Science Connects to Buddha Nature and Inner Consciousness

Everyone should learn the basic concepts of science and evolve with it. I’ve always loved science because it’s connected to everything around us, the trees, the birds, the insects to the foods we eat!  The world is an amazing place! Having a degree in science, and coming from a family of Buddhists for many generations, I can understand the Dalai Lama’s interest and excitement in science, I’m still evolving.   I agree, totally love Dhondup’s question, because my knowledge and understanding of science has helped me to understand Buddhism better, though I still have a lot more to learn about Buddhist teachings into consciousness, my inner being.

Wouldn’t mind taking the course myself, so I hope the scientists eventually bring the Buddhist science teaching model home to America, so we can educate ourselves here to.

Teaching the Dalai Lama’s Monks: Better Religion Through Science

Do bacteria require light?” Tashi, one of my best students, wants to know. He sits there in Dharamsala, India, like his Buddhist monk colleagues, cross-legged on the floor in maroon robes, six hours a day learning science from a tall white Jewish guy from North Carolina.

Religion often has a hard time of it, especially among academics, and especially among scientists. Of course academics have no problem studying religion and raising big money to establish endowed chairs, centers, and institutes devoted to just that. But when actually being religious or even discussing personal beliefs or spirituality at all, is rare and, if anything, discouraged. To me this is an odd and disturbing social conundrum: let’s take our best thinkers and idea-people, theorizers, and policy developers and eradicate any discussion of personal belief, religion, or spirituality from their official discourse. Brilliant.

So, it’s refreshing to be part of a project, an experiment really, in which academics are actively engaging religious tradition and belief. Even better, and ironically, this engagement is driven by scientists; the very folks many blame for hammering personal belief out of intellectual conversation in the West in the first place.

[read the full article on Better Religion Through Science]

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I think the communists should be relocated!

The Chinese communist party complains about what American’s did to the Native Americans, yet this is what they are doing to the Tibetan people in the 20th & 21st century? 

The American government has recognized the wrongs of what the early Americans did to the Native American population, probably not enough, but that doesn’t give anyone else the right to reenact those hateful deeds, especially when those deeds have been recognized as being inhuman and against Human Rights in the 20th and 21st century by many nations!  It’s genocide!  No justification for it, but greed!

What ever happened to the promises the communists gave to the Olympic Committee?  Seem less than honorable.

Chinese police shoot dam protesters, Tibetan government-in-exile claims

Six Tibetan women were shot by China security forces during a protest over a hydroelectric dam project in Sichuan province, the Tibetan government-in-exile claimed today.

The women were demonstrating against a forcible relocation programme in Yajiang, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Region, on Sunday morning, when public security officers and armed police opened fire, according to the statement from Dharamsala.

The condition of the women is unknown as they were reportedly taken away by the authorities. Their names were given as Tsering Lhamo, Rigzin Lhamo, Dolma, Kelsang, Dolkar and Khaying.

Other Tibetan sources were unable to confirm the shooting. Chinese government officials said they would look into the claims.

Several dams are under construction in the area. Among them is the Lianghekou hydroelectric plant, which is scheduled to begin operation in 2010. [read more]

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Military Disbars One of Aung San Suu Kyi’s Attorney

One of here charges is for encouraging “illegal swimming”, LOL!  Wow!  Can they come up with a better excuse!  It’s very clear they are trying to prevent her form being the leader of the people, after she won the elections.

Myanmar bars Suu Kyi lawyer, U.S. renews sanctions

Myanmar’s junta has barred a prominent activist lawyer from defending opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, as pressure intensifies on the regime to drop new charges against the Nobel Peace laureate.

Aung Thein said the order revoking his license was issued on Friday, a day after a prison court charged Suu Kyi with breaking the conditions of her nearly six-year house arrest, which is due to expire on May 27. “I went to Insein Prison to be one of the five defense lawyers for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and they issued the order the next day,” Aung Thein told Reuters.

Critics of the regime have denounced the trial of Suu Kyi and two female companions, due to start on Monday, on charges stemming from the mysterious visit of an American intruder who was arrested after he claimed to have spent two days at her lakeside home in Yangon.

Suu Kyi, 63, faces up to five years in jail if convicted.

Her lawyers insist she is innocent and did not invite U.S. citizen John Yettaw, who according to state media swam to her tightly-guarded lakeside home using homemade flippers.

Yettaw’s motives remained unclear, but he has been charged with various offences, including encouraging others to break the law and “illegal swimming.”  [read more]

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Free, like any other citizen of the globe

Love this quote!

“The
Dalai Lama is more than free, like any other citizen of the globe, who
would want to visit our country”   -Ms Nkoana-Mashabane

Yes! It is a world that should be free, but unfortunately only in some.  A lot of people are under military ruling dictators only when the people rule the governments shall they be free.

It’s sad the communist party won’t talk with the Dalai Lama; they consistently saying he’s an alleged “splitis” , no kindness, friendliness or gestures of kindness.  We all know what’s going on here, and people are not blind to those facts.  Tibetan’s should be able to govern their own people and land; they’ve been their for thousands of years, just like the other people in the Himalayas.

