Kundun Monologues

From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.

I believe I am a reflection, like the moon on water. When you see me, and I try to be a good man, you see yourself.

I see a safe journey, I see a safe return.

Just like a dream experience, whatever things I enjoy will become a memory. Whatever is past will not be seen again.

Thus by the virtue that has collected through all that I have done may the pain of every living creature be completely cleared away.

They have taken away our silence.

I will liberate those not liberated. I will release those not released. I will relieve those unrelieved. And set living beings in nirvana.

The Buddhas neither wash ill deeds away with water, nor remove beings' sufferings with their hands, nor transfer their realizations to others.

Beings are released through the teachings of the truth. The final reality.

Thus, by the virtue that has collected, through all that I have done, may the pain of every living creature be completely cleared away.

Wisdom and compassion will set us free.