His holiness , Kanchi Shankaracharyas-- they were just telling the doctors, you should take up health care, at least a couple of hours
His Holiness said, "compassion is not a luxury.
His Holiness .
His Holiness is doing it in terms of secular science or materialist science today, which is the orthodoxy.
His Holiness often says that many people feel that when they listen to compassion, and they think about compassion, and they think about kindness,
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, as well as many other Tibetan Buddhist leaders, have been putting efforts into this.
Through his many initiatives, His Holiness has encouraged Tibetan women to be part of governance
And His Holiness , the Dalai Lama.
And His Holiness starts walking-- and this is something which is very surreal-- it's called surreal.
So I asked his holiness , the first question was do you have a driver's license?
And so His Holiness , therefore, is very like a scientist, and great Buddhist philosophers are
And they asked His Holiness all sorts of questions about, how do you retain your happiness?
And wen His Holiness comes he has a more impact than President Obama comes to New York City.
not only about our species or His Holiness , we're speaking not only about our species, but really all species on this Earth,
He's a close personal friend of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, which is the subject of today's talk, and also the father of Uma Thurman, who you
Venerable Chodron has studied extensively with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other prominent teachers.
Just like he's supreme in his power and his holiness , his sovereignty, he goes, watch what I do as far as love goes.
And what he does there is because His Holiness has always been trying to improve understanding
Now the problem-- so then His Holiness does that in his book by talking about what human life is like and the fact
I have one more question for His Holiness before I open up to the floor.
I had no reason to go to His Holiness , but I still went there.
But we never say that to His Holiness .
I think I see-- and I give the first book to His Holiness Dalai Lama.
You know, His Holiness Dalai Lama says, "If you want to be selfish, at least be wisely selfish and benefit other
of that retreat given to him as an assignment by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
So I put 80 candles on him and I said his holiness , it's your 80th birthday, and I want you to cut that.
And my talk takes off from a book that His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote called "Beyond Religion-- Ethics for a Whole World."
Deepening Mindfulness in Clinical Practice," which contains a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
And also, His Holiness often reminds us that one of the plus side of the growing
But in themselves, as His Holiness often reminds us, in themselves they're completely independent of religion.
And I go and sit in the lecture and His Holiness sits there so quietly.
I'm told that the Dalai Lama, His Holiness , still meditates for several hours a day.
Well, let me first recall some words of His Holiness , the Dalai Lama.
His Holiness Dalai Lama books, all of them are a very good place to start.
So that's His Holiness 's thing on secularism, which is a beautiful book, and it
So in other words, what His Holiness Dalai Lama is doing is same thing Buddha did.
Ming is, how long have you known His Holiness ?
And I went to Tibet because-- we all go to Tibet because we love His Holiness .
However, we have very compassionate spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
And we did that because we were urged by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to please study the minds and the brains of practitioners
I'm aligning with activists, left wingers, like His Holiness , Pope Francis.
So to take the example from Buddhism, bodhisattvas such as His Holiness the Dalai Lama living in this world today, the fact that he can remain in a happy state of mind
In May I was here with Thupten Jinpa, who is His Holiness , the Dalai Lama's main English language interpreter.
So I put it on social media that I'm meeting his holiness on his 80th birthday, and I want you to ask any questions to him.
So one time His Holiness asked me to give an evening talk before a bunch of people, big 500, 800, 1,000 people
I mean, if you look at people like Nelson Mandela and Mother Theresa and His Holiness , the Dalai Lama,
You know, those who have had the chance to interact with His Holiness , you will recognize, here is a person who is totally comfortable in his own skin.
the head of the family, I guess-- asked the Dalai Lama if His Holiness could do him a favor before they left.
And here I'm locking the door of my restaurant and a call comes from my friend Tashi saying that His Holiness , the Dalai Lama, is in town.
So, I'm walking-- I'm in the last of the line and His Holiness comes.