Honestly, I never take seriously comments of the ilk of "X person might have done a good thing, but only for their ego", because if there's a person who does anything for reasons other than their ego, it's the Dalai Lama. Egos are like opinions which are like assholes.
Oh, is that what you do?
Now, I'm sure you'll sing out that these comments were not to the effect that Serepisos' involvement in the Phoenix was to be sneered off. I have the very same song sheet! What was being suggested, up thread, was to judge Serepisos by his own standards. I was taking that and running with it: (1) his main priority was to be admired, (2) that such admiration was hardly universal, but (3) that it would be easier to judge when the smoke cleared. In the posts linked to, you've put forward all but the utterly pedestrian point (3).
One must ask, "what's changed?" I realise that, after months of proclaiming that Serepisos would come through, to see his game come undone must come as something of a blow. But it seems perverse to discard your earlier criticisms of the man after finding out that you'd over-estimated him!
As an aside, it's surprising (or perhaps not) that you've picked Tenzin Gyatso, a man who believes himself a god, as the model of humility.
