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# On  Buddha's birthday
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/18329/
- Published: 2005-05-15T11:05:04.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:33:21.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:15

Today, [people in Korea](http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/culture/200505/kt2005050516275711690.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net) and elsewhere are celebrating the birthday of the [Buddha](http://www.thebigview.com/buddhism/?ref=opendemocracy.net).

In England, a bright spring day. The [rough winds of May](http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/poetry/html/aupoem160.html?ref=opendemocracy.net) have abated.

A line from [John Berger](http://www.johnberger.org/events.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net): "the naming of the intolerable is itself hope" (quoted by [Dan Gretton](http://www.platformlondon.org/kus.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net) of [Platform](http://www.carbonweb.org/?ref=opendemocracy.net) at an event on absurdity).

[Earth's Climate Embraces Us All](http://www.nrpe.org/?ref=opendemocracy.net).

[Listen up!](http://bible.cc/matthew/11-15.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net)

From the Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke:

*life holds mystery for us yet. In a hundred places/we can still sense the source: a play of pure powers/that -- when you feel it -- brings you to your knees*.

CH