Name: 剣を鋤に変える非暴力の多くの道 (Turning Swords into Ploughshares: The Many Paths of Nonviolence)
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>> Ladies and gentlemen please welcome this morning's panel.

>> Thank you. [Applause] It's nice to be here with you. [Singing]

>> Thank you. Okay. Thank you. [Applause]

>> Chancellor Dave Gearhart: Good morning ladies and gentlemen. And thank you all for

coming. We have an exceptional panel assembled for today's historic discussion on nonviolence.

This is an extraordinary opportunity to hear from some of the most famous proponents of

nonviolence in the world. Dr. Sidney Burris is going to provide a more thorough introduction

of our guests momentarily. But I, personally, on behalf of the University want to welcome

Dr. Vincent Harding, Sister Helen Prejean, and His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to the

>> Chancellor Dave Gearhart: I also want to take this opportunity to thank the Distinguished

Lectures Committee of Students for sponsoring this event. And we have a number of the members

of that committee with us today, and I would like to ask them to stand and thank them for

making this possible. Would you please stand? [Applause] Members of the committee, thank

>> Chancellor Dave Gearhart: An additional word of thanks is owed to Dr. Sidney Burris,

Director of the Honors Program in the Jay William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences

and a faculty member Geshe Dorjee for their involvement inviting the Dalai Lama to our

>> Chancellor Dave Gearhart: Ladies and gentlemen if they had not been in India working on the

Tibetans In Exile or TEXT Project with our students, I'm not sure we'd all be here today.

Thank you, gentlemen for your leadership. I would also like to remind you that following

this panel, everyone will have to exit the arena and come back through security at noon,

even if you have a ticket for the afternoon lecture. We apologize for any inconvenience,

but it is a requirement of State Department Security that an additional sweep of the area

be performed before the afternoon lecture. Thank you for your understanding. And now,

let's hear a little more from Dr. Burris about today's honored guests.

>> Dr. Sidney Burris: Good morning. Thank you Chancellor Gearhart, for your kind words.

Before I confront the daunting task of trying to introduce these three individuals, let

me add a couple of things to what our Chancellor has already said. None of this would have

happened without my friend and my teacher, Geshe Dorjee, a Tibetan monk who left Tibet

in 1969, and whom I brought to Arkansas [applause] in 2006. His presence here on this campus

has been simply transformative. Thank you, Geshe, wherever you are. [Applause] Both my

Chancellor and my Dean Bill Schwab, have shown an unwavering support of all things Tibetan

on this campus, and their support has been crucial over the past 14 months. Thanks to

you both as well. [Applause] To my Co-Chair Melissa Banks, who does not know the word

impossible, and to my good friends Bill Simms, James Ownbey and Karen Chotkowski, whose hard

work and intelligence over the long haul, I've come to rely on many, many thanks to

you as well. [Applause] To my wife, Angie who, when I could not see past the next 12

hours, always reminded me that this day would come. Thank you very much. [Applause] Finally,

and of course, our students, without whom [background talking] the TEXT Project would

not even exist, and without whom I feel confident this would not be occurring today. It does

indeed take a village. We have here on our stage today a monk, a nun, and a college professor.

Not professions that we typically associate with widespread social change and political

renovation. But I would suggest to you that these individuals from their cloistered positions

have affected more positive change in our lives, than many who have devoted their careers

to public service in the traditional manner. Why is this so? My first inkling of an answer

came while [background talking] reading Sister Helen as she described the day in June 1980,

that would change her life. She was listening to Sister Marie Augusta Neal as she lectured

to her community, and she was urging direct action with the poor. Within the year, Sister

Helen had moved from a lakefront suburb into the Saint Thomas Housing Project in New Orleans,

where she began her work on death row. It was about this experience that she would later

write, "Better I decide to try to help ten real hurting people or nine or one than, to

be overwhelmed and withdraw and do nothing or write an academic paper on the problem

of evil." I would suggest that we know and respect Sister Helen now because she has avoided

that academic paper and embraced instead, the ten real hurting people, a number that

has grown steadily and shows no signs of slowing. And because we know how deeply Dr. King weighed

the words that he spoke in public we are mightily impressed to learn that he turned to Professor

Harding to craft the speech that outlined the King's opposition to the war in Vietnam,

one of the landmark statements on nonviolence in American history. But how many of us know

the following words of Professor Harding, which describe a conversation he had with

a young man, articulate and intelligent, who was bent on surviving the tough neighborhood

in Boston where he'd grown up? This young man told Professor Harding that what he needed

were living human signposts to help him find his way, and Professor Harding's response

is emblematic, I believe, of his life. "I have never forgotten these words," Professor

Harding writes, "and these confessions seem to ask us not only to be signposts, but to

introduce our students to other living signs who may be able to help them find the way.

They need to see and know the lives of women and men who provide intimations of our human

grandeur." To all of his students who number now in the thousands Professor Harding has

served as such a signpost, and I would suggest that our stage today, is brimming with such

signposts. I first saw His Holiness in 1979 when I was a young graduate student at the

University of Virginia, and since then I have read his books, attended his teachings, and

generally tried to understand the great compassion and generosity that illuminate his work in

our world. You can open many of his books randomly and find passages that clarify and

illuminate. Here is a passage from a recent collection. "Nonviolence is not limited to

an absence of violence. For it is a matter of an active attitude motivated by the wish

to do others good. It is equivalent to altruism." Altruism, which defines all of our panelists,

is a form of nonviolence. It is a formula both clear and profound, and these are the

two qualities: clarity and profundity that I most associate with His Holiness. So our

panelists agree, happiness depends on developing the kind of warm heart that will recognize

human suffering wherever we might find it, and on developing the capacity to declare

this suffering intolerable. And, of course, the spirit that finds this suffering intolerable

rises from the spirit of nonviolence. Our three panelists have all devoted their lives

to this principle, and I am anxious, as I know you are, to hear their advice on how

we might incorporate something of this in our own lives. It is a great honor to present

to you, once again, Professor Vincent Harding, Sister Helen Prejean, and His Holiness the

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