One of the old Chinese
teachers was making tea
one day when someone asked
him what he was doing.
"I'm making tea for another,"
he said.
"Why don't you get him to
make his own tea?"
"Fortunately, I am here to
do it," he replied.

  

 

 

 

 

 

  

Requiting Our Debt

We have this American way of practice that means so much to us because generations of Asian people have cared for and passed on the buddha dharma. Now our kin in Burma are in desperate need of help. Please take a look at the following websites and find a way to get involved.

AVAAZ.org : Stand with Burma
BurmaNet News
Free Burma Coalition
Women of Burma

 

Micro-Lending

When Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering micro-lending programs in India, it focused attention on this wildly successful practice that's spreading around the world. Organizations like Kiva: Loans that Change Lives connect small lenders with individual entrepreneurs in the developing world for whom a relatively small amount of money can make an enormous difference.

 

Becoming Carbon Neutral

Look at your personal impact on global warming by calculating how much carbon dioxide your activities generate each year, and learn what you can do to reduce or even eliminate those emissions. Go to the website for the documentary An Inconvenient Truth and click on Take Action.

 

Grassroots Darfur Movement

Public pressure to intervene in the genocide in Sudan has been painfully slow in coming but increasingly effective. This is one time when speaking out does make a difference. For information on how to add your voice, visit www.savedarfur.org and www.genocideintervention.net.

  
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