of some organized body of worshippers.<span style=""> </span>Now I profess to practice a form of the Sikh religion that, fits my up bringing, education, and the life I have been exposed to.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Fundamental Sikh Commandments<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">The Beliefs <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">1.<span style=""> </span>The belief in One God<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">2.<span style=""> </span>The belief in the Guru<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">3.<span style=""> </span>The belief in the Guru Granth Sahib<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">4.<span style=""> </span>The belief in freedom<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">5.<span style=""> </span>The belief in democracy<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Rules of Conduct<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">1.<span style=""> </span>Life of honesty<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">2.<span style=""> </span>Life of truth<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">3.<span style=""> </span>Life of restraint<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">4.<span style=""> </span>Life of householder<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">5.<span style=""> </span>Life of piety<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Truthful Living<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">1.<span style=""> </span>Kirt Karni –to earn one’s livelihood through creative, productive and honest labour.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">2.<span style=""> </span><st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Nam</st1:place></st1:country-region> Japna - to be in tune with the Infinite through meditation on divine qualities, so that the believer becomes filled with HIS NAME.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">3.<span style=""> </span>Wand Chakana - to share the fruits of earnings with the needy.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Self – Discipline.<span style=""> </span>To be able to control<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="DE">1.<span style=""> </span>Passion - Kam <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="DE">2.<span style=""> </span>Anger - Karod<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="DE">3.<span style=""> </span>Greed - Lob<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">4.<span style=""> </span>Attachment<span style=""> </span>- Moh<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">5.<span style=""> </span>Pride - Hanker<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">You will note that most of these commandments are common with other religions.<span style=""> </span>But some are a bit different. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In the section on beliefs, THE BELIEF IN THE GURU, the Supreme Teacher is given an importance because we do not have a God that we can give a form to.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">We had ten Gurus who were elected to that position because of their qualifications (not their heritage).<span style=""> </span>The tenth Guru installed the Sikh’s Holy Book, containing the teachings of the ten Gurus (and also some inputs from the Hindu and Muslim faiths) as “Sri Guru Granth Saheb” as “The Guru” being the visible embodiment of all the Gurus.<span style=""> </span>Thus you’ll find in our Gurdwaras (temples), the Holy Book installed on the Palki (Palaquin) with a canopy, as if it was a person.<span style=""> </span>The Sikh religion is the most modern religion in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> being just over four hundred fifty years old.<span style=""> </span>It is also considered the most universal because our sacred book contains not only the Hymns of the Sikhs but as mentioned before, also those of the Hindu and Muslim faiths.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In the section on rules of conduct, you notice item 4 encourages one TO BE A “HOUSEHOLDER”<span style=""> </span>That is to get married and raise a family.<span style=""> </span>There was a belief<span style=""> </span>amongst Hindu Saints that to achieve communion with God, (for the Sikhs, “NAM” – “THE WORD” ) we had to shed<span style=""> </span>the worldly life and retire into the mountains or some cave in a far away place.<span style=""> </span>Sikhism does not believe in this.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In the section on Truthful living item 2 – NAM JAPNA – literally “recite the holy scriptures”, should bring to mind the Hindu and Buddhist philosophy where one endeavors to merge completely the personal self with an impersonal entity which is without any quality or definition, to reach a condition where mind reaches the purest state of consciousness without any object or content.<span style=""> </span>This is considered to be the ultimate end of this recitation, to completely identify ones being with the “INFINITE BEING” - “NAM” that is beyond all thoughts and words.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Item 3 WANDH CHAKNA is not only charity in the normal sense but also sharing your wealth and food with the poor and the needy.<span style=""> </span>This is practiced in most temples where one can get the three meals of the day simply by showing up at the right time.<span style=""> </span>This is called “Guru ka Langer” or Guru’s kitchen”<span style=""> </span>In fact this communal kitchen was used by our founding Guru - “ Guru Nanak” - to break down the cast system that was practiced then.