February
22, 2012
Yet again a fated year for us, we
Tibetans always steadfast, staunch and jauntily self-engaged for our Birth
Rights—how we can ignore on the pretext of having even grander issue by
belittling these core rights that decide whether your creativities can be upheld
or not? No, never by 99%.
Breathes there the man, with soul so
dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land?
Whose heart hath ne’er within him
burn’d,
As home his footsteps he hath turn’d,
From wandering on a foreign strand?
If such there breathe, go, mark him
well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his
name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can
claim;
Despite those titles, power, and
pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he
sprung,
Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung.
~ Scott
We’re always
united in expressing our heartfelt doleful solidarity plus prayers for those
brave Tibetans, now counted as 23, who have offered their most loved lives as
‘the offering lamps or beacons’ as to illumine the dark sides of this cruel
world and to mesmerize an individual conscience of the world at large to act
for a better world. How cherishing one’s life is, for us all?
And so this
New Year is not to brood over but to evoke one’s true heart at depth to sense a
real novel being inside as not to be set awry like a heartless being as
emphasized in the above pointing stanza… To defend the sovereignty of one’s
nation is the top priority of every single citizen, but for our ill-fated case
it’s to dedicate in every possible way to fight for regaining it as the top
priority. We can see what it costs for being a mundane case in hand for being
the question of survival, a commoner’s birth rights in terms of cyclic
existence for honing his or her intuition under reliable protection! So we
almost know how to recount what it costs to have an inner revolution as for the
case of Jetsun Milarepa’s attainment of Nirvana in one lifetime. But here for
now the question, as per the wish of every single Tibetan, is how to save Tibet
from present gravity rather than how to evoke Bodhichitta, the sublime mindset, in such time, as the dire gravity
falls on the others, our beloved suffering compatriots in Tibet under such draconian
tyranny, but not on self, such thinker or commentator or who can say so in lofty
tone. It’s time to act in any ways! So it’s time to work harder for Tibet, to come
out real bright and responsible Tibetan both educated and loving one’s ‘native land’,
Tibet.
