The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
From Dalai Lama
In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.
If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.
Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.
The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.
The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
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