Tibet has a new secular leader, Dr. Lobsang Sangye, while H. H. continues with spiritual leadership

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American politics, Dr. Lobsang Sangye, prime minister of Tibet, Tibet, Tibetans-in-exile

A Time of Desperation: Self-Immolations and Suicide Bombers

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China, Facebook, Non-violent action, Self-immolation, self-immolations, Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan diaspora, Tibetan people, Tibetan suicides, Tibetan Youth Congress

HOW TO FIGHT AGAINST COMMUNIST CHINA!

By LHAKSAM at http://woeser.middle-way.net
“Dear freedom loving friends specially Tibetan brothers and sisters in exile, I want to share with you my little knowledge about how to fight effectively with Powerful Communist China. My request to you is, you can disagree any point of mine, i have no objection, i just express my opinion in facebook because i am Tibetan.

1. First and foremost Don’t only talk, As a Tibetan take responsiblity and step forward to fight against brutality, Your action makes difference,

2. Speak Tibetan, learn Tibetan, Teach Tibetan language to our younger generation and respect our Language.
THE QUESTION IS WHY? because language is our identity and it is one of the easiest way to communicate between 2 Tibetans to preserve our unique culture and Dharma,

3. All Rinpoches from different religious sector must united, because they are so powerful, i experienced that Rinpoches are more famous and powerful than our political leaders,

4. Educated Tibetans must take responsiblity to become a role model of our younger generations,

5. As saying goes that teacher is a noble profession and it is known as to be a nation builder, So all tibetan teachers in all part of tibetan school must take reponsiblity to guide our kids on the right direction and upgrade our standard of education.

6. we must participate in every election of NGO‘S like our Regional Tibetan Youth Congress, Tibetan Community and Tibetan women association because these are the organization which is totally connected with the tibetans, So your participation in election is extremely important to find a right leaders.

7. Use social media for our cause, don’t sell our issue for your benefit,

8. Tibetan people in exile must recognize our real leaders and use them for our cause, don’t make your personal and family friend!

9. Our most Tibetan organization in exile instead of thinking how to inspire our younger generation, they always focus on how to make fund and how to make organization famous. from my point of view, I know we need fund but at the same time They should focus more on our younger generation to inspire them to involve in community service.

10. RIGHT NOW WORLD POLITICS IS NOT FAIR FOR THE TIBETANS, BUT SOONER OR LATER IT WILL CHANGE BECAUSE TRUTH IS ON OUR SIDE.
AND ACCORDING TO MY LITTLE KNOWLEDGE, I ALWAYS CONSIDER TIBETAN ISSUE IS NOT A PROJECT, ITS A PROCESS AND IT TAKES TIME TO REACH OUR DESTINATION AND ALSO FIGHTING AGAINST COMMUNIST CHINA IS NOT A JOKE, WE MUST BUILD OUR COMMUNITY STRONG AND UNITED AND GIVE OUR YOUNG GENERATION INSPIRATION AND HOPE, SO IN FUTURE THEY WILL TAKE OUR STRUGGLE LIKE US.

11. Dear Tibetan supporters, we have no problem with how to save our culture and dharma in exile, Since 53 yrs you can see our result in exile, Our dharma and culture flourished all over the world. Here is the main point, Tibetans in exile expecting from you that we need your help in a political field, we need your support, so you can be a voice of Tibet. Don’t worry about our dharma, we born with that and our dharma is connected in our soul; nobody can destroy our dharma, just need your help in a political field.
Thank you to the Facebook for giving me chance to express my feelings.
LHAKSAM at http://woeser.middle-way.net

(*Used on this blog for the benefit of all sentient beings. I advocate Non-Violent Actions, not passivity, not fighting)

Occupy the Internet for Tibet

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Beijing, China, Chinese government brutality, Constitution of the People's Republic of China, Dalai Lama, Lhasa, Occupy the Internet, self-immolations, Tibet, Tibetan people

” . . . I can’t remember where I’ve come . . . from.”—Tori Amos

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Baby boomer, Dharma, Generations and Age Groups, Home, Zen

Here we all are, in a Time of Division (TD) upon the Wheel of Life—that infinitous cycle of crumbs of happiness and suffering on every street corner.

