Mind Mapping: A personal approach toward finding out the prime causes of an ugly emotion like Jealousy to its corresponding reactions: Bodily, verbal, mental

My comment on the latest post on Exile Voice, a YouTube channel of Choekyi La: Justice for Nyibum or our own weakness

'But nothing had happened to her father. Guns were changed; aircrafts were modified or replaced; and the serviceman had become ordinary again. But his daughters had inherited through their mother a dream of glory together with a general pessimism, a wishing to hope and a nervousness about hoping. It made for temperament, frustration, self-destructiveness. It is as if we all carry in our make-up the effects of accidents that have befallen our ancestors, as if we are in many ways programmed before we are born, our lives half outlined for us.' ~ VS Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival

As you always talk about our mental health related effects, rather destructive within but demure without, our sort of endowed mental set up, you drew a fine underline here from this rabble rouser sort of mouthing 'justice for Nyibum' and his own way of igniting it. It's nothing other than our weakness: simply, shedding one's suffered loads of always being at the receiving end among an alien lot (not within our own one) on our own ones. So a tiger within but a cat without when cast among an alien lot sickness has been on us as a serious disease, and it's, I think, fundamentally because of not being equipped with a sound hold on one language (one's mother-tongue or any), the basic means of expressing oneself (one's subtle way of thinking, voicing for one's rights to any). And another cause is lack of confidence, namely diffidence, and guts that could be propelled both by not having a sound hold on one language and not being serious and methodic in pursuing a thing (profession to passion). In essence, not having a holistic hold on oneself, one's philosophy of life, and one's way of dealing with others and any situations. We are more or less, I don't mean to generalize so on each and every head of us, as you say, 'Drapcha', namely just charlatans, overbearing but shallow. Lack of education and that of 'holistic' one, and it's not only us but the human kind at large these days. I wonder how smart and creative we, especially those involved ones, could be, if we are equipped with a sound means of expression and can express our deep-seated emotions through the means of ventriloquism. Guts, courage isn't related with ganging over but with sacrificing oneself for others; beauty isn't related with just skin-deep but with the same quality; happiness isn't related with just a palliative feeling of relief but with a lasting feeling of exaltation and that by the same quality of sacrificing oneself for others' wellbeing. 

བསྟན་འཛིན་བསད་པའི་གྱོད་གཞི། བཙན་བྱོལ་ནང་སྐྱེས་པའི་ན་གཞོན་ཞིག་གིས་བགྱིས་པའི་བརྩམས་སྒྲུང་།

ངས་ངོས་ནས་བལྟས་ན། ན་གཞོན་བསྟན་འཛིན་གྱི་བརྩམས་ཆོས་དེས་བརྡ་ལན་གསལ་པོ་གཉིས་བཏང་སོང་སྙམ་སྟེ། གཅིག་ནི་རྗེས་འབྱོར་བ་ཚོས་བཙན་བྱོལ་ནང་སྐྱེས་པ་ཞིག་ལ་བོད་ཡིག་ཤེས་ཀྱི་མིན་འདུག་ཅེས་འཁང་ར་དང་སྣང་ཆུང་དེར་མི་བདེན་པའི་ར་སྤྲོད་གསལ་པོ་ཞིག་རེད། ཁོ་པ་བཞིན་དགེ་རྒན་ཚད་ལྡན་དུ་མས་བསྐྱངས་ཡོད་ན་སུས་ཀྱང་བོད་ཡིག་ཤེས་ལོས་ཐུབ། སྐབས་རེས་རྗེས་འབྱོར་བ་བོད་ཡིག་ཤེས་རློམ་ཅན་ནམ་མུ་ཅོར་སྒྲོག་མཁན་ཡང་འདི་ལྟའི་བརྩམས་ཆོས་འདོན་རྒྱུ་ཕར་བཞག་ཡིག་ཕྲེང་འགའི་ནང་ཡང་ཡིག་ནོར་གྱིས་ཁེངས་པ་མཐོང་རྒྱུ་འདུག་ག གཉིས་པ་ནི་དཔེ་སྟོན་སློབ་གྲྭར་འཛིན་ཚུལ་ཞན་པ་སྟེ་དབྱིན་ཡིག་ཐོག་རྗེས་ཟིན་ཐུབ་མིན་སྐོར་དོགས་པ་ཡོད་མཁན་ལ་སྟེ། བསྟན་འཛིན་རང་གིས་བརྗོད་པར་ཁོ་པས་སྒྲུང་དེ་དབྱིན་ཡིག་ཐོག་འབྲི་ཐུབ་པའི་གནས་ཚད་ཡོད་པ་ལས་སུན་འབྱིན་དེ་ལྟར་སྣང་ཁོ་ནའོ།།

