on 22/10/01 6:24 pm, Brenda J. Walker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 22 Oct 2001, at 18:04, Kakki wrote: > > The fact that he was met with such displeasure by >> the audience could be construed to indicate that they were insulted by what >> he >> said. > > I didn't see any of this but if the audience displeasure was expressed so > vehemently, then I am embarrassed for the audience, not for Richard Gere. > > Complete silence would have been more civilized. > > I've been wondering how someone presenting the Buddhist perspective/philosophy > would be received relative to 9/11, especially since the recent pleas for > tolerance have been focused on Islam and Christianity (with Judaism factored > in > because of the Israel-Palestine conflict). Will we only advocate tolerance > when the conflict at-hand calls for it? > > The sad fact is that we as a nation need a wider perspective on more faiths > and > views that are held by smaller groups of our citizens and hopefully there > won't > have to be more tragedies to draw us to that conclusion. > > Brenda > > n.p.: silence
If America was Buddhist, it would have been destroyed and overun long ago, And there would have no one to speak of peace any way R
