On Apr 6, 2006, at 5:31 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Apr 6, 2006, at 5:15 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Apr 6, 2006, at 4:47 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: > > > > > > > > > It's all almost as silly as naming some 5-year-old peasant > boy > > > the > > > > > Dalai Lama because he can recognize a shoe that the recently- > > > > > departed Dalai Lama once wore... > > > > > > > > You're obviously not familiar with the real story if that's > what > > > you > > > > believe! > > > > > > > > The real story is pretty amazing. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Okay, it was eyeglasses or some such nonsense. > > > > > > Look my source for any info I have on the DL are the movies " > Seven > > > years in Tibet", "Kundun" and that Snow Lion documentary. > > > > > > If I've got it wrong, blame Martin Scorcese and Brad Pitt... > > > > Read John Avedon's _In Exile From the Land of Snows_. > > > > He answered the disguised lamas who were visiting in the dialect > of > > Lhasa--an area he'd never been to in his brief life. They also > tried > > to fool him with a tray of malas. He rejected them all but got > upset > > when he recognized his old mala around one of the traders necks. > etc.... > > > > > > ...sleight of hand, mental projection... > > Big friggin' deal. I'm sure The Amazing Kreskin could have picked > the right mala, too. > > I'll tell you what the REAL miracle was: the fact that this guy got > the Nobel Peace Prize...
I thought that miracle should have been attributed to Yassar Arafat... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
