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From: Nihal Gooneratne
From: Nihal Gooneratne
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This blog is about the entrants in the year 1960, to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ceylon, Colombo. The email address for communications is, 1960batch@gmail.com. Please BOOKMARK this page for easier access later.Photo is the entrance porch of the old General Hospital, Colombo, still in existence. Please use the search box below to look for your requirement.
Friday, March 14, 2014
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014
1960Batch entrants, planning a 'Get-together' in 2015.
To all ‘Batch
of 1960 entrants’, to the Medical Faculty, Kynsey road, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
We are
in the early stages of planning a get together in Sri Lanka in the year 2015.
1. It will be a 24 hour programme.
2. The venue could be either Negombo or
Colombo.
a. Negombo would be 15 minutes by
expressway from the Kelani bridge. Anyone who wants to come back to Colombo for
the night and return the next day would find this easy.
b. Sea-bathing is an added attraction.
c. A boat trip watching Dolphins could
be arranged.
3. The month selected could be March,
April or June. June might have rain.
Please send in your feedback on these suggestions to:-.
1. Durumila
Kumara (nee Gunawaardena)
Tel. No for calls from inside Sri Lanka - 0112697188
Tel No for calls from outside Sri Lanka - 094 112 697 188
Or
2. Sarath
Kapuwaththa
Tel No for calls from inside Sri Lanka - 081
222 4983
Tel No for calls from outside Sri Lanka – 094 812 224 983
Philip G Veerasingam
Tel No for calls from inside Sri Lanka – 036 223
2500
Tel No for calls from outside Sri Lanka – 094
362 232 500
French Cabaret.
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From: "J. K. S. Weerasekera
From: "J. K. S. Weerasekera
Four minutes of good clean….
Don’t miss.
jksw
Enjoy
Cheers!
"Helal we Salib" - Crescent moon and Cross.
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From: "J. K. S. Weerasekera"
From: "J. K. S. Weerasekera"
Arabic and western combo. 2 ½ minutes.
Watch.
jksw
"Helal we Salib"(Croissant et Croix or Crescent Moon and Cross)Adhan / Ave MariaBeautifulIslamicand Christianityduet at a concert in Lebanon -if only everyone could see its possible for religions to bring peace, rather than violence and hatred..
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
The Container and the Content.
Email forwarded by Lesley Sirimanne.
This is an excellent discussion
that took place between Most Ven Ajahn Brahm and a journalist. The meaning of
true Buddhist attitude shines through this invaluable passage. Ajahn Brahm is
one of the foremost western monks who trained under the late great Thai monk,
Ajahn Chah.
“A local journalist called and
asked me “What would you do, Ajahn Brahm, if someone took a Buddhist Holy Book
and flushed it down the toilet?”
Without hesitation I answered
“Sir, if someone took a Buddhist Holy Book and flushed it down the toilet, the
first thing I would do is call a plumber!”
When the journalist finished
laughing, he confided in me that that was the most sensible answer he had
heard.
Then I went further. I
explained that someone may blow up many statues of the Buddha, burn down
Buddhist temples or kill Buddhist monks and nuns; they may destroy all of this
but I will never allow them to destroy Buddhism. You may flush a Holy Book down
a toilet, but you will never flush forgiveness, peace and compassion down a
toilet.
The book is not the religion,
nor the statue, the building or the priest. These are only “containers.”
What does the book teach us?
What does the statue represent? What qualities are the priests supposed to
embody? This is the “content”.
When we recognize the
difference between the container and the contents, then we will preserve the
contents even when the container is being destroyed.
We can print more books,
build more temples and statues and even train more monks and nuns, but when we
lose our love and respect for others and ourselves and replace it with
violence, then the whole religion has gone down the toilet.”
From “Good? Bad? Who Knows?”
upcoming book by Ven. Ajahn Brahm
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