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Final Message of Jamphel Yeshi Before Self-Immolation!! :(
DaltheJigsaw
Mountain View Veteran
Jamphel Yeshi, who immolated himself on Monday in New Delhi and died on Wednesday, left a letter which seems to be an attempt to explain his actions. The hand-written letter, dated March 16, 2012, was found in the room where Mr. Yeshi stayed in India’s capital, and was translated by Bhuchung D. Sonam.
Long Live His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who is the shining example of world peace. We must strive to ensure return of His Holiness to Tibet. I pray and believe that the Tibetan people in and outside Tibet will be united and sing the Tibetan national anthem in front of the Potala Palace.
My fellow Tibetans, when we think about our future happiness and path, we need loyalty. It is the life-soul of a people. It is the spirit to find truth. It is the guide leading to happiness. My fellow Tibetans, if you want equality and happiness as the rest of the world, you must hold onto this word ‘LOYALTY’ towards your country. Loyalty is the wisdom to know truth from falsehood. You must work hard in all your endeavors, big or small.
Freedom is the basis of happiness for all living beings. Without freedom, six million Tibetans are like a butter lamp in the wind, without direction. My fellow Tibetans from Three Provinces, it is clear to us all that if we unitedly put our strength together, there will be result. So, don’t be disheartened.
What I want to convey here is the concern of the six million Tibetans. At a time when we are making our final move toward our goal – if you have money, it is the time to spend it; if you are educated it is the time to produce results; if you have control over your life, I think the day has come to sacrifice your life. The fact that Tibetan people are setting themselves on fire in this 21st century is to let the world know about their suffering, and to tell the world about the denial of basic human rights. If you have any empathy, stand up for the Tibetan people.
We demand freedom to practice our religion and culture. We demand freedom to use our language. We demand the same right as other people living elsewhere in the world. People of the world, stand up for Tibet. Tibet belongs to Tibetans. Victory to Tibet!
https://sites.google.com/site/tibetanpoliticalreview/articles/finalmessageofjamphelyeshibeforeself-immolation
Long Live His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who is the shining example of world peace. We must strive to ensure return of His Holiness to Tibet. I pray and believe that the Tibetan people in and outside Tibet will be united and sing the Tibetan national anthem in front of the Potala Palace.
My fellow Tibetans, when we think about our future happiness and path, we need loyalty. It is the life-soul of a people. It is the spirit to find truth. It is the guide leading to happiness. My fellow Tibetans, if you want equality and happiness as the rest of the world, you must hold onto this word ‘LOYALTY’ towards your country. Loyalty is the wisdom to know truth from falsehood. You must work hard in all your endeavors, big or small.
Freedom is the basis of happiness for all living beings. Without freedom, six million Tibetans are like a butter lamp in the wind, without direction. My fellow Tibetans from Three Provinces, it is clear to us all that if we unitedly put our strength together, there will be result. So, don’t be disheartened.
What I want to convey here is the concern of the six million Tibetans. At a time when we are making our final move toward our goal – if you have money, it is the time to spend it; if you are educated it is the time to produce results; if you have control over your life, I think the day has come to sacrifice your life. The fact that Tibetan people are setting themselves on fire in this 21st century is to let the world know about their suffering, and to tell the world about the denial of basic human rights. If you have any empathy, stand up for the Tibetan people.
We demand freedom to practice our religion and culture. We demand freedom to use our language. We demand the same right as other people living elsewhere in the world. People of the world, stand up for Tibet. Tibet belongs to Tibetans. Victory to Tibet!
https://sites.google.com/site/tibetanpoliticalreview/articles/finalmessageofjamphelyeshibeforeself-immolation
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I will waste my body, my mind and hope the world will be improved?
This guy is hardly a Buddhist. Shameful waste.
I condemn his behaviour as deplorable self indulgent, wasteful and counter productive. Did he have no sensible sangha support?
May he remind us of the Middle way, not the way of the muggles and muddled.
Human life is toooo precious.
Cats are cats; not Tibetan, Palestinian, Israeli cats although some people might disagree with this also.
However the universal human rights belong to all humans.
