“Education needs to be combined with a sincere, compassionate motivation. When intelligence and warm-heartedness are combined, individuals will be happier and more at peace with themselves, their families will benefit and as a result the wider community will benefit too.”
His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama
How to earn the trust of other people!
“When you find that all human beings are just like you, it fosters a spirit of friendship. You’ll find there’s less need to hide things, and as a result, feelings of fear, self-doubt, and insecurity are automatically dispelled. What’s more you’ll earn the trust of other people.”
His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama
Compassion
“Reacting to Harm with Compassion – HHDL answers a young woman’s question on how to be compassionate to those who do harm during their meeting at his residence in Dharamsala, India on July 12, 2019.”
His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama
Helping each other!
“My dedication is to serve the 7 billion human beings on this planet and the other creatures with whom we share it. If you can, help and serve others, but if you can’t at least don’t harm them; then in the end you will feel no regret.”
His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama
We are all social animal!
“It’s useful to reflect not only on how anger, fear and suspicion destroy our peace of mind, but also on how peace of mind gives us the confidence to act honestly and truthfully. We are social animals and we need friends. We make friends on the basis of trust.”
His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama
How to live in harmony?
“Young children don’t care about differences of nationality, faith or race. So long as their companions smile, they play together happily. It seems it’s only as we grow up, in the course of education, that focussing on secondary differences between people creates trouble.”
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
གླིང་སྒྲུང་ལས།
དགྲ་མི་ཐུབ་འཛུམ་གྱིས་བསུ་བ་ལས།།
མགོ་ཁྲག་རལ་ཁུར་ནས་ཤི་ན་དགའ། །
གླིང་སྒྲུང་ལས།
It is better to die in bloodshed than to receive an undefeated enemy with a smile.
From the “Epic of King Gesar”
Ground for Friendship
“One of the lessons we need to learn is how to cultivate those positive emotions that counter destructive emotions like anger and fear. Compassion, for example, brings self-confidence and the ability to act transparently. It strengthens trust which is the ground for friendship.”
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
We humans are all same!
“Mentally and emotionally we humans are all the same. We can all feel anger and hatred, but also have the potential to cultivate compassion, forgiveness and tolerance. Since these constructive emotions are supported by reason, we can use our brains to develop and strengthen them.”
His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama
A Homely Call
A Homely Call
Amidst whispers of the willow tree
Here I sleep so sound and free,
Listening to the wrathful rushes, Indus’ gentle song
The lullaby from the far distance, where I belong
Beneath the blue sky and the twinkling stars,
Here I sleep so deep and free as if it’s all ours,
Imagining the wonders of a faraway homeland,
I can’t stop missing home, where my return was banned,
By Sonsnow