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The Dalai Lama: Insight into selflessness
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Tim Cooney, Special to the Aspen Times Weekly
ASPEN — Much to the annoyance of the Chinese, the Dalai Lama has become an international phenomenon whose happy pheromones soften skeptics, melt officiousness in heads of state, and often reduce crowds to giggling. Some say that this is because we are in the presence of a “living Buddha” who exudes cheerfulness, a sense of delight and a non-discerning mind, while empiricists discount the Dalai buzz as if it were mere charisma.[Read more]
Dalai Lama preaches compassion, responsibility
What does compassion and global responsibility really mean to you?
To the Dalai Lama, they are inextricably bound to his life, his religion and his future legacy.
Consider this: Every morning at 4 a.m., the Dalai Lama rises in the pitch black and sits inside a sacred room to practice between four and five hours of meditation. Clothed only in humble red robes, he is completely alone, sitting cross-legged on the ground, contemplating the teaching and texts of Tibetan Buddhist masters.[Read more]
Dalai Lama calls for 'inner disarmament’
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Charles Agar, The Aspen Times
ASPEN — Aspenites met the world’s most famous “simple Buddhist monk” Saturday.
The Dalai Lama, who outlined a blueprint to world peace, was greeted by a standing ovation from 2,000 people at the Benedict Music Tent as the keynote speaker of the Aspen Institute’s Tibet symposium.
Some 1,700 watched from remote locations.
Neither a living god nor the “demon” of the Chinese press, the Dalai Lama called himself a “simple Buddhist monk.” Clad in red robes and a silk scarf that school children decorated with peace signs and sunbursts, he said children just don’t care about race, religion or country. [Read more]
