There is no Border between China and Tibet

There is great wisdom in China and Tibet. We are one ocean. I watched the story of the Dalai Lama tonight and the tender relationship between the Dalai Lama and the Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer a hard nosed Austrian. In the film as he became wiser he commented on his thinking as similar to the Chinese Government in 1959. I liked this part because we all can be hard and cruel. He indeed was a hard man and not compassionate to others, he isolated himself by his selfish attitude, he got what he wanted and was driven by self interest. However, through his internment in a British prisoner of war camp (WWII) in India, his wife leaving him, his son (he hadn’t met) rejecting him and not finding love in a partner, he FOUND himself lost in Tibet. Yet through this suffering, surrender and kindness he found his Dalai Lama within. In fact he fell in love with himself in Tibet, as he saw his higher nature. The falling in love is not vanity, it is seeing the higher mind within. This is the gift awaiting the Chinese Government. To remember their real power.

It was Lao Tzu who said that the hard are rigid are the companions of death. This is from the Dao De Jing:

When people are born they are supple and soft;
When they die, they are hard and rigid.
In life the ten thousand creatures, plants and trees are supple and pliant;
In death they are brittle and dry.
So if a fighter is rigid, he will not win,
If a tree is rigid it will come to an end.
The rigid and powerful are inferior,
The supple and soft are superior. (ch 76)

In truth, there is no superior or inferior, however the essence of the message is about kindness (virtues) as a strength and hardness (unbending) as a weakness.

What is interesting to note is the Chinese occupation and brutal suppression of Tibetans brought the Tibetan Buddhist teachings to the world. It helped awaken others to Buddhism’s strength. Moreover, the brutal suppression of Falun Dafa practitioners has expanded awareness around the world and raised questions about the Chinese Communist Party as world leaders. The spiritual must seem so foreign to some of them, yet within their own culture China is deeply spiritual and wise. It is our true nature, it can’t be suppressed. The more it is suppressed the more it expands.

The Chinese have had great leaders, here is another quote from Lao Tzu, the one who inspired me to look into my own book of changes.

“Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

The old paradigm of divide and conquer, demographic occupation, domination and indoctrination (mind control) is in decline. It is fear that drives this behaviour and absolute power corrupting people. I see much wisdom in the saying ‘What you resist persists, what you look at disappears.’ Resistance attracts the things you fear. This is a universal truth, no matter which country you are identifying with.

Here is a poem from my tears of tenderness for love and compassion between and Austrian and a Tibetan boy. A virtue I see in both Chinese and Tibetans. May they reunite as brothers and sisters. Indeed they will.

THERE IS NO BORDER BETWEEN CHINA AND TIBET

Many are climbing mountains,
To reach the summit,
To prove manhood and status,
To challenge nature and conquer it,
Yet the greatest summit is human nature,
And only a tiny few reach this higher state.

You can conquer,
You can enjoy riches,
You can murder, incarcerate and build walls,
But you can never penetrate the veils,
For you cannot buy your stairway to heaven,
You can only find it within yourself,
And the gates to the stars only open to those,
Who know the valley not the rift.

The world is in ignorance,
Yet ignorance sees itself as superior,
Basking in great achievements,
Seeking to be seen,
Not to be,
Is the death knell,
Of a life,
Not lived.

Lao Tzu carried his inner light as a lantern to show another way,
He was the Dao De Jing (way and life),
He rejected high office not on principle but by virtue of who he is,
For the integral one,
Does not accumulate wealth like sands,
And choose to give to the poor in exchange for blessings,
The integral one is the blessing in poverty,
For as one sheds riches,
One gains the grains of inner treasures,
As the dark heart purifies,
Like the fresh melt water of the Himalayas untainted by the minds pollution,
In search of the ancient Tibet
Of conscience.

Tibet is the portal of peace,
It is a gateway to higher understanding,
Dwarfed by mountains without shadow,
The highest apex to heaven,
The lowest valley is truth,
To bow to one’s enemies is not defeat,
It is raising the prayer flag,
To find the freedom of the wind horse,
In surrender.

Surrender is not giving up,
It is accepting what is without violence,
For the lotus is open to all life and seasons,
Nothing can be taken away,
All must pass,
The wheel of Dharma spins the wheel of life,
For it liberates great suffering,
And benefits all,
When suffering is touched by the dove of compassion.

There is no border between China and Tibet,
Only the political meeting of minds deadlocked at the spiritual pass,
The masculine on meeting the feminine calls compassion weak,
Yet the Yangtze is the serpent the flows from the parent source of Tibet
Home to the East China Sea,
The river knows no Tibetan or Chinese,
For it stays below and benefits all,
For how can the natural flow return upstream to the source?
For always the river meets the ocean,
And one must stay below in order to cross the great stream of differences,
Returning home to the source of the one true life,
As freedom.

For Tibet means Bod, pronounced [pʰø̀ʔ]; Chinese: 西藏; pinyin: Xīzàng) is a plateau region,
For it is only here one finds stillness when empty,
Peace transforms into a holy land,
That can never be occupied or owned,
For one cannot force the gates to forbidden cities of ancient knowledge,
Only one with integral virtue awaits the gate to open,
In tolerance, compassion and truthfulness,
As the servant of self mastery,
To find thy enemy is thy friend,
For this is how the Great Wall of China falls gently,
Into the alms of a great civilization.