A Mournful Tibetan Losar—2139 (Water-Dragon Year)

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.