The Charter for Compassion is a collaborative effort to build a peaceful and harmonious global community. Bringing together the voices of people from all religions, the Charter seeks to remind the world that while all faiths are not the same, they all share the core principle of compassion and the Golden Rule. The Charter will change the tenor of the conversation around religion. It will be a clarion call to the world.
Visit website: http://charterforcompassion.com/
Na een paar heerlijke dagen logeren mijn zuster (@llaan op twitter) en bezoekjes bij mijn moeder, ben ik weer terug thuis in de Limousin. De reis alleen in de auto ging heel goed, geen files in Antwerpen of Parijs, en een grijze lucht -wat wel fijn is als je in de richting van de zon rijdt.
Suzan is goed aangekomen in Karmê Chöling. Zij komt dinsdag weer thuis.
We gaan onderweg eens meer. Vanmiddag rijden we samen naar Parijs, waar we morgen op het vliegveld afscheid nemen voor anderhalve week. Suzan gaat naar Karmê Chöling om te vergaderen, en ik rij door naar Nederland om familie te bezoeken. Donderdag rij ik in mijn eentje weer terug naar Frankrijk.One way to do this involves Google Alert, Twitter (of course) and a handy service called Twitterfeed. With Google Alert you can create an automated search, for instance for the words "peace meditation action". Google Alert will do a search and send an email or create an RSS feed when it finds new results according to your search. The RSS feed we will use with Twitterfeed, but first make a new Twitter account that will post the updates. The advantage to do this with a new Twitter account is that everyone interested in the result of the Google Alert search can "Follow" this account.
So, let say for this example we create a Twitter account with the name "peace_action". After we have created this account, we go to Twitterfeed. You need to create an account at Twitterfeed, if you haven't got one yet.
In Twitterfeed create a new twitterfeed, linking the RSS feed from Google Alert that we have created to the new Twitter account.
Now "Follow" the newly created Twitter account, and you will get updates from Twitter user "peace_action" about content that is published on the web on this subject.
If you have a Twitter account, you can follow the "@shambhala_med" account. This account I have created using the setup as described here, with Google Alert searching for the words "shambhala" and "meditation".
We are bombarded with images of war. On the TV news, in our newspapers. The pictures pile up, and with them some solid assumptions. We assume that war is human nature. That there's an epidemic of war and it's only getting worse. That it's too profitable for some businesses to be stopped. And too effective for some governments to give up. That war will be with us forever.
None of these things is true.
The world is changing.
We are changing.
The astonishing and astonishingly little-known fact is that the number of wars across the world is in fact dropping. Dramatically. We are actually in the grip of an outbreak of peace.
Away from the cameras, ordinary people everywhere are taking amazing steps to force peace out of trouble and violence. Even business - long assumed to be the dark driving force behind war - has worked out that there's more money to be made in peace. The enterprises that profiteer from war are in the minority, and they're shrinking.
And if those positive forces aren't enough, there's one very big reason already compelling us to evolve beyond our ancient human impulse to war: the planet. The challenges of global warming confront humankind with an absolute crossroads in our development as a species. The problems are by their nature, global - they cannot be solved by individual countries. And their solutions necessarily demand co-operation at a level we have yet to experience in human history. War cannot solve these problems. It can only make them insoluble. The only way to survive is to evolve, and become peaceful.
Watch the trailer of this movie here: http://www.soldiersofpeacemovie.com/movie-trailer/movie.php
Op iets meer dan 200 km van hier is het l'île d'oleron, het grootste eiland van Frankrijk na Corsica. We wilden een weekendje weg en iemand gaf ons de tip om naar dit eiland te gaan. Het was heerlijk!
Helaas kreeg onze camera panne en zijn er geen foto's van ons. We waren er 'off-season' en troffen het met het weer. Gisteren was het meer dan 25 graden. We konden op het strand zonnen totdat we er genoeg van hadden. Om op het eiland te komen kun je een brug nemen: zie ook:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ptbx/1238162079/.
Heerlijk geslapen in hotel-restaurant-bar "Jean-Bart" in het stadje Le Chateau, wat een oud fort is. Vanmorgen werden we wakker van de marktkooplui die bezig waren de zondagsmarkt op te bouwen. Op het terras buiten ontbeten, en daarna een lange wandeling op het strand gemaakt. In het naaldbos vlakbij gelunched. Daarna rustig terug gereden naar huis.
Onderweg nog een stadje aangedaan: Saintes. Aldaar een Romeins amphietheater uit de tiende eeuw bezocht. Ook mooi, al was het echt een skelet van wat het ooit geweest moet zijn geweest.
Nu weer thuis in St. Yrieix sous Aixe. We zijn een weekend weg geweest! We waren er echt aan toe.
Boston newspaper The Daily Free Press wrote an article on the discussion at Tufts University between Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, Rabbi Irwin Kula and the international leader of Shambhala Buddhism, Sakyong Jamgön Miphon Rinpoche: Read the article on The Daily Free Press website
From their website:
"Waging Peace campaigns against genocide and systematic human rights abuses. We have a particular focus on Africa, on atrocities overlooked by the international community and where minorities have been persecuted on racial or religious grounds. We work to secure the full implementation and enforcement of international human rights treaties wherever we campaign. Our current priority is Darfur, where we are fighting for an immediate end to the atrocities and a stable and secure peace settlement that will bring about long-term safety and security for Sudan’s citizens. Our experienced team produces regular high-level and in-depth research reports, which enable us to support the call for urgent, effective and measurable action from the UK government and the international community."
'One of the doughty NGOs which are doing the only effective work so far, that of trying to staunch the gaping wound, is one called Waging Peace.' (Financial Times, 7 Aug '07)
The Sakyong will be participating in several dialogues this week with Queen Noor and Rabbi Irwin Kula discussing the role of compassionate leadership in the world.
The first will take place on Wednesday 24 September in New York at Goldman Sachs for 250 of their partners and senior managers. A dialogue will take place at New York University that evening in front of a thousand NYU students, faculty and community.
On Thursday 25 September the dialogue will be held at Tufts University in Boston in front of 700 students, faculty and staff. At both NYU and Tufts the greater Shambhala community is invited. Please check with those centers for more information. The events are all nearly full to capacity.
This tour also inaugurates a new website which reflects the Sakyong's wish to engage a wider youth audience in the search for peace. The website provides links for students to send questions to the Sakyong, Queen Noor and Rabbi Kula for their appearances at NYU and Tufts.
I already have a blog, well more then one. So why start with OnSugar? I like the simple, yet elegant interface! And.. OnSugar can become the Next Big Social Network. And I just always create an account on any new social ("web 2.0") website that allows me, trying the get the account name "joop". that is the sport. This time I was fast enough here.
So welcome to Joop.OnSugar.com ;-)
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