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| Dalai Lama calls for compassion to deal with terrorism |
| 2002-12-19 |
| Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama expressed his gratitude to India for his peoples' cause by awarding it a symbolic "Light of Truth" award and said compassion was the key to solving the problems of today's violent world. "Many of the mistakes happen because of lack of understanding of the reality. Now, I will give you one example - violence," the Dalai Lama said, delivering an address titled "Compassion: An antidote to terrorism", at a glittering function also attended by Hollywood star and pro-Tibet activist Richard Gere. Another of the Great Minds of the Twentieth Century... "Some unhappy things happen, we pick up one cause and we think all these things happen because of this one thing and then accordingly react. Sometimes, we try to eliminate them through force but reality is not that alone, there are many other factors." Is that the sound of one lip flapping? "Compassion is something important. Not as a religion but as an important mental factor for happiness irrespective of whether believer or non-believer, Buddhist or non-Buddhist." All that has nothing to do with terrorism and the reaction to it. We feel compassion for the innocents forced to live in terror-loving regimes. We feel hatred for gunnies, snuffies, tin-hat dictators and bloodthirsty holy men, but after we kill them we feel great compassion for their wives and kiddies. Y'see, courage isn't sitting around and receiving the fourth or fifth slap on the cheek after you've turned it. Courage is the willingness to confront evil and fight against it, to try and make the world better than it was. If Tibet is ever liberated from China, it won't be because of the Dalai Lama's "compassion;" it'll be because the Tibetan people and/or the Indian army will throw the Chinese out. If that doesn't happen it will be because the Tibetans are too busy feeling compassion for their new population and ultimately they'll be sinicized to the point where there is no Tibet, and it really is just a province of China. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Yeah, they used to try to sell this bullshit to David Carradine on Kung Fu, but he still ended up kicking everybody's ass before the end of the show. P.S.: "...big hitter, the Dalai Lama" |
| Posted by: tu3031 2002-12-19 16:34:33 |