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April 2008 
952,000 SIGN FOR TIBET
Posted on Mar 25th, 2008
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Chaiwallah
Chaiwallah
Here's an update. 952,000 people have signed the petition. It would be brilliant to get it up to 1 million before the World Day of Action for Tibet, next Monday, March 31st. That's also the day that the Olympic torch arrives in Beijing. If you can think of anyone who might not have signed the petition, please forward this email to them again.
If you have already signed and circulated this petition, thank you so much. News of this will bring hope and joy to thousands of Tibetans who are imprisoned right now for resisting Chinese oppression, who are being physically tortured for their Buddhist beliefs, for their loyalty to HH the Dalai Lama.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/tibet_end_the_violence/
BTW some of you may feel by this stage that my blog has become a bit too strident and politic al, not quite laid back enough for a confessed advaitin. Remember Krishna's advice to Arjuna on the battlefield of the Kurus and Pandavas,"Established in Being, perform action!"
It's so easy for us in the West not only to venerate, but actually to meet HH the Dalai Lama, and other spiritual luminaries, Tibetan, Zen, Vedic etc. In Tibet, to carry a photo of HH the Dalai Lama is to risk arrest, imprisonment without trial, torture, even death. In China, to pronounce belief in "Truth, Forbearance and Compassion" will get you arrested as a Falun Gong "evil-cultist". Same fate as the Tibetans.
We owe it to their courage to support them in their hour of need. Which is what is happening now.
Cheers,
Chaiwallah
If you have already signed and circulated this petition, thank you so much. News of this will bring hope and joy to thousands of Tibetans who are imprisoned right now for resisting Chinese oppression, who are being physically tortured for their Buddhist beliefs, for their loyalty to HH the Dalai Lama.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/tibet_end_the_violence/
BTW some of you may feel by this stage that my blog has become a bit too strident and politic al, not quite laid back enough for a confessed advaitin. Remember Krishna's advice to Arjuna on the battlefield of the Kurus and Pandavas,"Established in Being, perform action!"
It's so easy for us in the West not only to venerate, but actually to meet HH the Dalai Lama, and other spiritual luminaries, Tibetan, Zen, Vedic etc. In Tibet, to carry a photo of HH the Dalai Lama is to risk arrest, imprisonment without trial, torture, even death. In China, to pronounce belief in "Truth, Forbearance and Compassion" will get you arrested as a Falun Gong "evil-cultist". Same fate as the Tibetans.
We owe it to their courage to support them in their hour of need. Which is what is happening now.
Cheers,
Chaiwallah
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so exciting!