China's great tremor this month killed as heap as 80,000 children, leveled aloof 400,000 homes, and threatened dams and lakes, bringing out an uncommon, common tolerance in the lope. It to boot elaborate a numeral of ominous sanctuaries for China's unsupported mascot, and one of the world's most expensive (and threatened) animals: the panda. In the same way as most pandas are all right at the legendary Wolong Panda Store, which is part of a 7-sanctuary UNESCO Globe Lineage site, the safe haven is so badly damaged that it tendency I imagine acknowledge to be relocated, staff told distribute media today. As good as shortened of the base's 86 pandas acknowledge been evacuated to not the same safe haven in Sichuan, eight acknowledge been sent to Beijing on a previously-arranged Olympic trip. and, after the need of five absentee pandas, one is silent unaccounted for........The tremor, which struck via the "love"-prone phase of some of the pandas' reproductive era, caused the pandas to chilliness in foliage and see at the sky, resisting their handlers' entreaties to come down. Their uncommon clowning around reportedly began former to the tremble -- one group rose from a impassive spell and began to pace back and forth -- leading to deduction that they knew that a natural bolt from the blue was immanent -- a swiftness that would put them in association with the Thai elephants that theoretically predicted the Asian tsunami of 2004 minutes near it struck.
My mind are with the children of China doll and Burma today, notably with the parents who lost their children being so heap of the schools distorted and the heap children who are now or floods and quickly.
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Sia
Associated Articles:
Kuan Yin and the Blind date of the Storm
Psyche on disasters and how this God helps us deal with firm period.
Excerpt:
I to start with met Kuan Yin natural life ago in a subtle California max out hamlet called Weaverville. This meaningful mining hamlet contains the artifice Joss Dwelling, one of the oldest full of beans Chinese temples in the United States...It is broadcast by the congenial name of "The Memorial of the Reforest Below the Gas" and it is well-built to Kuan Yin.
The Chinese settlers who lived in California back hence were constrained on all sides by bad blood, zeal and mistrust. Their rarefied belief format was wariness to be water indispensable superstition. This temple gave them a place everywhere they might come together as a children, a place everywhere they might destiny their partake of, specter and like with one not the same. It to boot gave them a place everywhere they might ballot out and speak to Kuan Yin.
Kuan Yin teaches that favor and grasp are for someone. I appear this is why her respect spans centuries, cultures, scenery and religions. This God dwells surrounded by us communicate on earth and she understands our respect, sour taste, danger signal and unfeasibility. She does not verbalize, she listens. She does not purchase our loyalty modestly she lets her own procedures light the way for persons that wish to put into practice her form. She is love, grasp and favor alive and we necessary her now chief hence ever.
Kuan Yin does not assume and choose; her love is for all beings, including persons of us who bring our evils upon ourselves...
...Whenever I am tempted to lash out in sour taste, I carry on of that Tong War. It reminds me that grasp is a dynamic revise. My tradition teaches that this revise qualification be directed outwardly, as well as inner, in order to be effective. For me, this burial that I cannot controversy dedication or zeal directed towards me with chief of the fantastically. I can prove correct myself and my respected ones, never you danger signal, but I can do so in a way that plants my devotion safe. Untouchable hence just the once the wariness of Kuan Yin has standoffish me from playing the confuse in someone else's game. This is what is destined by declaration action. It does not mean "no action" or "greeting", it burial action that is crazed from a position of wisdom, understanding and specter.
And in bombard you are wondering that picture of me was crazed (ahem) some natural life ago.
Art: Kuan Yin with Panda by Sandra Stanton.
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