Weekend thoughts
I really love what the 14th Dalai Lama says like,
" destruction of your enemy is destruction of yourself"
" there is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so"
"i want freedom in this world, not from this world"
"Tibet can exist internally in spirit and imagination even if it is barely visible on the map,communities can be linked not by common soil so much as by common ground, a common foundation"
Taken from an article of Time magazine March 31st edition.
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The Nobel prize for Peace he won is definitely well deserved. If every political and religious leaders think in this way, the word "war" would not even exist in the first place. Can you imagine he's being sent into exile out of his motherland due to political pressure but yet he still stresses peace and making his way to reconcile with those who see him as a threat (Chi *coughs*na*coughs*). I mean what's wrong with peace talk? I definitely despise those who seize the chance to boycott Olympic in Beijing, I think those people are just plain losers who cannot see the good of rising China but I think China has been burying their head in the ground all these while on Tibetan issue. Granted, Tibet is currently an autonomy territory but China could control their defense and foreign affair so long as Tibetans have sovereignty over everything else. In reality, China has injected vast developments to Tibet economy such as bringing excessive material possessions which against spiritual interests into the virgin land of Tibet. Just picture the scene of Potala Palace being mockingly surrounded by bars, clubs, brothels and so forth. So the ironic part also lies in the mammoth project of Beijing-Lhasa railway, although it open up a whole new chapter to tourism in China, people like me will be more than happy because I've been wanting to step on the land since forever and the railway has pulled my "dream" nearer to reality but then again it could mean another whole new different thing to the purity of Tibet since it can be flooded by commercial developments, environmental pollutions and pushing them one step closer to the China capitalism realm.
Another thing I admire about the 14th Dalai Lama is the non-fundamental thinking of him in terms of buddhism teachings. He's no where rigid like some of our poseurish spiritual leaders here in Malaysia where guys and girls should draw a clear line, all guys and girls should turn into homosexual (alright, ignore the latter haha) but somehow he rejects any teachings that has been disproved by scientific inquiry. How noble, big hearted and liberal in thinking! He wants freedom from ignorance and suffering it brings but what China wants are freedom from the past and backwardness. See the difference between a political leader and spiritual leader here?
Personally I think genuine harmony must come from the heart and not from the barrel of a gun. This is what the capitalist world will not ever get it. And those phony westerners all they treat Tibet as the last spiritual and virgin land on earth, here, they protest against the material development of Tibet and saying China violates humanity but at their end, they are doing exactly the same thing to the world. Releasing CO2, propagandize, freemasonry, creating social conflicts, many rules by few...lotsa lotsa political gimmicks FFS, globalization is another thing, the rich will be richer and the poor will be poorer, cultures will be eroded and go into limbo forever, capitalism will rule the world, realistic, pragmatism...and if they would happily call those as upholding humanity acts. Whatever they say, all about human rights and they do not even understand a shit about the quality of being humane themselves. Have you ever heard of China waging war against any countries in this world? In past history, there were only civil wars within China but not a single one was made against others. Steven Spielberg is also another piece of shit, who does he thinks he is? His films are all crappy and I do not even wanna mention how sickening of me to suffer through "War of The World". If he is so concern about the well being of Darfur, he should have withdrawn all his properties and donates them to whatever foundation catering to Darfur. They just can't see the good of rising China, China is not a threat, is an opportunity and transition of global economy power.
China should really probe this issue openly with Tibet and of course talk to Tibetan leader in peaceful manner without involving any form of violence. And westerners just stop demeaning the innocents. MYOB.
I'm thinking of taking Philosophy next semester. Hope it can focus more on modern philosophy. Kthxbye.
