Dalai Lama, Stop Lying

Western Shugden Society Demonstrations in New York City July 17, 2008

Dalai Lama, Stop Lying

He’s lying because he is coming here to the West and talking about concepts such as love and compassion, religious tolerance and freedom, yet behind closed doors he’s not allowing this in the Buddhist community internationally. So he is a hypocrite.

(Cameraman: How isn’t allowing that because I don’t know anything about what you are talking about?)

He’s not allowing it because since January this year he enforced, and I use the term loosely, a referendum through which people were to decide if to keep or abandon a 400 year old ancient Buddhist prayer, the very prayer that he makes his fame and fortune from teaching the commentaries to. Now, on one hand we might think this is okay, this is democratic, but I have video from this is not democratic. People had to stand in front of audiences of thousands of people, one by one, and take an oath in front of his picture, and then reminiscent of 1930s Germany but in reverse order where the Jews received a star as the victim, here, if you follow the Dalai Lama’s view you get an identification card.
If you don’t follow his view you have no identification card. Without it you can’t buy food in shops, you can’t get visas for traveling, you can’t get medicines in hospitals, people are having their homes burned, thousands upon thousands of monks are homeless. Now to be homeless as a monk is serious because these people have a vow of poverty so if you’re thrown out of your monastery you don’t have money saved away for a rainy day like you have in the Western countries. This is a serious crime against humanity and yet he comes here and talks about love and compassion. He doesn’t practice.

For a short time I was out handing out literature about the issue and for a while people were really receptive. A lot of people were asking questions, a lot of the people attending really wanted to know about the issue, and then another group of people started appearing and they were just hanging out around the literature distributors and giving them a hard time, and spitting at them, and shouting at them so we all had to come back in because it wasn’t safe.

Well, we were all standing on the corner chanting “Dalai Lama, Stop Lying”, the standard, and a large group of Tibetans came up and started jeering at us and flipping us off, and they were throwing money at us across the way and at one point they all started running towards us and luckily the police were there because they were throwing bottles into the crowd, people were getting hit with bottles, I think at one point the police even tear-gassed them because they were so wild and luckily the police were there, that’s all I can say because I felt our lives were in danger by the

Tibetan people that had come to shout at us. Well, I personally felt quite calm. I saw a lot of angry people and at some point I felt the riot was going to happen, unless the police were there. There were a lot of people on the other side and they were really angry and a lot of them were cursing and throwing things, nothing …… they were waving their arms and they were really angry, swearing and gestures and stuff like that.

The feeling in the pen felt actually really happy, like it felt more and more encouraging as we as we kept going on. It felt like people were really just trying their hardest to stay peaceful and yet have a loud voice to let people know what was happening.

I was visualizing Manjushri the whole time so maybe that is why I was so calm.
I feel that it just proves our point that what is happening under the Dalai Lama’s ban is affecting everywhere in the world because we were surrounded by people who were trying to hurt us because of our religious belief.

So I think it really just verified what we’ve been telling the world. This is happening. People are being hurt or trying to be hurt by other people because of this ban. Well I was just thinking that, the people on the other side, they are not very calm, they are really angry, and I just thought that was kind of odd.
They just listened to a teaching from the Dalai Lama and it was supposed to be on compassion and they are not very compassionate. And its not just one or two people but it seems like a group of hundreds of people angry with us which I think shows us something there is something is wrong actually with his teachings.

Because I remember, I am from Toronto, Canada, and we have a transit system strike at one time and the mayor actually said to the people who were angry to not to take it out on the transit workers. Now if somebody like that from a worldly perspective would know to say something like this I would tend to think a spiritual leader would at least be able to do the same thing.

The peaceful Shugden practitioners are evacuated for their own safety.
And it was cool because we got there just in time.

In a follow up conversation with protest organizers, Special Agent Brockman from the US State Department shared that he stated in his report:

“The WSS has been excellent to work with since day one. They were the best organized protest group he had ever encountered. They did nothing to provoke the incident from their own side (other than by their presence). They were well behaved, permitted properly and did everything according to their rights and the law.”