Sunday, July 25, 2021
The post of honor is a private station
邦有道则士,无道则隐。英文同義的譯句。
“When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway. The post of honour is a private station. The lines reflect an ancient Roman's sense of virtue. Public service was the high path of any career, but a virtuous man should take care to refain from offering his services at a time when the power of the state is held by men of poor moral character.”
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Abriginal people were murdered in History
"They took our land, they imprisoned our queen, they banned our language, they forcibly made us a colony of the United States" – Late Hawaiian revolutionary Haunani-Kay Trask.
6/15/2021
Canada mourns as remains of 215 children found at indigenous school
Published 29 May
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The Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia once housed 500 children
Unmarked graves containing the remains of 215 children have been found in Canada at a former residential school set up to assimilate indigenous people.
The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia that closed in 1978.
The discovery was announced on Thursday by the chief of the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said it was a "painful reminder" of a "shameful chapter of our country's history".
The First Nation is working with museum specialists and the coroner's office to establish the causes and timings of the deaths, which are not currently known.
Rosanne Casimir, the chief of the community in British Columbia's city of Kamloops, said the preliminary finding represented an unthinkable loss that was never documented by the school's administrators.
Canada's residential schools were compulsory boarding schools run by the government and religious authorities during the 19th and 20th Centuries with the aim of forcibly assimilating indigenous youth.
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Kamloops Indian Residential School was the largest in the residential system. Opened under Roman Catholic administration in 1890, the school had as many as 500 students when enrolment peaked in the 1950s.
The central government took over administration of the school in 1969, operating it as a residence for local students until 1978, when it was closed.
What do we know about the remains?
The Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation said the remains were found with the help of a ground-penetrating radar during a survey of the school.
"To our knowledge, these missing children are undocumented deaths," Ms Casimir said. "Some were as young as three years old."
"We sought out a way to confirm that knowing out of deepest respect and love for those lost children and their families, understanding that Tk'emlups te Secwepemc is the final resting place of these children."
The main administrative building at the Kamloops Indian Residential School is seen in Kamloops, British Columbia
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image captionAnalysis of the remains is still going on
The tribe said it had reached out to the home communities whose children attended the school. They expected to have preliminary findings by mid-June.
British Columbia's chief coroner Lisa Lapointe told Canadian broadcaster CBC "we are early in the process of gathering information".
What reaction has there been?
The reaction has been one of shock, grief and contrition.
"The news that remains were found at the former Kamloops residential school breaks my heart," Mr Trudeau wrote in a tweet.
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Canada's minister of indigenous relations, Carolyn Bennett, said residential schools were part of a "shameful" colonial policy. The government was committed to "memorialising those lost innocent souls", she said.
Terry Teegee, the regional chief of British Columbia's Assembly of First Nations, called finding such grave sites "urgent work" that "refreshes the grief and loss" of communities in the region.
Those views were echoed by other indigenous groups, including the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA).
"That this situation exists is sadly not a surprise and illustrates the damaging and lasting impacts that the residential school system continues to have on First Nations people, their families and communities,'' its CEO Richard Jock wrote in a statement.
What were residential schools?
From about 1863 to 1998, more than 150,000 indigenous children were taken from their families and placed in these schools.
The children were often not allowed to speak their language or to practise their culture, and many were mistreated and abused.
A commission launched in 2008 to document the impacts of this system found that large numbers of indigenous children never returned to their home communities.
The landmark Truth and Reconciliation report, released in 2015, said the policy amounted to "cultural genocide".
In 2008, the Canadian government formally apologised for the system.
The Missing Children Project documents the deaths and the burial places of children who died while attending the schools. To date, more than 4,100 children who died while attending a residential school have been identified, it says.
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The discovery in May of the remains of 215 Indigenous children - students of Canada's largest residential school - prompted national outrage and calls for further searches of unmarked graves.
Since then, two more unmarked gravesites have been found, providing previews of investigations by Canada's First Nations into the deaths of residential school students.
A rising tally of these sites - more than 1,100 so far - has triggered a national reckoning over Canada's legacy of residential schools. These government-funded boarding schools were part of policy to attempt to assimilate Indigenous children and destroy Indigenous cultures and languages.
Here's what we know about the findings so far.
What do we know about the preliminary findings?
In May, Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc Chief Rosanne Casimir announced that the remains of 215 children had been found near the city of Kamloops in southern British Columbia (BC).
Some of remains are believed to be of children as young as three.
All of the children had been students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School - the largest such institution in Canada's residential school system.
The remains had been confirmed days before with the help of ground-penetrating radar technology, Chief Casimir said, following preliminary work on identifying the burial sites in the early 2000s.
The full report into the remains found is due in late June, and the preliminary findings may be revised. Indigenous leaders and advocates have said they expect the 215 figure to rise.
"Regrettably, we know that many more children are unaccounted for," said Chief Casimir in a statement.
Thousands of children died in residential schools and their bodies rarely returned home. Many were buried in neglected graves.
In June, the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan announced it had found 751 unmarked graves after a similar investigation - the largest such discovery to date. The remains were found near the former Marieval Indian Residential School, which operated from 1899 in 1996 under the control of the Roman Catholic Church.
