a brief glance...

I have been attending the teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, these past few days, and fortunately i have managed to sit in spots that  are quite close to where he passes.  Yesterday afternoon, as he walked past, he glanced in my general direction and so I raised my hands in the prayer position as a sign of respect.  At this moment he grinned and lifted one of his hands in a half greeting... Now usually someone would say that he was looking at them, but what I ended up doing was doubting that he had actually seen me, and told myslef that he was greating someone else near me - this is one of my things... doubting my own experience... So I found myself needing him to look at me just one more time so I could be sure - LOL!  Anyway, this morning I was near a Hangarian girl who decided to write on her national flag that  says Hungary loves Tibet, and lo-and-behold, it got the attention of HHDL.  So he came over and shook her hand, and looked at the rest of us with that huge smile of his.  I can now say for certain that the Dalai Lama glanced at me...  All this concern about whether he saw me or not, leads me to wonder why it was so important in the first place...  I think there is something in his glance that can just cut through all the defences and get straight to the heart... although for some reason I needed a few glances, and will probably still need a few more to get through my defences, LOL!  I have noticed that since ariving in India, I have felt very defended, so I realise that this is what I need to work on for the moment... I get a strong sense of everyone wanting something from me, so i need to work on not tensing in such a situation.


Going into the temple twice each day, we get body searched (like in our cleavage as well!!), and bag fully searched as well, as we are not allowed to take in any cameras or phones - so no pics unfortunately...