Michael,
Just a brief note to let you know that I still intend to make Hawaii, sometime, perhaps the next so-called Millenium...
Saw an item about the WTO in Seattle--burning Gap jeans in effigy, protesting Starbucks, etc., and I thought, I wonder if Michael is there? (Such futile "resistances" to our "failures to communicate" imposed by the Heavy-Ham-Handeds That Be...)
Item in the paper: much grief and outpouring over the death of that giant panda that Mao gave Nixon (the mate having died a coupla years back)...Item not in any papers: the Communist Chinese have allegedly murdered (and cremated) the ten year old boy that the Dalai Lama has identified as our Panchen Lama (2nd in spiritual authority to the Dalai)...
Resulatant thought...If only we can get those last remaining Tibetan Buddhist Rinpoches to go about in Giant Panda costume disguises!
(yeah, that's the ticket...)
best,
Tom Noonan
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--"...Hence, thou suborned informer, a true soul
When most impeached, stands least in thy control."
Sweet Will Shakespeare, *Sonnet 125*
--"Him do I hate who even as the gates of hell who says one thing while he hides another in his heart."
Achilleus in Homer's *The Iliad*, Book IX
--"Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;/ For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me with a lying tongue./They compassed me about with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause./ For my love they are adversaries: *but I give myself unto prayer*./ And they have rewarded me evil for good; and hatred for my love./ Set a wicked man over [them]..."
*Psalm of David*, 109
--"...Better than brute strength of men, or horses either,
is the wisdom that is mine..."
Xenophanes (545B.C.) #1, trans. R. Lattimore
--'Petty people imitating others will use this in a perverse and sinister way, even getting to the point where they can destroy families and usurp countries. Without wisdom and knowledge, you cannot preserve your home with justice and cannot preserve your country with the way.'
re: *tsung-heng-hsuen from 'The Master of Demon Valley,'
18,19, a classic Taoist text translated by Thomas Cleary,
'Thunder in the Sky' (Shambhala, 1993)
--"Those who fail to cultivate the inner meaning and concentrate instead on the outward expression never stop indulging in ignorance, hatred and evil while exhausting themselves to no avail. They can deceive others with postures, remain shameless before sages and vain before mortals, but they'll never escape the Wheel, much less achieve any merit."
Ta Mo (Bodhidharma), "Breakthrough Sermon" (Red Pine trans.)
--'What is gained by tears will go by tears. In the end, goodness
Reaps many good things, though it begins with loss.'
Gurudeva's Vedic Trikurals,Verse 659
Verse 660:
'Protecting the country by wrongly garnered wealth
Is like preserving water in an unbaked pot of clay.'
--"I call it praise to suffer Tyrannie"
Sir Philip Sidney, *Astrophil and Stella*
--"And when he stumbleth striking there his foot,
Fallen on evil days, the tyrant's pride
Shall measure all the miserable length
That parts rule absolute from servitude.'
Aeschylus, *Prometheus Bound*
--The Bhagavad Gita explains, "As a blazing fire
reduces the wood to ashes, O Arjuna, so does the fire of knowledge reduce all activity to ashes. There is nothing on earth which possesses such power to cleanse as wisdom. The perfect yogin finds this knowledge in himself by
himself in due time." Aum Namah Sivaya.
--"...principles form[ing] the bright constellation of that which has gone before us, and guided our steps..."
Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, 1801
--"Fierce courage is what they call valor,
And Chivalry to the fallen forms its sharp edge."
Gurudeva, Trikural Vedas, v.773
--"The intellectual should constantly disturb, should bear
witness to the misery of the world, should be provacative
by being independent, should rebel against all hidden and
open pressures and manipulations,should be the chief doubter of systems...and for this reason, an intellectual cannot fit into any role that might be assigned to him...and essentially doesn't belong anywhere: he stands out as an irritant wherever he is."
--Vaclav Havel, quoted by Alan Clements, *Aung San Suu Kyi, The Voice of Hope*
(Seven Stories Press, 1997), p. 121
--"...We will try it out with you, ye that have harried and held,
Ye that have bullied and bribed, tyrants, hypocrites, liars!"
--Padraic (Patrick Henry) Pearse (1879-1916)
--"If there is one tall pine-tree standing, the forest has not ended..."
Olde Tibetan saying
