Walter's Nowick monologue

The third Great Vow of Mahayana Buddhism usually is "The Gates of Dharma are manifold. I take a vow to enter them." For me, this has come to be a step by step guide in an endless journey. After watching the television broadcast "The Day After," I suddenly realized that I had allowed myself to be asleep.

The incredible complexities of our planet have yet to be unraveled and understood. To resolve the seemingly unsolvable situations with the U.S.S.R. will certainly require the effort, ceaseless and egoless, of us all. This must be our responsibility, not only to the present but to the past and future generations.

By choosing to perform these Haydn and Beethoven sonatas, I am not discriminating against the other great composers and their works, not to mention the incalcuable variety of phenomenon in the world. At this time, I feel comfortable playing these pieces.

These sonatas are not mine, " but I want to play them as well as I can and express gratitude for the karma that brought me to them, for the great pleasure and joy they have given me through these years, and for the essential pleasure of sharing them with others. Future generations have as much right to study, play, and hear these pieces as we have. Perhaps a time will come when man no longer listens to them, but they are not ours to destroy.

A single match is weak and tremulous, but if each of us holds up one thing we love, lights one match of hope, that illumination can dispell the darkness of ignorance.

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