OscailtWaterfordman Spiritually Re-charges in Cavan3 days at Jampa Ling Buddhist centre in Cavan help recharge the batteries
Breaking news: Italian MP, Sgarbi denounces the Statistical Fraud on COVID-19. The speech of the Member of Parliament Vittorio Sgarbi in the session of the Italian Camera, Meeting no. 331 of Friday 24, April, 2020. Vittorio Sgarbi, denounces the closure of 60% of the businesses for 25,000 COVID-19 Deaths, of which the National Institute of Health says 96.3% died NOT of COVID-19 but of other pathologies. That means only 925 have died of the virus. 24,075 have died of other things.2007-03-27T22:12:32+00:00Indymedia Irelandimc-ireland@lists.indymedia.iehttp://www.indymedia.ie/atomfullposts?story_id=81682http://www.indymedia.ie/graphics/feedlogo.gifmore photos from Jampa Linghttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/81682#comment1880012007-03-27T22:12:32+00:00more photosphotosphotosNice, but... [1]http://www.indymedia.ie/article/81682#comment1880622007-03-28T14:22:40+00:00Wan More TingWhilst the Chinese invasion was to condemned let us not forget the fact that Tib...Whilst the Chinese invasion was to condemned let us not forget the fact that Tibet under the Lamas was a feudal society with slavery widely practised until the 1950's. Buddhism is a nice individual experience but is very much a middle class pursuit and is inclined to idealise societies that were not the least bit ideal.Buddistshttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/81682#comment1880692007-03-28T15:51:36+00:00Beara BoyWasn't there some bloke murdered at the Buddhist gaff near Skibbereen a few year...Wasn't there some bloke murdered at the Buddhist gaff near Skibbereen a few years ago? So much for contemplation and peace.Nice, but... [2]http://www.indymedia.ie/article/81682#comment1880732007-03-28T16:35:41+00:00Wan More TingCheck this out for a more realistic appraisal of Tibetan Buddhism: http://www.mi...Check this out for a more realistic appraisal of Tibetan Buddhism: <a href="http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html" title="http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html">http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html</a>The hacks that hackhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/81682#comment1881262007-03-28T23:41:28+00:00searbhánit's hard to know how to react.....the problem is actually that the preceeding c...it's hard to know how to react.....the problem is actually that the preceeding contributions provoke reactions, they are themselves reactions....<br />
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there is a lot of that on indymedia.......so often it happens that 'comments' are latched on to published articles...<br />
comments that seem like knee jerk, cloaked or open insults.....given by those who seemingly already know the answers......<br />
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Indymedia, remains wonderful, despite this, and i remain a contributor, however, i would make the suggestion to the All knowing commentators, that they could pitch their comments in a less abrasive way....<br />
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they might even just read something, realise that it is some one's else's valid experience, and make the choice of keeping their tuppence of negative reaction in the own pockets, and spend it on something a little bit more creative....<br />
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I love indymedia because it allows us all to publish such a variety of things, reflecting our varied human experience, which thankfully doesn't and never will conform to the narrow strictures of left or right wing ideology<br />
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My belief in it is absolutely unshakeable, and an infinity of negativity wouldn't make one jot of a difference to me.<br />
However, i wonder, say people coming online here for the first time, to publish something near to their heart, encountering such know-it all armchair intellectual posturing, would they be really put off by it? i'm inclined to think they might....<br />
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as regards, the "true picture of tibetan buddhism", even a cursory reading of the above article would make it obvious that it NEVER made ANY claims for either tibetan or any other form of buddhism, it was simply a personal account of a rewarding trip that i made to that place, Jampa Ling, in Cavan, and that i wanted to share with people out there. I have done that, and this article now cannot be unpublished, despite the negative knee jerk know it all ness.<br />
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The link to Michael Parenti is probably interesting, and i'll probably check it out, when i have more time or if i should ever feel like engaging mr. Wan More Ting in debate.,<br />
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but that really wasn't the point.<br />
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d'you get me?Nice, but... [3]http://www.indymedia.ie/article/81682#comment1882662007-03-29T17:43:39+00:00Wan More TingPlease don't go all sensitive on us. Indymedia, as you are aware, is primarily a...Please don't go all sensitive on us. Indymedia, as you are aware, is primarily a place for airing and arguing various political viewpoints and is not group therapy. I don't think it's advertised as doing happiness or bliss. Your contribution is littered with political points from the so called futility of left wing views to the the colonisation of Tibet and the 'destruction' of monasteries. Again I would ask you to read the blog of the Yale academic Michael Briganti on Tibetan Buddhism. The following is just a sample:<br />
