Posted by
Bert Chapman on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:56:19 AM
Tibet's Dalai Lama is currently touring Indiana. He visited and dedicated a Tibetan cultural center at Indiana University in Bloomington and will be speaking at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. I have nothing against the Dalai Lama. He's a well-intentioned man who's Tibetan people have been wronged by Chinese communist aggression and tryanny. The hysteria he produces from the Chinese Government is quite remarkable. It's to bad President Bush kept his White House meeting with the Dalai Lama private out of an unnecessary concern with offending the Chinese. At least the President publicly appeared with the Dalai Lama at the ceremony where he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. The President should have followed the example of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a fellow conservative, who will publicly meet with the Dalai Lama when he visits Canada in November.
Despite the Dalai Lama's humanitarian character and instincts, it's troubling to hear so many people refer to themselves as "his followers." This reflects the all to prevalent spiritual vapidity of so many people in this country, and other countries for that matter, that seek to gravitate to any religious figure or belief system outside of Jesus Christ and Christianity. Their is considerable longing for religious meaning and authenticity but, unfortunately, to many people seek to follow cults or "spiritual advisors" or other philosophical fads without realizing that Jesus Christ is the only way to spiritual fulfillment, personal salvation, nirvana, happiness, or whatever you want to call personal spiritual fulfillment.