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Sunday, Feb. 12   
[[strikethrough]] October 4 [[/strikethrough]]

4) To work towards promoting a growing interest on the part of the public in art

Bo Let ya, U Hla Shain & U Win, Minister of Culture will be here Thursday afternoon to discuss ways & means of forming the Art Council.

Monday, Feb. 14th

AM (5) Small oil sketches for color scheme of second U Nu portrait.

Afternoon, will try to finish drawing of U Nu preparatory to starting work on it (1st version)

On Buddhism.

1 Avijja (Ignorance) cause of activities
2 Activities (Samkhara) cause of consciousness
3 Consciousness (Vannana) cause of mental & physical phenomena.


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Buddhism     
Monday Feb. 14
[[strikethrough]] October 5 [[/strikethrough]]

4 Mental & Physical phenomena (Nama Rupa) are the cause of the (Sixfold Sence-sphere)
5 Sixfold sense sphere cause of contact
6 Contact cause of feeling (Vedana)
7 Feeling, cause of craving (Tanka)
8 Craving causes Clinging (Upadan)
9 Clinging causes existence (Bhava)
10 Existence cause of Birth (Jati)
11 Birth, cause of Suffering
12 Suffering, cause of Faith (Saddha)
13 Faith is cause of Joy (Pamojja)
14 Joy is cause of Rapture (Piti)
15 Rapture is cause of Serenity (Pasadhi)
16 Serenity cause of Bliss
17 Bliss is the cause of Concentration
18 Concentration (Sammadhi) is the cause of the knowledge & insight of things as they really are.
19 The knowledge & insight of things as they really are, is the cause of aversion for life (Nibbinda Nanna)
20 Aversion for life is the cause of Desirelessness
21 Desirelessness is the cause of Liberation