(2) Dalai Lama Virus Conversation: Prayer, Practical Compassion, and Pardon.
This is the second of several blogs posts written from a definite Christian standpoint and interacting sympathetically and respectfully with the Dalai Lama's 'Time' article: "' Prayer Is Not Enough.' The Dalai Lama on Why We Need to Fight Coronavirus With Compassion ". The first blog in this series can be read here: https://fidzbit.blogspot.com/2020/04/1-dalai-lama-virus-conversation.html . The article can be read in full here: https://time.com/5820613/dalai-lama-coronavirus-compassion/ . The experience of suffering is central to all Buddhist thinking. " Every sentient being " the Dalai Lama says, " is acquainted with suffering and the truths of sickness, old age and death. " From the universality of death, it should be self-evident to us that everything is impermanent. We cannot hold anything as permanent because we do not last forever. Pain and suffering are caused and amplified by the fact that we are blind to this self-...