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" 'Whatever wrongs and new oppressions introduced by the Chinese in Tibet, after 1959 they did abolish slavery and the serfdom system of unpaid labor, and put an end to floggings, mutilations, and amputations as a form of criminal punishment. They eliminated the many crushing taxes, started work projects, and greatly reduced unemployment and beggary. They established secular education, thereby breaking the educational monopoly of the monasteries. And they constructed running water and electrical systems in Lhasa."<br />
Elites, Émigrés, and the CIA .<br />
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"For the rich lamas and lords, the Communist intervention was a calamity. Most of them fled abroad, as did the Dalai Lama himself, who was assisted in his flight by the CIA. Some discovered to their horror that they would have to work for a living. However, throughout the 1960s, the Tibetan exile community was secretly pocketing $1.7 million a year from the CIA, according to documents released by the State Department in 1998. Once this fact was publicized, the Dalai Lama's organization itself issued a statement admitting that it had received millions of dollars from the CIA during the 1960s to send armed squads of exiles into Tibet to undermine the Maoist revolution. The Dalai Lama's annual payment from the CIA was $186,000. Indian intelligence also financed both him and other Tibetan exiles. He has refused to say whether he or his brothers worked for the CIA. The agency has also declined to comment."<br />
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No one's attacking your right to go all mystical just be careful with the baggage that goes with it. <br />
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you're a gas man wan, as i saidhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/81682#comment1882872007-03-29T19:17:38+00:00searbhányou might try actually reading what i wrote, first time, then again in response ...you might try actually reading what i wrote, first time, then again in response to your "comments".<br />
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Just now, again, you have proven that it wasn't comment at all, but rather a reaction, and an attempt by you to score points, and perhaps even pat yourself on the back by proving, "why I am so clever"....that's what seems to me, in any case..<br />
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in essence, i have no argument with you're statements on tibetan buddhism, <br />
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BECAUSE I WAS NOT TALKING THAT......<br />
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i was describing a stay i had, in Cavan, of all places.....there is nothing there about mysticality..<br />
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nor is there any baggage, i suggest perhaps that you look at possible baggage of your own, ie your seeming need to score points, and create divisive argument.....<br />
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There is nothing "mystical" in stating that there are other aspects to intelligent human experience than just rational intellectual debate & understanding, the humans, (and probably animals too, but i can't prove that) have an intuitive and spiritual side which is just as alive, only that we don't engage with it as much.....<br />
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You may feel free, if you like, to de-value that aspect of human experience, which i have (partly)written about above....<br />
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i'm not keen on de-valuing your ability to know stuff and be excellently well informed....<br />
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but i do feel entitled to point out to you, rationally, that you've actually missed the point, .<br />
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This is not news. It's an advert.http://www.indymedia.ie/article/81682#comment1900552007-04-15T13:05:27+00:00BobThis is NOT a news report. At best it's an opinion, but actually it's more accur...This is NOT a news report. At best it's an opinion, but actually it's more accurately described as an advertisement for a particular buddhist centre. <br />
I don't know much about Buddhism, but I know marketing when I see it. <br />
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bob you are wronghttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/81682#comment1926802007-05-05T15:51:55+00:00searbhani wrote that piece, and have actually just come back to check if anyone had put ...i wrote that piece, and have actually just come back to check if anyone had put any posts up...<br />
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an now there you go "i know marketing when i see it"....why are you so distrustful....<br />
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its not marketing, i am describing a nice place, a nice experience i had, sharing it with you and others...<br />
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so i'm afraid, you too are completely,<br />
wrong.<br />
ciao.