Month: July 2003

Falun Gong Practitioners Win Court Appeal

Last Friday, Quebec Court of Appeal overturned a decision of the lower court and reinstated Falun Gong practitioners’ prosecution for Contempt of Court Charges.

The Kookaburra, the Owl and the Dove

At last the Dove said: “I am a man of peace but perhaps it is time for me to go out of my comfort zone and actually do something. Perhaps I have been thinking only of myself, not of others.”

Poem: THIS PRECIOUS TIME

Here in this compressed three dimensional space
We are chained by the bonds of our little minds and heart.
As we struggle to break free from this small time and space
We can learn to expand our hearts.

The Lessons from Confucius and Past Emperors Ring True

Present-day China, recently ruled by Jiang Zemin, has experienced an increasing number of natural and man-made disasters. Rather than following the lessons left by Confucius and previous emperors, Jiang has never admitted his mistakes and wrongdoings, nor asked for punishment from his people.

World Poverty, Hunger and Science

“How many people have indeed benefited from the development of science?” Ismail Serageldin, the director of the Library of Alexandria in Egypt, wrote an article to pose this question.