What Would Buddha Do?

First, I don't know the truth about what happens in T-i-b-e-t. "Truth", for media, is a tale of Rashomon.
Second, I cannot take side. Hatred starts from saying "we" and "they".

I am confused. But I am clear and will stand by the following points:
1. No one shall create hatred for personal gain.
2. No one shall seek control from power of religion or government.
3. All lives are equal.

Spelled as O-Z-U

I am reading a book about Ozu, and suddenly realized Hou Hsiao-Hsien was the one who introduced me to Ozu even though I did watch some of Ozu's films before. Especially this movie, Cafe Lumiere, fully translated Ozuism to me.

I think Ozu himself would like this film.

Life on Mars

It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling "No"
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen
But the film is a saddening bore
Though she's lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on

Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?

It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
But the film is a saddening bore
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on

Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?

By David Bowie

Lei Feng

March 5 is Lei Feng's birthday, which, through my childhood, made the whole month special every year: there were always some activities at the school to "Xue Lei Feng"(學雷鋒) .

I am surprised that when I googled "Lei Feng" today, there were not too many results. As even said many years ago, "Lei Feng Come, Lei Feng Go." Somehow, nowadays, he hardly can make here in March.

Mao's posthumous "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng" (向雷鋒同志學習) campaign in 1963 was like any moments in China, which people sometime chose to forget.

Not long ago, I read some the second most printed poster in China is Lei Feng's portrait, holding a raffle under a pine tree. The number one is Mao's portrait, of course. I cannot find it on Google, strangely, even I doubt it is copy right protected.

The same article said some Lei Feng's pictures were airbrushed for more specific visual impression. After so many thing said and done, it at least will be hard to forget.