A week of pondering the Land of Joy, reading Lama Yeshe, following threads, leads to the fascinating story of Osel Hita Torres, son of two erstwhile Spanish hippies and followers of Lama Yeshe ... the next step requires readers to suspend conditioned filters of perception preventing reincarnation as a thing ... since Osel was recognised by his parents and endorsed by the Dalai Lama as Lama Yeshe reincarnated ... giving the baby quite a burden as he was whisked off to Sera monastery to become and fulfil what others saw as his destiny... a life he felt increasingly uncomfortable with, estranged from his Spanish family, until, aged 18, he rejected the life laid out for him and set out to create an authentic life for himself ... whilst this caused ripples in the FPMT, it perhaps points to its tolerance and suggests that any cultish tendencies were tempered, when his decision to become a film maker was accepted and his new life supported with financial subscriptions from followers ... thus reconciled, he is a trustee of FPMT and gives talks, though declines to accept the title "Lama", literally "Teacher", since he feels unqualified for the task ... presumably the veil is tightly drawn and the previous life, whilst accepted conceptually, is not to carry on seamlessly as was assumed by those who maybe should have known better ... the parallels with the story of the historical Buddha have been pointed out, though Osel himself is not carried away with it ... whilst recognising the Dalai Lama, from his personal perspective, as a fully enlightened one ... whatever that means ...
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