So TD is upon us corroding any fine thread of connection between you and me. With the number of divorces, fights, calls to kill the enemy!—brought down to a personal level, the sacred net of Inter-being is torn (Vietnamese Theravadan (Zen?) monk Thich Nhat Hahn‘s word) to shreds.

The sacred net of Inter-being is torn. O the particular sadness with a close relative . . . to watch your lives with each other shred, as if you’d never met. And to let it happen, passively, yet finally, Impartially. Walk away.

Families become scattered strangers. O yes, a degenerate time. And children, we Baby-Boomers born of such universal ignorance and dysfunctionality, have (as of yet) been silent, as if we were spit out as beings born to man and woman culturally-entrenched in an era of Permissivity. Unstructured. Children raised bereft of values. Nearly anarchist. Do what you want. Free free love. Playtime.

Hence, logically, this Baby-Boomer began to wander and kept wandering . . . and wandering . . . where did I come from? Where do I belong? Tori rode with me all the way . . . for 14,000 miles in one year. Phenomena rushing past like 50 mph winds. O wondrous America with the greatest number of single households in the world (I think). Relationally and spiritually bereft. Where is my real home? I don’t know where I belong.

You and I know we are all the Walking Wounded, secreting our pain as we were raised, i.e., stifle any personal expression for fear of imminent threat or rejection; becoming attached to our pain. We culturally can’t escape it . . . the scenarios are different but the essence is the same. We are left holding our stillborn creations, where all walk away in boredom.

Drawers, files, cabinets filled with renderings of this delusive writer. Why? Since 1974. Why? My only legacy for my son: hundreds of stillborn voices. Silent.

Would that my words would bring Dharma in some small way to someone in the future.

Hackwriters.com Airs Out an Autistic Stance

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bipolar disorder, cousins

The International Writers Magazine: Autism

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THE THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS OF A BUDDHIST AMONG BAPTISTS
• Reverend Father Antonio Hernández, O.M.D., A.B.F.
Founder of the Independent Order of American Buddhist Fathers
suriak@yahoo.com

THE GREATEST BRAINS THERE EVER WERE

A man enters the room. He is a striking personage, and you feel immediately drawn to him. Soon you begin to feel something like a sensation that he is ‘not really there’- sort of like witnessing an out-of-body scenario. He twirls a lock of his grey hair, and his eyes look so far to the distance that you begin to wonder if he’ll snap out of it. He does, right away, and is with you again, laughing, joking and smiling. It’s not easy to see his beautiful eyes, because he does not look at you too often.
Then there is another man. He is considered by many to resemble the first man. He, too, stands like a monolith, sometimes flapping one hand (like the first man sometimes does). Sometimes he twitches a shoulder. He, too, has a rollicking belly laugh, likes humor, but can suddenly become ‘absent’ from his body. He, too, returns rapidly. Or, again like the first man, he might just get up, walk out and never say a word to anyone.

The first man was Albert Einstein, the greatest scientist who ever lived. The second man is yours truly, the author of this here article: greatest windbag who ever lived. Both of us have two things in common: 1. Einstein and I share Jewish heritage; 2. Einstein and I share autism. This article is about the latter.
Dr. Oliver Sacks, a truly great physician, author and thinker, often complains that the public is ignorant of autistic adults. He says people think “autistic” automatically means “child”. He says the public must think autistic children suddenly fall off the face of the earth one day. Autistic adults, especially normally functioning autistic adults, are totally ignored.
There is a circular spectrum of autism, about which I’ve written many times and I describe in my book “No Duty To Retreat” (get it here while it’s hot, it’s lovely folks). But put simply, there are two types of autistic adults: lesser-functioning and high-functioning. The high-function autistic adults usually suffer from Asperger’s autism (a.k.a. Asperger’s Syndrome or AS); it is no coincidence that many great scientists, engineers, mathematicians, artists and writers have Asperger’s. Autism is no death sentence, yet we autistic adults feel rotten about the way society treats us. In and of ourselves, we are otherwise very happy.

