April 8

Through My Eyes

Saturday April 8

(We continue listening to the Dalai Lama as he tells of his experience of Tibet in My Tibet written by he and Galen Rowell!)

" Isolation was therefore in our blood. We increased our natural isolation by allowing the fewest possible foreigners into our country, simply because we had had experience of strife, especially with China, and had no ambition whatever except to live in peace and pursue our own culture and religion. We thought that to hold ourselves entirely aloof from the world was the best way of ensuring peace. I must say at once that I think this policy was a mistake, and my hope and intention are that in the future the gates of Tibet will be kept wide open to welcome visitors from every part of the world.

Tibet has been called the most religious country in the world. I cannot judge if that is so or not, but virtually all Tibetans regarded spiritual matters as no less important than material matters, and the most reliable thing about Tibet was the enormous number of monasteries in it. There are no exact figures, but probably 10 percent of the total population were monks or nuns. This gave a dual nature to the whole of our social system. In fact, it was only in my position as Dalai Lama that lay and monastic authority were combined. I had two prime ministers, one a monk and one a layman, and below them most other offices were duplicated."

( A unique government beautiful one! I promise to add more tomorrow...)

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* This is from the book My Tibet by the Dalai Lama and Galen Rowell.

( Please see my spinning for you!)

( Tahshi Deleh gentle one! Kehrahng kusu debo yinpeh? I began the day heading up gang rinpoche ngah tso gi to continue feeding our trees and native plants which with we two working as one pulling strongly and patiently together is going quite well! We've almost completed this so it will soon time to set up the water system again and begin trimming around the trees and native plants. After that I rested by your Medlar tree as usual before returning to our studio to spin for you then to work on the monthly pages. I've put them up for us to look over as usual. After that I worked on our a land of Tibet. I'm going to put the pages up on our infosite; I'll put this up for now so we can rest.

And so, as always we'll continue two as one on to tomorrow

my one gentle beautiful patient swift dream bright

long dark mane in sunlight

so for now I bid goodnight...Simjah Nahngo!)


	Through My Eyes Saturday April 8 (We continue listening to the Dalai Lama as he tells of his experience of Tibet in My Tibet written by he and Galen Rowell!) " Isolation was therefore in our blood. We increased our natural isolation by allowing the fewest possible foreigners into our country, simply because we had had experience of strife, especially with China, and had no ambition whatever except to live in peace and pursue our own culture and religion. We thought that to hold ourselves entirely aloof from the world was the best way of ensuring peace. I must say at once that I think this policy was a mistake, and my hope and intention are that in the future the gates of Tibet will be kept wide open to welcome visitors from every part of the world. Tibet has been called the most religious country in the world. I cannot judge if that is so or not, but virtually all Tibetans regarded spiritual matters as no less important than material matters, and the most reliable thing about Tibet was the enormous number of monasteries in it. There are no exact figures, but probably 10 percent of the total population were monks or nuns. This gave a dual nature to the whole of our social system. In fact, it was only in my position as Dalai Lama that lay and monastic authority were combined. I had two prime ministers, one a monk and one a layman, and below them most other offices were duplicated." ( A unique government beautiful one! I promise to add more tomorrow...) ( please click here to read of the day with me ) This is from the book My Tibet by the Dalai Lama and Galen Rowell. ( Please see my spinning for you!) ( Tahshi Deleh gentle one! Kehrahng kusu debo yinpeh? I began the day heading up gang rinpoche ngah tso gi to continue feeding our trees and native plants which with we two working as one pulling strongly and patiently together is going quite well! We've almost completed this so it will soon time to set up the water system again and begin trimming around the trees and native plants. After that I rested by your Medlar tree as usual before returning to our studio to spin for you then to work on the monthly pages. I've put them up for us to look over as usual. After that I worked on our a land of Tibet. I'm going to put the pages up on our infosite; I'll put this up for now so we can rest. And so, as always we'll continue two as one on to tomorrow my one gentle beautiful patient swift dream bright long dark mane in sunlight so for now I bid goodnight...Simjah Nahngo!)