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2009-05-01 -Short Attention Span Theater-
The Dalai Lama on Bush: "He was honest and straightforward, and that is very important."
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Posted by Mike 2009-05-01 09:24|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 Bush is evil but the Dalai Lama proclaimed he loved him.

An intelligent person would pause and self reflect, but the cited poster can't examine his/her own 'truth' of the blind linkage of Bush=evil. As noted a couple weeks back on the Dalai Lama's view of terrorists, that their minds are closed and therefore pacifism won't work is beyond reaching that particular mind either. So to make his/her world fit he/she must proclaim the Dalai Lama not to be a Buddhist. And the earth/self is the center of their universe was well. /sarc off
Posted by Procopius2k 2009-05-01 10:50||   2009-05-01 10:50|| Front Page Top

#2 And Bush didn't sell Tibet to bailout GM.
Posted by swksvolFF 2009-05-01 11:53||   2009-05-01 11:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Dalai Lama has made a habit of surprising folks. He also {supposedly) said something like 'if some one is trying to kill you with a gun, it is reasonable to stop him with your own gun'.

how.....enlightened....
Posted by Hupeter Scourge of the Geats2483 2009-05-01 12:33||   2009-05-01 12:33|| Front Page Top

#4 excellent, let Nancy chew on that for awhile....
Posted by go Tibet 2009-05-01 12:49||   2009-05-01 12:49|| Front Page Top

#5 The Dalai Lama is no Buddist.

Nossir. And the Pope's no Catholic.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2009-05-01 13:43|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2009-05-01 13:43|| Front Page Top

#6 So Bush gets a fairer shake out of the Dalai Lama than the current administration and all its Bush bashers.
Posted by JohnQC 2009-05-01 14:00||   2009-05-01 14:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Buddhists have done their fair share of suffering at the hands of Muslims, Chicoms too. Dunno much about Buddhism but the Dalai Lama comes off as a reasonable sort of a fellow who would tolerate Christians. As the leader of one of the world's main religions and a man who's been around for quite some time, it's too bad the college students could just listen respectfully instead of expressing shock when he says something positive about a former president of the United States. He might just know a thing or two that they don't. You'd think that in an institution of higher learning they'd be a little more open minded.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-05-01 14:18||   2009-05-01 14:18|| Front Page Top

#8 What do many Jews and Buddhists have in common? They like Christians.

What do Muslims and Democrats have in common? They hate Christians.
Posted by Tarzan Greagum5059 2009-05-01 14:30||   2009-05-01 14:30|| Front Page Top

#9 One of the important elements of the most respected Buddhist leaders is that they are totally unpredictable. They neither engage in idle chatter, nor countenance political correctness or polite expediency.

They tailor what they say and do based on the impact they want to have on that particular audience, individually or in a group.

One hilarious tale was of a group of diplomatic monks arriving at LAX, one of whom was an aged, senior monk brought as a courtesy.

As they were walking through the concourse, a 10-year-old Mexican girl who was at the airport with her mother went up to the group of monks, turned to the senior monk and started loudly cussing him out, in English.

She called him a bad student who was always slacking off, sleeping in class, late with his assignments, and a generally worthless excuse of a monk. Snarl, snap.

He looked at her puzzled for a second, then his eyes got very big and he started profusely apologizing and promising, babbling that it would never happen again, and that it wasn't his fault, while the other monks looked at him like he had lost his marbles.

The imperious little girl stomped her feet and was going to give him more of the same, when the old monk blurted out that she was his teacher back when he was a novice, and had reincarnated.

The diplomatic mission was sidetracked.

After considerable negotiations with her parents, she took to spending her summers in Nepal. In the article about the phenomenon, there was a picture of the still ferocious looking girl sitting on a high chair, wearing robes far too big for her, as a bunch of wary looking novice monks attended her class.

In recent years, a lot of senior monks has expressed their intent to reincarnate to Seattle, as they particularly like the place. Enough so there is now a permanent delegation in the area, to keep watch for any who show up. Typically, they leave a list of omens for them to look for when they will be arriving.
Posted by Anonymoose 2009-05-01 14:52||   2009-05-01 14:52|| Front Page Top

#10 'Moose, that story is just completely Twilight Zone.
Posted by Mike 2009-05-01 17:00||   2009-05-01 17:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Many, if not most, Japanese were Buddhist during WWII. Didn't stop them from razing Nanking and slaughtering tens of thousands of Chinese.
Posted by mojo 2009-05-01 17:51||   2009-05-01 17:51|| Front Page Top

#12 The reception to the Dalai Lama's statement about George "McChimpBushhitler" is proof positive of both the pure brainwashing taking place in our colleges today, and the arrogance of college students in this country. It never seemet to occur to these arrogant students that a man who has lived three or four times as long as they have, who has many times more experience in the real world, could be right, and they, in their state of ignorance and arrogance, could be wrong. They attacked the Dalai Lama because he didn't parrot the politically correct nonsense they'd been subjected to in our "public schools" since they were five years old. I offer a sincere apology to the Dalai Lama for being accosted by such mental midgets.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2009-05-01 17:51|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2009-05-01 17:51|| Front Page Top

#13 mojo, I believe the majority of japanese soldiers at that time adhered to shinto principles. There are several strains of budhism.
Posted by Broadhead6 2009-05-01 17:55||   2009-05-01 17:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Does 'Moose's story imply that the forthcoming release of Windows 7 is actually the reincarnation of Window 3.1?

My understanding of the WWII Japanese is they practiced a combination of Shinto, Buddhism and worship of the Emperor as a god. I suspect it was the latter that got them into the most trouble.
Posted by SteveS 2009-05-01 20:50||   2009-05-01 20:50|| Front Page Top

#15 Tibetan Buddhism is far different from Japanese and Chinese.
Posted by OldSpook 2009-05-01 21:34||   2009-05-01 21:34|| Front Page Top

#16 Anonymoose's story was an enjoyable read. No elbow patch tweed jackets are required to be a teacher or a student at life. The Dalai Lama seems to know this better than most. He was presciently observant about Bush's strong points.
Posted by GirlThursday 2009-05-01 21:44||   2009-05-01 21:44|| Front Page Top

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