Welcome to "Healing From Within”. I am your host Sheryl Glick author of
The Living Spirit Answers for Healing and Infinite Love which shares
stories of spiritual awakenings spiritual communication healing energies
miracles and a clear view to using intuition to understand your
spiritual and energetic life force and today welcome Feroze Dada author
of Children of the Revolution who shares the long and violent struggle
for freedom heroism and hope by the people of Burma. It is often in
viewing or experiencing the challenges of the world that we unravel the
layers of our true being and become what we have always been: free.
As listeners of “Healing From Within” are well aware Sheryl and her
guests share our intimate experiences and insights into the dual nature
of life as spiritual beings having a physical life and learning to use
the Universal Laws of energy to provide for personal growth and
development ultimately bringing about greater love compassion and a
clearer view of the human condition.
Feroze thinks back to his childhood and remembers people places or
events that may have shown them or others what path in life they might
travel and what passions values or lifestyle they might embrace as
adults. He tells us that his cousins were second cousins born in a
remote part of British India and members of a well-off family of traders
of grain. Feroze was the oldest of three brothers and my father was a
strict disciplinarian We all went to Catholic school not because of the
religion but because they wanted the best education for us. There were
no hugs no bonding. My father was very distant and my mother was my best
friend. In college I was in a rock band and captain of my college
cricket team. I was caught in a girls house and her parents reported me.
It was quite an ordeal and Feroze was sent to London to live with some
family friends. It wasn’t like Miami sunny with skyscrapers but I did
begin work at a small firm of accountants. Soon he was making good money
and joined Brondesbury Cricket Club. The club boasts an impressive roll
call of alumni. By 1982 he had become a tax specialist with a well known
London firm and was invited by a friend Imran Khan one of Pakistan’s
leading politician where I met my wife Mu Mu. She was born in Burma but
had lived in Pakistan most of her life. Mu Mu studied psychology and
joined the Japanese Embassy as cultural officer. She still had a large
family of cousins in Burma and that eventually took us there after
living in London for thirty years and raising two children. This was the
time of life where we could afford to met new interests and charitable
work and what lead to the writing of this book.
Feroze decided to write this book and donate all proceeds to the
monastery school and orphanage at Inle Phaya Taung. The idea for the
book started when Feroze met Major a Pa’O guerilla at a family gathering
in Myanmar Burma. Major relates the persecution of his people faced in
their struggle for equality and freedom. They are near beautiful inlet
Lake in Shan State and a storm drives Feroze and Major ashore and they
shelter at the Phaya Taung monastery where Feroze meets the Head Monk
Phongyi who is passionately caring for and teaching more than 600
orphaned and refugee children of the revolutionary wars. There are one
and a half million orphans in Myanmar a country scarred by the ravages
of internal strife and decades of repression.
We meet Phongyi who has endured a desperately hard childhood but was
accepted into the monastery at Lin Lam to further his education and how
he influenced you. Phongyi believes the path to enlightenment peace and
compassion is through education and he has two ambitions to generate an
income to feed and educate the ever-increasing number of children at the
monastery and to improve the health in the community around the
monastery.
The Dali Lama has given the Foreword to Children of the Revolution..tell