Cowessess leaders have not yet determined if all of the unmarked graves belonged to children. Technical teams will continue the investigation to provide verified numbers.
Cowessess Chief Cadmus Delorme emphasised that the discovery was of unmarked graves - not a mass grave site - and suggested that the Catholic Church may have removed grave markers at some point in the 1960s.
Then, just a week later, the Lower Kootenay Band in British Columbia said the remains of an additional 182 people had been found near the grounds of the former St Eugene's Mission School. St Eugene's was operated by the Catholic Church from 1912 until the early 1970s.
Some remains were found in shallow graves, the Lower Kootenay Band said in a statement.
To this day there is no full picture of the number of children who died in residential schools, the circumstances of their deaths, or where they are buried. Efforts like those of the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation and the Cowessess First Nation are helping to piece some of that history together.
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The Kamloops school, which operated between 1890 and 1969, held up to 500 Indigenous students at any one time, many sent to live at the school hundreds of kilometres from their families. Between 1969 and 1978, it was used as a residence for students attending local day schools.
Of the remains found, 50 children are believed to have already been identified, said Stephanie Scott, executive director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Their deaths, where known, range from 1900 to 1971.
But for the other 165, there are no available records to mark their identities.
Children "ended up in pauper graves," Ms Scott said. "Unmarked, unknown."
The findings incited anger throughout Canada, with people creating makeshift memorials across the country.
But for Indigenous leaders, the discovery was not unexpected.
"The outrage and the surprise from the general public is welcome, no question," said Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde following the BC report. "But the report is not surprising."
"Survivors have been saying this for years and years - but nobody believed them," he said.
What are residential schools?
The Kamloops residential school was one of more than 130 others like it. The schools were operated in Canada between 1874 and 1996.
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A linchpin in the government's policy of forced assimilation, some 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were taken from their families during this period and placed in state-run boarding schools.
When attendance became mandatory in the 1920s, parents faced threat of prison if they failed to comply.
The policy traumatised generations of Indigenous children, who were forced to abandon their native languages, speak English or French and convert to Christianity.
Christian churches were essential in the founding and operation of the schools. The Roman Catholic Church in particular was responsible for operating up to 70% of residential schools, according to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society.
"It was our government's policy to 'get rid of the Indian' in the child," said Chief Bellegarde. "It was a breakdown of self, the breakdown of family, community and nation."
1950: North American Indian children in their dormitory at a Canadian boarding school. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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image captionIndigenous children at a residential school in 1950
The landmark Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report, released in 2015, described the government-led policy as cultural genocide.
The 4,000-page report detailed sweeping failures in the care and safety of these children, and complicity by the church and government.
"Government, church and school officials were well aware of these failures and their impact on student health," the authors wrote. "If the question is, 'who knew what when?' the clear answer is: 'Everyone in authority at any point in the system's history.'"
Students were often housed in poorly built, poorly heated, and unsanitary facilities, the report said. Many lacked access to trained medical staff and were subject to harsh and often abusive punishment.
The squalid health conditions, the report said, were largely a function of the government's resolve to cut costs.
"We have records in our archives of school administrations arguing with the Indian affairs government at the time about who was going to pay for the funerals of students," Ms Scott said. "They would do it all at minimal expense."
What do we know about the search for missing children across Canada?
Research by the TRC found that thousands of Indigenous children sent to residential schools never made it home.
Physical and sexual abuse led some to run away. Others died of disease or by accident amid neglect. As late as 1945, the death rate for children at residential schools was nearly five times higher than that of other Canadian schoolchildren. In the 1960s, the rate was still double that of the general student population.
Shoes, flowers, candles and signs are on the steps of the Metropolitan United Church. Indigenous youth are holding a sit in front of the Ryerson statue near Church and Gould on the Ryerson University campus.
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image captionChildren's shoes have been left at makeshift memorials across Canada
"Survivors talked about children who suddenly went missing. Some talked about children who went missing into mass burial sites," said TRC chair Murray Sinclair in a statement in May.
Other survivors spoke of infants fathered by priests at the school, taken from their mothers at birth and thrown into furnaces, he said.
In 2015, it was estimated some 6,000 children had died while at residential schools. So far, more than 4,100 children have been identified.
"We know there are lots of sites similar to Kamloops that are going to come to light in the future," Mr Sinclair said. "We need to begin to prepare ourselves for that."
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What has been done?
In 2015, the TRC issued 94 calls to action, including six recommendations regarding missing children and burial grounds. Prime Minister Trudeau promised to "fully implement" all of them.
According to a running count by the CBC, 10 of the projects have been completed, 64 are in progress and 20 have not begun
The TRC, struck in 2009, fought for the issue of unmarked burial sites to be included in its mandate
In 2019, the government committed C$33.8m ($28m; £19.8m) over three years to develop and maintain a school student death register and set up an online registry of residential school cemeteries
So far, the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation says it has received just a fraction of this money
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What has been the reaction?
