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- I am an Englishman settled these past 23 years in Slovenia. I am very happily married and we have a grown-up son.
I was bought up a Catholic and attended a Jesuit run school. It's extreme discipline did not suit me and I lost my faith in God.
I am now a Buddhist. I found my religion when I arrived in Dharamsala, India as a backpacker on the hippie trail back in 1979. I joined Sogyal Rinpoche's Rigpa group of Buddhists immediately after hearing the Dalai Lama speak in London in 1981.
As a practicing Buddhist I am concerned with avoiding doing harm. Without peace within ourselves, we do harm and without peace in the world, well the harm being done is all the greater.
"Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free."
-- The XIVth Dalai Lama
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China will definately change, says Dalai Lama
Phayul[Sunday, January 11, 2009 19:05]
By Phurbu Thinley
Sarnath, January 11: Changes will definitely take place in China and that the issue of Tibet will prevail in the long run, exiled Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama said Sunday.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama speaks at a special audience to some 4000 non-Tibetan Buddhist followers from the Himalayan region of India, Nepal and Bhutan in Sarnath, India; January 11, 2009. The Tibetan spiri… Continue
Posted on January 12, 2009 at 2:04pm —
Prayer for the Dalai Lama
for
His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the XIV Dalai Lama
For this realm encircled by snow covered mountains
you are the source of every benefit and bliss without exception
Tenzin Gyatso, you who are one with Avalokiteshvara:
may you remain steadfast until samsara's end !
Posted on August 29, 2008 at 7:59am — 2 Comments
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I am the Candle Flame
I am the candle flame for Tibet on high
My country stolen mountains in the sky
Valleys weep your clouds float on by
Freedom taken from me that’s why I cry
Oh mountain trails how I miss your track
My flame burns bright I want you back
Within my soul I yearn my eyes wet
Tibet you were my life ill not forget
Why did you come take my home away?
Even then you didn’t ask I had no say
You stole my heart my spirit all I had
Now here I burn my flame bright but sad
What did I do I ask the question why
For I grow weary to see my land for I die
Here I stand you smile look down on me
Ill fight for you till my death to set you free
So many years i've suffered silent in pain
How I yearn to touch your gentle soil again
To climb to yonder mountain peek above
Once more my spirit to feel of your love
Tony Robin Bulley 17th October 2008 ©
Vigil
Where are you now,with your palms together,
bowing,
your dark red robes
wrapping the wisdom
of a thousand years,
white knife peaks,
and over six thousand
monasteries?
Your home not your home
and yet your home always,
you wander,
you meditate,
you chant and pray;
you teach, you love,
or you stay
and must keep quiet.
Yet prayer flags still blow
in high Tibetan air,
prayer flags still blow
in the deep dark-eyed hearts
of your people.
There are places
the intruders,
the violators
cannot reach–
places alive with
the smiles and tears
of your lost land.
Red robed ones
with your calm eyes
upon the world,
you who pay homage
to the consciousness
in all things,
you who see far beyond
appearances:
you know past time,
you love past duality,
and yet you cry too.
The mountains of Tibet,
the vast plateaus and
green valleys,
the sky lakes and blue rivers,
the sons and daughters
of this sacred land
know and wait for you,
and for their time
within space and beyond
to be free.
© 1996 Layne Russell
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Here I am posting the appeal in connection with the March on 10 March - to observe the 50th anniiversary of Tibetan Freedom Struggle. Kindly propagate this to all your friends.
Thank you in anticipation
Regards
Raja
MARCH FOR TIBET ON MRCH 10Tibet's day of reckoning is approaching Fast - March 10 2009 marks the 50anniversary of repression and brutal subjugation.
Let all the people of the world remember those who laid down their lives on this day 50 years back in their attempt to beat back the invaders of Tibet.
What China has not realized is that despite the repeated crackdown on Tibetans the Tibetan spirit and their Will could not be subdued by brutal force.
Freedom of Tibet is just not the question for Tibetans alone. It is the universal Question -
Questions that arise are " Will this world allow brutal force to suppress, Truth, Human Rights and Non-violence?
Are we - the people of this so-called free world - to allow Tibet become part of ancient history?
Is it ethical to continue to do business and shake hands with a regime that has no regard for Human Rights, International Ethics. and the UN Charter?
When will all other nations arise and bring China to its senses?.In my opinion it is a sin to do business with China. It is equal to sharing the atrocities, the brutality meted out to the innocent Tibetans. We all are abettors of the heinous crime against Tibetans. We must rise as one and make our Governments act now.
Let there be a loud DEMAND from the people of this world to make China hear clearly.
Let the noise of our protest go round the globe and reverberate in the ears of China's rulers.
Let the noise be heard by all people of this world.
Let the sound of all of us who will march on that day silently be heard around the world.
Let the sound of that silence become deafening noise in the ears of Chinese and all those who remain mute, dumb and blind to the atrocities perpetrated on Tibetans in Tibet
reverberate with the footsteps of millions around the world on silent march. Let that become a tremour in Beijing. March 10th is the date - a date with destiny for Tibet -
a date for China's devolution. The mighty edifice of China's economic and military power is built without the foundation of people's participation.
The march by Billions around the world should shake that edifice. As it happened to the USSR, the Peoples Republic of China too will crumble under its own weight.
Let us hasten that process.
Long Live Tibetan Freedom.
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Wish you all the best for the new year 2009! Much of Love, Light, Peace, Health, Happiness and Harmony to you and yours!
God bless you!
Hugs,
Rati
thanks for friendshipStromek
I have work to do, please see my homepage?
Thank you.
Carol Stromek
thank you for invite me in your site, my english is not good..:) but i try!love and bless! tashi delek!
China and world should resolve the despute of Tibet and should pave a path for peace and non violance.
I shall be happy if you could include me in the circle of your friends
Hello M. J. Smith, Good Spirit, we sure like the idea!We do not let the lights go out and keep the fire burning all of 2009, "The Year Of Tibet" !
Yeah !!
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