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You don’t have to be a Buddhist or a Tiger to appreciate these images. They say that when training giant predators it helps if you don’t mind being eaten.

Here’s someone who understand of what he speaks. I have to take the opportunity to recommend a book Gorbachev wrote with Buddhist author Daisaku Ikeda caller Moral lessons of the 20^th Century. It was the kind of conversation that couldn’t have happened before our time.

Read Gorbachev’s recent warning here

Now this is a question my friends and I have asked from time to time, but it’s interesting to see this posed at the Huffington Post.  On a related note, there is a book about “engaged Buddhism” called Mindful Politics that is worth reading. It is a new day indeed when numerous faiths work to confront the social failing of our society; oppression, violence, the state of the working poor.   

It is not hard to find people who think that spirituality somehow negates social responsibility. It seems however that serious contemplation of the words and the life of the Buddha (or that of Jesus) calls one to engage in the struggle for human rights and dignities where ever sentient beings are found. I don’t mean to suggest that all devotional paths lead necessarily to an activist role in a human liberation theology movement. For some the monastery is the appropriate and superior choice, but for many who are in and of the world a bold and unyielding commitment to the dignity of every human being is what is called for. That is the spiritual battlefield upon which much good work can be done.

Read the Huffington Post story here.

This should add the all important radical-libertarian-constitutional-internet-fringe. I for one think that if we get to a point where Ralph Nader and Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan and Denis Kucinich all agree on Obama’s candidacy then he has to be the guy, or maybe that should disqualify him, (Isn’t this like one of those books that Thich Nhat Hanh writes about how Jesus and the Buddha are really getting at the same thing?)

We’re not quite there yet; I’ll get back to you.

Go to A New Day Post’s coverage of the 2008 general election

“New rule, in honor of China’s environmental record the Olympic flam should spew toxic gas…run on…the harvested organs of political prisoners”

See the video here 

(Bill’s stuff is up over at the Huffington Post) 

          ABC News’ Senior National Correspondent Jake Tapper posted this on his blog Political Punch “Interesting debate on NPR between a human rights activist and an official of the International Olympic Committee about whether U.S. government officials, and perhaps even athletes, should boycott the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games this August..

Listen to it HERE.”.

Go to A New Day Post’s coverage of the controversy over China and the Olympics

The Madam Speaker of the House is to be commended for taking a politically difficult stand against the Chinese government’s violent response to unrest in Tibet.

MSNBC Reports  

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China has restricted movements in and out of Tibet and set deadline

Read the latest here 

Read more on the Dali Lama’s request here

            In what used to be the serene, far-removed, roof of the world, communist Chinese troops poor in and trample the holy ground of Tibet. Curfews and detentions now define the rugged plateau where mediation ceremony once reigned. This might be the moment that the exiled Lamas have hoped for, or it might be the one they have feared. Sadly that decision is to a large extent, left up to the centralized authoritarian regime in China, and to a world community morally paralyzed by its greed over the economic opportunity that China presents. 

Read the latest report here

Go to a New Day Post’s coverage of the controversy surrounding the ’08 Olympics

           To her credit, Sen. Clinton has made a statement today urging Chinese forces to exercise restraint, in the current conflict in Tibet. There really isn’t any middle ground in a conflict between indigenous unarmed pacifist Buddhist monks and the occupying Communist military police that have shown a willingness to kill those who express their disagreement with the state. All candidates, and anyone who has a platform upon which to do it, should condemn the atrocities that are currently unfolding and side with the Dalai Lama as he urges his people to maintain nonviolence . 

Read Clinton’s comments

Go to a New Day Post’s coverage of the controversy surrounding the ’08 Olympics

            Saturday’s AP article say, “International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge poured cold water Saturday on calls for a boycott of the Summer Games in Beijing over China’s crackdown in Tibet, saying it would only hurt athletes.”  

Read more here

Go to a New Day Post’s coverage of the controversy surrounding the ’08 Olympics

Read more on China’s human rights record from A New Day Post

Why has the world community reward China with the 08 summer Olympics? With the persecution of the Falun Dafa practitioners still on going, Tibetan Buddhism decimated and the Dalai Lama in exile, Catholic Priest under government control, and the counties role in the genocide in Darfur growing into an international disgrace, is now the really the time for the world’s celebration of fair-play to come to Beijing?

Read more here  

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also Steven Spielberg to protest 08 Olympics in China

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This brings new meaning to the phrase ‘outside of your jurisdiction’.

Read this bizarre story here