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Old 11-23-2015, 12:26 PM   #135 (permalink)
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I don't know how the 14 Dalai Lamas feel/felt, but I wouldn't mind being taken away and taught wisdom from an early stage. I trust that any feelings of loss or separation are quickly tempered when the Buddhist method of living in the moment is put into practice, coupled with the faith that happiness lies in embracing the present wholeheartedly regardless of circumstance.
If a bunch of cardinals showed up on some Italian family's doorstep and told them to give them their child so that he could become the new Pope, would you think of it the same way? And no, that isn't a joke about child molestation.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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