This via Avaaz.Org:
Sign the petition to world leaders and the Burmese regime: “We stand with the people of Burma in their desire for peace and national reconciliation. We urge world leaders to call on the Burmese regime to immediately and unconditionally release all political prisoners and implement an immediate ceasefire between the Burmese Army and armed ethnic groups. We demand the Burmese regime heed that call.”
Add your name here.
"Tibetan Spiritual leader the Dalai Lama gestures during an interview with The Associated Press at his residence in the hill station town of Dharmsala, northern India, Friday, July 1, 2011." Photo by Kevin Frayer for the AP.
Read it here.
"Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi with cheering supporters." Photo by Nyein Chan Naing for EPA.
You can also read the Associated Press write-up about it here, as well as a pre-lecture interview with Suu Kyi by Radio Free Asia here.
"The Dalai Lama gives Jessica Markowitz, a 7th-grader at Seattle Girls' School, a hug during the KeyArena event." Photo by Mike Siegel for The Seattle Times.
Today’s quote is yet another from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, whom I first quoted and wrote a short biography for in this post. This is it — one of Snow Lion Publications’ past Dalai Lama Quotes of the Week:
You should understand the whole purpose of listening to teachings, taking teachings and studying them is to put them into practice, just as after having learned how to prepare a certain dish, you utilize that knowledge to make the dish and derive full nutritional benefit from it. What you know should be put into practice immediately; you can thus derive the benefit of having some transformation within your mind. Even though it might be a very minor effort, a very small practice just leaving imprints within your mind, still you must think that it is worthwhile to do. Otherwise your knowledge of dharma will be quite fruitless, and like merely playing something on a tape.
