Yet China is not the only country now keeping a watchful eye on the Dalai Lama’s succession. “One selected on the basis of instructions left behind by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and one chosen by the Chinese Communist party.” “We are looking at the highly likely situation that when the 14th Dalai Lama dies, there will be two Dalai Lamas named in his place,” said Robert Barnett, a Tibetan expert. But a power struggle for who will choose his reincarnation after he dies has already begun. This provides my psyche, which is a logical designer, to grapple with a comprehensive approach to managing practical needs and necessities in such a way as to promote my personal values and support a community approach.The Dalai Lama, who recently turned 86, has insisted that discussions of his death are premature (according to his own visions, he will live to 113). It comes in the form of playing modded Minecraft in a comprehensive way as a process of discovering and progressively developing an "elegant, holistic and conservational logistics". Furthermore, I have found a mode of spiritual play, what Jung might call alchemy, which is endlessly satisfying to me. My spiritual practice, primarily, is to study epic story in written and visual forms across time and cultures, interpret dreams, and establish as unmaterialistic a life as I can muster. I turned my education into a spiritual journey. I found myself through the process of writing my two theses and I left my higher education with that deep sense of satisfaction and inner conviction. What I did achieve, however, was personal spiritual transformation. What I lost in the process was job marketability. I started with a double major approach but ended up with a more ambiguous bachelors then masters degree. I am as close to a real world example of this, I suppose, as one can get. What is your approach to religious pluralism? Do you like to associate closely with people that are very different from you? Can we avoid diversity in our lives? Would we be better to embrace it? If by unifying you mean mixing, that is impossible useless. In the meantime, I respect and admire my Christian friend and my Muslim friend. To my Muslim friend, is the only truth, the only religion. To my Christian friend, Christianity is the only truth, the only religion. Therefore, Buddhism is the only truth for me, the only religion. Several truths, several religions, is contradictory. They take something Hindu, something Buddhist, something, something… That is not healthy.įor individual practitioners, having one truth, one religion, is very important. In the United States I have seen people who embrace Buddhism and change their clothes! Like the New Age. Some people start Christian, follow Islam, then Buddhism, then nothing. Some Spanish prefer Buddhism so follow it. However, some Tibetan may prefer Islam, so he can follow it. People from different traditions should keep their own, rather than change. When asked, "Don’t all religions teach the same thing? Is it possible to unify them?" the Dalai Lama said: To what extent is religious pluralism healthy and when does it become contradictory and unhealthy? Multiculturalism in the twenty first century forces peoples of different cultures, races, nations and religions to interact, work together, cooperate and associate closely with one another as never before. (Zen calls this "makyo.") Those stuck in makyo can certainly give any syncretistic movement a bad name, which may leak over to the religions they borrowed from. However, many people can easily become enraptured by a new "discovery/creation" and have their minds overcome by it. You can be careful and mindful to not propagate greed, hatred, or delusion and cause no harm. Greed, hatred, and delusion are known as the three poisons in Buddhism, and you are supposed to reject any doctrine that preaches greed, hatred, or delusion, no matter how well they try to sell it or how much pretzel logic they use to try to justify it. Greed can also become a factor when you create/syncretize a religion as a form of marketing. There is a huge possibility of becoming delusional when you try to syncreticize science and religion, and there is a huge possibility of propagating hatred when you try to syncreticize politics and religion. Click to expand.You can really get into trouble when you try to syncretictize science and religion, or religion and politics, for example.
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