Posted in Elegant Simplicity, peasant life, poetry, tagged buddha, china, free tibet, humanity, monks on 18 March 2008 | 2 Comments »
“It is not clear how many people were arrested. All of the main streets have been blocked by military. The soldiers have been checking for everybody’s ID. Specially, people who were wearing Tibetan clothes were searched thoroughly. Soldiers forced their way in civilian homes to arrest people. They were using stick to beat those who [...]
Posted in Elegant Simplicity, poetry, silence, tagged new culture, silence, solitude, transformation on 29 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
Silence, they say, is the voice of complicity.
But silence is impossible.
Silence screams.
Silence is a message, just as doing nothing is an act.
Let who you are ring out
& resonate in every word & every deed.
Yes, become who you are.
There’s no sidestepping your own being or your own responsibility.
What you do is who you are.
You are your [...]
Posted in Elegant Simplicity, tagged economy, indian, peace, politics on 11 January 2008 | 3 Comments »
A good friend of mine passed a book on to me last fall, which I have only recently picked up and am yet barely 70 pages into. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown, an Indian history of the American West; and I understand there may be an (HBO?) movie which I [...]
Posted in Elegant Simplicity, tagged anarchy, climate, diy, economy, energy, environment, green, merton, peak oil, solar, wind on 30 December 2007 | 3 Comments »
My very existence is an admission of guilt. Placed before a blank sheet of paper, any blank sheet of paper, I instinctively begin to set down the list of my latest crimes. What else can I do? The very thoughts of a person like me are crimes against the state. All [...]
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