Posted on 09/26/2005 3:12:54 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
PISCATAWAY, N.J. - The Dalai Lama told 36,000 people at Rutgers Stadium that the concept of war was outdated and young people have a responsibility to make this century one of peace.
"This whole planet is just us," the 70-year-old exiled monk said Sunday. "Therefore, destruction of another area essentially is destruction of yourself."
Tibet's spiritual leader also urged the audience to develop a wider world perspective, not just focus on "America, America, America."
"His quiet mind is the kind of serenity New Jersey, home of strip malls, could use," Arielle Gomberg said.
The speech was the largest nonathletic event in Rutgers history, topping visits by former President Clinton and former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno.
A row of monks, wearing traditional gold and maroon, sat near the stage on blankets, pillows or mats spread across the 10- and 20-yard lines on the football field.
The Dalai Lama, who won the 1989 Nobel peace prize, accepted an honorary degree from Rutgers President Richard McCormick. He said it was an honor to receive it without having to work hard and study.
In his lecture, "Peace, War and Reconciliation," the Dalai Lama said society's dream should be a world free of nuclear and biological weapons.
He noted their danger — and their expense, saying some African states have an abundance of weapons, but not enough food.
Also Sunday, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave the Dalai Lama the key to the city, calling him "a moral beacon to millions around the world, with a clear and constant voice for human rights."
The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 following an aborted uprising against Chinese rule in the territory and now keeps an office in exile in the Himalayan town of Dharmsala, India.
The Dalai Lama, center, Noble Prize-winning monk and Tibetan leader in exhile, is joined by Maura Moynihan, left, daughter of the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, as he examines the key to New York after it was presented to him by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, right, at a ceremony at the future site of the Moynihan Train Station, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2005. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Typical liberal!
This guy wouldn't stand a chance against Jesus!
What has he done lately to free his own people?
This, of course, is why Tibet is such a free country today.
I don't believe in mixing politics and religion.
Until we no longer have people like the "radical" Islamist around, war will still be with us.
Great Mr. Lama, now go to downtown Tehran or Mecca and tell them that.
Exhibit A in how to lose your peoples' freedom to tyrants - put up no fight, make it as easy as possible for them with empty posturing while they line up your brethren along the trenches.
And people wonder why Tibet will never be free.
"Even great religious leaders like the Dalai Lama believe in the fundamental human right of self defense: At an afternoon talk by the Dalai Lama on May 14, 2001 to 7,600 Oregon and southwest Washington high-school students, one girl wanted to know how to react to a shooter who takes aim at a classmate. The Dalai Lama said acts of violence should be remembered, and then forgiveness should be extended to the perpetrators. But if someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, he said, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun... "[0] That is, defensive actions are justified if the ultimate aim is peace.
Is someone going to tell those who are out to annihilate us, to make love, not war??? I wonder if Rutgers would allow Billy Graham to speak in the stadium to thousands?
Those who beat their swords into plowshares will become the slaves of those who don't.
"The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power. Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world... The first step – in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come – is to teach men to shoot!" – President Theodore Roosevelt's last message to Congress.
What a phony!
Of course war is outdated. Get the word to those entities that are attacking us.
i can't beliee you're ripping on the Dalai Lama
Or, even better, Llasa.
The man is, quite frankly, brain damaged, and I don't say that lightly.
You cannot have a brain surgeon remove the parts of the brain related to hierarchy and territoriality just because it's disgusting, because it goes against the tenets of some religion or Political Correctness. Those parts are irrevocably intertwined, and you would die without them.
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