The pain and suffering inflicted upon the Native people of this land will take a long time to be forgotten. But that does not mean that we cannot forgive. We need reconciliation in this land. By destroying our monasteries, violating our nuns and monks, making me an exile, a homeless person, I can now truly practice the Buddha's precepts of Compassion and Forgiveness. American Indian people are now standing at a crossroads.
Nothing can change the past.
We now have the opportunity to be that which our ancestors were persecuted for, children of the Light, vessels of compassion , spiritual teachers. The Whiteman came here to these shores running away from his ancestors . He was driven out of his homelands by his own people. These people had no pity for the poor, no compassion for the sick or elderly. They were cruel to their own race and tortured and imprisoned the weak and helpless.