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China trying to crack U.S. computer network?
This story seems quite inflammatory. Cyberwars are already happening, so this would mean declaration of cyberwar by China (in the year of their Olympic triumph) if true. But remember it's all according to a Pentagon annual report. And to put it as mildly as possible, opinions vary on the trustworthiness of reports from Bush's Pentagon.
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WNYC's Gift to Bhutan
Andrea Bernstein of WNYC spent a week in Bhutan, training local reporters to cover the nation's first-ever election on March 24th. Bernstein blogged her interesting and amusing experiences here.
Hmmm, some gift. Welcome to the wonderful world of political journalism, Bhutan! A free and disinterested press is very important, of course. But there's little enough of that on these shores when it comes to covering the current U.S. campaign.
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Panchen Lama Too Young for Politics, Burmese and Sri Lankan News
China has apparently changed its mind and now says Beijing's Panchen Lama is too young for politics. The Dalai Lama's choice for Panchen Lama remains hidden somewhere, probably under arrest. having undergone years of "re-education."
U.N> special envoy Ibrahim Gambari heads back to Burma. Will he diplomatically express his dissatisfaction with Burma's "roadmap to democracy?"
India, the world's largest democracy, is tightening ties with Burma. They are neighbors after all. Can India use its considerable leverage to ameliorate the situation? Time will tell, but first the money has to start flowing. Imagine your next-door neighbor beats up his wife. But he sells you lots of things you want very cheaply and lets you park your RV in his driveway.
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Frank Olinsky's blog
Tricycle contributing editor Frank Olinsky has had a hand in many cool designs over the years including the original Tricycle logo and the timeless MTV logo, and now he has his own blog. The excellent picture here is taken from there and is called "Dogs Waiting for Their Humans." Don't you love it? You can find it supersized on Frank's blog, alongside many other cool pictures, logos, and designs.
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Stephen Malkmus
Ok, we were prepared to poo-poo one mention of Stephen Malkmus being a fan of Tricycle, maybe even two. But three? No, we can no longer stay silent! Besides, Pavement rocked. Here he is in index, Rolling Stone, and the Toronto Globe and Mail (purchase required for this last one.) A sharp=eyed reader in Toronto spotted the mention and wrote us a very thoughtful letter, for which we thank him.
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Is Certainty Possible?
A very interesting Salon article on the possibility that knowledge (or the feeling of knowing) is biologically based rather than the result of thinking. So should we always say "I believe" rather than "I know"? This one will get the epistemologists and everyone else up in arms. The writer is Robert Burton, author of On Being Certain.
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Virtual Break
The Times wonders how we can take a time out:
“Even many corporate leaders now believe you need time to hear the voice of the new inside,” said Anne Dilenschneider, a spirituality consultant in Montara, Calif., a coastal town 17 miles south of San Francisco. “And this time need not be a day, or even a specific period, activity or lack of one. It doesn’t necessarily mean a Zen sit, just some time of solitude.”
Even without a Zen sit (enough to scare me away from anything) or a phrase like “the voice of the new,” I found that the secular Sabbath was not all that easy to maintain. Something as simple as turning off the electronics is easy, but try to make a habit of it.
A "Zen sit" sounds like a prescription drug.
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Beijing's stranglehold over Tibet: The Railway and the Panchen Lama
The International Campaign for Tibet says the railway to Lhasa is hurting Tibet. Not surprisingly, China disagrees.
Beijing hopes to bring together politics and religion by appointing its handpicked Panchen Lama to a high government post. The Panchen Lama is second only to the Dalai Lama in importance in the dominant Gelugpa order of Tibetan Buddhism.
The Panchen Lama recognized by the Dalai Lama and most Tibetan Buddhists has been held by the Chinese authorities since the early 1990's. The Panchen Lama chosen by Beijing is the one the world sees and who now seems destined to get into politics.
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Diacritic or diacritical marks; Zen Zone
A great post on those pesky diacritic marks that trip up so many of us over at the Level 8th Buddhist. These things always slow me down when I'm trying to write Pema Chödrön. A small o with the umlaut is & # 246 ;
Also, be sure to visit the Zen Zone ("pleasure island") if you go to Disney World. It's a mecca of massage. Thanks to Zen Filter for this one.
