Teachers of resistance – Alice Walker | The Official Website for American Novelist & Poet

Teachers of resistance are maligned and vilified. This is not new. What is new is that from continent to continent we can affirm or disavow egregious slander, quickly; communicating with each other across mountains and seas. I will never believe the Dalai Lama is guilty of anything sinister; and from this account, he is not. It is heartbreaking to be reminded in this talk of China’s mistreatment of the Tibetan people, however, who have been teachers, via Tibetan trained monks, of so many of us. I admire China for innumerable compassionate moves in Africa and especially, recently, in Cuba. Every grain of rice has been noted from afar, as a blessing of the Chinese government and its people. In my own view, China is so amazing a country it did not even need to colonize Tibet. Just as Trump does not need to attempt to colonize Greenland.

Let the people flourish in all their odd ways, all over the world, as long as none are harmful to the people.

As we enter “an end time” on the planet as we have known it, when human beings are incinerated from the air and even the weather is not free, it is tempting to despair. But there is still such a thing as solidarity with the truth, whatever it is, and whoever is speaking it. We must make up our own minds, in this time of widespread evil, so incomprehensible even to those who’ve stood before and looked it in the face, about what story to trust and who and what to believe. And we must defend the truth. The one light that will always be left standing.~aw

LOS MAESTROS DE LA RESISTENCIA

Los maestros de la resistencia son denigrados y vilipendiados. No es algo nuevo. Lo que resulta nuevo es que, de un continente a otro, podemos afirmar o negar calumnias atroces rápidamente; comunicándonos unos con otros a través de montañas y mares. Yo nunca creeré al Dalai Lama culpable de algo siniestro; y, según este informe, no lo es. Es descorazonador que se nos recuerde en esta conversación el maltrato de China al pueblo tibetano, que, sin embargo, han sido maestros, por vía de los monjes tibetanos, de tantos de nosotros. Admiro a China por sus incontables acciones compasivas en África y, en especial, recientemente, en Cuba. Cada grano de arroz se ha visto desde lejos, como una bendición del gobierno chino y su pueblo. En mi criterio, China es un país tan asombroso que ni siquiera necesitaba colonizar al Tíbet. De igual modo que Trump no necesita tratar de colonizar a Groenlandia.

Dejemos que la gente prospere en todas sus formas peculiares, por todo el mundo, siempre y cuando ninguna sea dañina para las personas. Mientras entramos en un “fin del tiempo” en el planeta tal como lo hemos conocido, cuando los seres humanos son incinerados desde el aire e incluso el clima no es libre, es tentador el desespero. Pero existe aun algo como la adhesión con la verdad, sea cual sea, y quienquiera que la diga.

Debemos decidir en nuestras mentes, en estos tiempos del mal generalizado, tan incomprensible incluso para los que nos precedieron y lo miraron de frente, en qué historia confiar y a quién y qué creer. Y debemos defender la verdad. La única luz que siempre quedará en pie. ~aw

Translation by Manuel Verdecia

February 11th. The birthday of society healing filmmaker, Pratibha Parmar. And here it is in action, the spirit of love that ignores fear: monks moving the world.

Happy birthday. ~aw