| Click here for more Tibet videos www.youtube.com The Beastie Boys perform live at the 1999 Tibetan Freedom Concert. 1999 © Home Box Office. * It is not hard to understand why Adam found inspiration in Milarepa. It is an understatement to say that Adam Yauch changed all of our lives because he changed us so completely--through his music, his activism, and his friendship. Because his presence in our lives was so large, so shall be his absence. And also his legacy. I find myself now remembering above everything else his tireless work for nonviolence & Tibet, of course, but also his amazing sense of humor. Those of us who were fortunate enough to work with him have likely never worked so hard nor laughed so much as we did when we were in his presence. Yauch also changed what it meant to be an artist-activist. I admit that when I met him, I was skeptical of him and his interest in my work (I was a human rights activist studying & living with Tibetans in Nepal; he was the guy that sang "Fight For Your Right to Party"). But I quickly realized that he was an artist and an activist in the deepest sense of the words. Himself a spiritual seeker, Adam turned his musical genius into a force for social and political justice. Taking on the biggest colonial empire on the planet, he became a fierce advocate of Tibetan freedom. News link: www.huffingtonpost.com Acting upon his belief that change in Tibet can only come through public awareness and grassroots pressure, he reached out to the ... |
