How Can you NOT LOVE The Dalai Lama - unless, of course, you are China!

October 23, 2007

I have to hand it to Emory University. I mean, goodness - how many universities in our neck of the world get to name His Holiness, the Dalai Lama as the Presidential Distinguished Professor. This is not the first time he has come to Emory and Atlanta - in fact, they have a long relationship with each other. Yet, His Holiness has never accepted another professorship before - and he chose Emory to be his first and only. The Dalai Lama’s appointment is the most recent outgrowth of the Emory-Tibet Partnership, which was founded in 1998 to bring together the best of Western and Tibetan Buddhist intellectual traditions. (I copied that from Emory’s website because it sounded really good.)

I did not have the immense honor of seeing His Holiness speak to the public at Centennial Park on Monday. His speech on “Educating the Heart and Mind: A Path to Universal Responsibility,” leads us all to follow a more peaceful path - reduce anger, hatred, and Atlanta road rage. Okay, not the road rage part -that was from me. But really, how can you not love this man? I mean, look at him. He is fabulous. And have you thought about this one: IT HAS RAINED in Atlanta since he showed up for his talks. Maybe this spiritual leader is exactly what we, in our very drought stricken city, needed.

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