Posted on 04/21/2006 2:11:41 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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Although he is known for his tolerant, humane views, he is a surprisingly harsh critic of homosexuality. If you are a Buddhist, he says, it is wrong. "Full stop.
No way round it.
"A gay couple came to see me, seeking my support and blessing. I had to explain our teachings. Another lady introduced another woman as her wife - astonishing. It is the same with a husband and wife using certain sexual practices. Using the other two holes is wrong."
At this point, he looks across at his interpreter - who seems mainly redundant - to check that he has been using the right English words to discuss this delicate matter. The interpreter gives a barely perceptible nod.
"A Western friend asked me what harm could there be between consenting adults having oral sex, if they enjoyed it," the Dalai Lama continues, warming to his theme. "But the purpose of sex is reproduction, according to Buddhism. The other holes don't create life. I don't mind - but I can't condone this way of life."
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(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
ROTFL!
Depends on what the meaning of IS, is.
The old testament is full of stories of how people lived in sin (id). The old testament shows the steps that were taken to inject moral living (ego) up to adapting a superego.
Make you wonder why the angels in Genesis took some of the females, doesnt it? I mean..if you don't have Mr. Johnson down there, why take them? Or maybe they traded them like baseball cards? (the pretty ones I mean)
Most western "Buddhists" know diddly about the religion.
His English may not be the best, but he is theologically and physiologically correct.
If the parts don't match, you must unlatch.
Really? I thought the old Doctor's structural theory went something like this:
The id contains "primitive desires" (hunger, rage, and sex), the super-ego contains internalized norms, morality and taboos, and the ego mediates between the two and may include or give rise to the sense of self.
Come on, nevada sue - Calpernia's holding up her end!
If I were you, I'd go after the apparent implicit acceptance of the Freudian personality structure in Cal's thesis.
As an opening foray, so to speak.
;^)
Yes.
Okay, but seriously, earlier one said he was a liberal icon and friend of Gere; I suppose that is so, I read his autobiography; I don't know about all Buddhists but I thought he was too "NonGod believing" for me (and everyone loves him,--- okay not everyone); I don't know if this pertains to all of those branches of Buddhism. I've read some; seems there are branches and some might imho.
I'd urge all to check out the link, all the talk on China and the Chinese are some of the people who really love the Dalai Lama (I mean the ones who are not the government;), if you are at a Chinese Buddhist Temple and have some post cards of the Dalai Lama and there is a lot of other info around, the Chinese will go for those postcards.
Everyone talked of this article, self absorbed and homosexual/gay themes; but I read this:
"Tsering Wangmo is shaking uncontrollably as tears pour down her cheeks. Still sobbing, she pulls up her top and slowly turns around to show me a fretwork of scars. They criss-cross her body from shoulders to waist.
"My crime," she explains when she is calmer, "was to be found by the police with a picture of the Dalai Lama. I was dragged through the streets of Lhasa by my hair, beaten with electric prongs, then thrown into jail for three years."
From China Embassy
Tang Jiaxuan : be high alert against Falun Gong & Dalai Lama
From this this thread
China harvesting inmates' organs, journalist says
Excerpt:
A Chinese official was the first person to reveal that secret medical work was being done at the Liaoning Provincial Thrombosis Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, in Sujiatun, a suburb of Shenyang, the major city in northeastern China, he said.
Mr. Jin then said he found out that a large underground prison was built beneath the hospital and that members of the outlawed Falun Gong religious group were being held there. As many as 6,000 people are thought to be held prisoner at the underground facility, he said.
The hospital is harvesting the organs of the prisoners, including kidneys, livers, and eye parts, he said. The organs are then sold to people, from both China and abroad, who need medical organ transplants.
-and when it comes down to it, a "homosexual" is really just one flavor of disordered heterosexual...
Tried?
...never mind...LOL.
Check this out.
The MSM is going to be torn on this one.
There report the Dahli Lama as superior to christianity but this is going to hurt their self absorbed moral realativist egos.
Thank you for the article.
bump!
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