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BELLTOWER'S FREEDOM
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Thought birds fly
in and out
of the mind's
belltower..
unchained to
the chiming
of any hour
as yogis
in the body
come and go
having realized
their Godly power
***
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AVATAR ATTACKERS
As flies are drawn to dung
and crows to a garbage scow
As vultures are attracted by
roadkill
and butchers to kill sweet
cows
As the violent are drawn
to positions of power
and male lusters to
gynecology
and the obsequious
in Washington press corps
to fawn over money
.. so do dunglovers
flock to Avatar attackers
(this is not meant to insult
flies, crows or vultures.. creatures of God, atmic temples..
but to correlate their behavior to Avatar attackers)
*
WCAU OF PHILADELPHIA
the 3 year boycott of burger king (1980 to 1983) was resolved by the
company's accession to withdrawal of veal in 1983. g cave, h
schofield, t zagar and a hershaft had the first four groups involved
in the boycott of burger king. the writer was asked to do media for the
small coalition. one day the writer was typing press releases for philadelphia tv
and radio stations.. and came to wcau.. which is on city line
ave. when she went to type 'city' she found her fingers typing
'cave'. she took that as a message to call dr. george cave
of state college, an animal rights activist. during the call he told
her he had just finished an interview with wcau on
pennsylvania's decompression chamber, a painful method of
killing 'surplus' pound animals. a short time later, she wanted to
listen to the larry king show on mutual radio. for some reason
she could not get it that night on wtop in washington, but it
came in clearly on wcau, a distance away in philadelphia.
the guest that night was ray cave of time magazine. again,
there was another cave philadelphia connection, when
william cave of philadelphia's american antivivisection society
was a guest on the radio. later s grafio took her to see bawa
muhaiyyadeen, a moslem mystic and vegetarian, whose aura was so bright it filled the room with white light, whose love was so strong that babies
crawled to him from their mothers. she realized in unwinding this koan
that baba was telling her (city typed into cave) that the city is a convex infliction
upon the land.. that the cave is a concave recess.. that at times inaction says the gita is better than action.. sometimes the path of the tao the path of water is better than the path of fire.
(cau in ancient roman script would look like cav)
(cau has the sound of cow)
* baba also gave her a physical reminder of this. she had sent out
2300 press releases which yielded no media... later on, when she had
not done any media, the phone began ringing off the hook.
robert schuller: anyone can count the seeds in an apple. only god
can count the apples in a seed.
*burger king is now owned by a texas capital consortium
which includes goldman sachs.
it is the only major fast food chain which has a veggie
burger option but it is still advertising the concept of
animal flesh to billions.
shortly before she was asked to do media for the
boycott, baba gave her a dream in which baba was
traveling in the us on a greyhound. the busride began
on 4th st. in dc. when it arrived in pennsylvania, there
was absolutely nothing in the restaurant she could offer
baba to eat.
greyhound was instrumental at that time in ending
the boycott of burger king which had at that time
a cooperative relationship with the bus company.
now greyhound has changed owners. it is owned
by laidlaw of canada. it is hoped that laidlaw
can end quickly the clubbing of canadian seals.
asking for guidance
baba had told his devotees if they had a question to which
they did not know the answer he would reply if a. it
was about an individual's own sadhana b. if the devotee
were surrendered to the answer, and if c. it entailed an
immediate fork in the road.
there are many who immediately know in their hearts what
course of action to take, but there are times when one
is not sure.
baba said to take 4 symbols of equal size (e.g. 4 pieces of
paper) and write on one 'yes', a second 'no', and the 3rd
and 4th 'wait'. then pray and select one at random.
when the writer was asked by a small coalition of 4 groups
to do media for the burger king boycott, she asked baba
by this method and got 'yes'.
several months went by. dr rao of lawrence kansas told a friend to tell her that boycotts were
not ahimsan (nonviolent) because they called down corporate
wrath. this was a wise criticism, and she asked baba again,
and again got a yes to go forth.
more time passed. bob pinkus, editor of vegetarian living
who had convinced both the writer and connie salamone to
become vegan, said that boycotts increased corporate sales
because they operated on the principle "don't think of
a white elephant", which increases thoughts of white elephants.
she asked again for a third time and got another yes.
the river of life flowed on. next lou ann yonish, coordinator
of vegetarian action whose group was targeting restaurants
which served veal, said this was the wrong target. another
casting of the chits (symbols) in prayer.. and another 'yes'.
this time it was lou ann on the other end of the phone
who made the selection.
alice herrington, president of friends of animals, felt
there was no ethical distinction between baby and adult animals
and that it was a form of age chauvinism to concentrate on
veal.
dudley giehl, founder of animal liberation and michael
rothschild also participated in the chits.
altogether 6 times, baba or the querant's form of god
was asked, and 6 times a yes was given. the odds of this
happening randomly are 1 in 4096.
all of the criticisms of the boycott were valid. yet god
is omniscient, and like someone on a hill who can look down
on an intersection and see traffic patterns those in the
cars cannot, god gave guarding and guidance.
**
You caused the Chinese army to turn around and go home in Nov of 62.
You said India had no need of military protection because she has
divine proteciton.
