His Holiness the Dalai Lama is now here in Fremantle, and will speak in
Perth tomorrow. While his visit to Australia (and previously, the USA)
has been met with much love, joy and celebration from the more
compassionate among us, hard-hearted right-wingers and conservatives
continue to find fault with him.
For example, they really pounced on his admission that he is
a Marxist.
They despise that compassionate ideology anyway, and also seem to think
that being proudly left-wing is somehow at odds with his official role
as a kind of divinely
ordained leader.
Being a highly spiritually evolved soul myself, I have often received
similar criticism. Often it refers specifically to the self description
at the top right hand corner of this blog. Many a vicious e-mail has
arrived triumphantly pointing out the "glaring contradiction" inherent
in claiming to be both divine
and non-elitist.
Sadly, unlike you my dear fellow travellers, these wretched, backward
creatures just don't have the imagination to comprehend the undeniable
truth of what I am saying. You see, when you are deeply in tune with
Gaia like I am - or, like my fellow traveller Tenzin Gyatso, the
manifestation of the
Boddhisattva of compassion - then you necessarily become part of an entirely new reality in which seeming contradictions
simply disappear.
Of course the reactionaries will never understand this, since they are
limited by their mean-spiritedness and greedy materialism. That's why
they snort with derision when they see that Tenzin Gyatso's conversation
with his Perth devotees requires a fee for admission and is being held
at the
Burswood Dome, which is part of a complex that also
includes a casino. This is also the reason that at least one of them has seized on the wording of the headline for
this report about today's appearance
in Fremantle.
Well, we'll just leave these primitive souls to their petty, nasty
online point scoring won't we, fellow travellers, hmm? I say forgive
them, for they know not what they do (and I mean that in much more of a
Buddhist way, of course).
