Saturday, September 26, 2015

Dalai Lama cuts U.S. tour short

Even as 78-year-old Pope Francis headed for Philadelphia in a winding-down of his six-day U.S. visit, the Dalai Lama, 80, abruptly cut short a tour in America for medical reasons yesterday.

Strange how the spot-lighted and popular heavy-hitters get old and advance towards memory, just like the rest of us. Both of these men have a background in a disciplined spiritual effort and yet radiate kindness: How's that for a lesson that cannot be learned simply by aping kindness?

3 comments:

  1. How disciplined do you have to be to be catholic?

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  2. Assuming you'd like to avoid being titled an airhead, pretty damned disciplined, whether with a small c or a large.

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