--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 11, 2006, at 12:35 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > > wrote: > > > >> > >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > >> On the one side of it you're > >> > >>> just an Ordinary Joe with an OPINION. On the other side > >>> (the one you're on currently), you're a fanatic. > >>> > >> > >> Let's go a step further, and admit that all you have said is neither > >> incorrect nor correct, and all that Vaj has stated is neither > >> incorrect or correct, and that it is ALL opinion. Even the socalled > >> traditions hold merely opinions. That to say TM is a false path is > >> opinion. That to say it is a valid path is opinion. My opinion > >> remains that Tibetan Buddhism is at least a failed tradition. > >> > >> Now THAT I can live with. Can you? > >> > > > > Sure. > > I wouldn't fall for it so easily B. The current situation was > predicted not only centuries ago, but also decades before the current > invasion. The on-coming invasion was reiterated in the early 1900's, > but the Tibetans, realizing it would raise their taxes, refused to > amass and/or train armies to protect against the on-coming invasion. > > And so, the fulfillment of a prophecy came to pass in our generation: > > "When the iron bird flies, and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan > people will be scattered like ants across the world, and the Dharma > will come to the land of the red faced people" > > A failure? LOL, I'd say it's been a great success<snip>
You've seen the film "Kundun" I take it? Great success? Hmmm... I'm sticking with my opinion that it is, and has been, a colossal failure, and I am sure many former Tibetans would agree with me. Perhaps the failure was prophesied, but that doesn't change it from being a failure.
