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September 11: Practice and Perspectives
Buddhists respond to terrorism.
Buddhists Respond to Terrorism:
What We've Been Practicing For by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Welcome to the Real World by Judith L. Lief
Waking Up the Nation by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Real Enemy by Rimpoche Nawang Gehlek
Anger and Patience by Rimpoche Nawang Gehlek
Nothing to Regret by Clark Strand
Spaces in the Sky by Stephen Batchelor
The Gateway to Compassion by Lama Palden
"They insulted me,
hit me,
beat me,
robbed me"
—for those who brood on this,
hostility isn't stilled.
"They insulted me,
hit me,
beat me,
robbed me"
—for those who don't brood on this,
hostility is stilled.
Hostilities aren't stilled
through hostility,
regardless.
Hostilities are stilled
through non-hostility:
this, an unending truth.
—Shakyamuni Buddha
The Dead No Not Want Us Dead
The dead do not want us dead;
such petty errors are left for the living.
Nor do they want our mourning.
No gift to them—not rage, not weeping.
Return one of them, any one of them, to the earth,
and look; such foolish skipping,
such telling of bad jokes, such feasting!
Even a cucumber, even a single anise seed: feasting.
—Jane Hirschfield
September 15, 2001
Image: Skyskraper II, 1978, latex, acrylic, and oil on canvas, 2 panels, 120x57 1/2 in. © Robert Moskowitz
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