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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

My wife recently watched a DVD about the Dali Lama,
she said that he was only the second person she had
seen who could communicate that feeling of love over
the TV camara.  The other was Fred Rogers.
Van Dell




--- Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> by Pico Iyer
> 
> 
> Ceaseless striving providing hope
> 
> I heard an interview on NPR with Pico Iyer about
> this book. Iyer  
> mentioned that the Dalai Lama was 72, which is my
> age as I write this.  
> I was suddenly struck by the overwhelming thought
> that I had become  
> this old with my spiritual values still unsettled.
> 
> By all measures, Pico Iyer is your basic everyday
> genius, world  
> traveler and visionary writer. He has written eight
> books plus  
> hundreds of essays, columns, articles and book
> reviews for Time, New  
> York Times, National Geographic, Harpers, The
> Financial Times and  
> more. He also happens to have known the Dalai Lama
> for over thirty  
> years. I had held Pico Iyer on my “authors-to-read”
> list for too long  
> to miss this opportunity.
> 
> Illustrated with many meetings and occasions over a
> period of decades,  
> the author shows the enormous range of a seemingly
> simple man. The  
> three sections of the book are titled: In Public, In
> Private, In  
> Practice. Chapters are titled: The Conundrum, The
> Fairy Tale, The  
> Icon, The Philosopher, The Mystery, The Monk, The
> Globalist, The  
> Politician, The Future.
> 
> The fourteenth Dalai Lama is “built like a middle
> linebacker” but is  
> nonviolent. He is deeply religious--he rises at
> 3:30am and meditates  
> and prays for four hours--but advises others to find
> their own way. “A  
> religious teacher who is telling people not to get
> confused or  
> distracted by religion.” He is considered a living
> god but insists  
> over and over that he is “just a man.”
> 
> He often says, “I don’t know.” At the end of a talk
> in Canada he says,  
> “I will remain, to serve.”  He is famous for his
> laughter; he has a  
> solid sense of humor but one suspects also he sees
> much silliness in  
> the antics of those who ask him their profound
> questions or give him  
> their worldly viewpoints.
> 
> The author succeeds in illuminating “one of the most
> visible figures  
> on the planet,” a man of wide talents and
> considerations, whose people  
> revere him and hope to learn through his actions.
> Young Tibetans are  
> impatient with his policies but are dumbstruck in
> his presence. He is  
> a doctor of metaphysics but appears childlike to
> many. A living  
> contradiction of superlatives.
> 
> I wholeheartedly recommend this book.
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