Saturday with the Dalai Lama

His Holiness, the Dalai Lama is in Australia, speaking and teaching and just being the Dalai Lama.

On Saturday, I went to the free public talk he held at a footy oval in the city. It was a beautiful sunny day, and the talk was amazing. It was so simple, and yet very profound. The theme was universal responsibility, he talked about how the problems of the world are the problems of everyone in the world, and we all need to work together to make the world a better place. But, he said it in a more, you know, Nobel-Peace-Prize-winning sort of way.



There has been much news about this visit, since both the current prime minister and his leading opponent in the upcoming elections have not met with the Dalai Lama. Both have been "checking their schedules" to see if they can fit him in, but everyone pretty much knows that it is just posturing. The news here says that the Chinese government is pressuring the government leaders not to meet with His Holiness. It is strange how threatening this big government finds a man who teaches kindness and compassion.