One wonders what was motivating His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama in this very curious passage of a 2013 talk he gave at the University of Portland that can almost pass for stand-up comedy.
While wearing a blue sun visor emblazoned with the Portland Pilots’ logo, in an improbable combination with his priestly robes, the Dalai Lama mocks the title of “His Holiness.” He speaks to the innate worth of all sentient beings and suggests that our drive to label things as “other” is at the root of our anxieties. He cracks jokes about meeting beings from another galaxy with different shaped heads and about shaking hands with them, “If they have some sort of hand…”
