[Buddha-l] The Daiichi nuclear power reactors fiasco at Fukushima

[Lidewij Niezink]

Thank you Joanna, I'll be sharing this video.

We may contemplate it all but we might better move into a zone of doing
something about what is going on. Don't wait for your authorities to make
it happen, they don't either.

cheers,
Lidewij

On 23 July 2012 03:39, Jo <jkirk at spro.net> wrote:

> Sorry--here is the tiny link:
> http://tinyurl.com/cdp5y36
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com
> [mailto:buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com] On Behalf Of Jo
> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 7:28 PM
> To: Buddha-L
> Subject: [Buddha-l] The Daiichi nuclear power reactors fiasco at Fukushima
>
> So far, I've not seen anything on this list commenting on the tragedy of
> Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactors disaster after the earthquake and
> tsunami
> of March, 2011.
>
> May we contemplate the consequences to ordinary citizens of meltdown
> radiation that blanketed the Fukushima area, and their desertion by the
> "authorities"?
>
>  The anguish (to borrow Stephen Batchelor's translation of dukkha) of these
> people is not about "craving," or "attachment"-it is about the destruction
> of their householder lives in human community: growing vegetables, keeping
> milk cows, managing one's hereditary shrine, raising children, running
> shops
> to supply the locals. Compassion is based on identification-the farmer with
> his crops and animals; the priest with his shrine and with those who came
> back to stay after evacuation, and so on. Let us think on them.
>
> Please view this video. You won't see it on cable TV here in the US:
>
>
> http://enenews.com/documentary-what-has-happened-to-us-psychologically-physi
> cally-financially-is-truly-unimaginable-video
>
>
>
> JK
>
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Dr. Lidewij Niezink
 <http://www.linkedin.com/in/lniezink>http://nl.linkedin.com/in/lniezink
Charter for Compassion:
http://tinyurl.com/24xxacb
Empathy:
http://tinyurl.com/2a8qbsz