It’s the fact that the communists are acting like this, that make other people angry, so they are making the situation worse, it’s not the Dalai Lama calling on a Free Tibet, it’s people like me and my neighbors and friends because we now what hiding things mean and putting on a staged show is just a show.  If people wanted a show we’d go see Madonna, Elton John or some other natural artists and actors.

Students for a Free Tibet : South Africa in Dalai Lama U-turn

New International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said Tibet’s spiritual leader could now visit whenever he wanted.

The government caused an international outcry when it said it would not allow him to attend a peace conference, linked to the 2010 Football World Cup.

Critics accused South Africa of caving in to Chinese pressure.

The visa ban prompted Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former South African President FW de Klerk to pull out of the conference for Nobel laureates, forcing organisers to postpone it indefinitely.

Despite the furor at the time, government spokesman Thabo Masebe said no visa would be issued “between now and the World Cup”, which South Africa is hosting. The government said his presence would distract attention from the World Cup – the first to be held in Africa.

But Ms Nkoana-Mashabane, appointed this week to newly elected President Jacob Zuma’s cabinet, said she wanted to clarify the position.

“The Dalai Lama is more than free, like any other citizen of the globe, who would want to visit our country,” she told journalists.

Beijing says the Dalai Lama is pushing for Tibetan independence, and has stirred up unrest in the region.

But the Dalai Lama, who fled to India in 1959 during an uprising against Chinese rule, has said he only wants limited autonomy for his homeland.

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Prison without trial after being seen on YouTube discribing torture

Monk Freed After 6 Months in Prison

A senior Tibetan monk has been released from prison after being held for six months without charge, according to the International Campaign for Tibet, an advocacy group based outside China. The monk, Jigme, from Labrang Monastery in the town of Xiahe, was detained by security officers after he appeared in a video posted on YouTube in which he described being tortured during another period of detention. Two well-known human rights lawyers in China, Li Fangping and Jiang Tianyong, took up Jigme’s case last month. The lawyers also represent Phurbu Tsering Rinpoche, a senior Tibetan religious leader still being detained in Sichuan Province.

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Nonchalant Attitude Toward Life and Different Cultures! No Moral Sway

Morals isn’t just how you treat human’s, and it starts when they’re children.  If people can kill animals without any heart, then how much more your fellow human being?

Their are numerous events/videos depicting how animals are treated.  Gandhi also said “the greatness of a nation and it’s moral progress can be judged by how it’s animals are treated.”

There’s a few videos circulating showing how animals are treated for their fur, and China has a big fur trade, the animals are skinned alive without any form of sedation. The people skinning them stomp on their little heads, hang them and cut the areas, so they can rip the fur off their body.  The animals are left skinned and alive in a pile.  See Video!  Warning, actions are very graphic! China’s Fur Trade!

That kind of nonchalant attitude toward life is very scary, and I fear for the Tibetan people, and their culture and homeland, while in the hands of these communists.

BTW, the constant, repeated saying:  ” the Dalai Lama is masterminding separatist movements” isn’t believable!  It’s not the Dalai Lama calling for full freedom, it’s the people, people like me and other friends and neighbors because WE see what the communist party is up to.  They’ve already lied to the Olympic committee, so how can we believe anything else they say?  The Dalai Lama has constantly called for unity, and has asked for talks with the communist party, however they keep reneging.

China lacks moral sway: Dalai Lama

China must get rid of its autocratic policies and install moral authority if it wants to establish itself as a true global superpower, the Dalai Lama said Wednesday.

The Tibetan spiritual leader, visiting Japan before a two-week trip to the United States, criticized Beijing for suppressing minorities and waging a “propaganda campaign” during an antigovernment rally in Lhasa, the capital, last year.

“Such a big nation acting like a child,” he told reporters in Narita, Chiba Prefecture.

The Tibetan leader has been living in exile in India since 1959, when the Chinese army crushed resistance in the high, mountainous region.

China has accused the Dalai Lama of masterminding separatist movements while it clamps down to take stricter control of what it calls the Tibet Autonomous Region. It sentenced two Tibetans to death earlier this month for instigating deadly fires during anti-China protests in Lhasa just months before the Beijing Olympics last year.

The Dalai Lama condemned the rulings, saying there was “no rule of law and everything was controlled by the party” that single-handedly runs the communist state. He said the verdict was politically motivated and China’s latest effort to distract the public from reality.

The Dalai Lama, whose real name is Tenzin Gyatso, said the truth behind the riots in the holy Buddhist city must be brought to light and urged the media to investigate.[read more]

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Obama Should Listen to American’s, not the Communist Party of China!

Well, Obama should listen to American’s more than he listens to the Communist Government of China!  As an American patriot, Obama should meet with the Dalai Lama, so we can all hear the other side of the story, instead of alway’s having to listen the Communist Party.  However, we American’s already know the truth about the alleged “splitism,” and it’s more like annexation than splitism.  Aside from that any body of people should be allowed to split, especially when those people are being trampled upon, and their culture destroyed in their own country.