<span style=""> </span>Every person partaking of this meal had to sit together on the same level – the floor!<span style=""> </span>Unfortunately you can still find the cast system being practiced today amongst some Indian communities.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I would like to touch upon the general appearance and dress code of the Sikh’s.<span style=""> </span>During the time of the first nine Guru’s the Sikhs were not much different in appearance from the believers in Hinduism.<span style=""> </span>At that time <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> was ruled by the Moghul Emperors who were Muslim.<span style=""> </span>The founding Emperors like Akbar were good but then came Emperor Aurong Zeb who resorted to converting the population to Islam by the sword.<span style=""> </span>The present day Sikhism started at that period to counter this threat.<span style=""> </span>The tenth Guru, Guru Govind Singh, anointed five volunteers who had offered to be sacrificed as the “PANCH PAYARE” - the “five loved ones”, as the core of this movement to guard our Faith.<span style=""> </span>To distinguish them from others, they were to wear the five KS at all times.<span style=""> </span>These are <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">1. Kase - Long Hair<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">2. Kanga - Small Comb for the hair<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">3. Karpan - A four foot sword<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">4. Kara - An Iron wrist Band<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">5. Kucha - Long underpants (something like Bermuda shorts)<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The turban is a common form of head gear in <st1:place st="on">Northern India</st1:place> and all the three religions wear them, the only difference is in the shape and the way it is tied.<span style=""> </span>The Sikhs have to keep their heads covered when in the temple and in public places.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In closing I would like to touch upon the Indian and consequently the Sikh view of man’s life in this world.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">As the day is divided into morning, noon, afternoon and evening the Indians had divided life into four parts.<span style=""> </span>The day has the waxing and waning of its light, so has man the waxing and waning of his bodily powers.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">First came BRAMACHARYA the period of discipline in education, not limited only to learning of books and things but being in discipline whereby both enjoyment and its renunciation would come with equal ease to the strengthened character. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Second the GHRHASTHYA that of the world’s work – the life of the house holder – for wisdom does not attain completeness except through the living of life with discipline.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Third the VANAPRASTHYA, the retreat for the loosening of the bonds when man though aloof from the world still remains in touch with it while preparing himself for the final stage of complete freedom namely PRAVRAJYA when even such free relations have their end and the emancipated soul steps out of all bonds to face the Supreme Being.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Being a Freemason these three / four stages remind me of the lessons I have learnt from our three Masonic Degrees<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p><br /><b>Visit <a href="http://www.thaifreemason.com/">www.thaifreemason.com</a></b></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Visit www.thaifreemason.com
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//--><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5180904199693598841-1517756499905812868?l=thaifreemason.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The Editorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00344437564885459222noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5180904199693598841.post-8846137235513307632009-04-09T22:14:00.004+07:002009-04-09T22:29:45.888+07:00Father Joe and the Five Ugly Ducklings<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Fjwt8lNP2tE/Sd4RvhwGugI/AAAAAAAAAJg/535cC8mAtG4/s1600-h/five+ducklings.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 260px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Fjwt8lNP2tE/Sd4RvhwGugI/AAAAAAAAAJg/535cC8mAtG4/s400/five+ducklings.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322711317810166274" border="0" /></a>Sorry for the long post (and not really Masonic in nature), but I just found this too good to ignore. <br /><br />For those of you who don't know, Father Joe is a fixture in Bangkok. Known and much loved for his work in the slums of Bangkok and his ability to bring light and love to the children. <br /><br />If this moves you, please feel free to contact the <a href="http://www.mercycentre.org">Mercy Centre</a> directly.<br /><br />Best regards,<br /><br />Jim:.<br /><p></p><br /><br /><style>@font-face { font-family: Cordia New; } @font-face { font-family: Cambria Math; } @font-face { font-family: Cambria; } @font-face { font-family: Calibri; } @font-face { font-family: Geneva; } @page Section1 {size: 612.0pt 792.0pt; margin: 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt; } P.MsoNormal { MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Cambria","serif"; FONT-SIZE: 12pt } LI.MsoNormal { MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Cambria","serif"; FONT-SIZE: 12pt } DIV.MsoNormal { MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Cambria","serif"; FONT-SIZE: 12pt } A:link { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; mso-style-priority: 99 } SPAN.MsoHyperlink { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; mso-style-priority: 99 } A:visited { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; mso-style-priority: 99 } SPAN.