Internship with Compassionate Travels Myanmar

Compassionate Travels Myanmar is announcing the following opportunity:

"Myanmar Travel Agency Outreach Internship 

If you're interested in an internship and your interest and focus aligns with the following three areas pertinent to our internship needs; those being, 1) you like to write and/or create media for marketing purposes, 2) you appreciate and practice the teachings of the Buddha, and 3) have interest in travel to Myanmar, have traveled to Myanmar, or are researching Myanmar/Burma and Burma Dhamma culture, you may have found a valuable internship opportunity with us at Compassionate Travels Myanmar.

Description of Internship: With this internship, one (or maybe two) individuals will learn of our corporate travel venture, find out about current and future outreach plans, and access untold narratives which have been collected by CTM for years. The primary role of this position is to outreach, identify and multiply consistent, respectful connection with Buddha-Dhamma newsletters, blogs, email chains, stores, and associations worldwide. The aim is to attract visitors to Myanmar through our company by distributing write-ups, creating posters, submitting publications which portray Myanmar in a realistic way, and making creative media projects to broaden our visibility. This internship is mostly computer based which makes it possible from anywhere in the world, though with a second intern, physically going to places and presenting CTM and Burma Dhamma related material may be possible. It will involve creation and use of shared documents (i.e. Google Docs, etc.) to make records and keep a clean stream of information for the whole CTM business team to utilize. 

In this role, one can inspire others to travel to Myanmar where the Dhamma is abundant in opportunities to offer Sangha Dana, take meditation (even take monastic life for the inclined), participate in a pilgrimage with us, or much more. This light, 10-15 hour/week pace isn't paid, but for the right candidate, it will easily become Dhammic inspiration to outreach on our behalf regarding the Burma Buddha Dhamma. Who knows, if there is enough growth through the position, a future with CTM isn't necessarily out of the question.

This current, seasonal position is ideal for honest writers/marketers who can create and take things on alone, and who can put in up to 15 hours/week. 

Contact us at intern@compassionatetravelsmyanmar.com we'd like to schedule a Skype interview and follow-up for this position. We are looking to bring one (or two) people up to speed with CTM as soon as possible! Credit for internship and references provided upon satisfying collective expectations and time frames."

Connect with Burma-Dhamma on Twitter!

To keep informed about Burmese news related to Dhamma, meditation, monastic issues, and other Buddhist activities, follow our twitter account, or find us @ShweLanGaLay. Blog entries are announced here, and other real time information, including photos and videos, may also be shared. 

Shwe Oo Min Monks return from alms round

At Shwe Oo Min Monastery, monks return from their alms round. Rain or shine, they walk every morning at around 7 am for one hour in their neighborhood. They are given rice, curries, and snacks from village homes and stalls. The monks seen here show the diversity found at Shwe Oo Min-- there are Burmese monks, of course, as well as others coming from various Asian and Western countries.

S.N. Goenka in Holland

On the "Inner Peace for a Better World" European Tour in 2002, S.N. Goenka gives a Dhamma Discourse and answers questions in the Netherlands.

The Many Uses of a Burmese Egg Shell

This is bathroom of Sayadaw U Paññāvamsa's parents' home, photo by U Sarana.

U Sarana has shared the following interesting information:

"Egg-shells are, in Myanmar, used as a kind of non-soil fertilizer. They take a "used", empty egg-shell and cover with it a growing orchid (!!) so that it grows bigger and more beautiful. This is why you may see upside-down egg-shells in flowerpots when you visit some people's gardens. The egg-shells are actually washed and in pieces placed around the growing plant. These kinds of natural fertilizers are common in private houses, because it's cheap. In commercial agriculture, though, are used the commercial fertilizers."

A Face-to-Face society

Myanmar is very much a “real-time” culture, meaning actual interaction with people in person goes a much longer way than remote coordination. Face to face discussions can often resolve matters fairly quickly, while extensive discussions from a distance may not always be as effective. For this reason, for those wishing to stay at monasteries or make other requests, you will always be best served by presenting yourself in person to the Sayadaw and stating your wishes clearly at this time.

Some Inner Relief and Peace in the Sagaing Hills

“When she climbed the hills, with the yellow blossoms and glossy green eaves of the frangipani trees, and looked at the winding river with its foaming white currents, she did feel some inner relief and peace.”

--Ma Ma Lay, Not out of Hate

[from scene where the female protagonist has left her loveless marriage in Rangoon to join her mother, a nun, in the Sagaing Hills]