May 31. Express Adda in The Indian Express, Journalism of Courage. Two pages of Dalai Lama with the power elite of India says: 'Prayer doesn't bring a peaceful world. We can pray for a thousand years and nothing will happen.' At a second place Dalai Lama dwells on the meaning of 'Om Mani Padme Hum'; the mantra is the manifestation of Buddha's compassion.' Dalai Lama is great, holy; or at least thats what the power elite says; and there are his followers, ordinary humans, Tibetans, who see god in Dalai Lama. Today, after part-reading Express Adda, could not manage the entire stuff, felt disappointed. Me prefers a Jane Goodall trying to understand chimps at Gombe Stream Reserve, Romulus Whitaker giving a good name to cobras at Agumbe, Arun Kolatkar poeting Jejuri and Gandhi with bare hands cleaning the streets of shit to Dalai Lama and a Ramana Maharshi. Do not satisfy. For some 37 years, went to office in locals, BEST buses and walked, not having cash for taxis. In Mumbai locals, pancaked in a crowd, with nose stuck into the arm pits of a fellow traveler, toes ushaped by another, me tried to pray, prayed; nothing happened; in 1970 it was easier in a local than in 2007. In 2017 do not go near a train, bus or car. Walk. Grandmas in Kottarakara and Ashramam village, prayed twice every day with Godly indifference to show. Has Dalai Lama been able to get the power elite to protest the hacking of banyans and peepals at Churchgate for the Metro? Dalai Lama's karuna and mahakaruna are irrelevant to most of us, scarred in some way or other. Ramana Maharshi somewhere says,' What has to happen will happen, what has not to happen, will not happen.' If that be so and me am in no position to question the sage of Tiruvannamalai, then why religions, saints, and the rest? They surely do not define a stillness? And does Dalai Lama matter to a farmer hit by drought, a poor going hungry or a middle class me doing nothing. Is not the Dalai Lama being diplomatic when he says: 'The media has an important responsibility. It should report all that is happening - murders, rapes - but at the same time if the news is always negative, then the reader may start thinking that basic human nature is negative and the future of humanity is doomed. So, we must report on whatever is happening but at the same time, we must occasionally provide readers with something positive.' Am reasonably sure, it makes not much sense to Anant Goenka and Raj Kamal Jha. For the power elite, an outing. Sorry, His Holiness Dalai Lama. Nothing makes sense any more.
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Dalai Lama
May 31. Express Adda in The Indian Express, Journalism of Courage. Two pages of Dalai Lama with the power elite of India says: 'Prayer doesn't bring a peaceful world. We can pray for a thousand years and nothing will happen.' At a second place Dalai Lama dwells on the meaning of 'Om Mani Padme Hum'; the mantra is the manifestation of Buddha's compassion.' Dalai Lama is great, holy; or at least thats what the power elite says; and there are his followers, ordinary humans, Tibetans, who see god in Dalai Lama. Today, after part-reading Express Adda, could not manage the entire stuff, felt disappointed. Me prefers a Jane Goodall trying to understand chimps at Gombe Stream Reserve, Romulus Whitaker giving a good name to cobras at Agumbe, Arun Kolatkar poeting Jejuri and Gandhi with bare hands cleaning the streets of shit to Dalai Lama and a Ramana Maharshi. Do not satisfy. For some 37 years, went to office in locals, BEST buses and walked, not having cash for taxis. In Mumbai locals, pancaked in a crowd, with nose stuck into the arm pits of a fellow traveler, toes ushaped by another, me tried to pray, prayed; nothing happened; in 1970 it was easier in a local than in 2007. In 2017 do not go near a train, bus or car. Walk. Grandmas in Kottarakara and Ashramam village, prayed twice every day with Godly indifference to show. Has Dalai Lama been able to get the power elite to protest the hacking of banyans and peepals at Churchgate for the Metro? Dalai Lama's karuna and mahakaruna are irrelevant to most of us, scarred in some way or other. Ramana Maharshi somewhere says,' What has to happen will happen, what has not to happen, will not happen.' If that be so and me am in no position to question the sage of Tiruvannamalai, then why religions, saints, and the rest? They surely do not define a stillness? And does Dalai Lama matter to a farmer hit by drought, a poor going hungry or a middle class me doing nothing. Is not the Dalai Lama being diplomatic when he says: 'The media has an important responsibility. It should report all that is happening - murders, rapes - but at the same time if the news is always negative, then the reader may start thinking that basic human nature is negative and the future of humanity is doomed. So, we must report on whatever is happening but at the same time, we must occasionally provide readers with something positive.' Am reasonably sure, it makes not much sense to Anant Goenka and Raj Kamal Jha. For the power elite, an outing. Sorry, His Holiness Dalai Lama. Nothing makes sense any more.
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