DISQUS

Nice pplants. Why not take up growing your own veggies and herbs?

The dude facing the tank dies a few seconds after this shot was taken when he gets ran over by tank. While good theatre as a still shot, but ignores the fact that dude vs tank the tank wins.

While I disagree with the Representative M. any american has the right to verbally advocate the violent overthrow of the US government. This was established by a Supreme Court Case against the US Communist Party in the 1950;s. The law you cited is void.

The Dems have no spin and will cave in on "protectionism." maybe we did the wrong thing by voting the Dems in. At least the Repubs would have made things even worse and would have triggered a revolution. The Dems in charge we will just muddle thru

Labor is the source of all wealth.
When you cut your labor force you save wages in the short run, but in the long run you cut future income (and this future income is more than the wages you have cut)

The Dems in th Senate can change the rules to make a fillbuster end at a vote of 55 senators or simple majority. They could at least threaten to do this like the Repubs did to get the Dems to cave form 2004-06.

Too bad Americans won't go on a credit payment strike and refuse to pay. If its causes everyone to have bad credit who cares, if everyone's credit is trashed who are they going to lend to?

The only way out is to declare a good olde fashion biblical Jubalee! That is cancel all debts for everyone, free the captives, and redisribute the land (which today I envision to be: what ever home your living in is now yours and all excess homes to be given by lottery to the homeless.

No shooting just to protect property or out of fear. I thought Greece had pretty effective Riot police like most Euro countries?

How about a cancellation of all Debts, release of prisoners, and abolition of all existing mortages (yes I know this is covered by the first but it needs to emphaized), that is what ever your living in is yours. All empty homes and apartments are to distributed by lot to the homeless.

How about a cancellation of all Debts, release of prisoners, and abolition of all existing mortages (yes I know this is covered by the first but it needs to emphaized), that is what ever your living in is yours. All empty homes and apartments are to distributed by lot to the homeless.

the last sentence should have read "not to look to the light of a teacher."

I believe the whole reliance on a teacher is over rated and there have been mahayana buddhist lay led movements which are based on the teachings and not the teacher. The Buddhas last teaching before his paranirvana was to be a light unto oneself and to look to the light of a teacher.

This reminded me of a poem I wrote many years ago for Cybersangha:

IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST
(a call for an enraged bodhisattva buddhism)

What strange karma has led
to my rebirth in this materialist hell?
Returning to consciousness,
the truth of suffering
became crystal clear.
Through a vast infinity of beginningless suffering:
birth, illness, aging, death and rebirth.
I have been confronted in this life
that I live in the belly of the beast.
Of all places within the six worlds,
I find myself living in the land of Mara.
An international vampire called Amerika
lives through the drinking of the life of nations.
Amerika,
with its numerous hydra-heads
lash out at the nations
and drinks in their wealth,
destroying all who stands in its way.
Amerika is a nation devoted to Mara;
it glorifies ignorance, hatred and greed.
Amerika is drunk from drinking in the wealth of the world
and it excretes its poisonous wastes;
humanlife is now in danger.
Amerika,
you are a malignant cancer upon the face of Gaia.
Amerika,
you are a false view
and your ideologists the gate keepers to hell.
Amerika,
you find your hands dripping with the blood of the poor,
while proclaiming your innocence.
All the while seeking new horrors to commit.
I do find myself living in interesting times;
the time of the beast.
My greatest desire
is to take the sword of wisdom,
to wield prajna,
and disembowel the beast from within
(even if it would send me to hell)
to free the many beings trapped inside.
I feel there are numerous other enlightening beings
taking birth in this land
in this time,
all wielding the sword of wisdom.
The day of liberation is at hand.
Do something!

I remember seeing pictures in Shambala Sun (then a newspaper) of his outdoor, open air cremation. I believe it was in Vermont. They had built a large and what looked to be a six foot high funerla pyre out of logs, covered with flowers. They had him siting up in a chair wearing a business suit, sash and flowers. in the midst of it all. He went up pretty fast. I dont think it was legal but no one asked permission they just did it.

jim

There is a long history of Buddhist military traditions especially amongst the Tibetans and the Japanese to consider in asking oneself about the question of violens and buddhism. Most of these warriors took similar vows. Monastaries in Japan raised private armies and battled one another. Japanese peasants using Jodo Shinshe as an ideology defeated the SAmari and the armed monks during the Ikko rebellions.

I think intent is the real parft of the vows. One does not intend to kill when one vows, but sometimes due to past negative karma/wyrd (yours or your attackers) it is unaviodable.

I took a look at Esangha a while back and found it lacking since it practically ignores Pure Land Buddhism. It continues the Western Buddhists general distain/disregard for a practice based on the working classes of the Buddhist world.

basking in the unhindered light,

jim