Ogmin

"Our greatest goal is to support the objectives of the Charter for Compassion, by developing a grassroots community of individuals dedicated to alleviating suffering. In a city such as ours, that will present limitless possibilities for service to the poor, the sick and dying, the marginalised and the hungry.

Additionally we hope to provide the region with a fresh, reinvigorated and inviting look at the Dharma of the Buddha and the Compassionate Way of the Christ, interpreted through a non-sectarian, non-theistic and postmodern lens… to offer a diversity in forms of meditation, liturgy and study, so that the Dharma of Compassion is accessible to all who are interested. "

SILAS SOULE
(July 26, 1838 - April 23, 1865)

If anyone is looking for good historical subjects to represent in film, here is a colorful and meaningful life of high adventure and moral principle. Born in Maine, at 16 his family moved near Lawrence Kansas to help settle the Territory and bring it into the Union as a free state. Father established the house as a stop on the Underground Railroad and son became an expert in the hit and run tactics of the border wars known as Bleeding Kansas. Silas helped execute jail breaks for those convicted of assisting runaway slaves. He gained access to John Brown in prison although the old man insisted on being martyred and refused to be rescued. Soule fought the Confederates at Glorieta Pass, southeast of Santa Fe where Union troops used ropes and tackle to scale cliffs and flank the rebs. The climax approaches as Soule rides with Col. Chivington and his volunteers to Sand Creek where our hero refuses to attack the Indians camped there. His subsequent testimony against Chivington led to his murder in cold blood on the streets of Denver. National outrage at the massacre influenced the US Congress to refuse the Army's request for thousands of more troops for a general war against the Native Americans of the Plains.

"The phurba affixes the Elemental Process of Space to the Earth, thereby establishing an energetic continuum."

A good background on the phurba or kila, the ritualistic dagger used in Vajrayana rituals.

A Chickasaw Legend: "Ababinili is the spirit of fire and manifest in fire and the sun."

A good summary of this relatively unknown tragedy excerpted from Louisiana History by Grace Elizabeth King, John Rose Ficklen, L. Graham Co., 1905

HHDL: "The mind is an affirmative phenomenon, but on the ordinary level it is obscured by concepts, different states of thinking and preconceptions, and so on. In order to recognize the essential nature of the mind, therefore, we have to peel off these different layers and clear away these obscurations. Then we shall see the true face of our own minds."

NOVEMBER 28, 1785: "The treaty gave rise to the sardonic Cherokee phrase of Talking Leaves, since they claimed that when the treaties no longer suited the Americans, they would blow away like talking leaves."

Nov 28 1729 - After being systematically abused by their new neighbors, Natchez Indians massacre French settlers at Fort Rosalie