Dalai Lama

"Just like a dream experience, whatever things I enjoy will become a memory. Whatever is past will not be seen again. "

U know when I was at Baylor I took this one course called "World Religions"... it really captured my attention and my professor was from London...and his wife was from India. He pretty much married into her culture because he would come to class wearing the traditional Indian clothing... i admired that because that shows an open-minded individual.

oh ok i'm going to sidetrack my thinking here but there is some song called "Ghetto mind state" that came out not too long ago by Lil Flip.... its about people who are just pretty much just living in the environment they were brought up in and accepting their situation instead of trying to make it better. My best analogy would be a horse wearing those blinds...they only see whats in front of them.... my point being ....don't be like that. be open minded and take time to learn things outside your element..... which brings me to another thought.... Baylor University used to be called the "Baylor Bubble" by all the other colleges here in Texas. Why? One being that its baptist and two being that they are very conservative...which actually might roll back to the being baptist part. I have no problem with other religions, I do have a problem when u try to force ur religion on others...and by force i mean "strongly persuade" as well. still though...the word "bubble"... i would have to say that was one part of the University I didn't want to be associated with. I actually met alot of gay people at Baylor yet if the University found out you were, they would kick you out. and they could because its a private university. They would go as far as going to the gay bars and seeing which cars had the baylor student stickers on them and that my friend would be the end of your education. yeah...

Back to the World Religions course.... so one day we watched a movie called "Kundun" which is what Tibetans use to refer to the Dalai Lama. It means "The Presence". If you get a chance to rent it one day I'm sure you will enjoy it. Anyways why am i talking about the Dalai Lama? Well because actually i get emails from the Australian Zoo (I'm a big Steve Irwin fan) and turns out the Dalai Lama will be visiting there this weekend...when i happen to be in Cali. He is going there to launch the worldwide "kindness week" which will be the following week. If you didnt know...the Dalai Lamas are the manifestation of the Budhha of Compassion that chooses to reincarnate to serve the people. Right now we are on the 14th Dalai Lama and his name is Tenzin Gyatso.... this is the cool part.... what the Tibetan people do is that when the Dalai Lama dies...they look for his predecessor... they will study the behavior of kids they believe is the Dalai Lama reincarnated... so in Tenzin's case...he was recognized at two years old. From that point, he is put through schooling until he actually becomes the leader for his people. He follows the life of a Buddhist Monk by rising at 4am and then meditates then does administrative duties all day. I also plan to visit Tibet one day. I've seen plenty of monks and temples...beautiful architecture and the sense of peacefulness you get when going into these holy places are truly unforgettable. I wish I could go to Australia this weekend... lol... oh well there is a time and place for everything...