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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 18:32:20 -0400
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Stephen's Secure Blog #322
These stories about Stephen began was when he was 10 years old, and
moving to a new part of the country to attend a special school for
gifted students, in the 1950's. This was from a time before computers
would fit on a desk, and when people communicated with friends in other
countries by actual letters sent through the postal service. He wrote
225 of them to a friend. He stopped writing to his penpal, but found he
still wanted to record his life, in case he lost his memory again, and
wrote 30 entries in his first logbook. Then he wrote to an artificial
intelligence called Geenee, in the master computer in his school for
gifted students, which he started attending in 2016. Now it's after
2018, and he's continuing to save his memories in a secure blog.
All characters are fictitious, even if some of them might have names
that belong to some actual people, or act like people we know.
The stories may not be posted in chronological order.
Stephen is 17 in this story, in the Fall of year 8 of his special
school.
Stephen's Secure Blog #322 "Reting Hutukthu"
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ACLU took my side, publicly, using what I told them. That turned the
tide, and almost all the lawsuits were thrown out. One judge in Texas
did issue a preliminary injunction, but rescinded it after a friendly
warning about his increased personal danger that had caused him. CNN
scheduled the grill me on TV show, for October as I had wanted. My
three golf buddies agreed to be on it, and so did Tomba. I told Rhamcha
about it, and he asked to be on the show, too. I told him to call CNN,
and they agreed to have him.
I had another meeting with the Abbots of Mini Tibet in India. At
their request, I set them up to meet with the Dalai Lama, and the
Abbots of the Monasteries in Tibet. Lhamo told them the Abbots in Tibet
would rule their Monasteries. If the ones from West India wanted to
join them, they would have to take a subordinate role. They agreed to
that. Then I hosted a meeting with all four Abbots in my house in
Jokhang, and they worked out a plan. Then we went to Ganden, and they
looked at my buildings. Those of Deprung wanted the same. We all went
there, and I built it. They were very happy. Lhamo decided to go back
with the Abbots from India, to hold meetings there. I provided the
transport and security, but didn't show myself. I ported Lhamo back
when he requested it, and we had a meeting.
He said "It went well, but we don't know how many in the Monasteries
will agree to come here, or when." I said "We can't force them. We've
done all we can. We don't know if any of the regular population there
will come back to stay, but I will still consider them Tibetans for
some time to come, for educational purposes." He said "Thank you. The
tour of your wonders was very enlightening, due to Rhamcha's brilliant
discourse. I was very impressed by him, for his intelligence, caring,
and love. But he credits you for the last." I said "I can teach love,
but successfully only to those who already have it in them. He did, and
a lot." He said "I understand. I am considering him for my Regent." I
said "By the time that is needed, his replacement should be ready. I
won't tell him of your consideration. If you want him to know, you
should have that wonderful pleasure of telling him yourself. But, if
you allow, I would like to tell him of how well you thought of him." He
smiled, and said, "Please do."
He said "Reting and I are in agreement on two things. He should not
be my Regent. Neither should be the Regent, the Panchen Lama. The other
thing is we agree to your offer to restore his Monastery to its former
glory, and in addition, anything of you that you want to add to it. We
request that with love." I said "I am ready now to do it. Do both of
you want to watch it happen?" He laughed and said, "I told him I
wouldn't ask that, which made him very sad. I then said you would offer
it, but I think he couldn't quite make himself believe me fully. He is
in awe of you, and a little apprehensive of how you will think of him,
due to past issues." I said "You know my love will fix that." He said
"Absolutely!"
I said "Will people wonder how you and the current exile Reting can
be something other than enemies?" He said "I treated him with caution,
not knowing him. He treated me with, at the most, impoliteness and
impatience. For the sake of Tibet, we have reconciled, but I will not
reside at that Monastery." I said "Is there anything you wish to say to
me regarding him, before I meet with him?" He said "No, I do not, as
long as you both survive it." I said "There is no doubt I will survive,
but I'm not opposed to letting him believe his own survival has some
doubt attached to it." He laughed.
I said "If the returning Kagyu Karmapa needs my help with Tsurphu,
please let me know. Tibet needs to have no more political rivalries
between Traditions." He said "Yes, I agree. But what of the Bon?" I
said "They are so few and out of favor that I am willing to ignore
them. Er, more than willing, actually." He laughed and nodded. I said
"Will you move Namgyal Dratsang here?" He said "I haven't decided." I
said "I like what you did there, in the Monastery you founded in India.
Do you plan to encourage similar educational reforms here?" He smiled,
and said, "I don't think I will have to. Your own methods of teaching
which you have begun sharing with us, have already started such reform.
I will only need to encourage them." I said "If you do decide to move
it here, I can build whatever you want for it." He grinned and said, "I
never doubted it." I made a face at him, and he laughed. I said "But
the Dalai Lamas since the Third, had a special Monastery to serve them.
That was the first, Kalachakra the last, right here in Potala Palace.
You do not as yet have one to serve you here." He said "I have not
decided." I bowed.
