Looking for Peace Outside
If only I could live in the country, then I wouldnt have the problems that I have here in the cramped, busy city…
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If only I could live in the country, then I wouldnt have the problems that I have here in the cramped, busy city…
It is now autumn in Sydney. Night falls on this great city. Cold wind is gently knocking at my window. All the lovely birds have gone back to their nests. My dear sister, when will you come home?
About a year ago, I was driving home late one night with my girlfriend. The wind was as strong as Id seen in quite a while, with dirt and grit being blown up against the windshield. As I drove along the main road I noticed all of the streetlights were out up ahead.
I smiled and told him that I was a Falun Dafa practitioner and that we cultivate ourselves according to the laws of the universe: “Truth, Compassion and Forbearance.”
Ms. Zhang, 63 years old this year, teaches ballet at the Canada National Ballet School. Along with continued success in her career, she enjoys unlimited vigor in her artistic life.
It is easy to see that Jiang’s persecution of Falun Gong grew out of his narrow mindedness, selfishness, unwarranted suspicion, and disregard of the facts.
I will no longer need to criticize myself from my conscience when I make a wrong choice between truth and falsehood. It is high time I spoke the truth from my heart. How uncomfortably I have lived throughout my life!
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.
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.
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.”