Shadow & Light

Joining supporters of Tibet, supporters and practitioners of the Taoist/Buddhist Falun Gong are among those protesting at the Beijing Olympics. For a look at some of what happens within the so-called “re-education” camps, have a look at this short video (warning: really intense).

The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) has produced a guide to Chinese labor camps, called "Torture Outside the Olympic Village", in the hopes that reporters covering the games will also make an attempt to tell this other, much less glamorous, story. Many of the camps are located just a stone’s throw from Olympic venues.

What a bizarre juxtaposition: totally inspiring athletic performances ~ a demonstration of some of the best of what we’re capable of, as human beings ~ with this kind of heinous cruelty. What’s up with this?!

The Kingdom of Heaven on Earth

In a chapter with the above title, Wei Wu Wei - in Ask The Awakened - writes:

"But you have only to sit back and think for a few moments in order to perceive that what is called "Evil" has only one cause, a most obvious one, that is neither Satan nor Heredity nor anything in between. It is the I-concept, the notion of an individuality, of a separate self. Take that away, and nothing deriving from it can remain - for all derive from pride, greed, envy, desire, ambition, etc., all of which are manifestations of egoism or what is commonly called self-ishness."