--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 
> On Apr 6, 2006, at 5:31 PM, shempmcgurk wrote:
> 
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> 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...
>


Good point...






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