Re: Dalai Lama in Ireland (Live link)
I, too, respect HH the Dali Lama, but I also feel very deeply for him. He is a man torn between two distinct worlds - his political leadership (albeit in exile) and his spiritual devotion. Time has shown again and again that theocracies, even ones with the most benevolent of dogmas behind them, don't work out too well. Sometimes it ends in oppression, but other times it is because politics and religion don't play well together.
HH has to try and convince the world to become involved in expelling the Chinese government from Tibet, while at the same time trying to reconcile that we are all the same, not different from one another. He has to stay strong in his cultural heritage and his national pride, while trying to teach others that mountains and rivers don't care about the borderlines drawn on a map, and one must not become attached to things.
It must be difficult for him and it must draw him in many tough directions at the same time.
I, too, respect HH the Dali Lama, but I also feel very deeply for him. He is a man torn between two distinct worlds - his political leadership (albeit in exile) and his spiritual devotion. Time has shown again and again that theocracies, even ones with the most benevolent of dogmas behind them, don't work out too well. Sometimes it ends in oppression, but other times it is because politics and religion don't play well together.
HH has to try and convince the world to become involved in expelling the Chinese government from Tibet, while at the same time trying to reconcile that we are all the same, not different from one another. He has to stay strong in his cultural heritage and his national pride, while trying to teach others that mountains and rivers don't care about the borderlines drawn on a map, and one must not become attached to things.
It must be difficult for him and it must draw him in many tough directions at the same time.
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