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; mso-style-priority: 99 } SPAN.EmailStyle17 { FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: windowtext; mso-style-type: personal-compose } .MsoChpDefault { mso-style-type: export-only } DIV.Section1 { page: Section1 } </style><div class="Section1"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >FIVE UGLY DUCKLINGS FROM THE SWAMPS OF KLONG TOEY <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >By Father Joe Maier, C.Ss.R.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >It starts that way with the Fabulous Five of Klong Toey Kindergarten Class of 2009 – 2010. This paddle of ducklings are growing up to be among the most beautiful young men and women on the planet. Maybe not swans, but certainly the greatest of all ducks! <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >First there’s Miss Bhai. (Her nickname means, “ the highest branch of the tree touched by the morning sun.”) Three years ago, when she was two, the drug cops special branch did a 3:00 a.m. blast into her momma and papa’s Klong Toey shack without knocking; then cuffed and took her folks to the station for possession with intent to sell.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >It wasn’t pleasant, as intent to sell brings with it an industrial-sized prison term. Plus momma and papa were small players: they didn’t have the ten thousand baht or so, cash up front, that might have helped them on the way to the station. On top of that, when their agent got word a few minutes later, she wasn’t really interested in helping at the police station, as momma and papa, in her eyes, were dumb, and had been caught before.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >Everyone assumed Bhai’s Granny would come to bundle up the baby and take her home as soon as the uniforms left, since they were locking up Momma and Poppa in the Ta Rua (Port Authority) jail, on their way to court and a long stretch in prison.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >But Granny got distracted. She got the news in the middle of an all-night-all-day card game with some cronies; it was one of those “I won't quit till I win my money back, or lose everything” moments. And she let the news slip by her.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >Two nights later, a thief broke into momma and poppa’s shack. Baby Bhai was lying on the floor, whimpering. The thief was shocked but still stole the rice cooker (probably to save his honor as a thief) plus the drugs the cops didn't find; then shouted “Dying Baby! Dying Baby!" at the top of his lungs and ran into the night. He most probably saved her life. But it took her three months in the communicable diseases hospital to heal and fatten her up. I forgot to mention, she got AIDS from her mom, who got it from her dad.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >That was three years ago. Both mom and dad are still in prison, getting sicker.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >Now, just a couple-three weeks ago, Miss Bhai got sick again. She’s over it now. After weeks in hospital, she’s back with us.<i> “Measles Bhai,” the Klong Toey Kindergarten Five</i> call her. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >Almost lost her to The Measles Monster. That, plus The Measles Monster called in an ugly friend - maybe a stray mean Orc - who shoved a fist-full of pneumonia down her lungs. The doc talked gently, but translated into street talk, he said, “This kid's going to the temple in a wooden box.” It was five days of touch and go. The odds were bad: two in three, she dies.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >She's a tough kid. Beat the odds. She didn’t die three years ago, and she didn't die a couple-three weeks ago. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >When she returned to us in a hospital van, the rest of her paddle of the Fabulous Five Kindergarten Class of 2009 - 2010 were waiting. They had skipped kindergarten class when they heard she was coming home: Miss Sim, Miss Dao, Miss Fai, and Master Winner.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >Bhai insisted that she walk on her own, although she was still pretty wobbly on her pins. They wanted to know about cookies, candy. Did the nurse make you eat all your food? Did she comb your hair nicely? Did you have to take a bath? Did they have school there? Could you watch cartoons? What time did you have to go to sleep? They had wanted to visit, but she was quarantined with the measles. Master Winner wanted to know if anyone had given her a toy car and the girls wanted to know if she had any new dolls. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >Today, if you looked at her, even with her taking the aids antivirals twice a day, you wouldn’t know. She looks healthy. Eats as much as she can possibly stuff in each meal, pats her tummy. <i>Doesn’t ever want to be hungry again.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >Last week, she completed the school year along with her special paddle of friends: she finished ninth from the top in second-year kindergarten. