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Can You Guess Who This Is?
Who IS this boy???
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Methinks you are the buddha too, Artemis. :-)
*blush* If only!
And looking at him makes me want to dig him out from under that fancy robe and let him have some fun playing with the other boys outside. Reminds me of an old picture I have of me about that age, dressed in my going-to-church suit with bow tie, standing outside the church on a fine Sunday summer morning.
Can you imagine what goes through a young boy's head, when a bunch of strangers show up and suddenly you're yanked from your parents and home and surrounded by strangers who tell you what to do every waking moment, and have to give up being a child because you're some reincarnated guy you've never met? That's what I'd really love to ask the Dalai Lama about.
And, it's something that Tibetan Buddhists probably need to talk about, too. This is one custom that might be better to leave behind.
''The Story of Tibet -conversations with the Dalai Lama'' by Thomas Laird is an interesting read and gives a few glimpses into his feelings when he was a child.
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I'll have to see if the library has a copy of that. It sounds like a fascinating read. Thanks!
He says he missed his mother, and was lonely, with no one to play with. Psychologists have studied the writings of famous tulkus (HHDL, and Chogyam Trungpa, possibly others, I don't recall), and feel that removing children from their parents at such a tender age can be traumatic. They link Trungpa's alcoholism to a sense of abandonment at a very early age.
Of course they do. You know what I link it to? He liked to drink. Occam's Razor hasn't let me down yet.