Day of Action

An update on Tibet TV (see link opposite and here) requests that a day of peaceful action by Buddhists across the world takes place on the 8th February to protest against the recent killings in Tibet and to help bring about a transition to the lives of all those living (or exiled from) Tibet.  I have yet to determine what actions I will take myself; but we shouldn’t stay silent about the situation (unless of course a deliberate act of silence is your chosen protest).  I still find it difficult to understand why we as a worldwide community closely linked together in so many ways still believe that oppression, killing, destruction of culture, violence and torture can be an effective means of bringing about any form of improved society.  It is every individual that chooses to take the action they do, it is every individual that chooses violence, it is every individual that can also choose peace.