--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > To desire Twitter is the root of suffering > > Is the Dalai Lama a micro-blogger? Or was it all an > illusion?
All is delusion: "A Twitter account purporting to be written by the Dalai Lama has been suspended after being exposed as a fake." http://tinyurl.com/b5u2u6 > Andrew Leonard > > Feb. 09, 2009 | > > Seek, and ye shall not find? On Monday morning, AFP > reported that the Dalai Lama had joined the micro- > blogging service Twitter, "attracting nearly 20,000 > followers in just two days." > > And why not? Did not His Holiness once say that "The > Buddha himself taught differently according to the > place, the occasion, and the situation of those who > were listening to him?" Surely, enlightenment can be > found in 140 characters or less. Anything more > strikes me as verbose, for a true Bodhisattva. > > But when I went to look for Twitter.com/OHHDL > (Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama), Twitter > would only tell me that "That page doesn't exist!" > > I wondered, is this some kind of test? A cosmic > joke? Unless all is illusion, the Twitter account > did once exist, at least for a short time. But the > Dalai Lama has also told us that "If objects and > people evoke attachment in us, we do not understand > the true nature of phenomena." I wanted the Dalai > Lama to be twittering, but now I realize, such > desire is the root of suffering. > > Further research reveals that Twitter suspended the > account, on the grounds that whoever had set it up > was impersonating the Dalai Lama. Ah well -- ample > justification of yet another piece of good advice > from the man himself: "It is wrong to expect some > final satisfaction to come from money or a > computer." > > All quotes were found by following the Twitter feed, > Twitter.com/hisholiness, which is not, and does not > claim to be, the real deal. But what is reality, > anyway? I went looking for the 14th Dalai Lama on > Twitter, and I found him, even though he isn't > there. > > http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/02/09/dalai_lama_twitter/index.htm > l > > http://tinyurl.com/dz4opw >
