26 September 2019
Compassionate Empathy 2 共苦２
How many are weeping at this moment?
How many in pain?
How many in deep sorrow?
How many on the dark edge of fear?
How many can reach out from heart? Each other. One another. Holding.
To all forms of living beings.
To the mother earth.
Compassionate Empathy 1 共苦１
Note: there is no particular gender in these figures. Spirit to spirit, soul to soul and mind to mind. Up to your imagination.
Snow Mountain 雪山よ
Snow Mountain
If you do not stand up like a human of dignity,
You are just the useless highest peak.
Do not stay lying down,
Rather,
Stand up on the ground.
Solider
If you have to shoot me to death,
Shoot my head.
Do not shoot my heart.
Because
I have my love in my heart.
(Anonymous Tibetan in exile)
雪山よ
もし君が人間のようにたちあがらなかったなら
たとえ世界の最高峰だったとしても
その醜さをただ無残にさらすだけだ
最高峰として寝そべっているよりも
むしろ最底辺でスックと立つべきだ
兵士よ
もしどうしてもぼくを撃たなければいけないのなら
僕の頭を撃ってくれ
僕の心臓は撃たないでくれ
僕の心には愛する人がいるのだから
（亡命チベット人による詩、名前不明）
This poem was introduced by Ms. Liu, who has lived in Japan for many years and is known as a translator of a few Tsering Woeser's books in Japanese. She has translated and published 'Kora' by Tibetan writer/poet/activist Tenzin Tsundue this year. This poem came with her letter with the book.
It stuck in my heart for 5 months while my away in India, Taiwan, Japan and Korea this spring to early summer. Now it is autumn and finally the image came up to me in layers on top of the poem.
People who passed cold snowy mountains at night to cross the border.
The 17 years old girl who was shot by the Chinese border police.
The method of an execution of a person on death row, which I learned in one country.
The executer marks dotted circle on the back of the person where his heart is and shoot the spot.
A dream, yearning and love disappear in a second. A heart breaks and a precious life ends.
Despite there are fellow humans in the world who decide to stand up for freedom and dignity.
They do not give up.
What is to live?
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