Originally published at: Dalai Lama asks child to suck his tongue | Boing Boing
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It’s such a bizarre ask I assumed he had asked the child to suck his own tongue. Which is still odd but sounded like it might be part of a Buddhist lesson or something.
reads context Oh yeah, no.
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I don’t know what to make of this situation, but it doesn’t look as simple as a misreading of intention.
You tell a man he’s essentially a god and surround him with acolytes and things are going to go sinister 99% of the time.
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“So, grandad, when did you decide that Buddhism was not for you?”
“Well, I was six years old, and I met the holiest man in the world. And he asked me to suck his tongue.”
“Is that normal?”
“Hell if I know. I decided there and then that I wanted nothing to do with the entire religion.”
“Freaky.”
“Oh, that’s nothing. Let me tell you about the time I met the Pope …”
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Lama, what an asshole.
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Being 87 might have something to do with his behavior, but still ick. Maybe he’s due for a reincarnation soon.
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There’s a concept I try to lean on in weird situations like this. MRI: Most Reasonable Interpretation. And in this situation it seems that the MRI is not that he’s trying to molest or groom a child. Now if Michael Jackson had lived to be 87…
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I would hope that crap like this would demonstrate to more people that the Dalai Lama isn’t any more special than any other self-professed holy man, or any other human being, for that matter. But probably not.
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At least he didn’t ask him to pull his finger. /s
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I paid to hear him speak in [1990] and he had some decent things to say. All that goes out the window.
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Then there might be two Dalai Lamas.
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He’s 87.
Alzheimer’s? Doesn’t look like it.
Dementia? Probably not.
The fact that he’s spent his entire life without normal human interaction or discourse and is surrounded by people who seem to think he’s a god?
Well, maybe, but that’s hardly an excuse.
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I think you are a bit low on that estimated percentage.
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he’s not believed to be a reincarnation of a god. he’s believed to be the reincarnation of a bodhisattva, which is a regular old human who is well on their way to being a fully enlightened being, like the buddha, (also not a god!). so anyway, as a human, he’s subject to human failings, too.
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Did someone say that?
Asking children to “suck his tongue” seems like something that most of us would avoid saying, though.
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Seems remarkably un-fucking-enlightened right now.
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