“An effective means of teaching someone how to be more warm and compassionate is to use reasoning about the value and benefits of compassion, having them reflect on how they feel when someone is kind to them. This can prepare them to be warmer and more compassionate to others.”
His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama
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Compassion is concern for others!
“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.”
His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama
Compassion and Education
“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
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