[Buddha-l] Obituary: The Age of Aquarius

[jkirk]

Lately, seeing how much resistance to Uncle Sam is appearing in South 
America, I'm beginning to feel a bit of hope. When I was photographing truck 
art in Thailand in 1985, I found one truck with the head of Che, familiar 
from many posters, on its door.
Joana
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> Unlike your typical Mahayanist, for whom the concept of
> helping others is purely a theoretical construct, Che dedicated
> his life to actually helping other actual human beings. This, it
> turns out, is much messier and far more ambiguous (to put it
> nicely) than just reciting the "four vows".
>
> We were talking earlier about the "contagion" of niceness:
> "spreading" niceness, as opposed to simply being nice. Che
> has inspired millions of people to devote themselves to the
> cause of helping others. While much of the world fools itself
> into thinking that Globalization is a done deal and its nothing
> but "free-markets" from here on out - the "children of Che"
> in Latin American are creating a different reality. We'll see
> whose reality turns out to be "more real". It turns out that
> many Latin American revolutionaries are Zen Buddhists,
> but they are followers of the Korean Zen Master Sosan
> Taesa, as opposed to those more "pacifistic" (ha!) Zen
> Masters from Japan.
>
> - Curt