Im only going to re cap ill see if I can post the video so you can watch it for ur self if you so choose don’t know if that allowed yet but ill try. Anyways he started off by talking about intelligence and to use it how not to just follow any one-thing religion etc and used Syria and China as examples. Then he went into compassion and the human condition of how we all want to be happy and don’t want to surfer and knowing this we should look at each other in the same way. Then he started an enation in to Buddha and talked about to take in the Buddha as to be a selfless act of not just thinking about ur karma or ur next life etc but to taken the Buddha is deciding that you will not move on until you can help every living being reach a state of happiness or enlightenment. Wise words I really did get a lot out of it however I feel it would be unfair to only talk about what I agree about with the Dali Lama because if I saw the pope I would have some ideas that I would need to express so I must hold all religious leaders to the same standard. Okay so this event took place march 8th international women’s day so he did talk about women some what in passing but I was pretty disappointed with his idea of how he supports women and feminism. So I have a major with most world religions they make women the second sexs they use langue, which justifies women as being un pure not as worthy as men blah blah im not going to interrupt religious text right now but feel to do some research on it. When bring up women he talks about how he encourages women who are nuns to take part in debate with the male monks and supports there studying. Why this is disappointing is that he has enough power to really work with what ever the board of Buddhism is to take away this separation of not allowing women to be monks in the first place. It also bothers me some what more in Buddhism that women cant be monks vs in Christianity women can be priest why this is bc Buddhism is all about how enlightenment works and equality and eliminating suffering for all living things but how can this be the case when they would allow half a world population to be seen as less equal and contribute to half the world suffering. I talked about this with a friend when I got back and she had to remind me that the Dali lama cant admit to it to do so would mean he would have to give up his title or whatever because they don’t even test females to be the dali lama and how can a person so revered by the world come to terms with the fact he is on the top of the high archy chain. Despite this lack of support for women he really does have really positive good energy and the most unique laugh he really has away to make everyone feel at peace and like the chance to have a world of happiness is so possible and its hard not to respect that. It is said now that once this Dali Lama die which he claims will be at the age of 113 they will be stopping the tradition of having a Dali Lama because of china making a mockery out of it so is hard to believe I might have seen the last Dali Lama to ever exist. When we left the teaching we discovered it was happy holy day in India which I just thought was like a once a month thing but turned out to be this big festival of color that only comes once a year. all day long people come up and put all these color all over u its a lot of fun however we had to travel so did not get it to bad it was cool to experience. Until Next time Peace out from the other side of the world.
you tube video of the teaching sorry it would not embed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie2wgOzvDN4&feature=relmfu
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