The movie timed-out a couple of times, so be patient. It's
worth it. I was able to watch the whole thing. Peace Pilgrim
walked since 1953, never asked for food or a place to
sleep. Dan Millman, The Dalai Lama, Maya Angelou, her
ex-husband, friends and relatives are featured giving
comments.
I enjoyed the film clips from the fifties with the old cars
and fashions. Check out the photos of her as a young
woman, dressed in flapper style, and modeling on the beach. She
was a babe! Then the deep seeking came upon her. She began
working as a seeker and opened herself to being used by
existence. Then she found what she was seeking: "To give of
something beyond myself." She speaks of the difference
between needing to do something greater and the willingness to do
it.
There is an interview with her husband who was married to
her when she was young. "No way, shape and form she was a
homemaker," he said. She didn't want children and when her
husband was drafted into WWII she refused to write or visit him.
She wanted him to go to prison instead of the army. At that time
she was intensely interested in peace, but hadn't yet become
attuned to her mission as pilgrim. They got a divorce. She lived
comfortably but had much unrest. Then the calling came to leave
what she had and live in poverty carrying out her mission. She
was not happy or peaceful with her material life, so she
"gave it a try." She severed her old relationships.
She speaks of moving from the center of the self to the center
of the "good." She speaks with a wowness to her voice,
which seems kitchy now, but she was protesting the war in Korea
and the McCarthy era sickness. That's when she started.
There are cuts with scenes from world events of the fifties,
sixties, seventies.
"My vow says I shall become a wanderer until mankind
has learned the way of peace."
"When I realized what potential people have, I realized
how sad that people only scratched the surface of their real
potential. No wonder they have problems. No wonder society has
problems."
"What I have and what I need are exactly the same."
"I own only the things I wear and the few things I carry
in my pockets. Just think how free I am."
"Only as we become more peaceful people will we find
ourselves living in a more peaceful world."
"Our life is not very long: 100 years at the most.
If throughout its duration we try to be kind, warm-hearted and
concerned for the welfare of others, and less selfish and angry,
that will be wonderful, excellent; that is really the cause of
happiness.
If you are selfish, if you always put yourself first and others
second, the actual result will be that you yourself will finish
up
last.
If mentally you put yourself last and others first, you will come
out ahead."
~ H.H the Dalai Lama
The Other Syntax
"Warrior-travelers don't complain," don Juan went
on. "They take
everything that infinity hands them as a challenge. A challenge
is a
challenge. It isn't personal. It cannot be taken as a curse or a
blessing. A warrior-traveler either wins the challenge or the
challenge demolishes him. It's more exciting to win, so
win!"
The Clear View
The Active Side of Infinity
Mary Bianco
NDS News
Music for the stressed soul
By Josh Shaffer
Special to the Star-Telegram
Ask most spiritual people what they like in music and they'll
tell you that God has pretty broad tastes.
It doesn't matter much to the creator of the universe if you
sing a Bach cantata or a string of nonsense syllables, as long as
the heart is pure.
During the first week of daylight-saving time, it's not so
much the heart but the body and spirit that need a boost.
Here, an amateur inspirational spin-doctor offers uplifting
musical suggestions for any time of the day.
WAKE-UP CALL
Christian
PC Munoz and the Amen Corner. Funk Mass for St.
Martin De Porres. Imagine George Clinton in the
priesthood.
Native American
Kiowa traditional, War Dance (Fast). You tried
to be reasonable, but now it's time to break out the red
feathers.
Buddhist
Monks of Tharpa Choeling Monastery, Offering to
the Savior Gompo. Lost on the way to enlightenment?
Just follow the clanking frying pans.
Jewish
Yehoshua Rochman, Abu's Courtyard.
This violin will roust you.
Mideast/Indian
Yahya Arouma, Taba'an Liqa (It Was Nice To Meet
You). Greetings from Yemen.
MIDDAY PANIC
Christian
Jars of Clay, Flood. Could be worse. Could be
raining. For 40 days.
Native American
Mountain Spirit Song, Apache traditional.
Among the most sacred of Apache dances, intended to
protect and ward off disease.
Buddhist
Monks of the Gyuto Monastery, Sangwa Duepa Chant.
These Tibetans chant for an hour in unbelievably low
tones. Try it at your desk and co-workers will ask if
you're birthing a tuba.
Jewish
Shefa Gold, Free My Soul. People
appear in dreams with directions out of the wilderness.
Mideast/Indian
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Jewleh Lal.
Sufis belive in a realm of consciousness where earthly
passion and divine love meet.
LATE-AFTERNOON SLOTH
Christian
DC Talk, Jesus Freak. Good for spicing up the
teen abstinence rally.
Native American
Arikana traditional, Warrior Song. Emphatic
drumming sounds like someone's building a deck inside
your skull.
Buddhist
Jeff Beal and Nawang Khechog, Long Life Chant
(Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion soundtrack).
Accept your sloth. Embrace your sloth. Become your sloth.
Jewish
Israel Edelson, Hop Cossaek. Piano
jaunty enough to back up a vaudeville act.
Mideast/Indian
Francoise Atlan, Nechama. Sung in
Aramaic by a Jewish woman from Algeria: If only global
unity were so easy.
JUBILATION
Christian
The Blind Boys of Alabama, Just Wanna See His
Face. So what if Mick Jagger sang it before the Blind
Boys made it into a gospel hoot?
Native American
Papago traditional, Song of the Green Rainbow.
Dance under a green rainbow and make the whole world wet.
Beats workin'.
Buddhist
Kelsang Chukie Tethong, Ala Ye. Cast money and
other trivialities aside.
Jewish
Harry Belafonte, Hava Nagila. Some
call it the world's most famous song of joy.
Mideast/Indian
Chandrakantha and David Courtney, Om
Jaya Jagadish Hare. Traditional Hindu songs straight
from the temple in Midland, Texas. Namaste, y'all.
ANGST AT 3 A.M.
Christian
Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch, I'll Fly Away.
From O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Native American
Navajo traditional, Yei-Be-Chai Chant. No
drums -- only rattles. A healing song straight from the
deities.
Buddhist
Kelsang Chukie Tethong, Generation of Bodhichita.
A prayer that we may benefit sentient beings.
Jewish
Muzsikas, The Rooster Is Crowing.
From The Lost Jewish Music of Transylvania --
Hungarian folk music played mostly by musicians who died
in the Holocaust.
Mideast/Indian
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Ben Haadh Ramza
Dhasdha. The story of a Persian Sufi martyr, crucified in
the 10th century for saying "I Am the Truth."
