{"id":426,"date":"2005-11-06T17:01:13","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T01:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/?p=426"},"modified":"2005-11-07T11:36:09","modified_gmt":"2005-11-07T19:36:09","slug":"hello-dalai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/11\/06\/hello-dalai","title":{"rendered":"Hello, Dalai!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got to hear the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dalai_Lama\">Dalai Lama<\/a> speak at Stan\u00adford on Fri\u00adday. I was actu\u00adal\u00adly a few min\u00adutes late because I was walk\u00ading up from a non-stan\u00addard direc\u00adtion and so I was trapped on the oth\u00ader end of his motor\u00adcade and the accom\u00adpa\u00adny\u00ading secu\u00adri\u00adty detail. At one point I was about 15 feet from him.<\/p>\n<p>A few thoughts in no par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A stu\u00addent asked me why in world I would want to hear the Dalai Lama speak since he\u2019s a leader of a rival reli\u00adgion. And then I read an arti\u00adcle describ\u00ading how some sci\u00aden\u00adtists are hav\u00ading the same reac\u00adtion to the Dalai Lama\u2019s sched\u00aduled appear\u00adance at a neu\u00adro\u00adscience con\u00adven\u00adtion: <i>This merg\u00ader of seri\u00adous neu\u00adro\u00adscience with a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar reli\u00adgion is a prac\u00adti\u00adcal joke because the very recog\u00adni\u00adtion of the Dalai Lama relies on the belief in rein\u00adcar\u00adna\u00adtion,\u201d said Yi Rao, a neu\u00adrol\u00ado\u00adgy pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at North\u00adwest\u00adern Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2005\/07\/28\/dalai\">source<\/a>)<\/i>. I always find it fun\u00adny when I see a sci\u00aden\u00adtist get\u00adting all fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adist. This is the flaw in that crit\u00adi\u00adcism: <strong><em>to say some\u00adone is wrong about one thing is not to say that they are wrong about all things<\/em><\/strong>. Of course I think the Dalai Lama teach\u00ades a lot of absurd ideas. That does\u00adn\u2019t mean none of his ideas are good ones. Plus, I fig\u00adured I\u2019d prob\u00ada\u00adbly get a ser\u00admon illus\u00adtra\u00adtion or two out of the mix. I was right, too\u2013check out the next bul\u00adlet point.<\/li>\n<li>The talk was about non\u00advi\u00ado\u00adlence, and the Dalai Lama is a well-known paci\u00adfist and a recip\u00adi\u00adent of the Nobel Peace Prize, so I was fair\u00adly shocked when I heard him say that the jury was still out on whether or not the Iraq war was jus\u00adti\u00adfied. I am not tak\u00ading this out of con\u00adtext at all\u2013this was in direct response to a ques\u00adtion whether or not war was ever moral. I don\u2019t think the audi\u00adence knew what to do with that at all. I was laugh\u00ading pret\u00adty loud\u00adly on the inside.<\/li>\n<li>He has a won\u00adder\u00adful lack of deco\u00adrum. In the midst of one ques\u00adtion he took off his shoes, rubbed his feet, and tucked his legs under\u00adneath him.<\/li>\n<li>He con\u00adtra\u00addict\u00aded him\u00adself quite a few times, but it could have been a byprod\u00aduct of not being flu\u00adent in Eng\u00adlish. He was talk\u00ading about some sub\u00adtle things and he may have used a few words impre\u00adcise\u00adly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>update 11\/7\/2005: the Stan\u00adford Dai\u00adly just released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/tempo?page=content&amp;repository=0001_article&amp;id=18478\">an arti\u00adcle about his vis\u00adit<\/a> echo\u00ading many of my points above (includ\u00ading the Iraq war thing).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to hear the Dalai Lama speak at Stan\u00adford on Fri\u00adday. I was actu\u00adal\u00adly a few min\u00adutes late because I was walk\u00ading up from a non-stan\u00ad\u00addard direc\u00adtion and so I was trapped on the oth\u00ader end of his motor\u00adcade and the accom\u00adpa\u00adny\u00ading secu\u00adri\u00adty detail. At one point I was about 15 feet from him. \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/11\/06\/hello-dalai\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cHel\u00adlo, Dalai!\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-6S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}