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Title: Happy Birthday to the Dalai Lama!
Post by: Sir William Marcus on July 06, 2009, 11:25:32 AM
One of the kindest men you will ever meet. Happy Birthday to his Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso

(http://i42.tinypic.com/2i92n3l.jpg)

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

Title: Re: Happy Birthday to the Dalai Lama!
Post by: Anna Iram on July 06, 2009, 11:45:42 AM
Have you met him? How lucky you are. I'd love the chance to say hello and get one of his smiles.

Happy Birthday. :)
Title: Re: Happy Birthday to the Dalai Lama!
Post by: Grov on July 06, 2009, 01:06:51 PM
May he have many happy returns and keep smiling so purely for all of his days.

A leader that deserves a bow, imo. >bow<
Title: Re: Happy Birthday to the Dalai Lama!
Post by: knarlyknot on July 06, 2009, 01:35:16 PM
Happy, Happy Birthday to a Great man!
Title: Re: Happy Birthday to the Dalai Lama!
Post by: Rani Zemirah on July 06, 2009, 02:23:00 PM
I've never met the man, but many years ago in Boulder I was sitting on the steps at the end of the Pearl Street Mall (pedestrian mall) having a rather bleh kind of day, when I suddenly looked up and right into the kindest eyes and most serene smile I've ever seen... surrounded by large men in black suits, Ray-Bans and ear pieces...

My first urge was to run up and tell him how... incredibly honored I was to be in his presence, but then I realized that what I would really be doing by that is asking him to acknowledge my presence... thereby validating my own existence, and interrupting what might well have been the only quiet moments in his otherwise incredibly busy day.  So instead, I stayed where I was, smiled back, and bowed my head as he passed.  He nodded to me in return, and passed on by.  

And that is how the Dalai Llama brought me one shining moment of enlightenment through self awareness, without even saying a word...   A truly great man, indeed.

(and perhaps I am still seeking that validation, but I get that same feeling now as I tell the story)

Happy Natal Day, Your Imminence.
Title: Re: Happy Birthday to the Dalai Lama!
Post by: Rhiannon on July 06, 2009, 09:47:26 PM
Happy birthday to His Holiness, whom I greatly look up to. May he have many more years in this lifetime!