{"id":6796,"date":"2012-04-25T06:18:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T06:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/?p=6796"},"modified":"2012-04-25T12:19:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T12:19:33","slug":"dalai-lama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/dalai-lama\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalai Lama ~"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JBXUIHjfQfY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A little video I filmed last weekend to share ~ An amazing day at the Long Beach California Arena\u00a0&#8211; The words and joyful spirit of the Dalai Lama will remain with me always ~ His message was deep and profound regarding the human condition .. touching on the very causes of suffering and unhappiness in the world ~ But equally touching was his Holiness playful\u00a0sense of humor! ~\u00a0He is coming next to\u00a0Canada\u00a0~\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of many memorable\u00a0moments was his opening words to\u00a0the audience ~ (Actor Richard Gere was there\u00a0and introduced the Dalai Lama) I will paraphrase\u00a0what the Dalai Lama&#8217;s opening words were\u00a0.. in essence the Dalai Lama spoke of how some people perceive him ~ Some say he is the reincarnation of Buddha ~ To that he says &#8211; Nonsense! (he is laughing while he is speaking) Some say he is like God &#8211; again he says &#8211; Nonsense! Some say he is all-knowing .. and he says &#8211; I don&#8217;t know everything and I don&#8217;t\u00a0have all the answers &#8230;On the other hand some say I am evil &#8211; also not true ~\u00a0I am only another human being just like you are human beings ~\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Dalai Lama speaks in a free flowing mind consciousness and\u00a0makes you feel like he is talking to you in your living room ~ He tells funny monk and family stories between the\u00a0more serious and deep topics.\u00a0and spoke for several hours\u00a0~ The little video I filmed was after the event outside of the arena ~\u00a0An\u00a0uplifting\u00a0experience and blessing ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little video I filmed last weekend to share ~ An amazing day at the Long Beach California Arena\u00a0&#8211; The words and joyful spirit of the Dalai Lama will remain with me always ~ His message was deep and profound regarding the human condition .. touching on the very causes \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/dalai-lama\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,46,8],"tags":[4607],"class_list":["post-6796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-reviews","category-spirituality","tag-dalai-lama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6796"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6799,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions\/6799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}