The Buddhist leader said he was there to preach two things - “the promotion of human values and the promotion of religious harmony”.
“If you practice compassion, it will benefit not only yourself, but create a positive atmosphere (around you),” he said. “If you keep fear and distrust here (in your heart), you will live with suspicion and distrust and be more cautious and deep inside, you will have a lonely feeling. When we are facing problems, we deal with them with the sense we are the same human beings. If, as humans, we are happy, peaceful, more compassionate, we can overcome them.”
"I think it showed the power of compassion can be of benefit to all of us. He is a world-renowned holy man and it is good to be in the company of such people," he said. "Nobody could come out of here and not feel enrichened from the experience because, in many ways, the message is simple but often we miss the most simple of messages.
"The message that he talked about was smile, be compassionate, reach out to others, respect every individual, respect all religions, be the best that you can be as a person and work on yourself and things around you get better.
The Dalai Lama speaks about unbiased compassion in this clip from the question and answer session with Thai Buddhists held at his residence in Dharamsala, India, on March 15th, 2011
Matthieu Ricard, molecular biologist, Buddhist monk, translator to the Dalai Lama, best-selling author, and photographer, spent the evening of October 16, 2009, at swissnex San Francisco for a closed, private dinner, where he spoke on Compassion in Action.
Don't make a habit of drawing emotional blood from your spouse. Honesty without compassion is cruelty. Truthfulness should never override compassion, even though refraining from sharing the truth may require much effort on your part and consume a lot of energy. But if you live by your deepest values you'll never be depleted, for those values perpetually generate spiritual energy.
Maybe the Dalai Lama is on to something. Compassion helps buffer women against the physical consequences of emotional stress, research suggests. Compassion for others is a pathway to health and happiness. While that basic tenet of Buddhism may seem paradoxical to self-involved Westerners, newly published research suggests it has an actual physiological basis.
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