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walking among sharp knives

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Recently having written about knives and read others’ posts about knives behind us, this report about the abuses against Karen women village chiefs comes to remind us of the pain and suffering still ever present.

Please take the time to read it.  Please pass it along to your communities

Walking Among Sharp Knives: the unsung courage of Karen women village chiefs

A reprise of Snyder poem quoted today: If we cannot change things, who will?

Thank you for practicing,

Genju

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throwing light

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…Dogen said,

Sounds of streams and shapes of mountains.
The sounds never stop and the shapes never cease.
Was it Su who woke
or was it mountains and streams?

Billions of beings see the morning star
and all become Buddhas!
If you, who are valley and streams and looming
mountains,
can’t throw some light on the nature of ridges and rivers

who can?

from the poem We wash our bowls in this water by Gary Snyder