Helping Us Over the Wall
It's ironic to me that so many of the cruxes that shape our world are the result of almost miraculous coincidence. All the oil just happens to be under Islamic soil. After the Jews are nearly exterminated in the middle of the last century, they are compensated by being awarded the very land they were promised in the Bible, a land which also houses the most holy shrines of Christianity and Islam. And the very seat of the flowering of a way for humans to live in peace is brutally overrun by the most populous country on earth to provide strategic advantage over the second most populous country, and both have nuclear weapons.
I just watched a very powerful documenatry, "Tibet - Cry of the Snow Lion." It makes me both sad and hopeful at the same time, and deepens my admiration and reverence for the Dalai Lama.
We used to play a "New Game," I don't remember the name, where a team has to cooperate to get everyone on the team over a high wall. The strong have to help the weak, and the weak play their own piotal role. We're all playing that game here on earth. But when the first guy gets to the top of the wall he looks back and finds that the rest of us have begun fighting about petty matters and have completely forgotten about the wall, and he has to go back and bring their attention back to the goal.
When I see beings of wicked nature
overwhelmed by violent negative actions and sufferings,
I shall hold such rare ones dear,
As if I have found a precious treasure.
---from Eight Verses for Training the Mind
by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
2:31:59 AM 
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