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From a recent interview with India Express<\/a>, His Holiness the Dalai Lama is speaking about nonviolence as a motivation more than a label of particular actions. The interviewer asks:<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Your Holiness, you also use the example of a man coming to shoot you. You say one has to do something, but instead of shooting him in the head, maybe, one could shoot him in the leg. <\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

Shooting in the head means killing. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> But shooting in the hand or leg is self-protection? <\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s right. Also, if that person is alive, then perhaps you may tease him a little about it later (both laugh<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"