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PISCATAWAY, N.J. - The Dalai Lama told 36,000 people at Rutgers Stadium that the concept of war was outdated and young people have a responsibility to make this century one of peace.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 ... who abandoned his fellow Tibetans to the tender mercies of the Communist Chinese ...
OMG! There were MORE than 36,000 people!
That was the stadium crowd!
It looked like a mass human migration.
"Tibet's spiritual leader also urged the audience to develop a wider world perspective, not just focus on "America, America, America." "
I got news for ya, a$$hole. America works!
"So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice. "
AND, If more of the world would follow us, it would be a better place!
That's "Mr. Lama," to you!
While Mr. Lama tours the world as a celebrity (on whose dime?), "giving peace a chance" has kept Tibet in bondage to China. Why not rip the hypocrite?
And how's that perspective been working for yah, Mr. Lama?
Hello Dalai
get a life Dalai
You ran away to let others do your fighting
Your a moron Dalai
And a coward Dalai
So how about do us a favor and STFU
"Could it be the guy tailors his message to the audience at any given moment? To wit:"
I think it could be argued that defensive action is not the same as making war.
which is why he licks Chi-Com sneakers.
We avoided the area around the stadium so we wouldn't have to deal with traffic. I didn't see the crowds or pay much attention to the whole thing. There are few public figures I would be less interested in seeing than the Dalai Lama. Everything I've ever heard him say sounds completely vacuous and uninteresting.
C'mon, leave him alone! He's a decent man. Who would you have had as our leader for eight years, the Dalai Lama or Slick Willie? (My choice would have been Pope John Paul II). Here, the Dalai Lama is clearly not offering a criticism of our war effort in Iraq, but an ideal notion of a world without war. I think D.L. knows the real nature of war and what it has done to the Tibetans.
Prayed?
As long as someone has something that someone else wants the concept of war will never be outdated.
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