Saturday, December 10, 2011
Friday, December 2, 2011
A Poem written for a rally in Princeton, WI where we had hunters stopping their cars to sign petitions to RECALL WALKER!
Recall Walker, compassion for all
beings, take back our state and rights….but Carol wrote on my Facebook page:
Wake up-Walker was elected by a
majority of the people and he's doing what we elected him to do.
A
close friend also wrote:
I like Luther Olsen and I love what
Scott Walker has done to clean up the financial situation in Wisconsin -- and I
sleep very soundly every night. I am also trying to help Walker in his defense.
Yes Carol, ok friend, I do not sleep
well anymore. Many people in this state are not sleeping well, fear of losing
their homes, their jobs, or out of work, because of Walker and his polices…..
I keep thinking of the sign in
Madison in January, held by a young lady,
“It took Hitler 5 months to kill the
unions. It took Walker 45 days”
Carol and my good friend, if you
like following the play book of the 30' in Germany and you know what that
brought.
If you want leadership by donation
and money power
If you want to sell our natural
resources to the highest bidder, to hell with saving the earth…
If you want to take away the right
of workers to have a say about their pay, their healthcare and retirement,
If you want to not respect the
firefighters, teachers, police, nurses, social workers and all those who serve
us as public workers
If you want to destroy our public
schools, and education for those kids who are challenged, the rural kids and
kids in the city, those in poverty, all kids even the privileged you favor,
your own….
If you support a special session of
our leaders in Madison to create jobs and they play games the whole week and
care nothing for the working folks of this great state
Then you want Walker and his Thugs,
including Luther Olson, Luther I am calling you out brother, you are gutless
and weak to follow this man, you will not win again….
Oh Carol, you asked me to wake up, I am awake in the ancient tradition of the Buddha
with compassion for all beings, justice for all beings, rights for all beings,
even you Carol, and my good friend.
We have a choice, Recall Walker and
his thugs, or live on a new plantation named Wisconsin under the Master Walker
and his rich friends and thugs….what do You want?
I want freedom, I want to recall
Walker!
The revolution will not be on tv, no reruns, because this
revolution is LIVE!
By ko shin Bob Hanson
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Big News around here, first blog for a loooooong time, my second book, The Inner Passage, print on demand, Createspace.com and on Amazon now. I wanted to do this for family and friends, it has been a real interesting time. Poems, Photos and poems from a group of my fellow poets and friends. I know you will enjoy. Contact me at koshin@centurytel.net or here at the blog. I promise I will check more than every six months!
RECALL WALKER is the big move now we are all participating in. Over 300,000 signs so far and some time to go. If you are a citizen of WI be sure to join the movement to get rid of this guy and his thugs. Thanks!
We enter what I like to call a Sacred Time, the last month of the year (in the West) and the first of a new year, 2012. So many sacred paths and communities celebrate during this time, along with Christmas. On the 8th we celebrate the enlightenment of the Buddha, an auspicious time for many paths in the Buddhist tradition.
Deep bows of thanks and compassion to all and your families and friends, from Karen and I, and our five adult children and now twelve Grand Kids. Love and Peace....ko shin
RECALL WALKER is the big move now we are all participating in. Over 300,000 signs so far and some time to go. If you are a citizen of WI be sure to join the movement to get rid of this guy and his thugs. Thanks!
We enter what I like to call a Sacred Time, the last month of the year (in the West) and the first of a new year, 2012. So many sacred paths and communities celebrate during this time, along with Christmas. On the 8th we celebrate the enlightenment of the Buddha, an auspicious time for many paths in the Buddhist tradition.
Deep bows of thanks and compassion to all and your families and friends, from Karen and I, and our five adult children and now twelve Grand Kids. Love and Peace....ko shin
Monday, April 11, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Ash Wednesday: I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
Ash Wednesday: I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
I do not place this here for agreement but for a conversation about the foolishness of all this....in a time when we need to be practicing our spiritual ways to serve all beings not just a church or temple or synagogue. I hope you washed the ashes off....
I do not place this here for agreement but for a conversation about the foolishness of all this....in a time when we need to be practicing our spiritual ways to serve all beings not just a church or temple or synagogue. I hope you washed the ashes off....
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Family, the Jewel of our lives....
Foot Doctor?, here they are!
Finn and Elisa
Grandpa's joy!
The Family, just off the large Market Street in Chiang Mae old city
Elisa with Grandpa Bob in the Golden Triangle (Thailand side)
Dinner and show at the Chiang Mae Cultural Center
Ice Cream is global
Bob and Karen at Wat (Temple) Rong Khun, one persons life project with many artistians.
Children from one of nine hill tribes in Siam
Karen and Bob with one of the staff at the resort we stayed at for a week.
Ringing the Dharma Bell
The Buddha, The Dharma, The Sangha
The Monk
The Bells Call One to Mindfulness
Respect of the Jewel, The Buddha
Compassion for others in the Temple
Is it Tara...the beauty of the Buddha
Lunch Time in the Temple, Chiang Mae
On the Steps of the Temple
It is getting harder to reach down and slip on these sandals...
Temple after Temple, the sandals come off and on again...
Sacred space every where, humility in ones actions not just thought….
As I leaned over and put my shoes on, my sandals,
The monk watching the temple that morning, had come out and watched me carefully.
When I stood up, he offered me his arm to walk down the many steps.
I was so surprised at this act of kindness
I kindly said its ok, I can make it and he smiled…
What struck me for the rest of my Temple walk through the old city of Chiang Mai.
Was the natural way this happened,
Not a commandment,
Not a rule,
Not for merit,
Or a star in his crown,
But out of compassion, a deep comprehensive kind of love,
Unconditional, unmerited, unmeasured, love for all beings,
Thanks my friend,
Your care and this lesson that will not leave my heart or mind,
No merit or reward, but a human act, a practice, oh that it can be ours…..
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