#Dalai lama happy how to#

It’s our nature to be compassionate and yet we create all sorts of trouble for other beings. Then, we can employ our intelligence to extend our compassionate minds on an individual, family, community, and global level.

#Dalai lama happy how to#

“We can learn how to cultivate peace of mind. Which ones we cultivate depends on how we use our intelligence. And we all have the potential to experience positive as well as negative emotions. If you have peace of mind, you’ll be happy by night and day. However, real happiness is not about having money or power, it’s about achieving inner peace. “We discovered that everyone wants to lead a happy life.

We became aware of the oneness of humanity and understood that all human beings are basically the same. But once we became refugees in India, we found that those people with big noses became our friends. In my own experience, when we were still in Tibet, we thought of the outside world and people in it as different from us, especially Europeans and others with their big noses. On that basis, if we make the effort, we can build a happy human community. “We all have seeds of compassion, loving-kindness, and concern for others. Fundamentally we are all the same in being human. And yet these distinctions are only of secondary value. We note differences of faith, or social status, whether our companions are rich or poor, and so on. However, once we start going to school, we learn to identify differences between us. From this point of view, young children are aware of the oneness of humanity. “When we’re about two or three years old, we don’t care if other children’s families follow this or that religion, or belong to this or that race, so long as they smile and play happily together. This is nothing to do with religious practice, it’s simply natural behaviour. From the moment we’re born, we depend on the care and affection of our mother and our family to survive. We depend on the community in which we live. So, we have to think seriously about how to make our world more peaceful and harmonious. “All sentient beings want to lead a happy life and a happy life means a peaceful life. We need to learn from the fact that during the last century and in the early years of this century there has been too much violence. But learning to live happily and peacefully requires education. It’s very sad if we just fight among ourselves. What we can do, in the meantime is to live a peaceful, happy life. Logically whatever has a beginning will come to an end. Some scientists have suggested to me that if things go on as they are, the climate will become so hot that our established sources of water, lakes, and rivers, will dry up. They are natural phenomena that reflect what is written in some ancient Indian texts about how violence and famine may bring about the end of the world as we know it. “In today’s world, the effects of global warming, such as the bush fires that have swept through parts of Australia, are beyond our control. And from a Buddhist point of view, once we’ve formed a close connection with someone, it continues in life after life. Once we become friends, I believe friendship remains for the rest of our lives. I have many friends there and in New Zealand, where I learned to greet people by rubbing noses. “Australia is too far for me to travel now. “Firstly, I want to express my greetings,” His Holiness replied. He began by asking His Holiness what we can do about problems of isolation and loneliness in difficult times such as what the world is going through just now.

Moderator Tony Steel welcomed His Holiness, Prof Hickie, other conference participants, and an online audience of several thousand. Thursday morning, the spiritual leader of Tibet was invited to take part in a conversation with Ian Hickie, a Professor of Psychiatry in Sydney as part of this year’s Happiness and Its Causes Conference in Australia.

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