We’re living in the 21st century, and this shouldn’t even be happening when there are international laws in place against genocide.  Tibet was annexed by the communist government, and they did everything they possibly could then and now to destroy any history of an Independent Tibet.  There is enough evidence proving independence, to include a diplomatic passport, UN evidence, and several countries who had relations with Tibet long before the invasion of Independent Tibet.

China says Obama should not meet the Dalai Lama

China said Thursday that President Barack Obama should not meet the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, when he visits the United States in October.

Although a meeting has not been confirmed, every president since George H.W. Bush has met the Dalai Lama, raising the ire of China, which says the Nobel Peace laureate is bent on splitting Tibet from China.

“We firmly oppose the Dalai’s engagement in separatist activities in any country under whatever capacity and under whatever name,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said when asked to comment on a possible meeting.

“We have made representations to the United States urging the U.S. to honor its commitments and not allow the Dalai to engage in separatist activities in the United States,” she told a regular news conference. [read more]

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China executes 2 for deadly attack on police

That’s sick!

No regard for any kind of life!  Especially since it’s the communist paramilitary police that started all this.  The Genocide Olympics had already been tarnished by the way the communists have treated the Tibetan people on the Tibetan Plateau and else where.  When China was given the opportunity of hosting the Olympics, one of the promises was to be more open and allow for more freedom of the Tibetan people and  foreign journalists, well we can all see what happened with that.

The communist party imprisons any one who speaks up on truth regardless of being a Tibetan citizen or Chinese citizen.  Talk about the true history of Tibet, go to prison, but I’ve never seen that on the Monopoly board.

China executes 2 for deadly attack on police

China executed two members of a Muslim minority on Thursday after finding the men guilty of killing 17 police in an attack last year in the country’s far west that Beijing said was an attempt to sabotage the Beijing Olympics.

An overseas activist group called for an investigation of the men’s trial and allegations that they were tortured in custody.

The executions in China’s Xinjiang region came a day after two Tibetans were sentenced to death for arson during riots in Lhasa last spring, showing the government’s determination to tamp down unrest in regions that have chafed under its rule. An overseas group said security has been tightened in cities in Xinjiang with house-to-house searches of residents.

The attack on police last August in the city of Kashgar near the border with Pakistan and Afghanistan was the most brazen of several in the weeks around the Olympics, marring what the government and many Chinese hoped would be a showcase of China as a modern power.

Abdurahman Azat and Kurbanjan Hemit were convicted in December of ramming a truck into a group of police and then lobbing bombs at the officers and stabbing them on Aug. 4, four days before the start of the games, according to the court. [read more]

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Take Action: China: Stop the Executions!

Here China is occupying another country, Tibet, and the Tibetan people are peacefully protesting for their freedom.  No country is helping, probably because they are not at “war.”  Interesting how country’s will run to another countries aid when they are fighting and killing each other with all sorts of weapons,  yet Tibetan’s have no machine guns, tanks or personal gear to fight a war.  The Tibetan’s are protesting for their freedom peacefully, though, the Chinese paramilitary police often instigate riots, and rightly so for the Tibetan people, as any one else would do as a human being.

I find the communist party very disturbing for executing people for peacefully protesting, though there was a riot, that riot was instigated by the communist paramilitary police. The communist chines party is at fault, not the Tibetan people.

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China: Stop the Executions!
On April 8th, China sentenced two Tibetans, Lobsang Gyaltsen and Loyak, to death for their alleged involvement in last year’s protests in Lhasa. Two others, Phuntsok and Kangtsuk, were also sentenced to death but with a two year reprieve, and Dawa Sangpo was sentenced to life imprisonment.

These harsh sentences signal an alarming escalation in the Chinese government’s campaign to punish and intimidate Tibetans who dare to speak out against Chinese rule.

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China’s Brutality in Tibet Exposed

A video is worth a thousand words!  Images too!  The brutality of the communists toward the Tibetan people and their country is very well documented.  People just need to wake up and educate themselves on the issue, so Tibet can be free from these people.

China’s Brutality in Tibet Exposed

This video, produced by the Tibetan Government-in-Exile shows previously unreleased footage showing bound and defenseless Tibetans being brutally beaten in Lhasa. Chinese police are seen beating Tibetans arrested following powerful demonstrations against Chinese rule that took place across the entire Tibetan plateau last year. The uprising began with Buddhist monk-led protests in Lhasa, Tibet’s capital to commemorate the anniversary of the original March 10, 1959 uprising against China’s occupation. The protests spread quickly throughout Tibet and continued through the Spring and into the Summer, as the Chinese government filled Tibetan areas with troops and paramilitary police, brutally suppressing any dissent. The second part shows the horrific injuries suffered by a young man named Tendar who was arrested and tortured by Chinese police after attempting to stop the beating of a monk. [Warning: very graphic]. He succumbed to his injuries and died shortly after. The third section shows some footage smuggled out of Tibet showing the heavy military presence in Tibet around the time of the 50th anniversary of the March 10th 1959 uprising in Lhasa.

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