Open Letter To the Dalai Lama

You live in a different time frame than I… slow, ponderous thoughts reconstituting in many variations of the same mantra, a thousand different ways of saying "peace — peace — peace" like the throbbing of a heart — and you are like a heart for your people, so you must be constant, ever reminding them with that same pulse. Rhythm, more than melody. Whereas I, torturous tortuous poet, am in turns loud and still like the autumn wind. What could we say to each other? What can I even say to any ordinary person that will not sound like a howl? I have the right intention, but that's as far as I get in the Noble Eightfold Path.
We'll need people like you, people who are steady in focusing first and foremost upon kindness, moment after moment, and never losing sight of it for anything else. It will be people like you that will decide whether technological telepathy will result in peace or just escalate into a feedback loop of violent thoughts. You could be a hub that people come towards to resolve their conflicts, and you'd need only to breathe your thoughts into theirs, and they would carry on in their dialogue, their endeavour to love.
With the good health you've been keeping, you just might make it, but it will be a close call. Perhaps with today's medicine you'd become a centenarian. In twenty years, we'll probably have biocomputers advanced enough to keep you alive long enough to be immortal — all your wisdom, the experience that you've gained in your position of immense responsibility, will not have to be lost, and will have a chance to truly spread through the noosphere.
This started as a joke, just a bit of self-expression, but I actually ended up sending a letter to the office of the Dalai Lama. It still is sort of a joke, just a more dry one. If not why not:

Greetings,

Please submit my proposal to His Holiness, that his priority before all else must be to take very good care of his health, and think deeply about how to best to do so. For the sake of humanity, he should promise to himself to do everything in his power to extend his life, so that he can be there for us in what lies ahead. These are very transitional times, and we won't have time to educate the next Dalai Lama when we'll need him the most. He must survive through the changes that are upon us. His wisdom must pass on.

This is for the eyes of the Dalai Lama. Please tell him I earnestly ask him to consider this:

The long inactivity of airplanes is not conducive to good health, nor is it compassionate, as it releases emissions that cause climate change. But you can speak in public from far away, like Edward Snowden or Julian Assange. Most people already watch you on the Internet. What difference does it make if you are on a stage? It's not like people can come to take a close look and touch you. Why should you haul your old body all the way around the world just so people can watch you from a distance? At least if it's a recording, you will be bigger on the screen.

Everyone thinks that the computer has developed to where it needs to be, but it has only just begun, and a new kind of computer is being developed now: the biocomputer, now called a "lab-on-a-chip". In fifteen years, it will be able to compute everything that goes wrong in our body and how to set it right, making us almost immortal. In twenty-five years, it will be able to translate our brains. In this way, your wisdom and compassion of the past century can then be passed on to the brains of all human beings, but only if you survive. Your time has not yet come. You still have a task before you, and it is to preserve yourself.

You need a home base where you have everything you need to take the best possible care of your health, and this is a serious concern for the whole world. You've become a reservoir of compassion that your people invested in you for almost eighty years. Don't let that go to waste.

Stay strong, and be full of vitality.