I said "If you won't reside in Reting, have you decided on someplace
else?" He said "No, other than I don't want to continue to live in a
government office. I can't teach here." I said "That can be resolved in
two different ways. You can move, or the government can move. Or both.
I do not think highly of having government offices in a museum." He
looked very interested, and said, "That I had not considered. Please
allow me to think on that." I nodded. I said "Will you allow me to ask
of the government, if they would like actual modern offices?" He said
"Yes, Mister sneaky suspicious devious devil." My expression and
emotional broadcast must have told him a lot, because he laughed, and
said, "Your people are not of the silent kind about you. You forbade
Srinoy to speak of you, but you didn't give that order to Eli and
Rhamcha. Can it be that you have actually made an error?" I growled,
and he laughed. We set the date for the rebuilding of Reting Monastery.
At a meeting with the PM, I said, "I've had a lot of discussions with
a lot of people in Tibet and India. Opinions have been expressed, and
old fights laid to maybe rest, and new fights maybe started, and things
are happening, and I have some questions and ideas. Out of some of
those conversations, I have formed an opinion that prompts me to ask
you these questions. Do you like these offices for the government? Are
they the best for it? Would not a modern structure be better?" He said
laughed. Then he said, "It's horrible here! We have to be lovers of
mountain climbing to travel between offices, and experts at dodging
rubber necked tourists. And why do they have to wear such ridiculous
clothes they would never wear at home?"
I said "Whatever wisdom I might possess, does NOT extend to anything
regarding clothes. I am a naturist. In this life and my last, I was
raised as a naturist. We don't wear any clothes at home. We do value
good heating, though." He laughed. He said "You continue to amaze me.
You are always full of surprises." I said "Well, that's better than
some of the things I've been accused of being full of." He laughed
again. I said "Make up something about what you would like to have for
a government center, and where, other than here, and let me know as
soon as it's inconveniently possible. The Dalai Lama hasn't decided
where he would like to live, and I would like to give him the option to
live here without the government in his bedroom." He said "I
understand. I will see that it is done."
I said "America has more lawyers per person than any other country.
To make work for themselves, they force people to sue each other.
Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed against me for my love and healing
broadcast." He said "That is ridiculous!" I said "So many have thought.
I provided some good legal reasons why those suits should be thrown
out. Most were, and the remaining few won't succeed. Even if they did,
they could not take from me money I don't have, because I don't have
any. But a country does. If they want to take legal action against
Tibet, you can say that I am not a citizen or resident of Tibet, and
that your country is not responsible for what I to in Tibet, or
anyplace else." He said "That is true. We are not responsible, because
you can't be controlled, even though I might have had some little
desire for that at times." I said "Hmm, I could put exposed nail tips
I said "They actually did something like that, and more, in China, to
me." He sat up straight and said, "They dared that!" I said "Yes.
Needles and probes, and weapons, too, in the chair I had left there
from a prior visit. What do you think I did about that?" He thought,
and said, "I don't have any idea, and I'm afraid to ask." I said "So,
you don't want me to tell you?" He said "No! I mean, I don't want that.
Argh! I mean I do want you to tell me." I grinned, and said, "I sat in
it as if I had not noticed anything wrong. Then I asked the President,
who had opposed what they did, if they really expected me to not know
about it. Naturally, I didn't let anything they had put in it, do
anything to me. Sure confused them a little, though." He laughed, and
said, "To be expected from such a sneaky suspicious devious devil." I
said "Not YOU, too!" He laughed really hard. I said "Get to work on
what you want for the new government offices, while I work on some
special chair designs." He laughed into my hug.
I asked for a meeting with Reting Hutukthu. He was in Lhasa, and came
to my house there. We did some polite things, and I took him on a tour
of the place. He was very impressed. Then we sat in my living room. I
said "I don't invite enemies to my house." He relaxed more than he
thought he could have. He caught my smiling notice of that, and laughed
in reaction. I told him what happened at Reting Monastery. He said "I
agree with what you did, but that causes a problem with me. I am an
Abbot, even after you rebuild it, of a Monastery with no monks in it."
I said "I don't suppose you would be satisfied with rooms full of
nature of a warning?" He laughed, and said, "Yes." I said "There isn't
anything I can do, in good ethics, to forcibly put people in it for
you." He said "I realize that. Do you have any ideas which might help?"
you, with some of your past communications." He said "I agree with what
you are not saying. It was foolish of me, yes. But the past can't be
removed." I said "You know there are things you can do to improve how
people now think of you." He said "Yes. I don't want to, but I think I
must." I said "That seems to be the case. There is the addition that
modest. If you do what I think you will do, it will be EXTREMELY
beautiful and VERY well equipped." I said "I do have to say I refuse to
make anything ugly." He laughed.