In June, Mr Trudeau said he was "appalled" by Canada's legacy of residential schools and pledged "concrete action" - but provided few details.
"Trudeau has been willing to move on this, he's got a lot of words, but we really need to see action," Ms Scott said.
Ms Scott, along with Chief Bellegarde and other Indigenous leaders, have pressed the government for a thorough investigation of all 130 former school sites to find any unmarked graves.
These children have been "discarded", Chief Bellegarde said. "That's not acceptable."
First Nations community members gather during a vigil in the recently discovered unmarked graveyard in a former catholic Indian residential school in Cowessess first nation community of Marieval, in Saskatchewan, Canada
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image captionFirst Nations community members gather for a vigil in Marieval after a discovery of unmarked graves
The discoveries also cast a shadow over the country's 1 July Canada Day holiday. Municipalities across Canada called off celebrations this year in recognition of the findings.
The preliminary findings have also renewed demands for an apology from the Catholic Church - one of the calls to action in the TRC report.
In 2017, Mr Trudeau asked Pope Francis to apologise for the church's role in running Canada's residential schools - but the church has so far declined.
The United, Anglican and Presbyterian churches issued formal apologies in the 1980s and 1990s.
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An apology from the Catholic church would be "healing", said Chief Bellegarde. "It's part of closing that wound."
News of the BC discovery spurred a global response, prompting statements from Human Rights Watch and the United Nations.
Sunday, July 4, 2021
God sees all gods
There is a popular story between a schoolar and a zen master, a monk. They are good friends. One time, the schoolar went to visit the monk. The schoolar asked the monk "what do you see?" the monk answered:" a buddha." the monk asked the schoolar "what did you see?" "A pig." said the schoolar. later, when the schoolar went back home, he told the story to his sister so happy said:" i fool the monk today" "how did you fool the monk Today?" the schoolar said,:"The monk asked me what do i see on him, i said a pig.; when he asks me what does he see on me. he says a buddha."; His sister told the schoolar,"you lose."
One day this schoolar wrote a ji. On the ji, he wrote the last sentence, it says:" Eight winds blow doesnt make me one move" He send a servant to show this ji to the monk. The monk wrote back "you fark" to respond on his ji. "ji" is a poem. When a person get realization, he writes a poem. A ji means this kind of poem. The schoolar saw his respond "you fark" He became so angrily. read the ji only a few words, He wanted to see the monk right away. He went across a river to go to the temple. He saw the monk waited on the bank. The schoolar said to the monk, "why do you hurt me by saying "you fark" when you read my ji. It's ok to critisize me but not with bad words. Why do you do that on me? The monk said " There are eight winds could not make you for one move. But One fark shock you to cross the river."
Friday, July 2, 2021
How to handle a handyman to do a job for you?
As a moral and a spiritual person, how a person handles some worldly business properly? It's a wisdom job. Hire Handyman is not an easy job. So many factors you have to think about it. One worse thing is the schedule. Sometimes, 3 days job they can delay two weeks. Why? They need business. They need money. So they try to get any business they can. Especially this kind of job, mostly, it is urgent. They get a call they need to go to give an estimate. Then, One morning is gone. And you don’t know what happens? You call and ask why they don’t show up. They will give you any reason. Sometimes, if the job is not urgent, they will go to the job site after your work. (when you are lucky). While your handyman is doing your work, supposed they get another job, they may get more job while doing your work, what happened? In order to grab the business, they will come to work for you one day and miss the next two, three days. They go to the second job place to work. They will miss two-three days on this job, they go to another job place to work. They know when they start to work for you, they know you have to wait. No other words. I have a good group of handymen, they only do on one job site. Finish, they clean out the place. They get payment from you. They go to the next job. While they are working for you, they get phone calls for a business, they will go to give an estimate after they close a day on your job. You need to talk to them clearly, avoid misunderstanding in between. They don't need to work for you and you don't need to hire them. No one owes to no one. Don’t let them play games around with you. Don’t let them mass up your job and your schedule. Some handyman is really bad if you don’t make it clear to them. If he sees you so kind, their attitude shows up even worse.
i posted one last time about how to handle a handyman's job. i saw many businesses went wrong when a dada or a didi hire a person to do their job. Remember, no one owes to no one. You don't need to hire them. They don't need to work for you. Everything must be clear on both sides before the job. It is not that they have all the rights to work on other jobs. They don't. When it's clear, no one can complain to each other.
Thursday, July 1, 2021
Vaccination
One margii says:"i ask Ba'Ba'. Ba'Ba' told me don't take the shot." One margii says:"i ask Ba'Ba'. Ba'Ba' said to me i need to go to take a shot."
Rudranianada says:"i always follow what Ba'Ba' said." Path of Bliss says:"i always follow what Ba'Ba' said, every single word. Later, Path of Bliss sued Ranqi group at the court. See, i know what Ba'Ba' wanted.
Defector, why did the film showed Mamata and her followers leaving Ba'Ba'? Later, she sued Ba'Ba' at the court that Ba'Ba' had his disciple to do the killing. And Ranqi's film showed Ananda Mitra was talking something in the film. They all defectors. They knew it. But why?
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