The Dalai Lama has said that because of declining dharma in Tibet,
China invaded. Baba, Hrudaya Vasi, cause the dharma of all Muslims,
all Jews, all Christians, all Hindus, all Buddhists all beings
to upwell, to upswell.. so that there is no violence on the planet.
Baba gave me a vision of a Christian preacher pointing to a big
scarlet A, ornate as in the medieval Bibles, beginning a chapter
in the New Testament. Then the preacher said to me "A is Aries."
Over the next year I heard in separate sentences "Aries is Caesar"
"Caesar is the detonater" "Caesar is the diaspora"
This koan has had many meanings unfold.
Hearttouching sights:
1. a 250 lb. man on a bike struggling in the heat to have exercise
2. a little boy trying his heart out to please his difficult father
3. an septuagenarian woman in the airport.. bumped for a whole
day from a flight... hesitating to say she is from Tel Aviv
4. the children of Palestine
LINKS LIST
Conspiracy of Silence about Mad Cow
http://www.mad-cow.org 7000 articles http://www.madcowboy.com
Spirit
Buddhist: http://www.dalailama.com http://www.plumvillage.org
Hindu: http://www.hindu.org http://www.eaisai.com/baba
Catholic: http://www.paxchristiusa.org http://www.catholicworker.org
Jewish: http://www.jewishveg.com http://www.nimn.org
Christian: http://www.quaker.org http://www.jesusveg.com
http://www.egroups.com/messages/salvarmy/2
Islamic: http://www.islamveg.com http://www.egroups.com/messages/drbashiruddin
Populism -
http://www.democracyrising.org http://www.citizenworks.org
http://www.essential.org http://www.greens.org
http://www.ohiodems.org http://www.jimhightower.com
http://www.grannyd.com http://www.michaelmoore.com
http://www.oneworld.net http://www.commondreams.org
http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/anarchism
http://www.overthrowthegov.com
http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/clevelandleft
http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/ctanarchism
http://www.fairvote.org/irv/index.html
http://www.evot.org
http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/foodnotbombs-newhaven
http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/idahogreen
http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/
http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/ohioleft
http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/floridaleft
http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/WSM_Socialism_Forum
http://www.tompaine.com
http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/anticapitalistaction
Vegetarian Vegan
http://www.meatout.com http://www.ivu.org http://www.pcrm.org
http://www.vrg.org http://www.veganoutreach.org
http://www.vegdining.org http://www.navs-online.org
http://www.eggcruelty.com http://www.mercyforanimals.org
http://www.adaptt.org
http://www.notmilk.com http://www.madcowboy.com
http://www.egroups.com/messages/veganway
http://www.mcspotlight.org
Abolition -
http://www.amnesty.org http://www.prejean.org http://www.cuadp.org
http://www.ccadp.org http://www.clevedp.org
http://www.egroups.com/messages/txabolition http://www.tcadp.org
http://www.smu.edu/~deathpen http://www.otse.org
Animal Rights -
http://www.peta.net http://www.hsus.org http://www.animalsagenda.org
http://www.egroups.com/messages/veganway
http://groups.msn.com/animalrights http://groups.msn.com/ar9
http://www.mercyforanimals.org
http://www.worldanimalnet.org * 6000 links
http://www.nofishing.net http://www.circuses.com
Boycotts
http://www.stopclearchannel.com http://www.mcspotlight.org
Environment -
http://www.acorn.net/fruitarian http://groups.msn.com/stopmowing
http://www.amazonwatch.org http://www.ran.org
http://www.riverkeepers.org
http://www.greenpeace.org http://www.beyondpesticides.org
http://www.greenpeaceusa.org http://sierraclub.org
http://www.hogwatch.org http://www.freetree.org
http://www.hogwatchmanitoba.org
http://www.greencrossinternational.net/index1.html
http://www.campusgreens.org http://www.greens.org
http://www.egroups.com/messages/nadermn
Factory Farms -
http://www.eggcruelty.com http://www.upc-online.org
http://www.meatout.com
http://www.farmusa.org http://groups.msn.com/ar9
Health -
http://www.pcrm.org http://www.madcowboy.com http://www.notmilk.com
Labor -
http://www.ufcw.org http://www.aflcio.org
http://www.stopclearchannel.com
Minority Issues -
http://www.sclcmagazine.com http://www.naacp.org
http://www.nationalactionnetwork.org
Peace -
http://www.paxchristiusa.org http://www.afsc.org
http://www.notinourname.net
http://www.nimn.org http://www.protest.net http://www.wagingpeace.org
http://www.catholicworker.org
Petitions
http://www.democrats.com sign to oppose Iraq war
http://www.petitiononline.com/seal
http://www.petitiononline.com/elect
http://www.petitiononline.com/cat
Populism -
http://www.democracyrising.org http://www.citizenworks.org
http://www.citizenworks.org http://www.greens.org
http://www.ohiodems.org
http://www.jimhightower.comhttp://www.grannyd.com
http://www.michaelmoore.com
Privacy
http://www.wired.com http://www.ricoact.com
Recipes Nonviolent
http://www.ivu.org/recipes http://www.vegweb.com/food
http://www.vrg.org/recipes http://www.vegsource.com/recipe
http://www.eatveg.com http://www.vegancats.com
Your poetry is very profound as is your authors comment wow!