Dalai Lama apologises for asking child to suck his tongue

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama ‘regrets’ the incident - SANJAY KUMAR

The Dalai Lama has apologised for asking a young boy to suck his tongue and kissing him on the lips in a widely-shared video clip. 

The Tibetan spiritual leader, 87, “regrets” the incident, a statement from his office said on Monday. 

“His Holiness wishes to apologise to the boy and his family, as well as his many friends across the world, for the hurt his words may have caused,” it said. 

“His Holiness often teases people he meets in an innocent and playful way, even in public and before cameras,” the statement read after a backlash from social media users. 

The video shows the Dalai Lama holding the boy, who has not been identified, under the chin and pulling him in for a kiss on the lips. 

The boy moves his head away but after a few more seconds of talking the Dalai Lama pokes out his tongue and asks, “can you suck my tongue”. 

Some people in the audience laugh and the child puts his tongue out slightly as he again moves his head towards the spiritual leader. 

The Dalai Lama then hugs the child and talks more with him, telling him to look up to “good human beings who create peace and happiness”.

The incident took place on Feb 28 during a speech the Buddhist monk was giving to recent Indian graduates in the city of Dharamsala, where he lives in permanent exile.

The Delhi-based Haq: Centre for Child Rights told CNN it condemns “all forms of child abuse”.

“Some news refers to Tibetan culture about showing tongue, but this video is certainly not about any cultural expression and even if it is, such cultural expressions are not acceptable,” it said.

‘What did I just see?’

Twitter users slammed the video, calling it “disgusting” and “absolutely sick” after it started trending on Sunday.

“Utterly shocked to see this display by the #DalaiLama. In the past too, he’s had to apologise for his sexist comments. But saying - Now suck my tongue to a small boy is disgusting,” wrote user Sangita.

Another poster, Rakhi Tripathi, said: “What did I just see? What that child must be feeling? Disgusting.”

The current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the world’s most well-known Buddhist figure, and has long led the movement for Tibetan autonomy.

He has lived in exile since a Tibetan uprising was crushed by Chinese forces in 1959. 

He won the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize “for advocating peaceful solutions based upon tolerance and mutual respect in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of his people.”

Despite that, the Chinese government has accused the Dalai Lama of being a “violent separatist”, though he has never espoused violence as a means of achieving Tibetan independence. 

Beijing also routinely criticises and pressures world leaders and celebrities who meet with the Dalai Lama, or even if they send simple messages such as birthday greetings, in an effort to stub out his influence.

With increasing age, the spiritual leader has reduced the number of speaking appearances and interviews he gives. 

The 87-year-old has previously attracted controversy for saying if his successor as Dalai Lama was a woman, she would “have to be attractive”.

In 2018, he said Europe should be kept for Europeans when discussing rising numbers of migrants entering the continent. 

“The whole Europe (will) eventually become Muslim country? Impossible. Or African country? Also impossible,” he said.  

Reference: The Telegraph: Sophia Yan

Vatican on trial in UK for first time in history as British banker looks to clear his name

A British financier at the centre of the Vatican’s “trial of the century”

has launched a legal bid to clearhis name.

Lawyers for Raffaele Mincione have claimed that the Vatican’s chief prosecutor may have perverted the course of justice because of the misleading allegations levelled

against him in British courts.

The allegations form a central part of the Vatican’s “trial of the century” and relate to a property deal where the Vatican invested £124m in a former Harrods warehouse in

Chelsea that was earmarked for development into luxury apartments.

The Vatican claims Mr Mincione defrauded it by inflating the price when his companies sold the property in 2018. Prosecutors have charged Mr Mincione and ten others with offences

including fraud, embezzlement and abuse of office. All ten, which include Angelo Becci, the former right-hand man to Pope Francis, deny wrongdoing.

However, Mr Mincione maintains he did not do anything wrong and that the property valuation

by independent experts was appropriate. He claims that the Vatican has never disclosed

evidence to show it lost money nor of his alleged wrongdoing.

As a result, Mr Mincione has brought a civil action in the UK courts as a “counterblast”

to the publicity and to protect his reputation after suffering “prejudice” as a result of the allegations.

Now the Court of Appeal has ruled that the Vatican should face trial in the English courts for

the first time in its history over the allegations that it has levelled against Mr Mincione.

