Posted on 04/01/2006 9:36:48 AM PST by HangnJudge
The Dalai Lama says that were Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden killed that hatred would cause another 10 like him to spring up, in an interview with a British newspaper.
He also revealed the workings of his relationship with US President George W. Bush, said Westerners had become too self-absorbed and repeated his opposition to homosexuality in a wide-ranging interview.
The Dalai Lama said modern terrorism was born out of jealousy of Western lifestyles.
"Fundamentalism is terrifying because it is based purely on emotion, rather than intelligence," the 70-year-old monk said at the seat of his government-in-exile in the northern Indian hilltop town of Dharamsala.
"It prevents followers from thinking as individuals and about the good of the world.
"This new terrorism has been brewing for many years. Much of it is caused by jealousy and frustration at the West because it looks so highly developed and successful on television. Leaders in the East use religion to counter that, to bind these countries together."
Terrorists, he warned, must be treated humanely.
"Otherwise, the problem will escalate. If there is one Bin Laden killed today, soon there will be 10 Bin Ladens. Awesome. Ten Bin Ladens killed, the hatred is spread; 100 bombed, and 1,000 lose members of their families."
Although he appeared not to approve of the war in Iraq, he was admiring of Bush.
"He is very straightforward," said the monk.
"On our first visit, I was faced with a large plate of biscuits. President Bush immediately offered me his favourites, and after that, we got on fine. On my next visit, he didn't mind when I was blunt about the war.
"By my third visit, I was ushering him into the Oval Office. I was astonished by his grasp of Buddhism."
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My chihuahua Brandy is running around with her hind legs crossed, her eyes turning yellow.......or is that a new hue of Alpo brown"? And my feeling of guilt is almost unbearable-but I'm on a roll and can't stop.
Does anyone know how to say in Chihuahuaise:" Go ahead and sh*t on the carpet-I will accept responsibility for cleaning it up, just this one time" ?
I didn't think so! See ya'll after I tend to Brandy.
Hmm - the Dalai Lama is opposed to homosexuality, great. But the OBL no kill? So if there's a rabid dog, you don't kill him, since 10 more will spring up?
Because it leaves out two basic essentials:
1. The existence of the eternal Supreme God.
2. The existence of the individual eternal soul.
Other than that, it's pretty okay.
With all due respect Dalai I doubt it.
The Dalai Lama said modern terrorism was born out of jealousy of Western lifestyles.
I also disagree here. Bin Laden and many of his top guys are wealthy and well educated. They could have had lifestyles superior to that of most Westerners. But that would not have brought them the power that they crave. They are not jealous of my TV, they are resentful of the fact that when they tell me to put on a burka and not leave the house without a approved male escort I flip them the bird.
President Bush had it right, they hate our freedoms because that gives us the power to tell them to take a long walk off a short pier rather then kowtowing to their whim.
....then will kill those ten too.
Sorry, thats the way it works holy man.
Because it leaves out two basic essentials:
1. The existence of the eternal Supreme God.
2. The existence of the individual eternal soul.
Other than that, it's pretty okay.
Not really, they just don't recognize it as a duality.
Behold the void, it is thine own intellect, blissful and shining.
Also left out (a subset of the Buddhist position that neither eternal individual souls nor God exists), is that desire for sensual pleasures or enjoyment is not the only kind of desire. In fact, the Vedas state that desire is inherent in the soul and just needs to be re-directed to its natural object - God. Desire for God is natural and produces the greatest happiness, desire for the world creates the greatest suffering.
The "I am God" philosophy of Shankaracharya is veiled Buddhism, but (mis)using the Vedas to support his position; whereas Gautama Buddha rejected the Vedas. But since both Buddha and Shankaracharya were predicted in the Puranas and had specific missions, they had their uses. Although the philosophy they both taught is erroneous in many ways.
IThanks! I like it too. I keep meaning to find other quotes to put up but as usual, too busy....
Yours isn't bad either:
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee,
but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Micah 6:8
Truth is food and life.
I like that kind of math. Very quickly, all the potential OBL's will be killed.
How many more Dalai Lamas wannabes do we get if someone offs this moron?
And I would love it if the 10 UBL wannabes would identify themselves so we can off them too!
That's what I was about to write. Great minds....
The Dalai Llama? Is this a new species?
I could not agree more. And the more a person experiences the closeness of God, the more satisfied he is from within, and the less the glitter of the world tantalizes.
But to try to eradicate desire is a hopeless task. Cannot be done. And to try to eliminate the very self from which the desire springs is but spiritual suicide; and like bodily suicide, only guarantees more future suffering since the soul can never be extinguished.
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