The Buddha explains how to handle insult and maintain compassion.

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 One day The Buddha was walking through a village. A very angry and rude
 young man came up and began insulting him. “You have no right teaching
others, he shouted.” You are as stupid as everyone else. You are nothing but a fake.”

The Buddha was not upset by these insults. Instead he asked the young man
 “Tell me, if you buy a gift for someone, and that person does not take
 it, to whom does the gift belong?”
 The man was surprised to be asked such a strange question and answered,
 “It would belong to me, because I bought the gift.”
 The Buddha smiled and said, “That is correct. And it is exactly the
 same with your anger. If you become angry with me and I do not get
 insulted, then the anger falls back on you. You are then the only one
 who becomes unhappy, not me. All you have done is hurt yourself.”
 “If you want to stop hurting yourself, you must get rid of your anger
and become loving instead. When you hate others, you yourself become
unhappy. But when you love others, everyone is happy.”
The young man listened closely to these wise words of the Buddha. “You
are right, o Enlightened One, “he said. “Please teach me the path of
 love. I wish to become your follower.”
 The Buddha answered kindly, “Of course. I teach anyone who truly wants
 to learn. Come with me.”
 Beautiful Quotes
 If you are right then there is no need to get angry, And if you are
wrong then you don’t have any right to get angry.
 Patience with family is love,
Patience with others is respect,
Patience with self is confidence and
Patience with GOD is faith.
Never Think Hard about PAST, It brings Tears…
Don’t Think more about FUTURE, It brings Fears…
Live this Moment with a Smile, It brings Cheers.!!!!
 Every test in our life makes us bitter or better,
Every problem comes to make us or break us,
Choice is our whether we become victim or victorious !!!
Search a beautiful heart not a beautiful face.
Beautiful things are not always good but
good things are always beautiful.
Do you know, why God created gaps between fingers? So that someone who
is special to you, comes and fills those gaps by holding your hands
forever;http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/worldmalayaliclub
When someone shares something of value with you and you
benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.
Gerald Nadarajah

Assasination - Asif Zadari, email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai.

Joke: Absolutely Brilliant !!!
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> President of Pakistan:
> Mr. Asif Zardari
> teaching his children the spelling of
> Assassination
> One ass behind another ass, behind that I, and behind
> me the whole nation.
>

Adam's bridge - email from gunsie

Adam's Bridge. The story and pictures.

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A dog named Jasmine - email from Piyusha Atapattu.

Click on web-link below:-

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The way of the British - email from jksw

The British Way...... ATaliban, desperate for water, was plodding through the Afghan desert when he saw something far off in the distance. Hoping to find water, he hurried toward the oasis only to find a British soldier selling regimental ties. The Taliban asked, "Do you have water?" The soldier replied, "There is no water here, the well is dry. Would you like to buy a tie instead? They are only £5." The Taliban shouted, " I do not need an over-priced tie. I need water! " "OK," said the soldier, If you continue over that hill to the east for about two miles, you will find our Sergeant's Mess. It has lots of nice ice cold water, all you need." Cursing him, the Taliban staggered away over the hill. Several hours later he comes staggering and crawling back, collapsing with dehydration & and he rasped: "They won't let me in without a f***ing tie!"

 

Yala National Park, Sri Lanka - email from jksw.

Thieving elephant who targets tourist’s lunches

• Gemunu the elephant's thieving ways are making him notorious in Yala National Park
• He was caught in the act when he ambushed a car containing wildlife photographer Aditya Singh

By Damien Gayle
PUBLISHED: 09:16 GMT, 30 April 2013 | UPDATED: 11:31 GMT, 30 April 2013
Would you argue if a five-ton bully wanted to make off with your lunch?
Gemunu the elephant is fast becoming notorious at his home in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka, for ambushing wide-eyed tourists and running of with their food.
A recent spate of thefts where he has used his trunk to search cars as they drive through the park have left visitors alarmed by his unruly behaviour.

Hey! Gemunu pushes over the driver of a car as he scours the interior of the vehicle for any snacks its passengers might be hiding

Gemunu makes use of his trunk: Visitors have been left alarmed by a recent spate of thefts by Gemunu who has targeted their vehicles as they drive through the park

Caught in the act: These pictures were taken by wildlife photographer Aditya Singh who was at the park earlier this month when Gemunu targeted his car

'Regular habit': Mr Singh said it's over the past year that Gemunu has started raiding occupied vehicles, after learning that those inside often travelled with tasty snacks

Wildlife photographer Aditya Singh, from Rajasthan, India, was at the park earlier this month when Gemunu targeted the car he was travelling in.
The 46-year-old said: 'I'm told that even as a baby, while Gemunu's mother was very wary of vehicles and visitors, he was always extremely intrigued by them.

'As soon as he left the herd he started spending most of his time at the edge of the park near the Sithulpawuwa temple.
'While he was there he was fed by the monks and soon realised that the cars parked there usually had some food inside.
'Apparently he used to just pick at the food until about a year ago when he actually started raiding cars. Now it has become a regular habit.'