Autism in the more easily missed form generally consists of minor “eccentricities”, some social isolation or aloofness, obsessive pursuit of specific subjects, and tics. It also usually entails a sky-high I.Q., immense creativity, imagination, powerful visual thinking and even more powerful general intellect. AUTISM IS NOT SYNONYMOUS WITH “RETARDED”.
Look at this list of names: Ludwig Wittgenstein. Norbert Wiener. Paul Erds. Nikolia Tesla. Jerome Lemelson. Bill Gates. Johann Sebastian Bach. Wolfgang von Goethe. And of course, Albert Einstein. Some names leap out, some seem obscure. But these people changed the world- and they were all autistic people. This is only a tiny sampling. A comprehensive list would require a dozen pages here.
I, your friendly neighborhood Buddhist monk, was diagnosed with mild autism early in 2000. Speaking (writing) as an autistic person, I am humbled and honored to be in such illustrious company.
People must begin opening their eyes about autistic adults, no matter where on the spectrum these adults may find themselves. There are two wonderful people who have websites that can help you learn more:
http://www.isn.net/~jypsy and http://www.geocities.com/autistry/oddizms.html.
These sites are fun, cheerful, informative and just plain fascinating to read, and to utilize as databases. If you or someone you love is affected by autism, by all means these two sites are the folks to contact! Think “Autism Society” only if you need pamphlets- but check out these fantastic sites first.
Now, perhaps, just perhaps, the next time you encounter an adult rocking back and forth, hands flapping, or just staring, you will understand better. There is a full, true human being there before you, an autistic human being, and that human being is as sensitive as anyone, as important as anyone- and very likely ten times more intelligent than anyone.

© Reverend Father Antonio Hernández, O.M.D., A.B.F.
© Hackwriters 2000-2004 all rights reserved

“I Want to Wake Up”—Melissa Etheridge

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Melissa Etheridge, wake up

A Lift to Your Life

The Winner is then the Leader: Genki Sudo

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Genki Sudo, Genki Sudo wrestling, Japanese, Martial arts, World Order, Wrestling

I just discovered that the lead vocalist/dancer in World Order is Genki Sudo. His wrestling moves are astounding as a martial artist. And his message is of peace!

The first video is with this beautiful man’s essence

This video is his transcendent balance and rhythm

WE ARE ONE

Dharma Practitioners: please read asap

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Buddha, buddha of medicine, Buddhism, Dharma practitioners, emergency aid, Maria Jesus Cerdan, Medicine Buddha, Religion Spirituality

EMERGENCY AID.
I NEED HELP FOR A NEWBORN AND HER MOTHER. THE UCI IN STATE ARE CRITICAL. THE BABY IS FLAME “NELO” AND MOTHER “ADRIANA”. THOSE WHO KNOW THE MANTRA OF THE BUDDHA OF MEDICINE THAT IT RECITE. WE MUST SEND THEM LOTS OF ENERGY. THANK YOU OF HEART. A HUG. (Translated by Bing)

—from Maria Jesus Cerdan via Centro Nayatma

p.s. I think UCI is ICU, intensive care unit

Revere the Sacred Feminine

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Beauty, Breathing, Eckhart Tolle, Enlightenment, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Religion and Spirituality, Teachers

Wisdom of the Sacred Feminine

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment. ~Eckhart Tolle

Venerable Tharchin teaches with deep sincerity about single-pointed meditation

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Buddhism, Dharma, Dharmapala, Distraction, Dorje Shugden, Gautama Buddha, humility, Kadampa, Meditation, Religion and Spirituality, Single-pointed meditation, Tibetan Buddhism, Venerable, Venerable Tharchin

Venerable Tharchin: See the utter humilty of this beautiful being.

“Distraction is the worst enemy of our spiritual life.”—Ven. Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

peace, harmony, calm mind,

mickey (lobsang pamo) morgan