Kaṭukassaratā

I know it's all about perception. And China is really working that right now with this article about China urging the U.S. to see the "true nature" of Dalai Lama. Of course they want the U.S to see the true nature from the same certain viewpoint they are seeing him from. I have never liked what China did to Tibet, but dislike their methods even more. This and other issues last year such as the Panchen Lama being identified and the poor boy disappearing and China putting one of it's own child puppets forward and then informing everyone that no Lama or other living Buddha may reincarnate after they die without permission from China really led up to the recent revolts and demonstrations going on. I don't know what Chinese officials were thinking and why they didn't expect such a response from Tibet. Take an entire Nation of Buddhists and try to undercut their entire belief system...it's not going to go over well. Of course the riots put the Dalai Lama in a very precarious situation. All any of this does is just bring up all the negative human rights violations that China has been known for. Not that they have a history of actually respecting it's people. I thought it was a bad idea to have the olympics in China and I still think it's a bad idea. Never should have happened.


In a less political note....I finally got around to listening to some of the you tube posts from His Eminence Tsem Tulku Rinpoche. I really enjoyed the one he did on The Dying Process. It seemed appropriate to me. I just finished reading the book "Start Where you are" by Pema Chodron and she talks about the process in there and how to use it to deal with stress and issues in your life. To go ahead and die, to let go completely, and then start again.