Notorious: Mr Singh was just learning about Gemunu's thieving ways from his friend, Mevan Piyasena, when then the 22-year-old elephant ambushed their car

Ambush! Mr Singh said all he could do during the attack was stay calm, keep away from Gemunu's tusks, and keep the camera steady - then away as fast as they could

Mr Singh was just learning about Gemunu's thieving ways from his friend, Mevan Piyasena, when then the 22-year-old elephant ambushed their car.
'First Gemunu pushed our driver, Janaka, off his seat and then he poked his head inside the car looking for food,' he said
'He checked each one of us with his trunk and then poked his trunk all around our Landcruiser looking for food but we didn't have any.
'All that I could think of was to stay calm, keep away from his big tusks and keep the camera steady.
'After what seemed like hours, though it was just a few minutes, he moved on to the next car. We just got out of there as fast as we could.'

Obituary - Dr.M.H.De Zoysa, Surgeon, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Dear all,

It is with regret and sadness this announcement comes to you, to inform the passing away of Dr. M H De Zoysa.
His body lies at the residence - 14, Bodiraja Mawatha, Jayanthipura, Battaramulla . The funeral will take place at 5pm today (23rd May, 2013) at the General Cemetery Borella.

Your's sincerely,

Dr. Chandika Liyanage,
Hony. Secretary

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The College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka

My encounters with Dr. M.H.De Zoysa

1. I was a final year medical student in 1964 doing the Prof of Surgery appointment with Prof.Milroy Paul. Dr.Zoysa was his Registrar at that time. He was always on his toes and satisfying every whim and fancy of his Professor. On at least one occasion he drove the Professor to Kandy to lecture at the Peradeniya Medical Faculty when the Professor's car let him down. In the process he collected a lot of amusing stories of the late Professor.

2. In 1973 Dr.Zoysa was Resident Surgeon in Kandy after his overseas training. He, Dr.Purvey Lawrence and Prof Jayaweera (Obs & Gyn) stayed together in Kandy. I had finished my Primary FRCS and completed the required Surgical appointments to sit for the FRCS in UK. I was appointed additional Resident Surgeon at the GH Kandy. It was a hectic time during the 1971 JVP uprising. I was transferred to Batticaloa from Kandy after the rebellion was settled.

3. I succeeded Dr.Zoysa as Consultant Surgeon, General Hospital, Rathnapura in the year 1982 when Dr.Zoysa went as Consultant Surgeon to the GH Colombo.

4. I succeeded Dr.Zoysa as Consultant Surgeon, GH Colombo in 1991 when Dr.Zoysa retired.

5. Dr Zoysa joined the Sri Lankan Army after retirement and worked there till 2012 when he fell ill. His rank was Brigadier in 2012. He served the sick and wounded with courage and dedication till the end. In the dark days when life at Palaly had risks to life and limb Dr.Zoysa would joke with his anxious wife that he would gain a rank as General, posthumously if he died in battle there.

6. Dr.Zoysa was warded in the Intensive Care Unit of the Army Hospital and received the best of care there. His nutrition was good and he did not develop any pressure sores, the bane of prolonged bed-rest, in spite of being bed-ridden for almost one year. This shows the high standard of care he received there. The staff in this unit deserve the highest praise for their work.

A Gentleman in every sense of the word he played life's game following its rules. Dedication to work and teaching competency in the art of surgery to his juniors was his pride. He guided me in my first splenectomy at the GH Kandy. It was a pleasure to talk to him as he related many an interesting tale in his career.

He leaves behind his wife who retired as Head of the Blood Transfusion Services. His son Ishan is Professor of Surgery in the Faculty of Medicine, Kynsey Road, Colombo and is a Gastro-enterology Surgeon. His Daughter-in-law graduated from the Peradeniya Medical Faculty.

May he advance rapidly on the road to Nibbana.

May all the Kusala Kamma which he did accompany him in the road of Sansara.

All of us who benefited by his services bestow merit on him.

Mother Lanka will remember his services.

Philip G Veerasingam.

I was deeply saddened to hear of Dr de Zoysa's passing. I first met him during the 1983 riots, when I used to work at the Division of Biomedical Engineering Services. He and Mrs de Zoysa went on to become two of our closest friends, sticking by us through thick and thin. Together with Dr Michael Abeyaratne we designed a mobile operating theatre in which Dr MH did hundreds of surgeries in remote hospitals in many parts of the country in 1984-86. He and his house officers used to go to places such as Akuressa and Beliatta on weekends and do this work, entirely voluntarily (my job was to provide the logistics). It was also during that time that he became involved in the army, regularly travelling to Jaffna and other places (an OT was even specially built at Vavuniya) to provide casualty care during operations, together with Dr Narendra Wijemanne and Dr Michael Abeyaratne and later, many other surgeons and medical officers. I have never met anyone who loved Sri Lanka more than MHZ, or on Obituary - Dr.M.H.De Zoysa, Surgeon, Colombo, Sri Lanka.