>> we are buding institions. we are building ste in afghanistan.e havto keep focus on the long-tm prospects of demoacy and pluralism in afghanistan. we will have setbacks inur way rward, both for the president and for e parliament. but if you keep focus and ve the institions do their jobs the way theyre supposed to doing, the country will be betterff. >> warner: why do you think many were rejected? what message was parlient tryingo send? >> frankly i was surprised a the rejections bause a number of the miniers who are rejected belong to individuals orowerful fractions th have also strongresence in the parliament of afghistan. the message of the parliamen is sendings that they would ke to see qualified afghan occu these jobs at the afghan cabinet. >> warr: do you think some of them were in fact unqualified and were just chosen becse they were ther of president karzai's political base or were esseially, some have said, puppets of other powerl figures that had helped hiin the eltion or whose support thinks he needs now? >> the nomation of those mister

former president of the buddhist council of new york and the bude itself chaplain at columbia universitygreetings to everyone. actually i'm going to start with the -- one thing i was interested was the non-violence part. my tradition as a buddhist -- i grew up in japan. some parts are not -- with the other people but the part with the non-violence, the way he always used, i that you understand going back to gandhi. back to the king who was actually -- he became the peacemaker and was influenced by the buddhists too. it comes to the way of understanding of the buddhism and part of the buddhist practice is actually -- probably two things if i make it so simple. cultivating the wisdom, to be able to see things, what's really going on and eyes are very important. if you don't have eyes to see what is really going on, you may have a problem. once you have is eye, they have to understand interdependence. may happiness is not just that i become happy. it is not just the happiness, everybody else become happy. if you have such eyes, what comes out is the compassion. so the second part of the imp