Ukraine's Nazis-controlled military keeps shelling civilian innocents — a Buddhist parable emerges in an admirable woman's words

© 2022 Peter Free

 

17 June 2022

 

 

The West's undiluted Lamestream evil . . .

 

. . . keeps covering this Ukrainian Nazis stuff up.

 

In opposition — Eva K Bartlett, Graham Phillips and Patrick Lancaster — Canadian, British and American video journalists (respectively) — stalwartly continue demonstrating Western propaganda's lies.

 

 

For example

 

See Bartlett's recent overview of the Ukraine military's shelling of a maternity hospital in Donetsk:

 

 

Eva K Bartlett, Ukraine Bombarded Donetsk, Including Bombing a Maternity Hospital, Then Claimed Russian Did It, YouTube (16 June 2022)

 

 

Patrick Lancaster covered the same event . . .

 

. . . by speaking directly to the maternity hospital's occupants — on the same day that the shelling took place:

 

 

Patrick Lancaster, Maternity Hospital Hit by Rockets in Donetsk. Mothers, Nurses & Doctors Blame Ukraine, YouTube (14 June 2022)

 

 

Lancaster routinely records witness accounts of . . .

 

. . . the Ukrainian military's targeting of civilians (whether by artillery, mortars and rifles) in his videos.

 

One of the most demonstratively telling of these, records a real-time shelling in Makiivka.

 

During this particular (militarily worthless) mini-bombardment, the home's female occupant endures the shelling calmly.

 

She gives Lancaster a bowl of strawberries to calm his nerves.

 

Hers is a living version of Buddhism's two tigers, two mice, a cliff and a vine (with a strawberry on it) parable.

 

Here, with the sharpnel-spewing Ukrainian shelling substituting for the ancient parable's critters and cliff.

 

The Makiivka strawberries show up at the Lancaster video's 08:02 minute mark:

 

 

Patrick Lancaster, Journalists Come Under Ukraine Artillery Fire in Donetsk Suburb, YouTube (15 June 2022)

 

 

At 10:46, arrives one of the parable's core messages:

 

 

"I'm worried about my family. There is no Internet connection. There is nowhere to call. Nightmare. Eat strawberries while you have them."

 

 

Keep in mind that people quarrel over the Buddhist parable's allegedly core teaching:

 

 

One of those supposed meanings says that a person can appreciate whatever the present moment offers up.

 

Another reverses this to say that being distracted from dealing with imminent calamity (by enjoying a strawberry) is a silly mistake.

 

 

My own perspective is that the quasi-koan-like parable is more subtly adaptable — and inextricably complex — than both of those too-limited explanations.

 

 

Then, comes a poignant metaphor

 

Referring to her experience with 8 years of Ukrainian shelling, the woman tells Lancaster that:

 

 

I can't take my grandson to myself.

 

He asks.

 

Says 'Grandma, take me to yourself. I'm growing up.'

 

And where can I take him?

 

Nowhere.

 

Granny herself is like on a powder keg.

 

 

Meanwhile

 

The materially comfortable (consistently 'banality of evil' displaying and always complacently conceited) West — funds, arms and continues to motivate the Zelensky regime's rampaging Nazis.

 

 

The moral? — Tell me . . .

 

What did you (or I) do to investigate and forward Truth today?