Beyond Rangoon (1995)

U Aung Ko: U Aung Ko

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Quotes 

• U Aung Ko : We are taught that suffering is one promise that life always keeps. So that when happiness comes we know it is a gift, and it is ours only for a brief time.

• [On whether men and women are equal] 

  Laura Bowman : Did you say completely equal?

  U Aung Ko : Oh, yes! A woman can even become a Buddha; but for that she must first come back as a man.

  Laura Bowman : Ah, there's always a catch.

• U Aung Ko : We will need to make an offering.

  Laura Bowman : What kind of offering?

  U Aung Ko : That would depend on how much good karma you want for your next life.

  Laura Bowman : Hmm, I can't plan that far ahead.

  U Aung Ko : Then some fresh fruit from the market will do.

• U Aung Ko : [about her dead husband and son]  They are shadows as we are shadows, briefly walking the earth and soon gone.

• Laura Bowman : Isn't that illegal?

  U Aung Ko : In Burma, everything is illegal.