Comments on: Pico Iyer: the "Transcendentalist" Dalai Lama http://www.radioopensource.org/pico-iyer-the-transcendentalist-dalai-lama/ Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:09:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Potter http://www.radioopensource.org/pico-iyer-the-transcendentalist-dalai-lama/#comment-92491 Potter Fri, 23 May 2008 17:57:55 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=1237#comment-92491 Nicolas Kristof wrote an interesting column: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/opinion/18kristof.html?_r=1&oref" rel="nofollow">Fed Up With Peace</a> Nicolas Kristof wrote an interesting column:

Fed Up With Peace

]]> By: Buddhi http://www.radioopensource.org/pico-iyer-the-transcendentalist-dalai-lama/#comment-92490 Buddhi Sat, 17 May 2008 12:41:37 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=1237#comment-92490 Thanks for opening a door in the discourse for maintenance of a vital way for our world to proceed. Awareness can become a ragged term unless embodied in action, and the first hand examples Iyer speaks to, the humanity and situation of the Dalai Llama, are relevant as we ('WE') move through the cultural soup. Ditto Potter above-- the change the world comment. Keep Big Mind. Thanks for opening a door in the discourse for maintenance of a vital way for our world to

proceed.

Awareness can become a ragged term unless embodied in action, and the first hand

examples Iyer speaks to, the humanity and situation of the Dalai Llama, are relevant

as we (‘WE’) move through the cultural soup.

Ditto Potter above– the change the world comment. Keep Big Mind.

]]> By: Potter http://www.radioopensource.org/pico-iyer-the-transcendentalist-dalai-lama/#comment-92489 Potter Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:06:14 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=1237#comment-92489 I loved listening to this interview. The Dalai Lama on the one hand has to be a special person, found miraculously, on the other had very much a tribute to his people and Tibetan tradition. Regarding the present and ongoing predicament of the Tibetan people I understand why it's a hard sell to speak out not lash out. Who knows where we all will be in the next 120 years, but as for Tibet in Chinese hands a lot of damage, irreversible, can continue-to the land, the remaining people, their culture. But it is also true that exile has spread Tibetan Buddhism enabled us know it better and that too changes the world. And, at the same time, apparently Tibetan Buddhism has grown, been ( admirably) pruned and remains vital. These lines, what Pico Iyer has learned from the DL stood out for me ( along with the comparisons to transcendentalism, Emerson and Thoreau): <i>You change the world by changing the way you think of the world, the way you look at the world. Your eye may reflect something as bad or you may choose to think of it as a possibility.</i> ( I think I got that verbatim ). So- once again- big thanks. I loved listening to this interview. The Dalai Lama on the one hand has to be a special person, found miraculously, on the other had very much a tribute to his people and Tibetan tradition.

Regarding the present and ongoing predicament of the Tibetan people I understand why it’s a hard sell to speak out not lash out. Who knows where we all will be in the next 120 years, but as for Tibet in Chinese hands a lot of damage, irreversible, can continue-to the land, the remaining people, their culture.

But it is also true that exile has spread Tibetan Buddhism enabled us know it better and that too changes the world. And, at the same time, apparently Tibetan Buddhism has grown, been ( admirably) pruned and remains vital.

These lines, what Pico Iyer has learned from the DL stood out for me ( along with the comparisons to transcendentalism, Emerson and Thoreau):

You change the world by changing the way you think of the world, the way you look at the world.

Your eye may reflect something as bad or you may choose to think of it as a possibility.

( I think I got that verbatim ).

So- once again- big thanks.

]]> By: hurley http://www.radioopensource.org/pico-iyer-the-transcendentalist-dalai-lama/#comment-92488 hurley Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:18:06 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=1237#comment-92488 Lovely conversation on many levels, not least the evident fellow feeling. The Dalai Lama comes across as someone rather different from the "Hindu stooge" described by a certain stooge of another stripe. That said, his insistence on contemplating the fate of Tibet in terms of a cosmic durèe would seem to place its fate with the stars, rather than where it should be, in the here and now...But then Iyer's version of the Dalai Lama suggests a gifted "realpolitikian," willing to mortgage his power and authority to the Chinese in exchange for a light hand in the foreseeable future. (Didn't Herbert Browne have a plan to reforest that space, regenerating the Chilean altiplanoin the process?) Anyone out there who knows something more? Lovely conversation on many levels, not least the evident fellow feeling. The Dalai Lama comes across as someone rather different from the “Hindu stooge” described by a certain stooge of another stripe. That said, his insistence on contemplating the fate of Tibet in terms of a cosmic durèe would seem to place its fate with the stars, rather than where it should be, in the here and now…But then Iyer’s version of the Dalai Lama suggests a gifted “realpolitikian,” willing to mortgage his power and authority to the Chinese in exchange for a light hand in the foreseeable future. (Didn’t Herbert Browne have a plan to reforest that space, regenerating the Chilean altiplanoin the process?) Anyone out there who knows something more?

]]> By: Alexandre Enkerli http://www.radioopensource.org/pico-iyer-the-transcendentalist-dalai-lama/#comment-92487 Alexandre Enkerli Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:05:17 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=1237#comment-92487 Missing file in the feed. Missing file in the feed.

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