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Killing Bin Laden will inspire 10 more: Dalai Lama
BREITBART ^ | 3-31-06 | BREITBART

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: buddhism; conman; dalailama; frbigots; gwot; obl
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To: F.J. Mitchell

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.


61 posted on 04/01/2006 11:27:04 AM PST by F.J. Mitchell (H-e-e-e-e-lp! I have gotten up and can't get fallen!)
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To: HangnJudge

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?


62 posted on 04/01/2006 11:30:31 AM PST by little jeremiah (Tolerating evil IS evil.)
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To: HangnJudge

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.


63 posted on 04/01/2006 11:32:29 AM PST by little jeremiah (Tolerating evil IS evil.)
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To: HangnJudge

64 posted on 04/01/2006 11:35:40 AM PST by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: HangnJudge
Killing Bin Laden will inspire 10 more: Dalai Lama

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.

65 posted on 04/01/2006 11:36:05 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Romantics and pessimists are two sides of the same coin. Both will happily lead you over the cliff)
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To: goodnesswins
says it's a religion where you NEVER attain the goal, and it is frustrating to try and follow.

A Buddhist might return with this; that she misses the point of the basic tenets of this philosophy, that the act of "wanting" to achieve a "goal" itself induces suffering. She would be said to fail because of inability to release herself from "Desire", and hence "Goals".

I find this way of thinking both useful and deceptive at the same time
It negates the very precepts of purpose, meaning, duty, and justice
An antithesis in many ways to the Vision brought forth in the Torah
66 posted on 04/01/2006 11:39:03 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: HangnJudge

....then will kill those ten too.

Sorry, thats the way it works holy man.


67 posted on 04/01/2006 11:40:23 AM PST by Names Ash Housewares
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To: little jeremiah
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.


Agree
Again, a portion of the vision brought forth in the Torah
And masterfully completed in the teachings and life of Jesus
68 posted on 04/01/2006 11:44:02 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: little jeremiah

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.


69 posted on 04/01/2006 11:45:32 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: HangnJudge


Debatable who might have been more clearheaded on this issue...


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70 posted on 04/01/2006 11:45:56 AM PST by itsamelman (“Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.” -- Al Swearengen)
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To: little jeremiah
I love the reference to the Isopanishad on your home page

A person who sees everything in relation to the Supreme Lord, and sees all entities as His parts and parcels, and who sees the Supreme Lord within everything, never hates anything, nor any being. One who always sees all living entities as spiritual sparks, in quality one with the Lord, becomes a true knower of things. What is there as illusion or anxiety for him? Isopanishad 6-7
71 posted on 04/01/2006 11:51:52 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: tet68; HangnJudge

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.


72 posted on 04/01/2006 12:01:15 PM PST by little jeremiah (Tolerating evil IS evil.)
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To: HangnJudge

IThanks! I like it too. I keep meaning to find other quotes to put up but as usual, too busy....


73 posted on 04/01/2006 12:02:43 PM PST by little jeremiah (Tolerating evil IS evil.)
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To: HangnJudge

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.


74 posted on 04/01/2006 12:07:21 PM PST by little jeremiah (Tolerating evil IS evil.)
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To: little jeremiah
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.

One Christian viewpoint on this concept is
in my mind, well shown in a work by

C.S. Lewis
Pilgrim's Regress :
an Allegorical Apology for Christianity Reason and Romanticism

That "Desire" points to a thing that is not on this Earth
and cannot be satisfied by anything but God
All efforts to fulfill desires in any earthly target results in error
75 posted on 04/01/2006 12:19:04 PM PST by HangnJudge
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To: HangnJudge
If we kill those ten, that will inspire 100 more. If we kill those 100, that will inspire 1,000 more. If we kill those 1,000, that will inspire 10,000 more...

I like that kind of math. Very quickly, all the potential OBL's will be killed.

76 posted on 04/01/2006 12:23:27 PM PST by SamAdams76 (Need a tree census in Maine)
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To: HangnJudge

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!


77 posted on 04/01/2006 12:23:34 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: Phsstpok
He's right, you know. But, of course, leaving Osama alive will cause 1,000 like him to spring up.

That's what I was about to write. Great minds....

78 posted on 04/01/2006 1:02:38 PM PST by Family Guy (I disagree with what you said, but I'll defend to the death your right to shut up.)
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To: HangnJudge

The Dalai Llama? Is this a new species?


79 posted on 04/01/2006 1:07:01 PM PST by texasmountainman (proud father of a U.S. Marine)
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To: HangnJudge

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.


80 posted on 04/01/2006 1:30:48 PM PST by little jeremiah (Tolerating evil IS evil.)
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