- – – – Kimbal Anderson Sensei
It’s the Year of the Tiger.
Tora Tora…
And as you know, this type of year often has a militant aspect to it, in which many conflicts arise, and they’re usually settled by reactionary violence. Okay. That’s the book’s bad part…
What I was talking about was that it would be so good and so necessary for a bunch of people to rise into leadership, all over – it has to be planetary – who have a long view, who have a big-picture-long-view, and aren’t intoxicated with the oligarchic wealth, and sex slaves, and the whole craziness they’ve gotten into.
Now, I was very fortunate once, to be able to get a question to his Holiness the Dalai Lama, when he was visiting here. So I got to pick one question… some life-question.
And back then we were dealing Bush and the whole ‘let’s just blow everyone up who has nothing to do with it!’ You know… It was just this strange war machine got started.
And I wanted to ask him: ‘We’re being led by leaders who I disagree with, almost everything they believe and say….’ And a lot of us do. This isn’t that I am eccentric but this is a big, common view at that time. It’s like “what the hell?” Because we didn’t want a war, we didn’t want all that. And I said, ‘What do you do with that? What do you do with the contradiction and tension when you say: ‘these people are doing everything I am morally against, and yet they’re all you have.’
And he said, ‘leaders do not fall from the sky. Leaders are an exact reflection of your culture. If you want to have a different kind of leader, change your culture…”
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