It was winter of 1959, the same year the Dalai Lama went into exile and the prophecy made by Padmasambhava, the founder of Tibetan Buddhism, was being fulfilled in a terrible way. This ostensibly 1,200-year-old prophecy says: “When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like the ants across the face of the earth and Buddhis teachins will reach the land of the red man.” The iron birds, or Chinese planes, were…
This coming to terms with fate is not giving in, not giving up ; It’s gaining control. How many aggressive people of the West, claiming to be in control of their lives with fame, money or power, fall to pieces at the first sign of losing some of those? And such is life, that you lose sometimes; all things change, there is no permanence.. Ma Thanegi – The Native Tourist
I’ve always been an avid book reader for as long as I can remember. I remember how I’d go to the public library in my hometown Keningau, which at that time located on the 2nd floor of an aging shop lot before moving to what had then become the largest library in Sabah upon completion, and I’d spend the whole day there trying to read as much as I could before the librarian shooed me away came 5.30pm. Being a…