Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for February 05, 2024
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February 12, 2024
Transcript:
THE DALAI LAMA ANSWERS A QUESTION Man: Your holiness, what surprises you most about humanity? Dalai Lama: Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. WELCOME HOME DAD And then he is so anxious about the future… …that he does not enjoy the present. The result being that he does not live in the present or the future. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF CENTRAL TIBETAN ADMINISTRATION DALAI LAMA PRESS JUNKET INDIA AIRLINE He lives as if he is never going to die. Dalai Lama: And then he dies having never really lived.
He also tries to amass a huge fortune, not to spend himself but to leave to others after he dies. Most of the people he bequeaths to hardly even communicate with him during his old age, and he probably won’t hear any thanks.