Zen Monks use the Internet? What?!

Jana Dvmolvo Hostel
Prague, Czech Republic
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
6:21 PM (USA)/ 12:21 AM (CR)



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Aniael also told us of a Zen monk in Tibet who send her youtube videos of Barack Obama. The Zen monk liked what Obama had to say and Aniael spoke about him with reverence.

It is crazy to know that we are being closely watched from all over the world, even by Zen monks in Tibet.

Also, here is an excerpt from an article we had to read in class:

We still have all the potential for greatness, but only if we get back to work on our country. I don't know if Barack Obama can lead that, but the notion that the idealism he has inspired in so many young people doesn't matter is dead wrong. "Of course, hope alone is not enough," says Tome Shriver, chairman of Special Olympics, "but it's not trivial. It's not trivial to inspire people to want to get up and do something with someone else."

It is especially not trivial now, because millions of Americans are dying to be enlisted -- enlisted to fix education, enlisted to research renewable energy, enlisted to repair our infrastructure, enlisted to help others. Look at the kids lining up to join Teach for America. They want our country to matter again. They want it to be about building wealth and dignity-- big profits and big purposes. when we just do one, we are less than the sum of our parts. When we do both, said Shriver, "no one can touch us."

Who Will Tell the People? by NYT columnist Thomas L. Friedman

I also really liked this line too:

We are not as powerful as we used to be because over the past three decades, the Asian values of our parents' generation -- work hard, study, save, invest, live within your means -- have given way to subprime values: "You can have the American Dream -- a house -- with no money down and no payments for two years."

We must rebuild our nation. Bottom-line.