I'd beg to differ but everyone is entitled to their opinion. Personally, you can't really compare a farmer to what the Dali Lama does, not saying the Dali Lama works harder, he's just busier in a different kind of way; traveling more, and has more appointments and appearances to attend to, books, speeches, appearances, meetings, world travels, etc. It's a different kind of busy.

Also most farmers don't do shit in the winter, unless they have animals, in which case they have to clean and feed them, but they are more "ranchers" than they are "farmers". My family farms. They are really only super busy during seeding and harvest, but none of them maintain any livestock, just crops.

I consider myself a Buddhist, but don't believe in the Dali Lama and how he is a reincarnated being. That's not the Buddhism I'm down with. That part is just one sect of Buddhism that I don't really agree with because it relies on something I simply don't believe in, reincarnation. Buddhism in itself really isn't a religion, but to those that follow the Dali Lama, it kind of is. That's not to say that I don't agree with his writings, speeches, and what the message he and his establishment has tried to spread. But he's also a political figure in many ways, so I'm not surprised he has speechwriters.

But I do understand what you are saying.