Monday, July 25, 2022

His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet in Ladhak: Sojourn and teachings and dedications


25/07/2022:
Just a glimpse of devotees on the floor at Ladhak Thiksey Monastery, the students of Sherab Keytsel Ling School, in the concourse of it, with the proper edifice of it in the backdrop at one angle to the right but occupying the half of the middle ground, listening to the teaching on Secular Ethics by His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, now on a sojourn there in Ladhak, when Dharamsala's weather is musty and wet. And for me, it's sort of a presage to his return to Tibet and doing the same great thing from Potala Palace in Lhasa, for the valley of Thiksey and the proper edifice of its monastic university speak of it through its likeness but much more by the ardent Ladhaki devotees. I wonder do Tibetan at large study the essence of our cultural values like them who do in the manner of learning, reflecting over and putting them into practice (and here all about taming one's minds and emotions more or less vulgar, wild, bellicose, belligerent to being, resolutely, self-centered by policing over or meditating over that you and me just go for the physical posture: cross-legged, eyes half-closed or tethered down on the tip of one's nose, straight backed, hands the right over the left with the insides of the thumbs pressed against each other, and so on...)? Much, much respect and appreciation to Ladhaki people for making his benedictory smile beam once again over the commoner of a me, the worlding of a me, the philistine of a me, the run-of-the-mill of a me, and for the rest of humankinds at large downtrodden and oppressed more by one's way of viewing than by others' malevolence, and if not so but crestfallen and sickeningly insecure by the doings of one's own mind!!! 

No comments:

Post a Comment