Aspirations

1. Dipankar Ghose says:

   January 14, 2010 at 8:22 pm

   I pray that tiger and wildlife trade comes to an end by 2020. There are less than 4,000 tigers left in the wild and each year, several hundred are killed. How will future generations judge us if we simply stand and watch such an amazing creature go extinct?
2. lyonesse says:

   January 8, 2010 at 11:33 pm

   Picture a bright blue ball
   Just spinning, spinning free
   Dizzy with eternity
   Paint it with a skin of sky
   Brush in some clouds and sea
   Call it home for you and me
   A peaceful place or so it looks from space
   A closer look reveals the human race
   Full of hope, full of grace, is the human face
   But afraid, we may lay our home to waste

   There’s a fear down here we can’t forget
   Hasn’t got a name just yet
   Always awake, always around
   Singing ashes to ashes all fall down
   Ashes to ashes all fall down

   Now watch as the ball revolves and the nighttime falls
   And again the hunt begins and again the bloodwind calls
   By and by again, the morning sun will rise
   But the darkness never goes from some men’s eyes

   It strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets
   Staking turf, dividing up meat
   Nightmare spook, piece of heat
   It’s you and me, you and me

   Click, flashblade in ghetto night
   Rudie’s looking for a fight
   Rat cat alley roll them bones
   Need that cash to feed that jones
   And the politician’s throwing stones
   Singing ashes to ashes all fall down
   Ashes to ashes all fall down

   Commissars and pin-striped bosses role the dice
   Any way they fall guess who gets to pay the price
   Money green or proletarian gray
   Selling guns instead of food today

   So the kids they dance, and shake their bones
   And the politician’s throwing stones
   Singing ashes to ashes all fall down
   Ashes to ashes all fall down

   Heartless powers try to tell us what to think
   If the spirit’s sleeping, then the flesh is ink, yeah
   History’s page, it is thusly carved in stone
   The future’s here, we are it, we are on our own
   On our own. On our own. On our own.

   (guitar solo)

   If the game is lost then we’re all the same
   No one left to place or take the blame
   We will leave this place an empty stone
   Or that shinning ball of blue we can call our home

   So the kids they dance, they shake their bones
   And the politicians, throwing stones
   Singing ashes to ashes all fall down
   Ashes to ashes, all fall down

   Shipping powders back and forth
   Singing “black goes south and white comes north”
   And the whole world full of petty wars
   Singing “I got mine and you got yours”
   And the current fashions set the pace
   Lose your step, fall out of grace
   And the radical he rant and rage
   Singing “someone got to turn the page”
   And the rich man in his summer home,
   Singing “Just leave well enough alone”
   But his pants are down, his cover’s blown

   And the politicians throwing stones
   So the kids they dance they shake their bones
   Cause its all too clear we’re on our own
   Sing ashes to ashes, all fall down
   Ashes to ashes, all fall down

   Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
   It’s dizzying, the possibilities

   Ashes to Ashes, all fall down (Ashes to Ashes, all fall down)
   Ashes to Ashes, all fall down (Ashes to Ashes, all fall down)
   Ashes to Ashes, all fall down (Ashes to Ashes, all fall down)
   Ashes to Ashes, all fall down (Ashes to Ashes, all fall down)
   Wo, fall down, (Ashes to Ashes, all fall down)
   Wo, fall down (Ashes to Ashes, all fall down)
   Ashes, Ashes all fall down (Ashes to Ashes, all fall down)
   Wo, fall down, (Ashes to Ashes, all fall down)
   Wo, fall down (Ashes to Ashes, all fall down)
   Ashes, Ashes all fall down (Ashes to Ashes, all fall down)
   Ashes, Ashes all fall down (Ashes to Ashes, all fall down)
   Ashes, Ashes all fall down (Ashes to Ashes, all fall down)

   impression of lyrics kindly given by The Grateful Dead.
3. SUN CHANGBIN says:

   December 31, 2009 at 10:35 pm

   I pray that all human being able to appreciate of where they stay that is known as earth and put in more effort on global warming issue that have cause the weather changer and the life of endless animals and human.

   It is not indivitual effort but everybody effort.
4. Gaby Hollmann says:

   December 31, 2009 at 7:06 pm

   Gratitude to His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa.
   Radiant and glorious, He spreads peace that is woven of love, by wisdom, and with fortitude. —
   I send this greeting for a good New Year with profound
   esteem for His Holiness and His Spiritual Sons, with the wish that for all living beings and for our world, ever and always, shadows flee and goodness abounds — as posted on Dec. 28, “Bringing Forth Our Basic Goodness” –
   http://www.dharmadownload.org/pages/english/Natsok/natsok_0014.htm
   – thank you from gaby in munich
5. Anonymous says:

   December 26, 2009 at 7:47 pm

   Living with the green is more colourfull
   than the dry and hot. So let’s plant more
   green and safe environment for the all
   sentient being.
   “KHORYUG GYALO”
6. Gaby Hollmann says:

