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- Free Tibet, Freedom, Unity, Light, Love, Our Planet
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- About Me
- i am a western bhikkhuni, practicing Tibetan Buddhism.
i go by the name karuna, the name that was added to losang pema at my full ordination.
i have 4 grown children and 5 grandchildren.
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- Buddhism, of course. music, photography, reading, anything from newspapers to Dharma books.
- Activities
- the usual nun stuff. lol
- Additional info about myself
- i live in a small community outside of Vancouver, B.C.
there is one other nun here who i see occaisionally. there is also a monk in a nearby community with whom i have great Dharma talks. unfortunately we do not have a center here anymore, due to financial constrains, so i get down to california for teachings at an FPMT center as often as i can and of course attend those that are given here by visiting lamas.
- My Music
- classical, jazz almost any kind
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- the gods must be crazy
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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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Thank you so much Ani for your friendship.
Love and compassion
Thank you very much for accept my friendship!I'm also very happy to share things with you!I'm very glad that you love also the movie of the weeping camel.This picture is from a site about Mongolia.It's a babycamel.When I see the movie,it's a little bit like coming home:to the innerself and the nature.So close to nature makes me quiet inside.That's a feeling that we both know.The silence makes you stronger and more open for people and animals who needs you.Every day take care for their needs.I wish you a lot of peace and silence and also many OHM's.Bye,Annemie
Ich kann zu wenig Englisch um alles zu verstehen, verstehe aber, dass es humorvoll ist.
Liebe Grüße aus dem tiefwinterlichen Norden
Namasté
Dorothea
Dear Suki TasireA fresh flower for your garden
light on your path
and even brighter in your heart.
I wish to apologize in my lateness in getting back to this site. I have been very busy but also very exhausted.
Before I go further, I again want to thank David Califa for allowing our message to go out here on his website, for our upcoming event to ‘walk and roll for Tibet’. Our non-profit felt this was the right peoples to hold our first fund-raising and we have pledged to send our donations to one of H.H. The Dalai Lama’s Monasteries’ in India. We felt it is a place with young lives needing every available support possible. So thank you again David.
Most days I am either on dialysis, or a board meeting in San Francisco with our Mayors Disability Council, or In Home Services For The Elderly and Disabled, or working with future possible partners for our soon and upcoming event. [I might say they are great and have been every bit supportive as well.]
My health has not improved much, but my want to complete both these important projects before my demise is everything to me.
I know many of you have stated you are in support of our work and will either join in our ‘walk and roll’ or light a candle and be with us on our very important date.
I would ask if you might post to me at mhonainternational@gmail.com, so I may get a more reasonable understanding of who exactly will be joining with us in May?
Please don’t forget we not only are working to accomplish this yearly event for our ‘walk and roll’ but we are working towards fund raising to build a Global Peace Centre for/by lives disabled, disabled profoundly,
Disabled by violence locally-globally. It will be a barrier free physical site so that all lives with any/all disabilities may enter without being turned away. It will be fully accessible. We hope also to make on site a fully accessible site for lives unable to leave homes, beds, but wish to offer their positive stance and offerings to work on peace-filled projects, etc.
We are determined to find peoples of the globe to join with us and make these projects a reality.
After all it is time we start to show the globe our abilities, to be of significant offerings. ‘Nothing about us, without us’. This will be a peoples to peoples, citizen to citizen connect, youth to youth connect. Not by nations, not by leaders, but by the peoples, for the peoples, with the peoples. Democracy in action!
I hope you will be supportive and help us be a link to all human hearts, in the name of freedom.
"Walk and Roll For Peace In The Name of Freedom"
2009 - 'Walk and Roll For Tibet"
May 24, 2009 8am San Francisco Presidio
Crissy Field - Golden Gate Pavilion
$25 Donation (if possible) Will go to one of
H.H.The Dalai Lama's Monastaries in India
'Disabled Lives Making A Positive Difference In Life, In The Time We Have Left'
Sincerely,
Tatiana A. Kostanian - Founder
MHONA International
mhonainternational@gmail.com
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