The thing I was the most impressed by in this book is a Tibetan lama Growing an Orange tree out of the palm of his hand which was experienced by J. Edwin Dingle in his book on his experiences in Tibet in the early part of the 20th Century before the Chinese invaded in the 1950s and Tibet ended as a Self governing Theocracy there.
Though I didn't experience anything like this (orange tree grown from a seed in a Lama's Hand) around Tibetan Lamas there in India and Nepal I had many remarkable experiences with Tibetan Lamas Always in California, Oregon, India and Nepal from 1980 to when Geshe Lobsang Gyatso passed on in California in the early 2000s who was a friend I originally met in Santa Cruz, California and then my family met him in Bodhgaya, India and he signed us up for the kalachakra Tantra given by the Dalai lama to 500,000 people in December of 1985.
The common people of India then (who were mostly completely uneducated) lived by what Americans might call "Magical Thinking". However, this worked for them then (the ones who survived the difficult conditions in India then in 1985 and 1986. It was very different from the materialistic educated view Americans have by going mostly to public Schools (which didn't exist in India then) at all.
So, death was all around us and finding someone dead and unattended on the streets or out in the country wasn't unusual then at all.
I realized we in America live in a Disneyland compared to the rest of the world's suffering, especially places like India and throughout the Middle East where incredible suffering is more normal and survival at all is very iffy.
So, reading "My Life in Tibet" began an amazing journey to India and Nepal which began about 6 months after my father passed on the summer of 1985 when I was 37 years old.
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