   December 26, 2009 at 5:55 am

   No words can describe our deep gratitude to His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa for being here for the world and for all sentient beings, who need Him so much.
   Sincere veneration, gaby in munich

   “In general, at a precise moment in time, when disciples’ merit and the Lama’s compassion connect with each other, the great and genuine beings will give up one emanation body and appear in another. Once again, disciples will be able to meet face to face with the supreme emanations, and to enjoy their portion of the nectar of their Lama’s speech.” — Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche,
   Foreword to “His Eminence Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche the Fourth, EMA HO! The Reincarnation of the Third Jamgon Kongtrul,” published by Jamgon Kongtrul Labrang, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1998, page v.
7. Maia S. Christensen says:

   December 26, 2009 at 3:25 am

   Om Ah Hung Benza Guru Pema Siddhi Hung!
8. Gaby Hollmann says:

   December 25, 2009 at 9:14 pm

   “As the bee collects nectar and flies away
   without damaging the flower, or its colour, or its scent,
   so also let the monk dwell and act in the village
   (without affecting the trust, and generosity, or the wealth of the villagers).” — The Buddha, Verse 49 from the Tipitaka
9. སྐལ་བཟང་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་ཀ་རང་ says:

   December 25, 2009 at 8:02 pm

   ༧རྒྱལ་བ་ཀརྨ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གི་ལས་དོན་བཟང་པོ་འདི་བཞིན་མ་འོངས་སྐྱེ་འགྲོ་ཀུན་ལ་བདེ་སྐྱིད་ཀྱི་དཔལ་ལ་ལོངས་སུ་སྤྱོད་ཐུབ་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ་རྒྱ་ཆེ་ཞུ།
10. Gaby Hollmann says:

    December 25, 2009 at 7:17 am

    MAGIC WORDS
    In the very earliest time,
    when both people and animals lived on earth,
    a person could become an animal if he wanted to
    and an animal could become a human being.
    Sometimes they were people
    and sometimes animals
    and there was no difference.
    All spoke the same language.
    That was the time when words were like magic.
    The human mind had mysterious powers.
    A word spoken by chance
    might have strange consequences.
    It would suddenly come alive
    and what people wanted to happen could happen—
    all you had to do was say it.
    Nobody can explain this:
    That’s the way it was. — Nalungiaq
11. Gaby Hollmann says:

    December 25, 2009 at 7:12 am

    Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and never will be again. And what do we teach our children in school? We teach them that two and two make four and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we teach them what they are? We should say to them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all of the world there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been a child like you. And look at your body—what a wonder it is! Your legs, your arms, your cunning fingers, the way you move! You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must cherish one another. You must work — we must all work to make this world worthy of its children. — Pablo Casals
12. Tenzin Choedon says:

    December 24, 2009 at 11:35 pm

    ~ The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies. ~ Al Gore
13. JULIA PIGEON says:

    December 24, 2009 at 7:51 pm

    WONDERFUL IDEAS FROM HH KARMAPA TO MAKE ENVIOROMENT ANIMALS AND ALL BEINGS BENEFIT.LET THIS PROJECT BE ADOPTED BY ALL DHARMA PLACES AS AN OFFERING TO ALL BUDDHAS AND BODHISATTVAS.PEACE ON EARTH FOR ALL THANK YOU SO MUCH
14. Chloe says:

    December 24, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    this website is brilliant – may its message spread to Dharma centres all over the World!
15. Daniel says:

    December 24, 2009 at 4:27 pm

    As the eagle soars in the endless blue,
    Its shadow races after it, far below.
    Yet space does not divide:
    Bird and shadow are linked.
    So too each act.

    Tibetan proverb, circa 18th century
16. Anonymous says:

    December 23, 2009 at 5:47 am

    I pray that this idea spreads to all the lineages, to all the Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike, and that each region can adapt the idea to cater for the special needs of each region….Karmapa Chenno

    Alistair
17. karmashaya says:

    December 22, 2009 at 5:45 pm

    As long as the sky exists
    As long as there are sentient beings,
    May I remain to help
    Relieve them of all their pain.
    (Shantideva)
18. Neil Tse (Tashi Gyurme) says:

    December 22, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    May all sentient beings has a clear and safe environment to cultivate wisdom and compassion.

    Karmapa Chenno.
19. Ringu Tulku says:

    December 18, 2009 at 5:43 pm

    May there be peace and harmony in every human beings on this earth so that they can act with kindness towards each other and the nature that we survive with.
    I pray at Bodhgaya together with thousands of monks, nuns and people from all over the world.
    Ringu Tulku
20. Dekila says:

    December 12, 2009 at 10:06 pm

    I pray that this website reaches out to all the people who want to help protect the wildlife, the waters and the forests of the Himalayan region. I pray that what they read here makes them want to do something actively; whether to plant a tree or to speak against wildlife trade. I pray that each person who reads it becomes part of the solution and stops being part of the problem.

    Emaho!