The twelve stages of interdependent origination: The map of causality in terms of the cycle of life of a sentient being and thereby the vision and idea of its existential entities

Does His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama advocate Laicism?

For now, we do seriously need to give a close look at 'why His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet willingly devolved his centuries old full political authority to a people-elected leader (Kalontripa to  Sikyong) at the outset of 2011, with his half onus of it having already passed on to the same leader of Tibetans diaspora.' He has now and again emphasized on the need of clear demarcation between the religious and political institutions, namely political or worldly deeds for the laity and spiritual deeds for the ordained. From this very act, not just speech and moralizing over, it can be perceived that he advocates laicism at institutional level, namely at functioning level. But at the same time, he has emphasized on the co-existence of, as per the Western term, 'church and state' and that at individual level, namely a politician or a political leader with a strong moral fiber shall prove more domos-oriented or come out as the real utilitarian doer of a public servant. 

Though our democracy in exile is still nascent, thanks for the grandness of HHDL's view and vision and courage, we are proudly sort of one hundred years ahead of those states where a commoner or plebeian can't sound off a phrase of dissatisfaction or being disgruntled against his leader or king or monarch, etc. But we should still work hard to pave the way for that clear demarcation between the two institutions that are sort of more or less jumbled for the time being. 

We Tibetans don't believe in 'Soul': Then what kind of battle

I once read an article by him, LS, rather of one or two paragraphs, maybe on tibet.net, when he was in his first term as Sikyong, that reasonably challenges Red China's interference with the reincarnation of His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama. Even the gist of the paragraph or the two was about his having been taken by surprise and thereby demanding what an atheistic group like CCP has such an interest in the same spiritual process of long ethnic history based on Tibetan Buddhism. And now I wonder why he puts himself in the same position, for his being alien to the same process rooted in a unique tradition, and his being so illiterate in Tibetan and Tibetan Buddhist Studies? 

'Soul', as per its direct sense in the Western ethnicity or in the theistic faiths at large, is related with 'Self' or the notion of having such a self or 'I' even after death, such a self or I, rather dogmatic than instinctive that even an animal has, such a self that's in reality out of pure personal fabrication. And, funnily, we Tibetans equate the term with our རྣམ་ཤེས།, the core consciousness of a being, the 'sixth sense', if the term has any deeper implication. But the term 'soul' can't be a phenomenon that is a fundamental consciousness, though there is such a term as 'metempsychosis'. 

By and large, his endeavor of such of any designs, when HHDL himself has made it clear about the same case, if needed, more than twice, is a sort of mimicry of his own way of seeing--Western but not so, Tibetan but not so. Duplicity or a slavish attempt to enlarge his own image even after having failed for ten long years, the time lost in proving himself for being the first young democratically elected personage to whom HHDL devolved his entire political authority with blessings and praises and his own sense of relief by quoting the visionary line from his own work, The Words of Truth. 

In memory of a childhood friend, Tashi Dorjee

Rather than letting myself get shattered by the staggering fact of the lacuna whereupon I can't let myself get stumbled very often (thanks facebook here), it's better to fill the long period of oblivion with something so worth-doing like 'being the change myself' in his memory despite its being latent so far. So read Marcel Proust, if you really want to write that's so laborious and that isn't for 'money'. Thanks Tashi la for coming into my life!