WAR MEANS DEATH says The Dalai Lama

Here is an amazing quote from the Dalai Lama:

War, sadly, has remained a part of human history up to the present, but I think the time has come to change the concepts that lead to war. Some people consider war to be something glorious; they think that through war they can become heroes. This attitude toward war is very wrong. Recently an interviewer remarked to me, "Westerners have a great fear of death, but Easterners seem to have very little fear of death."

To that I half-jokingly responded, "It seems to me that, to the Western mind, war and the military establishment are extremely important. War means death--by killing, not by natural causes. So it seems that, in fact, you are the ones who do not fear death, because you are so fond of war. We Easterners, particularly Tibetans, cannot even begin to consider war; we cannot conceive of fighting, because the inevitable result of war is disaster: death, injuries, and misery. Therefore, the concept of war, in our minds, is extremely negative. That would seem to mean we actually have more fear of death than you. Don't you think?"

--from The Compassionate Life by Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

And completely unrelated to the quote above, a friend of mine named Josh Kamler has built a promising new website for photos of writings scrawled on city walls (so to speak):

http://www.writtenonthecity.com/random.php

I plan to add some of my photos to this site soon.

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