I received a blessing from his holiness the Dalai Lama in the mid 90s when I paid $80 a ticket with 2000 other fools to listen to an hour long, nearly incoherent speech about being nice to people.
$160,000 in revenue for an hour of work for the pious Dalai Lama.
It really was a blessing though to realize in that movement what complete fools and suckers we are for authority in this area.
There is really nothing more than one Linji Yixuan/Rinzai Gigen quote to read and "learn".
"There is no Dharma outside the heart, nor anything to find inside. So what are you looking for?"
Of course, that doesn't really work when trying to build your Buddhist brand and get bunch of "followers".
$160,000 in revenue for an hour of work for the pious Dalai Lama.
It really was a blessing though to realize in that movement what complete fools and suckers we are for authority in this area.
There is really nothing more than one Linji Yixuan/Rinzai Gigen quote to read and "learn".
"There is no Dharma outside the heart, nor anything to find inside. So what are you looking for?"
Of course, that doesn't really work when trying to build your Buddhist brand and get bunch of "followers".