…doesn't want this message it wants it that we have it. There was a fascinating moment in New York City when the Dalai Lama arrived and the first welcome was at st Patrick's Cathedral. And there they were. There were the Catholic Clergy, there were the…

…forth and the whole sense of Buddhism is: all the traditions intend the same end you know and are ways to it and the Dalai Lama, seeing this here, made this statement. By the way the young man who was doing the translating he was a professor from the…

…named Thompson I think he was simply magnificent picking this up and in accurate Buddhist Terminology, rendering these translations. So the Dalai Lama really made this point. Well cardinal cook had to let his member of the group know that that is not so.…

…amusing thing. Two days later at or three perhaps it was at st John's the divine uptown there was a meeting for the Dalai Lama of the Buddhist Communities in New York people interested in Buddhism and there were over a thousand people in that place. It…

…distribution of Prasad buttered tea thank god it wasn't yak butter that had been rancid, but it was delicious. And then the Dalai Lama made a statement. He was talking to the Buddhists. He said: keep up your practice. The results do not happen fast. This…

…Joseph Campbell gave a talk in which he went on with his account of the Dalai Lama's remarks. And their meaning. And then the Dalai Lama had something else to say. Now this actually was a reply to cardinal cook. Only it was in very low key and if you…

…and so his whole life was spent in the monastery. It's a wonderful, wonderful story. And he left tibet exactly the day the Dalai Lama did. He was in Lhasa and he was actually at the Dalai Lama's summer palace called the narbolingka, at the time of the…

…Dalai Lama's summer palace called the narbolingka, at the time of the communist bombarding of the palace and attempt to take the Dalai Lama and the Dalai Lama's flight and then massacre of people in Lhasa and all this kind of thing. It's a hideous story.…

…here. This is it. Following this, there comes a transformation. If one really puts oneself to it and this is what the Dalai Lama was talking about all of one's commitments to health, wealth and progeny fall into second place. The whole goal is the…

…that are most listened to let's put it that way to start now the best teaching from the east is this one that the Dalai Lama we had it from sri Ramakrishna, we have it all over the place from the east namely that there is a common consciousness which…

…doesn't want this message it wants it that we have it. There was a fascinating moment in New York City when the Dalai Lama arrived and the first welcome was at st Patrick's Cathedral and there they were, there were the Catholic Clergy, there were the…

…forth and the whole sense of Buddhism is: all the traditions intend the same end you know and are ways to it. And the Dalai Lama, seeing this here made this statement by the way the young man who was doing the translating he was a professor from the…

…named Thompson I think he was simply magnificent picking this up and in accurate Buddhist Terminology rendering these translations. So the Dalai Lama really made this point. Well, cardinal cook had to let his members of the group know that that is not so.…

…amusing thing. Two days later or three perhaps it was at st John's, the divine uptown there was a meeting for the Dalai Lama of the Buddhist Communities in New York people interested in Buddhism and there were over a thousand people in that place. It…

…of Prasad, the buttered tea. Thank god it wasn't yak butter that had been rancid, but it was delicious. And then the Dalai Lama made a statement. He was talking to the Buddhists. He said: keep up your practice. The results do not happen fast this…

…and so his whole life was spent in the monastery it's a wonderful, wonderful story. And he left tibet exactly the day the Dalai Lama did. He was in Lhasa and he was actually at the Dalai Lama's summer palace called the narbolingka at the time of the…

…Dalai Lama's summer palace called the narbolingka at the time of the communist bombarding of the palace and attempt to take the Dalai Lama and the Dalai Lama's flight and then massacre of people in Lhasa and all this kind of thing it's a hideous story.…

…gorgeous picture, it's breathtaking yeah that's a breathtaking picture. Then I've been past two and a half years helping a Tibetan Lama former lama write his autobiography and he escaped from tibet at that terrible moment when the communists smashed in on…

…Lama former lama write his autobiography and he escaped from tibet at that terrible moment when the communists smashed in on the Dalai Lama and he had to run. This chap escaped exactly the same moment and it gives an account of his long trip over…

…an account of his long trip over the Himalayas on foot. You know this is quite a little job, same time as the Dalai Lama exactly. And he brought with he could bring with him almost nothing but he did have this darling little picture of a Buddhist…

…compassion reaches to the abyss of hell. There's no being and there's no who is living among us incarnate in the Dalai Lama. He is regarded as an incarnation of the bodhisattva avalokiteshvara of infinite compassion. Now I've heard the Dalai Lama, when he…

…in the Dalai Lama. He is regarded as an incarnation of the bodhisattva avalokiteshvara of infinite compassion. Now I've heard the Dalai Lama, when he was over here, give lectures and his accent always in his talk about Buddhism, is on the force of…

…this is the way of the bodhisattva and the way of the tradition that we're now talking about. This is a 17th century Dalai Lama who is an incarnation of the bodhisattva, and he sits there with the lotus. The bodhisattva are looking down in mercy at the…

…with the lotus. The bodhisattva are looking down in mercy at the lotus of the world. This is the potala, the palace where the Dalai Lama lived. It's on a hill. This is the counterpart of Olympus, with the palace of the gods on the top. This is that…

…the immovable spot: illumination, the pig of ignorance slain and the teaching communicated to the disciples. The person is about to die. The Dalai Lama has not the Dalai the local lama has his hand on the pulse and at the moment of death he says: you…

…met by chance, a young Buddhist Monk from tibet. You know, in 1959 the communists crashed down and bombed the palace of the Dalai Lama, bombarded Lhasa and people murdered and all that kind of thing, and he escaped. At the time of the Dalai Lama and…

…the Dalai Lama, bombarded Lhasa and people murdered and all that kind of thing, and he escaped. At the time of the Dalai Lama and those monasteries, I mean there were monasteries with 5 000 monks 6 000 monks all wiped out, tortured and everything else.…

…of the Chinese from that young man. There is absolutely no condemnation of the Chinese here and you hear this from the Dalai Lama himself. You will not hear a word of condemnation. There's recognition of the way of life through which that vitality of the…

…that is beyond the reach of his compassion. And this is the bodhisattva who is living among us, incarnate in the Dalai Lama. He is regarded as an incarnation of the bodhisattva avalokiteshvara of infinite compassion. Now I've heard the Dalai Lama when he…

…incarnate in the Dalai Lama. He is regarded as an incarnation of the bodhisattva avalokiteshvara of infinite compassion. Now I've heard the Dalai Lama when he was over here, give lectures and his accent always in his talk about Buddhism is on the force of…

…is the way of the bodhisattva and the way of the tradition that we're now talking about. This is a 17th century Dalai Lama who is an incarnation of the bodhisattva and he sits there with the lotus, the bodhisattva avalokiteshvara looking down in mercy at…

…the lotus, the bodhisattva avalokiteshvara looking down in mercy at the lotus of the world. This is the potala, the palace where the Dalai Lama lived. It's on a hill. This is the counterpart of Olympus, with the palace of the gods on the top. This is…

…buddha is mercy, compassion. This is the buddha whose lieutenant is avalokiteshvara and whose incarnation on earth then is in the Dalai Lama. The quality is compassion. And what do you suppose the vice would be? Attachment, attachment to that being for whom…