Monday, March 17, 2008
Pray for Tibet
(Image from source)
I received this message from Lawrence Edwards this morning:
"Please read this and use the links below to contact US government representatives and to support Save Tibet, www.savetibet.org
Please forgive me for sending you information you didn't ask for. This is just so very important. It even was on the front page of the NY Times on Saturday"
Namaste,
Lawrence
www.anamcara-ny.org
As you may know,there is renewed violence in Tibet. What began as peaceful protest has escalated, and there are numerous confrontations throughout the country. The Dalai Lama is calling for restraint on all sides. Those of us who love Tibet (and that includes us all) will want to offer any support we can, including our prayers for peace to be restored and for diplomatic channels to serve to ameliorate the conditions there.
Like many of you, I claim Tibet as my ancestral home, even though such assertions have become so prevalent that they are almost cliches. Nonetheless, I feel that I did indeed once live there and participated as a monk in its spiritual life.
I have pondered why so many of us share similar feelings, and have concluded that I agree with the notion that when great beings return to earth, they do so in fragmented form. This shrunken self (a particle of the original source) then must deal with the limitations of human existence; yet they retain some memory of their primal beginnings. For the spirit(higher) self (which continues to exist in the upper realms), this descent is a valuable reminder of what it means to live in a contracted, human form, with the constant challenges and struggles of the earthly plane.
So what stirs in us when we identify so strongly with Tibet (or other lost homes) is a memory of a prior existence which arises through our connection with that distant being.
From one source, many descendants, who are like sparks in the divine fire at the heart of all that is.
Dorothy Walters
March 17, 2008
