With compassion and respect...

[Guest guest]

To His Holiness the Dalai Lama,

 

 

 

When you take up a position like yours in which you are a role model to millions

your behaviour needs to truly inspirational and above reproach, it just goes

with the territory I'm afraid.

 

If the job is too difficult and you cannot control your behaviour that causes

animals to suffer (i.e. eating meat and animal products) and, due to your own

weakness you can no longer insist on the virtues of living a cruelty-free life

to those other monks who are also weak and can't give up meat (even though the

requirement of not hurting another sentient being is one of the cornerstones of

your religion), then please at least have the moral fibre to admit it and step

down. Allow a truly strong and compassionate person to be the living embodiment

of a beautiful religion that you are currently sullying.

 

 

 

Can you not see that you tucking into veal is just as outrageous and

disrespectful towards your religion as would it be for Pope Benedict to go to

prostitutes for sex?

 

 

 

You've heard the expression, if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.

Please, you are turning both your religion and yourself into a laughing stock

for the sceptics of the world, and for those of us who listened when you told us

all to be the change we wish to see, and are struggling to make the right

choices, your huge hypocrisy makes us both sad and angry.

 

 

Nikki Green

Hong Kong

 

PS I am also disappointed that you don't have the compassion and broadmindedness

to accept homosexuality for the reality that it is, and to try and challenge

your own sexual prejudices and encourage others to do so too.