Via BBC, Buried guru's gesture for peace
A Japanese Hindu devotee has buried herself in an Indian pit for three days without food and water to try to bring peace to a strife-torn world.
Keiko Aikawa, 60, who practises Samadhi - a strict form of Hindu meditation - emerged from the three-metre square pit saying her body and soul felt cleaner.
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
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9 comments:
Idiocy watch ?
How is this any different from holding candle light vigil or saying mass for dead?
Jaffna,
Could you recommend a book on Buddhism.
Apologies for being OT :-)
Regards
Jaffna,
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you , then they fight you and then you have won"
Mahatma Gandhi
So "Keep the faith"
Regards
With all respect, there is way too much defensiveness in these responses.
This incident is idiocy, regardless of any other similar foolishness that goes on elsewhere.
What this has to do with sex abuse among clergy defies us. Besides, if people weren't watching, the Western media did take these priests aggresively to task.
Lets please get over our inferiority complex and not jump to the defense of foolishness that happens to be India-connected.
To this blogger, a recent post on US' view on Indian caste practices seemed similarly defensive.
Best regards.
PR,
Defensive,
Hmm..
Another defensive post
I think she is acting on faith, deriding faith is not what you normally suggest.
Jaffna, DG,
Have to agree with PR that folks from the sub-continent are famously thin-skinned. Hey, we can keep the Western media honest by building our own credible resources (like this blog) and by calling them out when they BS. I see no point bitching about how they stereotype us "beastly people with their beastly religion" (courtesy Churchill).
PR, don't know if this oddity met he standard of your blog. Anyways, you're a free person in a free country :-)
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501030908-480330,00.html
Read this masterpiece from Alex Perry just after Mumbai blast. Can anyone guess if he could use the same tone for London blast.
Just replace:
Hindus = British colonialists,
Indian Muslims = oppressed British Muslims of Asian origin.
Hindu nationalist BJP govt. = Christian -dominated govt led by faithful Tony Blair.
Gujrat riots = War in Iraq.
You'll not find this kinda reporting even from loony-lefties of the Guardian variety.
what the hell is problem with you if somebody is putting herself in pit for three days without harming anybody else. its her own wish, own faith. do'nt you remember the pope election? that medival practice of sending black smoke to signal the end of election. stop pretending to be a intellectual and this non-sense too
Jaffna, did not intend to trivialize the effort to challenge the Western media with their biased reporting. But, our world runs according to the Golden Rule - "he who has the Gold makes the Rules". The "gold" in this case are media reach and media credibility. The Western media possesses them in larger quantities than subcontinental media (blogs included). My point was that instead of griping about how they don't portray us fairly, let's be constructive and build our own weapons of a media war - more credible sources with wider reach. We can then call BS through forums of comparable power.
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