prophecy 101

The Chinese consider it bad luck to sleep beneath ceiling beams.

Geomancers say it's because ceiling beams are dragon spines, the spine joins the head and the bottom together, and so you're getting dragon fart and spit all over you if you sleep beneath the spine/beam. Very bad luck indeed.

Someone wise told me superstitions often have very practical precedents.

Ceiling beams were necessary in ancient Chinese architecture because they held the ceiling up [so assassins can go around running on rooftops]. What held the beams up was another question which the Chinese didn't really answer so let's just say eventually those with a genetic disposition to sleep beneath beams all died out.

Fast forwarding abit, in the news recently, 'China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission'.

I always thought Buddhist rebirth was like an amusement park. You go around getting tokens and exchanging them for the appropriate prize with what you've got when the time comes.

Apparently, the Dalai Lama has enough tokens to get a wild card. He refuses 'to be reborn in Tibet so long as it's under Chinese control', and all Dalai Lamas are supposedly able to control their rebirth.

Personally, I think the Dalai Lama voided his wild card when he put on them guccis and raybans.

But as he foretells, the next Dalai Lama will not be born in Tibet so long as it's under Chinese control because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Once the Dalai Lama dies, his followers are going to look for the next Dalai Lama only among the Tibetans who are not in Tibet and they will find some poor child malleable and bendable enough who has done some miracle according to someone who heard from someone who saw it.

The good thing about prophets is you don't need job consistency.

And the next Dalai Lama will not be re-born in Tibet.