But now, I'm usually okay because I understand where to go and where not to go to keep my family safe.
But, what many people might not realize is that the Tibetans used to be some of the most violent people on earth historically. They beheaded anyone from another area (until Padmasambhava brought Buddhism to Tibet from India)
Although there was a historical Padmasambhava, little is known of him apart from helping the construction of the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet at Samye, at the behest of Trisong Detsen, and shortly thereafter leaving Tibet due to court intrigues.
I'm thinking it was between 700 and 1000 AD. IN fact I'm also thinking that Padmasambhava likely was a young Merlin too. And after Merlin took Buddhism to Tibet he went home to England and put Arthur on the Throne of England. This is what I presently think now from all the evidence I have looked through and experienced.
So, Tibetan Buddhism and their discipline of Compassion isn't just something that "fell out of the sky" but was hard won and hard fought to get to this place. And if you have ever been to the Himalayas they are the hardest place to survive above 8000 feet along with the deserts of the world for humans.
So, you have to imagine the toughest, hardiest people imaginable that often die by age 50 or so there in Tibet because life is so very hard the last 2000 years or more and also at altitude that takes a lot out of you too.
But, Right Mindful Compassion to me is the single most powerful thing we have been given from Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism and from the Dalai Lama.
Idiot Compassion is not enough because often the giver dies in the compassionate act.
NO, Right mindful compassion is actually thinking things through for the best outcome for all beings on earth. And this is exactly how the Dalai Lama thinks. It is powerful sort of like having a Buddhist Jesus here on earth with us. He is very very disciplined with all of this by the way. He says he is just a simple monk, but there is so much more to this than that. If you are in his presence it is literally like listening to a Tibetan Buddhist Jesus here on earth. And this is exactly how Tibetan Buddhists of Asia think of him.
By God's Grace.
Note; 25% of Tibetan Buddhists believe in God like I do. The same is true of All Buddhists of all the variations of Buddhism around the world.
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