Ex-Bhuddist Monk Gives Lecture at Rutgers

Here's something you don't see every day - not that I'm knocking the guy - but he IS kind of...different.

I'll say this to his ideal theory of a world without wars, the same thing I said when my kid was little and would beg for something he wasn't going to get, "Yeah, and I want a new house, a new car and an airplane, but I'm not going to get them, either."

That's not an excerpt. This is an excerpt:

Media Credit: William Schneekloth / Targum Staff Photographer

Unabashed by the fire alarm that went off as he was being introduced, former American Tibetan monk Richard Thurman delivered the lecture "The Dalai Lama: Leader in Waiting of the Nascent Peace System" at Rutgers Student Center Tuesday.

In the first of a lecture series on mysticism sponsored by the University Department of Religion, Thurman explained part of the thesis of his book Inner Revolution.

Thurman, who is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, described Buddhism as a "historic world social movement" and implored the audience to clear away its prejudices about the religion.

He compared the teachings of Buddhism to other religions. "We define religion primarily as a system of beliefs. Most religions say if you believe, then you'll be saved from your suffering in the afterlife," Thurman said. "Who else in the world says that you can truly be free of all your suffering in the present?"

WOW.

Thanks for that link.

I am an Alumnus of "Red" Rutgers.

Back in the 1960s when I entered college there, my first exposure to college life was to be shuttled to a mandatory presentation by that vicious anti-Semite and anti-White black racist LeRoy Jones, aka Immamu Baraka, or whatever the hell he calls himself now.

The entire student body had to listen to his "poems" which consisted of a vile series of racist obscenties too disgusting to repeat here.

The captive audience, mainly of naive whitebread types, listened in stupified silence.

It just went downhill from there.

There were anti-American lectures at the height of the Viet Nam war by English and history professors.

There were the Newark Riots.

There was B.O.S.S. (Black Organization of Students) taking over a college building and refusing to let students in for classes they had paid for.

There were the local police and Administration stopping a group of angry white guys with a telephone pole who wanted to ram their way into the barricaded building for the services they were paying for (and these were tough white guys).

Yup. It looks like Red Rutgers is still at it - trying to infect young minds with non-European oriented, anti-western propaganda.

Glad I throw all requests for contributions from these freaks where it belongs - in the toilet bowl.

Ahh Rutgers - New Jersey and Rutgers PURFECT TOGETHER!

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