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >Miss Bhai, the number one tough lady of the ugly ducklings says that classmate five-year-old Miss Sim is almost her favorite girl friend. Miss Sim, with an armful of burn-scars, is the smallest of the paddle. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >Miss Sim actually struck the match and lighted her own birthday cake candles last week. We asked her if she wanted to, and she nodded okay, which was not an easy call for the five year old who was carried out of a burning shack - singed hair, smoldering clothes, and burned arm, screaming - just over a year ago. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >Miss Sim’s arm has healed. Though scarred and certainly not pretty, her arm, hand and finger movement is not impaired. This child fears almost nothing. Five years old, she boldly says there are no goblins or monsters under her bed!!! If there were, she'd whomp 'um just like her Granny used to whomp her if she’d make noise when Granny was in a card game. And Miss Sim gets up at night when her best friend Dao knows she's going to wet the bed and is afraid to put her feet on the floor because of the goblins and monsters under there. Sim, whose bed is next to Dao’s, checks under Dao's bed to see if “the coast is clear.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >Miss Dao’s been with us two years now. She doesn’t have the virus, though her mom did. When momma was still alive, they moved shacks often. Momma was “the roving kind.” The neighbors noticed, and often told her off, said she wasn’t taking proper care of Dao. Dao’s Granny told us that finally she herself urged her daughter, “Best you take that baby, and go to that foundation. Those people there will at least feed you and Dao. Besides, you’re too skinny and sick to keep earning nighttime money any more.” Momma died with us. Miss Dao is now nearly six, and Granny comes to visit when she feels a bit chipper and can hustle bus fare.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >Right hand companion to Dao among the Fabulous Five is Miss Fai (her name means “fluffy cotton like the clouds”) who loves to stand in the rain, letting the raindrops wash her hair, run down her face. She came to us four years ago, a sickly child full of lice. Back then if you brought Miss Fai near water, like even a toilet, she'd go bonkers. Suggest a shower, she'd go hysterical. That’s because in the past, her momma, barking mad with each full moon, crazy with the AIDS virus in her brain, would have spells where she would throw water in her daughter's face and then into her own as punishment, screaming the whole time. One night, with another full moon, Momma walked off into the night. Miss Fai is charming, front tooth-less, likes to wear her hair short, dresses like a six-year-old fashion model: always neat and clean.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >The only boy in this paddle is young Master "Winner." He's just like his name: a kid every dad would like as his own son. Wears his superman costume to kindergarten. Says he wants to live at our farm on the canal with the big boys. Our farm is half an hour’s drive out of Bangkok, postage stamp small, but enough room for our street boys to be healed and heal themselves from the scars and horrors of city streets. Our farm boys walk to school, go barefoot, go fishing, grow from boys to men. Master Winner tells us he's ready to join the older boys, but just not quite yet as his momma couldn't visit him there very often. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >His Momma's gentle, loving, long black hair down her shoulders. She got the virus, from his Western daddy, now disappeared. Or at least so says momma. She knows his relatives; they blame momma and won't touch Master Winner with a 30-foot barge pole. Momma worked in a factory, quit her job for a while, as the daily bus travel was literally killing her. Now she's stronger with the government-sponsored antivirals, and has a new job; got herself a hot water pot and a coffee grinder, and now she sells fresh cups of coffee on the sidewalk in front of a low budget backpackers’ hotel. The police there are kind – know she’s sick - and they ask no favors. Not even free cups of coffee or other favors. And they chase away the bad guys who seek “sidewalk space rent,” so Momma survives.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >She tells her “truth,” and that's okay. She tells what she feels she wants us to know.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >She offered this unbelievable pact with us. Her idea. I wouldn't have dreamed of such an agreement on my own, nor our staff. I'm not that smart!!! Her pact works like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >No matter what. No matter how many days she may eat just rice and fish sauce, no matter how tempting the easy nighttime money might be, now matter how much money she might have to borrow from the money lenders, even at 20 Baht a day on a 100 baht, she won't give in. Won’t spread the virus – she promises - IF we care for her youngest son, Master Winner. We gave her our word and we live and die by our word.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >And me, I promised beyond the grave. Heavy stuff. I'm 69 and promised her we'd care for this kid, until he grows up. Certainly after I'm dead and gone. The staff said they would keep their word. We will care for Master Winner. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >So we said, Momma of Master Winner, you try to keep your word, as best as you can; and if you goof up, we’ll look the other way. Don't worry; we will care for your son. He's part of the Klong Toey Kindergarten Class of 2009 - 2010. He’s a member of the Fabulous Five.