“Come Together…Mindfully”
An old, but delightful video, courtesy of our friend Erica Shane Hamilton at elephantjournal.com:
Rev. Danny Fisher
Just a Buddhist Minister Trying to Benefit Beings
Month: February, 2011
February 20, 2011
Burma’s Ruling Military Junta Warns Aung Sang Suu Kyi and Her Party that They Could Meet “Tragic Ends” if They Continue to Support of Economic and Political Sanctions
The New York Times has the story.
Two weeks ago, Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, the National League for Democracy, issued a statement reconfirming its opposition to the lifting of sanctions and rebutting a widespread view that restrictions on trade and investment harm the people of Myanmar more than the ruling generals.
“Recently there have been calls for the removal of sanctions,” the statement said. “It can be asserted that these measures do not hurt the public at large.”
It blamed “misguided government policies” for the country’s hardships and said, “Targeted sanctions serve as a warning that acts contrary to basic norms of justice and human rights cannot be committed with impunity.”
…In its strongest statement about the democratic opposition since Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi’s release, the government said last week, “If Daw Suu Kyi and N.L.D. keep going to the wrong way ignoring the fact that today’s Myanmar is marching to a new era, new system and new political platforms paving the way for democracy, they will meet their tragic ends.”
February 20, 2011
A Gift of Dharma for 2.20.11
Today’s dharma quote is yet another from the Vidyādhara, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (1939-1987), whom I first quoted and wrote a little bio for here. This is it:
In the scriptures, a crazy-wisdom person is described as “He who subdues whatever needs to be subdued and destroys whatever needs to be destroyed.” Whatever your neurosis demands, when you relate with a crazy-wisdom person, you get hit with that. Crazy wisdom presents you with a mirror reflection. A mirror will not compromise with you. If you don’t like what you see, there’s no point in blaming the mirror.
February 20, 2011
The Los Angeles Times Talks to Sharon Salzberg
Read it here.
Stay tuned for my own interview with Sharon, which will appear at Shambhala Sun Space.
