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Posted on 19-3-08 Bad Karma In The Himalayas
By Alan Marston, 19 March, 2008
Chinese politicians blame "splittists" led by the exiled Dalai Lama. New
Zealand and Australian politicians blame each other. US and K politicians
don't care. Meanwhile bad karma in Tibet forces the real issue, to be or
not to be ... violent.
That means you!
For what its worth. I believe conflict is inherent in existence and that
makes peace a condition where conflict is managed wisely and well,
violence a condition where conflict is managed unwisely and not well.
I believe conflict is the essence of all relationships, from sub-nuclear
quarks to galaxy formations and every-thing in between. Consciousness is
conflict management.
I believe the human condition cannot out-stare `reality' but relies to a
greater or lesser extent on unreal romantic ideals, first of all that
conflict can be eliminated.
I believe that war is a primitive way of managing conflict but that
nonetheless war was and is still the standard issue level of consciousness
that largely determines all social relations.
I believe that at times the more or less conscious individual has to take
sides in a war and that means promoting and perpetrating violence in the
hope that consciousness may inch forward by one side winning rather than
leap back on victory of the other.
I believe the Chinese government declared war on Tibetans 50 years ago and
that the Tibetans and their supporters, of which I count myself as one,
will fight and eventually win that war and though I don't believe anybody
else can win it for them, we can make it harder or easier depending on
which side we choose.
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