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His Holiness the Dalai Lama meeting with Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee of Liberia, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient recognized for her non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building, at his residence at Drepung…
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HHDL's message for Losar (Tibetan New Year) celebrated on February 10, 2024.
HHDL enjoying the morning sun on the veranda of his residence in Dharamsala, HP, India on January 24, 2024. Photo by Ven Tenzin Jamphel
HHDL looking out at the view of mount Kanchenjunga in the early morning from his room in Gangtok, Sikkim, India on December 14, 2023. Photo by Ven Tenzin Jamphel
You are human beings, I'm a human being; you want a happy life, and I want a happy life. But I think that aim will not be fulfilled only on the basis of material values; what we all want is affection and what we all need is to be more warm-hearted.
HHDL's brief talk to students from Harvard University meeting him at his residence in the Himalayan region of Leh, Ladakh, India on August 21, 2023.
Compassion is concern for others - sincere concern for others' well-being founded on awareness of our own experience. Since it makes us happy when others show us affection and offer us help, if we show others affection and readiness to help they too will feel joy.
Can you buy peace of mind? Can you remove fear surgically or mechanically? What destroys our peace of mind is anger and fear. If we cultivate compassion and love, we can counter anger and fear. So, we need to educate people about the way the mind works and our system of emotions.
Every human activity can be infused with affection. Today, all 8 billion human beings have to live together, so a sense of the oneness of humanity is crucial. When people are motivated by compassion—honesty and truthfulness naturally come about leading to trust and friendship.
Wherever I go I consider whoever I meet to be another human being like me. We all want to live a happy life. We all respond to smiles, so wherever I go, I smile. Even when we don't share a language, we can communicate our friendship by smiling.
There are no natural boundaries between human beings on this earth, we are one family. At a time of increasing natural disasters, climate change and global warming affect all of us. We must learn to live together, to work together, and to share what we have together.
Human beings are social animals. What brings us together is love and affection—anger drives us apart. Just as we employ physical hygiene to protect our health, we must use ‘emotional hygiene’ to tackle our destructive emotions and achieve peace of mind.
Compassion and love are not a luxury; they are essential to our existence. Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community. We must learn to work not just for our own self, family, or nation, but for the benefit of all humankind.
We must strive to cultivate feelings of kindness, compassion, and love for others, viewing our fellow human beings as brothers and sisters, regardless of their race, nationality or religion. A warm heart can bring joy to our own lives and to the lives of those around us.
Compassion is a state of mind unable to bear the sufferings of others. If we all had more compassion, there would be greater peace in the world.
I offer my condolences to those families who have lost loved ones and pray for all those affected by the devastating earthquakes that have struck Turkey and Syria. bit.ly/3Y5Uuh8
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