Namo Avalokiteshvaraya! The Bodhisattva of great compassion, is the most well-known of all the Bodhisattvas in the Buddhist tradition. In Plum Village, her name is invoked as a prayer, continuously repeated for twenty minutes, in order to awaken the energy of compassion in us all and transmit it to all living beings. When the monastics chant the name Avalokiteshvaraya, for the first time, they go back to themselves to touch the suffering inside of them. And when they chant the name for the second time they become aware of the suffering of the people around them. And when they chant it for the third time, they get in touch with the suffering of the whole world, embracing it tenderly with the energy of compassion.
The recent “conflict” between Palestine and Israel explained in under ten minutes by Double Down News. The audience commented: “I don’t condone the violence against the Israeli people by Hamas. Equally, I don’t condone the violence against the Palestinians by the Israeli govt. Yet the violence perpetrated by Hamas was condemned the world over by political leaders, whilst the violence perpetrated against the Palestinians day in day out year in year out is largely ignored: where’s the justice in that?” It seemed to be an continuation of an on-going struggles that lasted for decades, if not millenus. This year, Israel celebrated the 75th anniversary of its founding in 1948. This program explain how Israel was created. We have an very complex issue hangover from World War II and the era of British Empire, further deteriorated by American Empire.
While we condemned the violence to the innocent civilian, according to Journalist Ben Norton who had been looking over the issue in the last ten years, international law clearly showed that Palestinians have a legal right to armed resistance against Israeli colonialism. Just as South Africans did against apartheid. Gaza suffers under an illegal Israeli blockade that even a former British prime minister recognized to be a “prison camp”.
President CLINTON CALLS FOR PEACE BETWEEN PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELIS. November 4 1995 marked a very tragic turning point in the The Oslo Accord, a framework that would lead to the resolution of the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was the culmination of an anti-violence rally in support of the Oslo peace process. Rabin was disparaged personally by right-wing conservatives and Likud leaders who perceived the peace process as an attempt to forfeit the occupied territories and a capitulation to Israel’s enemies.
There was another event of grand scheme went on that year, call me conspiracist, but the synchronicity is hard to deny. It turned out there was a conference in San Francisco of 500 elites from all over the world, held in September 1995, with participants including Margret Thatcher, Senior Bush, George Soros, Bill Gates, former Soviet Union Gorbachev and national security counsel Brzezinski. The topic is about how to handle increasingly rips on inequality and wealth distribution. The notorious Nipple Plan was officially brought to the center of the agenda in the conference. 布热津斯基的 ”奶头乐计划“ 。Today, near thirty years later, Brzezinski’s plan had already completed ahead of time. People were giving plenty of sex, drugs, computer games, rock and roll, and Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, entertainments, to keep occupied. Many states permit the usage of Marijuana. The drug abuses is records high in the percentage of the population, both medical and entertainment. Both Democratic Party and Republican Party turned a blind eyes to the abuses of the Big Pharma and American Medical Association monopolies.
Coincidentally or non-coincidentally, Master Xuan Hua, who was a prominent spiritual leader came to America from China in the 1960s, passed away on June 1995. Master Hsuan Hua founded several institutions in the US. The Dharma Realm Buddhist Association (DRBA) is a Buddhist organization with chapters in North America, Australia and Asia. The City of Ten Thousand Buddhas (CTTB) in Ukiah, California, is one of the first Chan Buddhist monasteries in America. Hsuan Hua founded Dharma Realm Buddhist University at CTTB. The Buddhist Text Translation Society works on the phonetics and translation of Buddhist scriptures since 1970, from Chinese into English, Vietnamese, Spanish, and many other languages. But the importance of Master Xuan Hua education work had not much recognized by the U.S government or the mainstream popular.
Buddha had taught “six-ways of mutual respect” as guidelines for his disciples in interacting with others. The principle actual also applicable to modern society as well.
In a world full of uncertainty brought by the globalization and inevitable conflicts of interest, in the same time with the hot wars, multilateral cold wars are also triggered, including but not limited to unrestrive warfares in technology, finance, culture, ideology and religion, education, etc, these crashes magnified the tensions of everyday life, affected millions of people, regardless if they are in the hot bullet battle fields. We observed these phenomenon in the millions of refugees from the Middle Easts of last several decades, and the recent years from Ukraine Russia War. As the nonstopped tension were provoked, the emotional ocean of the collectives fluctuated ceaselessly, sometimes like the tsunami, sometimes like Hurricane, and other times like small storms of all sorts, under the impact of the electronic connectivity and biased media bombardment all over the world, human life to the brink of mental collapses like bipolar disorder. While we condemn inexorable act of violence, such like the assassination of Sikh religious leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the governmental persecution of journalism devoted to the justice of the society, the non stopped tragedies happening in this world, such as numerous coups or color revolution in many developing countries, such as the colonialism by the west, we also have to take into consideration of the complexity of historical problems hangover.
What are the guiding principle of our reality? What can keep us at peace with whatever life throw the curb ball at us? In the vast universe, human is smaller than an ant in the football field, tiner than a drop of sand in the ocean. Realizing the insignificance of our position, we should take refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma and Sangha. Avalokiteshvara had compassionately offer the Universal Gate method to all humanity against fear and violence. The Lotus Sutra’s Universal Gate Chapter on Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva introduces the compassionate visage of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva (Chinese: Guanyin), who has been a source of inspiration and devotion for Buddhists and non-Buddhists for centuries. This short chapter of the Lotus Sutra, chanted and memorized throughout East Asia, is believed to be a strong protection of our body and mind.