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >We made our promise, candles and joss sticks in hand at our Mercy Centre: she in front of a statue of the Buddha and me in front of a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >Momma comes now and then, mostly alone, but sometimes with a boy friend. We ask Master Winner if he wants to help Momma sell fresh cups of coffee over the weekend. Off they go, hand in hand. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >This paddle of five of our Klong Toey Kindergarten Graduates… they waddle, they quack, they fall down, and get up. They swim without being really taught, and somehow have found each other in their own beautiful way. Now, school’s out and each morning, they wake up to try to have as much fun as they possibly can. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;color:black;" >They may never turn out to be swans, but fabulous ducks they shall be.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style=";font-family:Geneva;font-size:14;" >Father Joe Maier, C.Ss.R., is the director and co-founder of the Human Development Foundation-Mercy Centre. For more information: <a title="mailto:info@mercycentre.org" href="mailto:info@mercycentre.org">info@mercycentre.org</a>; <a href="http://www.mercycentre.org">www.mercycentre.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';font-size:11;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><br /><p><br /><b>Visit <a href="http://www.thaifreemason.com/">www.thaifreemason.com</a></b></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Visit www.thaifreemason.com
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margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 1.6pt;"><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;color:blue;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;color:blue;" > </span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 1.6pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;color:blue;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;color:blue;" >FRESH CRAB DELIGHT</span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 1.6pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;color:blue;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;color:blue;" > Puree of avocado and potato salad, bound with an orange and basil mayonnaise with tomato green scallion salsa of water cress</span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 1.6pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;color:blue;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;color:blue;" > </span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 1.6pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;color:blue;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;color:blue;" >LIME CAMPARI </span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 1.6pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;color:blue;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;color:blue;" >Crème de menthe and lime confit </span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 1.6pt;"><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;color:blue;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;color:blue;" > </span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 1.6pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;color:blue;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;color:blue;" >~~//~~</span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt; 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margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 1.6pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;color:blue;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;color:blue;" >White chocolate whisky, orange chocolate kahlua, Dark chocolate grand Marnier topped with mascarpone & pistachio floss </span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt; margin-right: 1.6pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;color:blue;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;color:blue;" > </span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p> <div style="margin-right: 1.6pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;color:blue;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;color:blue;" >~~//~~</span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div> <div style="margin-right: 1.6pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;color:blue;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;color:blue;" > </span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;color:blue;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;color:blue;" >A choice of tea or coffee </span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:12;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" >Price<br />Thai Baht 395<br />(THB 350 net + THB 45 Dining Fund).<br />Nearly all drinks will be discounted </span></span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:12;" > </span></span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:12;" > </span></span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" >Tropical regards </span></span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:12;" > </span></span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" >Mike</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><br /><p><br /><b>Visit <a href="http://www.thaifreemason.com/">www.thaifreemason.com</a></b></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Visit www.thaifreemason.com
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