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JANE FONDA
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JANE FONDA’S SPEECH ON ART & ACTIVISM FOR V-DAY NEW ORLEANS…April 13th, 2008 Oh mercy, oh my—it feels like when the levees broke it blew the lid off the ninth ward and Parrish unleashed these... More »
bearing witness in nanjing: 70 years after the massacre
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dear friends, i am just settling down after nearly thirty hours of flying....... and trying to comprehend what i have been through this past month. vietnam was powerful enough...... with the people rising from the... More »
being totally vulnerable
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the world, one can bearly bear it so much suffering so much to love so many to serve then these words we have to believe beyond belief to pursue beauty to its lair: "To love.... More »
check out this video of our nomad clinic in tibet
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this past fall, went to eastern tibet, kham, and led a nomad clinic, very intense experience. you might well want to see this strong short video of what happened. check it out! and sorry, i... More »
sutra on the ten-line chant extending life, healing suffering
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dear friends, whom else can we invoke but the great bodhisattva of compassion as this year dies and a new one emerges. here is the sino-japanese. ENMEI JUKKU KANNON GYO KAN ZE ON NA MU... More »
Anna Akhmatova
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the season deepens into the long nights of winter and i am grateful for the words of others that remind me that there is good somewhere, even as government and human fear, greed, hate, and... More »
blood diamonds
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terrible suffering and necessary for us to see. most of us have no idea. certainly i didn't. left me mute and heartsick. reference ryokan's poem in the blog below and consider...........
courage
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People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. (Graham Greene... More »
roshi joan halifax
July 2008