Put your practice first, eat brown rice and vegetables, wash your bowl, destroy the crazy consumerist culture. Gassho.

Earlier in the week, I was doing namaste-type bows to the police, basically trying to say that God was in them too, to salute that presence in them and hope it would guide their actions. Also spoke to a few cops individually, one because I wanted to know what he thought about all this, another time because a policeman (Highway Patrol) had stopped me to ask ME questions, and I could haul out my press badge and tape recorder to ask HIM why he'd stopped me, once Tuesday morning to tell a couple cops 'Good morning' and let them know I didn't like what had happened the night before, and hoped they felt the same.

I saw a lot of different expressions and postures from the police watching the marches, some of them extremely hostile & frightened, most of them just there, some approving.

So I don't know if this other guy was "mocking" or really trying to hook into "Cop Buddha Nature." I hope it was the latter

I'm the legal observer in this picture. I'd taken a statement from the demonstrator (shown bowing here) the previous day. He showed me his injuries, claiming to have been beaten with clubs and hit three times in the face with rubber bullets and once in the back while fleeing west on Olympic following the order to disperse on Monday night. Shortly after this picture was taken, he offered his hand in peace to the third officer from the right (blocking the south side of the intersection at Broadway and 9th).

This was no mockery.

That's the attitude we need, to eventually bring the police onboard. The sooner we recognize that we are all connected, all bound by a solitary thread, all brothers and sisters and plants and animals, the sooner our civilization will blossom.

That's the attitude we need, to eventually bring the police onboard. The sooner we recognize that we are all connected, all bound by a solitary thread, all brothers and sisters and plants and animals, the sooner our civilization will blossom.

Mr. "Zen lesson" How do you know if we eat or do not eat our brown rice and vegetables? How do you know if we wash or do not wash our bowl? How do you know if we are trying to destroy or not this crazy consumer culture? Have you consider that maybe we also read Gassho? HAVE YOU EVER VISITES VIEQUES-PUERTO RICO?

Mr. "Zen lesson" How do you know if we eat or do not eat our brown rice and vegetables? How do you know if we wash or do not wash our bowl? How do you know if we are trying to destroy or not this crazy consumer culture? Have you consider that maybe we also read Gassho? HAVE YOU EVER VISITED VIEQUES-PUERTO RICO?