Dearest Mountains,
Your message breaks my heart, it is very true that we seem helpless.
You are so right! I can partially confirm what you say, the usual reaction of the press is: NO WAY! The Dalai Lama? Such a good, compassionate guy? No way, this is slander, he cannot be doing that. Another usual reaction is: Hey, this guy is too powerful, everybody loves him, we don't know anything, this is going to bring us trouble! So, it's true, either blinded by his fame or fearful of his reputation and power, the Press is in general not doing its job to investigate and come out with independent conclusions.
But Mountains, please be like your name, stable and powerful. You have so much love in you heart, so great ideas! Your devotion is so huge, yes, like your name. So please please don't be sad.
Let me tell you something. A new member just adviced something very precious: WHAT IS NEEDED FOR THIS HOUR IS PERSEVERANCE. We have all the time in the world. We have to continue sending good letters, just telling the facts, to many independent, intelligent people. There are some, you know, around the world. We can send to France and Germany, to Russia and China, to Japan and Australia, to Argentina and Norway. Wherever, we use the universal language. May be the monks situation is going to get better, or they might reach a status quo. It doesn't matter. This time we have to continue, because we cannot allow that our sacred, pure, divine, ever beneficial lineage goes down in History as a cult, a teaching for fanatics and fundamentalists, a sect that allows demon worshipping and promotes it. It was not clear to me until now. So many hesitations, not wanting to harm the fame of the Dalai Lama because he is the face of so many good things to many people. But we cannot defend him if he does not want to be defended, if he does nothing to correct his terrible deeds. Now we have to behave more cautiously than ever, first with our own minds, always pushing anger aside, then with our actions, not going to any streets to put the honor of our lineage again at risk, we need to refine our writings, we need to produce some kind of final document summarizing the tragedy of the Ganden Lineage. I think most of what is needed is buried in the treasure mountain of this website. And yes, we have to go on and tell the truth, we have to have this motivation, TO SAVE OUR LINEAGE FROM THE SLANDER, to save it not for us, we are the lineage, for others, for others in the future not to be repulsed by so horrible calomnies as have been directed at it. So this is a gigantic motivation. Let's go on writing, dear Mountains, and with so much job to do, you won't have time to be sad.
HAPPY LOSAR DEAR FRIEND. HAPPY LOSAR TO ALL.
SARVA MANGALAM