In the latest move, Mr Mincione’s lawyers have written to the Vatican’s chief prosecutor Alessandro Diddi, accusing him of “factual misstatements and omissions” in the UK proceedings.

In the letter, Nick Vamos, the former head of special crime and head of extradition at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said these statements may mean Mr Diddi may have 

“committed the offence of perverting the course of justice”.

Partygate lawyer

Mr Vamos, who appeared as part of the legal team supporting Boris Johnson at his recent committee appearance over the partygate affair, asked Mr Diddi, a former mafia defence lawyer,

for a meeting in order to “understand your position as to what occurred, and why”. 

Mr Vamos copied his letter to various agencies including the CPS, the Home Office and the National Crime Agency.

In the letter, he challenged claims that the funds for investment came from St Peter’s Pence,

charitable Catholic donations intended for the needy, rather than Credit Suisse.

“You claimed that the funds for the investment by the Vatican came from Peter’s Pence, when in fact you knew that they were provided by Credit Suisse…

and you therefore wrongly characterised the deal as a misuse of charitable funds,”

wrote Mr Vamos.

“You claimed that the Vatican… was the subscriber, when in fact the subscriber was Credit Suisse… and you therefore wrongly characterised the investment.”

“This raises a number of potential issues as a matter of English law… the factual misstatements and omissions in your evidence raises the question of whether you committed the offence of

perverting the course of justice contrary to English common law.”

The Vatican has been contacted for comment.

Previously, a Vatican spokesman has commented: “The legitimacy of the investigations and the correspondence of the Vatican judiciary system to the principles of fair trial has been recognised by various foreign courts.” 

Reference: The Telegraph: Charles Hymas

The Importance of Demons

The ancient Mediterranean world taught that priestesses, witches, diviners and poets possessed the ability to open portals through which sentient powers or " demons" who inhabited extra-worldy planes could travel to the material universe.

These beings, these powers-that-be, did not have a physical form; they were not composed of "atoms,"the indivisible elements of our world, and they did not have eyes, ears, mouths, voices, or, in fact, any human or biological attributes at all.

And perhaps most importantly, these immortals were neither male or female; they were neither and yet they were both.

In the Greco-Roman way of thinking, gods are the cosmic bloom of existence. Greek and Latin culture, preserved in the amber of ancient literature, perpetuated the view that Gods are the immortal "elements" of an ordered and living universe.

For example, Aphrodite is the desire of sexual attraction; Dionysus is ecstasy; Athena is civic justice. Unlike humans, the gods aren't born, they don't age, and they don't die. They are in perpetual bloom.

Myth was the medium in which the classical world expressed the efflorescene of the immortal forces of the universe.

Greek and Roman myth had an extraordinary influence on ancient artists, statesmen, religious leaders and philosophers.

It was a cultural cement that facilitated the construction of democracy, the establishment of education, and the creation of the scientific method.

Ancient myth was a metaphor for expressing the individuality and actions of the immortal powers that govern the universe.

Reference: Hermaphrodites Gynomorphs and Jesus: Author: Dr.David C.A Hillman

Introduction

Religion is a wormhole: it is multidimensional, collapsible bridge in space that only a thirteen year-old girl in the bloom of life can open..... and only when she has entered a state of heigntened sexual arousal.

According to ancient Etruscan sibyls, the teenage priestess who established the norms for much of the Roman culture, religion is a method of cosmic tunneling; it's a practice that creates a fluid structure through which dark-matter-breathing beings can travel in order to possess their maddened devotees

The ancient world believed religion was a resonant span across the fabric of space[time; and ancient clerics taught that its thremodynamic seal could be forcefully broken open with the songs of maidens,

The Romans spoke classical Latin. Their word "religio, " from which we derive our English word "religion," means "ligature" or "binding".

Modern historians overtly influenced by their own Christian cultural lens, have interpreted this to mean religion is something that binds us to do and say certain things in velebration of divinity; in other words,  religion is what we owe the gods.

Nothing could be further from the historical actuality. In Rome, "religio" was simply the cosmic tie that bound the Earth-plane to the rest of the multiverse. It was a means to an end; it was a force of extra-dimensional attraction.

In the Greco-Roman way of thinking, gods are the cosmic bloom of existence.

Reference: Hermaphrodites Gynomorphs and Jesus: Author: Dr.David C.A Hillman