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1 in 100 American Adults Are Behind Bars
Terrible news:
For the first time in the nation’s history, more than one in 100 American adults is behind bars, according to a new report.
Nationwide, the prison population grew by 25,000 last year, bringing it to almost 1.6 million. Another 723,000 people are in local jails. The number of American adults is about 230 million, meaning that one in every 99.1 adults is behind bars.
Incarceration rates are even higher for some groups. One in 36 Hispanic adults is behind bars, based on Justice Department figures for 2006.
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Monks vs. Monkeys in Bodh Gaya
Seems the monkeys in Bodh Gaya are attarcted to the sweet offerings left by pilgrims. But the hordes of arboreal primates are more damaging to the tree, say its attendants, than the Tamil Tigers' attack on the site in 1985, left many dead, but didn't hurt the tree.
Guards ring bells, burst crackers or flash torch lights to scare off the invading primates, but Buddhism won't allow the use of violence to deter the monkeys.
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Rapping Monk in Japan
There's crazy stuff going on in Buddhism in Japan. Here's a rapping monk, Shaka Munibutsu, with some rhymes to slap you out of samsara and guaranteed to decrease your dukkha. He's on a mission to bring the dharma to young folks. Hope he's on YouTube soon!
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Thaksin's Back; Gambari on Burma; Sri Lankan Violence
Thaksin's back in Thailand! The ousted PM returned home Thursday. He's promised to stay out of politics but many doubt this claim, calling it a "political game."
Nicholas Kristof discusses the other genocide in the Sudan in a region far poorer than Darfur.
"Burmese Democracy":
The San Francisco Chronicle joins the chorus decrying Burma's faux democracy in this editorial. The U.N.'s envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, wants a "credible and inclusive" roadmap to democracy. Gambari is in Tokyo, sipping sake and chatting with the Japanese about ramping up their aid to Burma.
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Falun Gong in Wellington and Tum-mo Everywhere
Falun Gong defies the government... the city council of Wellington, New Zealand, that is.
Tum-mo and your mind/body:
In a monastery in northern India, Tibetan monks sat quietly in a room, deep in meditation. Although the room was a chilly 39˚ F, the men - using a yoga technique known as Tum-mo - were scarcely clothed, but seemed unaffected by the cold. Nearby, other monks soaked large sheets in freezing cold water and placed them on the shoulders of the meditators. Within an hour, the sheets were dry.
Scientists who have studied the monks - some of whom were capable of raising the temperature of their fingers and toes by 17˚ F - have yet to determine how the meditative process was able to generate so much heat.
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Global Seed Vault
The global seed vault opens (or closes?) in Norway. (So Titan A.E.!) I wish I lived in Norway.
LONGYEARBYEN, Norway, February 26, 2008 (ENS) - The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened today on a remote island in the Arctic Circle, receiving the first shipments of what will be a collection of 100 million seeds from more than 100 countries.
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From the Blogs
There's so much great stuff to be found out there on the Buddhist blogs. Here's just a tiny taste:
Anyone planning to be in New Haven, Connecticut on April 11th should check out Danny Fisher's lecture, "What Does a Buddhist Chaplain Do?
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Thaksin to return to Thailand; Monlam Chenmo
Deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is expected back in Thailand February 28th.
After President Bush imposed fresh sanctions on Burma's business interests, The Irrawaddy says Burma's Asian neighbors, who are bigger trading partners than the U.S., need to do the same.
Reuters on Monlam Chenmo, Tibet's Great Prayer Festival. More on Monlam from Phayul.com.
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Krishnamurti, Chogyam Trungpa, and Fleet Maull
A series of YouTubes, courtesy of Hokai.
Krishnamurti speaks with Chogyam Trungpa (5 videos)
Fleet Maull on Integral Peacemaker Training
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Tibetan Olympics; More from the Pew Report
More sanctions on Burmese businesses from the U.S.
Disillusioned with the Beijing Olympics? Try the Tibetan Olympics! The games will take place in Dharamsala from may 15th to 25th.
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