"...if you have control over your life, I think the day has come to sacrifice your life."
That this comes from a monk just makes me want to cry. Everyone has control over their life and there is a huge difference between suicide and sacrifice. And this repeated mantra of loyalty toward your country? This poor monk was never taught that the Chinese people are also loyal to their own nation? That wars are always fought by two sides equally loyal to their side?
The world doesn't need more dead monks. The world needs more monks trying to help everyone in the world.
It's kinda surreal and shocking how something so drastic is so impotent, but that's what it is.
I can't help but see a valuable life wasted.
What a mess. This is what happens when you mix religion and political power.
It makes little sense to condemn these people given that elsewhere in the world, oppressed people who resort to violence have generally directed it at others. I sometimes think in fact that Tibetans would get less condemnation from the world if they did kill others instead of themselves.
Sadly I think something in many humans (I don't mean people here, just in general) appreciates defending oneself by hurting others, more so than trying to make a statement via suicide.
The problem, aside from the obvious, is that it doesn't work. At one time it did. Thich Quang Ducs self-immolation shocked the Western world and had a big impact on attitudes and politics at that time. But that was when it was new and outrageous, the world was a bigger place. The reaction now, with all the religious atrocities across the world, rightly or wrongly, is more to the tune of 'Oh look, another religious nutcase - how original'
Self-immolation still draws attention, but it probably does more harm than good in the grand scheme of things... Often resulting in people seeing Tibetans as nuts, more than anything else.
Not meaning to offend, that's just the perception I have living in Europe and seeing peoples response to news like this. It's not productive.
In cases where the Chinese school is local, there are separate lunch lines for Chinese and Tibetan students. Reminds me very much of the "whites only" drinking fountains. Many people just don't realize the stark realities which make up the system of cultural genocide and apartheid in Tibet, especially following the excesses (even Chinese citizens fully aknowledge them as ecxesses now) of the Strike Hard campaigns.
Pouring petrol on ourselves, setting ourselves aflame and running down the street is not skilful use of a life . . . it is as tragic as if we had done it to someone else . . . :screwy:
The reality of suffering requires genuine, fruitful solutions . . . is this one?
In the sense that these people still have hope that their expression of anguish might do even the smallest bit of good for someone else, they are still one last notch away from the ultimate desperation of their grandparents and great-grandparents who committed suicide, understandably, out of sheer physical misery and overall hopelessness.
And on a much smaller scale, each of us does, as well.
Of course many people will cover up the sides they are taking by taking out the "Dharma" to accuse the other side of not being open minded or sympathetic, but it's actually ego habits of modern social norms speaking.
Frankly the fact people post this stuff on here will be viewed as approval regardless what your original intentions are.
The whole "Protest for Tibet" camp does not help the situation inside actual Tibet, it just alienate Chinese people and the protest group further.
If Moderation is required, we'll deal with it, thanks, it's not your call.
As I have already advised you, just flag any comment you find pushes your buttons.
Thanks.
This is the way of Samsara. In order for any society to function appropriately in Samsara it requires wise operation its a pipe dream to imagine everyone can live together in harmony without first doing something to change the mind, So until everyone decides on mind training as the best option inspiring compassion and feelings of unity with your close community first without inspiring the derision others is a good way to try and start it off.
There is no time in history when there hasn't been some form of nation. There's no real difference between tribes and nations. A tribe is a "sociopolitical organization".
Yes, individual people make choices. But the world operates based on the concept of nations.
Point taken, but I don't think trade really counts. I think the topic was more like, one currency, that kind of lark.
And to imagine that just because one believes in nationhood, that one can't make the world a better place is insulting.
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I can sort of understand why people react this way to occupation by a foreign force, but on the other hand I find it difficult to understand why Buddhists, especially the monks, don't use their understanding of "clinging", of wanting what they can't have, to help them adapt to their current situation - even if at the same time they choose to oppose the occupation through political means.
Obviously I'm not in their situation, and perhaps it's arrogant to hold the views that I do , but I thought having a deep knowledge of the dharma would have made these monks better equipped than perhaps most other peoples on Earth to cope, not resort to suicide.