His holiness may be enlightened, but he still coughs, loses his place in the speech, laughs, and then continues. His speech was absorbing, even though I did not understand the words. When he concluded his address in Hindi, he began to speak in English. The quotations are my notes of his speech, and may not be exact. I do believe that the quotations capture the flavor of intent.
Time is a measurement made by man.
You should not sleep wake wake wake' On the surface, the Dalai Lama was making a joke about people who stayed up all night to bring in the new year, to see if anything was different. Finally, they fall asleep, and when they wake up, nothing has changed. The way that he said it had different meaning to me. Nobody can stop the movement of time. Whether our time is utilized in a sacred way is up to us.