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Dalai Lama Brings Message To Lehigh
Jul 13, 2008 | 4:52 PM
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For about half an hour, I have been listening to the Dalai Lama speak before a sold out crowd in Stabler Arena. These are the kinds of days when I feel very privileged to do what I do.

The Dalai Lama stepped on stage and gave his trademark greeting, putting his hands together and bowing, to University officials, the crowd and even hammed it up before the dozens of still photographers. The crowd chuckled in appreciation.

His Holiness spoke about "Generating a Good Heart." What he said are things that we know deep inside. The theme of his visit "Listen, Learning, Love."

He said these are the things to a calm mind. A calm mind is without fear, anger, jealousy. He said to combat such things, you must listen and you must love.

There are days where I have too much worry. You probably do too.  I have bills to pay, I'm not getting along with someone I know, I want to get to the next step in my career, competitiveness, the desire to attain something etc. Etc. I toss and turn at night sometimes with worry and with what feels like weight.  These reasons and whatever reasons you put on the stress list is what causes such unbelievable anxiety and depression when things don't materialize. He said it's inevitable that all "hopes and ambitions will not materialize." It's true. You can't always get what you want. What do we do when we don't. Do we doubt, get depressed, angry or resentful.

There was a point when the Dalai Lama answered questions submitted through a website. One asked "why us there so much anxiety and depression in this day and age?"

The Dalai Lama responded, "You should ask American," much to the laughter of the audience. He then replied that he believes there is too much competitiveness in society and the desire to get more, more, more. A calm mind is key. If you don't have a calm mind, you don't have perspective. It's something I need at times. Listening to him today gave me the ability to re-start a dialogue within myself about why I worry and what I can do. The path to enlightenment is tough.  

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awnc08 read my blog
Jul 13, 2008 | 5:25 PM

The dalai lama is a wise person. He is simply echoing much of the teachings of Jesus Christ. Sometime read the last section of the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 6. Jesus spoke eternal wisdom about how to face life's worries. "Seek first the kingdom of God.....do not worry about tomorrow...." In many other places, He said that we have the avenue of prayer to God the Father to help settle our fears.
Did you say it was a "sold out" crowd? Jesus Christ never accepted money for the infinite wisdom He shared with people.
God bless you.
Julie_Kim read my blog view my photos
Jul 14, 2008 | 9:32 PM

It's always easier to listen and think you really get it. But then applying it to real life is always so much harder. I don't know how the DL stays so calm when his people are oppressed in Tibet. I would get so angry.

I felt relatively calm until it was time to rush around, get interviews and meet deadline. Then everything I listened to, went to the wayside...
friendoftruth read my blog
Jul 14, 2008 | 10:17 PM

I don't know if someone reading this blog saw the demonstration against the Dalai Lama in Lehigh or other places. These people are saying that the Dalai Lama is not doing what he preaches.
Most unfortunately what they are saying is true. It's time that the world realizes that the success of the Dalai Lama, beyond his charismatic presence and gestures, comes originally from the teachings about universal love and compassion that he learned from his Gurus. And not only is he doing the opposite of what these sublime teachings teach, he is also persecuting precisely the people who remained faithful to their Gurus, who are the same as the Dalai Lama's.
Not only the Dalai Lama is doing the opposite of the teachings and betraying his Gurus, he is unceasingly persecuting the practitioners of the Protector of their lineage, whose veneration and practice he received from his Gurus.
His religious persecution is quite painful for Western practitioners, in ways easy to understand if you ask yourself the question: would I like to have my family, my colleagues, my neighbors, receive calls or emails where I am accused of being a malignant spirit worshipper? This is the type of slander that the Western followers of the Dalai Lama are propagating induced by his long, insistent campaign against the Protector Dorje Shugden.

But we Westerners are all nevertheless in countries where there is a limit to the abuse you can inflict to people. What the world should wake up to, is to the fact that the Dalai Lama is persecuting monks and nuns and lay people in India, where they have become like
friendoftruth read my blog
Jul 14, 2008 | 10:28 PM

Sorry, this is the continuation of the preceding post.

But we Westerners are all nevertheless in countries where ther is a limit to the abuse you can inflict to people. What the world should wake up to, is to the fact that the Dalai Lama is persecuting monks and nuns and lay people in India, where they have become like outcasts amidst their own people, where they have been thrown out of their monasteries, out of their jobs, out of their schools being children of practitioners, where the rest of Tibetans had to swear in front of other deities that they are never going to have any human contact with them any more. This unbelievable segregation was ordered by the Dalai Lama himself, in January of this year, because, he said repeatedly, he had the right to finish what he had started -meaning the ban on Dorje Shugden in 1996.
The suffering of those Tibetans is heartbreaking. And it's being ignored because a reason most bizarre: because it seems outlandish, incredible, that the one who preaches religious tolerance to others is doing the opposite in his backyard.
The world should open its eyes and stop the wrong actions of the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama is not stopping them because the world has decided to close its eyes in his case.
We who adhere to our best Western values of human rights should not allow this any more.
Please do not believe only my words, investigate. Go to YouTube, to websites like the Shugdensociety.info/home, like Wisdombuddhadorjeshugden.org, and others, to find the truth.
Best to all.
awnc08 read my blog
Jul 15, 2008 | 8:19 AM

Julie,
I am just wondering how much of the oppression the dl really understands at this point. He gets the "royal treatment" and even has time to have a good laugh and receive adulation from people who do not understand the truth. (see friendoftruth's comments). So I suspect that it is easier for him to stay calm under his own personal conditions. After all, he is only human.
May YOU find peace in the midst of a hectic life. Take a few moments when you get home to read the Bible and find some calm in your spirit.
Oppawhat
Jul 15, 2008 | 1:11 PM

Well, Tell DL to live your life and see if he doesn't feel the effects of deadline and such. It is always easier to tell someone what to do and feel, but harder to do it yourself.

But that does not mean you can't have what he is telling you either. You just got to find it in yourself to choose to have that. Being calm is no different that being uncalm. If you can do one, you can do the other if you choose and learn to be.
Oppawhat
Jul 15, 2008 | 1:17 PM

BUT then again, you are a women, emotionally unstable so calm maybe hard to do..

uh oh
Micophone incoming!!


"ducks"
-JT- read my blog view my photos
Jul 15, 2008 | 5:13 PM

I was gonna sing "Hello Dalai", but now I'm not.
friendoftruth read my blog
Jul 15, 2008 | 10:15 PM

Thank you JT. I would be happy if you could copy my posts in your blog, or if you could give my blog's address.
It's terrible to wake up people from their illusion about a symbol of goodness, just awful.
But the truth in this case could save much suffering, if only more people opened their eyes and hearts to the plight of the ones persecuted by the Dalai Lama.

May love and compassion prevail in the hearts of all.
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