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April 2008 
HH THE DALAI LAMA WEPT/TONGLEN
Posted on Mar 22nd, 2008
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Chaiwallah
Chaiwallah
In a recent interview with Melinda Liu of Newsweek, HH the Dalai Lama admitted he wept at the news from Tibet, but practises "giving and taking,"...in a word, tonglen.
Newsweek:Some images of the recent casualties have been graphic and disturbing. Have you seen them? What was your reaction? We heard you wept.
HH the Dalai Lama:Yes I cried once. One advantage of belonging to the Tibetan Buddhist culture is that at the intellectual level there is a lot of turmoil, a lot of anxiety and worries but at the deeper, emotional level there is calm. Every night in my Buddhist practice I give and take. I take in Chinese suspicion. I give back trust and compassion. I take their negative feeling and give them positive feeling. I do that everyday. This practice helps tremendously in keeping the emotional level stable and steady. So during the last few days, despite a lot of worries and anxiety, there is no disturbance in my sleep. (Laughs).
Newsweek:Some images of the recent casualties have been graphic and disturbing. Have you seen them? What was your reaction? We heard you wept.
HH the Dalai Lama:Yes I cried once. One advantage of belonging to the Tibetan Buddhist culture is that at the intellectual level there is a lot of turmoil, a lot of anxiety and worries but at the deeper, emotional level there is calm. Every night in my Buddhist practice I give and take. I take in Chinese suspicion. I give back trust and compassion. I take their negative feeling and give them positive feeling. I do that everyday. This practice helps tremendously in keeping the emotional level stable and steady. So during the last few days, despite a lot of worries and anxiety, there is no disturbance in my sleep. (Laughs).
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