______Socially Engaged Buddhism______
An evening with Zen teacher Dr Ian Prattis …
author of Failsafe: Saving the Earth from Ourselves
Tuesday, Sept 22 :: 7:00-9:00pm
Zuru Ling Tibetan Buddhist Centre
318-336 East 1st Avenue
604 874-7655 :: by donation
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Oneness Day Petition – The Text
I declare:
1. That the message We Are All One, inter-related, inter-connected and inter-dependent … [link]
UN human rights body to send fact-finding mission to Gaza
Canada cast the only negative vote for the non-binding resolution, which received the support of 33 of the Council’s 47 members, while 13 countries abstained. [full story]
The incursion into Gaza is not about destroying Hamas. It is not about stopping rocket fire into Israel. It is not about achieving peace. [… It] is about building a hell on earth. […] Life will become a nightmare for most Palestinians and, in the years ahead, for most Israelis. [article]
Chris Hedges writes in Truthdig on Mondays. He used to be Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times.
by Hozan Alan Senauke
Gaza is burning. The violence must end before anything else can happen. We can all think nice thoughts about right and wrong, who acted first, who acted worst. We can argue about politics — national, international, geopolitical, corporate. Whatever intellectual thread my mind pulls at quickly comes to a hopeless tangle. [article]
Those who externalize evil and seek to eradicate that evil through violence lose touch with their own humanity and the humanity of others. […] We will never free ourselves from the self-delusion of the “war on terror” until we first vanquish the terrorist within. [article]
Chris Hedges writes in Truthdig on Mondays. He used to be Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times.
The practice of compassion is central to every one of the major world religions – but sometimes you would never know it. Instead, religion is associated with violence, intolerance and seems more preoccupied by dogmatic or sexual orthodoxy.
Claude Thomas served as a helicopter crew chief in Vietnam and was shot down on five separate occasions. Wounded, he left the US Army with an honorable discharge in 1968. He became a Zen priest in 1995 and now works for peace through the Zaltho Foundation.
“In 1990, after more than 20 years of misery, he attended a meditation retreat for Vietnam vets led by the Vietnamese Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh, and it changed his life.” – Publishers Weekly
Peace and Nonviolence – Public Talk
November 28 at 7:00 PM (to 9:00 PM)
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre
1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver
Tickets – $15.00 (no one turned away for lack of funds)
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World Peace Forum Teach-In
November 8, 9 & 11 2008
Maritime Labour Centre
1880 Triumph Street
[details]
Vancouver BPF 
