P Yesterday we lost a prominent peace activist, Art Gish (obituary here). Tom and I saw him and his wife Peggy speak a year or two ago. They were unforgettable. An article by Art describing the event above, where he is standing down a tank in Hebron, gives a good idea of the courage in the face of death these two people have lived by.
The Gishes were on the Christian Peacemakers' team , yet something Peggy said at that talk struck me as perfectly Buddhist - in fact, as a Bodhissatva talking. I asked her how she managed to find the courage to walk children to school past a phalanx of boy soldiers armed with automatic rifles. She replied, "Every morning I pray to be animated by love. The day doesn't go so well when I forget."
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