I said "But then, I don't make things which are intended to be
unused. Which comes first, a need to build a thing, or the thing to be
built to wait for a need? One man does not make a Monastery." He said
"I see what you mean, and more. There would be things in it which would
need to be guarded." I said "Absolutely!" He said "I must restrain my
eagerness to see them. I have no solution for this problem at this
time." I said "I might." He said "I am interested, and I see by your
hesitation that it might not be simple or easy." I said "Yes, and much
of it depends on how diplomatic and pleasant you can be." He said "We
both know that could be something of a strain for me." I had to laugh,
to his smile. I said "I have had much similar trials in my dealings
with the Chinese government, and in other things. I am NOT unfamiliar
with your difficulty. If I had not had full memories of my lifetimes,
going back 74,000 years, I might have been worse than you and others
think you have been." He said "Wow!" I said "I hear that a lot." He
laughed. I said "We are not so different in this." He said "I was
prepared to dislike you, but I cannot." I said with a grin, "I hear
that a lot, too." He said with his own grin, "I do believe that!" We
bowed to each other.
I said "If you and I ask at Sera, they may provide guards for your
new Monastery." He said "I will make myself be very humble." I said "My
student teaches there. While you won't fool the Abbots, they will
appreciate the effort. There is something else. I have requested the
Abbot of Labrang to come to Lhasa to help the new government make
itself useful. He brought his staff with him. I don't know where he is
explore." I said "And with that, you could offer space for some of his
monks who are still in Labrang, who want to visit Lhasa, which they
might very well want to do, when I build my universities." He showed
some excitement, and said, "From other Monasteries as well!" I said "A
possibility. Some from India might also like to join a Monastery of the
er, kind I will build. I could send you to those places so you can
offer your hospitality. Good er, training for you." He almost
strangled. He laughed after he caught me watching that with interest. I
said "For everybody, including myself, there is always what can and
should be improved. That I am able to encourage it in others, I count
as an honor." He bowed with real humility.
I stood and so did he. I said "Shall we go to Sera and ask them?" He
said "How will we do that?" I said "Have you been on the Road?" He said
"I have not. I would like to. I would also like to experience your
method of traveling." I said "There is little to experience. You're
here, then you're there, with noting in between. Before we go, and they
are expecting us, they will want to know if we have done what I am
offering." I opened my arms. I helped him to remain standing after
receiving my love. When he could stand on his own, I said, "Ready for
transport?" He nodded mutely. Then we were on the start of the Road to
Sera. Rhamcha was waiting for us at my pavilion when we got there. I
made the introductions. Reting exclaimed, "You must be so proud to have
this wondrous road, the whole world could feel it!"
Rhamcha grinned and said, "It is indeed a big strain not to express
that feeling to all, for Sera. But for me, personally, I have to favor
this pavilion. He built this for me to wait for him in the mornings
when he came to visit us. His first and only such creation which
contains his own sayings." Reting said "Wow! I have to agree. I would
feel the same. May I spend some time in it now? There are words to
read." Rhamcha said "Please. Sera and I would be honored. So would The
Master Teacher, even through his intense embarrassment." Laughter rang
out. I explained, "That was Eli. One of my students who is teaching
here. He is watching us. Most of my students like to embarrass me."
Reting said with a smile, "Only most?" Eli said in the air, "The others
REALLY love to embarrass him." They all laughed, while I shook my head
in exasperation.
In Rhamcha's office, we discussed the problems with making the new
Monastery. Rhamcha said "We will provide guards and grounds keepers
until they are not needed." Reting said to me, "You didn't even ask
him!" I said "True. I had suggested to the Dalai Lama that Rhamcha
would be the best escort for him, on a tour of the Monasteries I had
visited with him. He told me that Rhamcha impressed him very much with
his intelligence, caring, and love. And more, by one more thing, and I
quote, 'The tour of your wonders was very enlightening, due to
Rhamcha's brilliant discourse.' So, this does not come as a surprise to
me. Oh yes, I can embarrass people, too, and with the Dalai Lama's
permission, after he embarrassed me. Well, things should balance."
There were a lot of mixed emotions in the room. I said "I see that I
have done well." They had to laugh.
Rhamcha said "I invite you to stay with us as long as you wish, but
do not be concerned if you need to refuse." He said "I've been staying
in a hotel. That is not a good place for such as you and I. If you
wonder why I haven't asked at Monasteries before this, I was
sufficiently unsure of my welcome, to not embarrass them with refusal."
Rhamcha said "Sera is extremely blessed with our association with The
Master Teacher, which causes us to be filled with love for all. Here
you will only have love from us, and honor us with your presence."
Reting dripped tears during his bow. I said "I've informed Eli that he
will have another student." Reting said "How did you do that?" Rhamcha
said "I did the same, mind to mind. There are practical benefits to
Stephen's teaching." He said Wow!" Rhamcha said "That is a common
expression around The Master Teacher." I said "Ha! Good variation." He
laughed. I stood, and so did they. I said "You have some work to do in
the move and getting settled here. I should leave you to that. In one
week, I will make the Monastery. The Dalai Lama will attend the event,
for his, well, entertainment. You are both invited. I will invite the
Abbot from Labrang, also, which should be an auspicious time for us to
discuss a thing." Reting said "Yes it would! I see something of how you
work, and I'm very impressed and amazed!" I said "I have to tell you,
in strictest confidence, I often feel the same way. Yes, I surprise my
own self more than you might think." While they were attempting to work
their minds around that, I laughed, and ported away.
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