So, I think that's what what real spiritual practice is all about. As His Holiness Dalai Lama says, he says, "My religion is kindness."Yeah? He doesn't say, "My religion is, you know, the four noble truths, and the first noble truth has three categories,
There was a turning point. His holiness , Kanchi Shankaracharyas-- they were just telling the doctors, you should take up health care, at least a couple of hours once in a week, try and spare some time.
Well, let me first recall some words of His Holiness , the Dalai Lama. His Holiness said, "compassion is not a luxury. It is a necessity in order for the human species to survive." And I would suggest that we're speaking
Yes. I just recently visited in Tibet last month, and I was offered support at many nunneries. His Holiness . All those.
So in other words, what His Holiness Dalai Lama is doing is same thing Buddha did. His Holiness is doing it in terms of secular science or materialist science today, which is the orthodoxy. It's not the dogmatic orthodoxy among scientists today, scientific materialism, and in his day, Buddha did that as well.
And furthermore, there are more and more research findings showing that, in fact, compassion is good for us. His Holiness often says that many people feel that when they listen to compassion, and they think about compassion, and they think about kindness, many people feel that to do compassion and to act out of compassion is good for someone else-- the recipient-- and not necessarily
And I think that this is a very important situation to remedy. His Holiness the Dalai Lama, as well as many other Tibetan Buddhist leaders, have been putting efforts into this. And therefore I think it's very important.
Yes, my friend. JD. Your Holiness , thank you for your presence. Thank you. On the topic of meditation, I have a couple of questions.
And to help us do this, we can use our imagination to regard one day as being like a whole lifetime. Your Holiness , thank you for your time today. In your opinion, what's the greatest threat to our planet and our human existence?
Anybody in the audience who turns out to be a great meditator or superhero, please come talk to us after the talk so we can identify you. Your Holiness , it's been a great pleasure for me to meet you in person. I watched the documentary about your previous incarnation and how they find your present incarnation and I find it very fascinating.
From one perspective, you could say that I live in a spiritual environment because I'm a leader of a spiritual tradition and so I have certain elements of spirituality Your Holiness , any last words for the audience?
human experience. That every single person in the world is imperfect. I mean, you may have a few people you really like, you think are close, maybe it's holiness , the Daly Lama or some author you love, but I assure you even they probably have their bad days, right? We know no person is perfect and no one leads a perfect life. Okay, so we
From the careful hand that begins to poke and notice our souls. So I asked his holiness , the first question was do you have a driver's license?
are simply misusing language, to use a Wittgensteinian expression. And so His Holiness , therefore, is very like a scientist, and great Buddhist philosophers are like scientists in that all teachings about relative reality are relative.
And that shows because of this extreme level of consumption, 120 kilos of meat in USA, 80 in Europe, only 3 And His Holiness , the Dalai Lama.
And maybe some of you have seen this. And they asked His Holiness all sorts of questions about, how do you retain your happiness?
Beacon Theater, and there were probably 3,000 people. And wen His Holiness comes he has a more impact than President Obama comes to New York City. When the president comes and the streets are blocked, we all criticize him.
So I very quietly, humbly stood last in the line. And His Holiness starts walking-- and this is something which is very surreal-- it's called surreal. A double R, I think.
But I wanted to go back to what you talk about earlier, your identity being both gay and Christian. got a lot of history and holiness and structure.
It is a necessity in order for the human species to survive." And I would suggest that we're speaking not only about our species or His Holiness , we're speaking not only about our species, but really all species on this Earth, and that from my point of view, having compassion instantiated
lives and is especially skilled at explaining them to contemporary audiences, often with a dose of humor. Venerable Chodron has studied extensively with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other prominent teachers. She is one of the select few to have the opportunity to co-author a book with the Dalai Lama.
Ethics is a very big deal. Now the problem-- so then His Holiness does that in his book by talking about what human life is like and the fact that we do love-- are happy when we love someone, not only when we're loved, but also when we do love, we become very, very happy.
And in order to do that, we have to work on transforming our motivation. I have one more question for His Holiness before I open up to the floor. So if you want to, you can start lining up now at the mike.
So if you want to, you can start lining up now at the mike. So the last question for Your Holiness . What can we, Google and the Silicon Valley, do to help you?
Go back to Washington! But we never say that to His Holiness . And something about that sacred power of his leadership, the way he leads us.
stories were so easy to spot people with faith deep faith real faith shine brightly against the dullness of the spiritual pack this short supply of holiness was something that began to stick in my throat a disconcerting fact that I washed down with prayer and Christian a firm ISM such as don't mix up man shortcomings with God it would take a lot of processing in several
And I ask him how his life is going. I said, Your Holiness , when I feel contempt, what should I do?
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
we're among friends, I can be honest, is I'm the most important person in the world. 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.
Just like he's supreme in his power and his holiness , his sovereignty, he goes, watch what I do as far as love goes.
From the careful hand that begins to poke and notice our souls. So I put 80 candles on him and I said his holiness , it's your 80th birthday, and I want you to cut that.
But then I decided I would make this one slide. And my talk takes off from a book that His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote called "Beyond Religion-- Ethics for a Whole World." Have any of you ever seen that book or read it?
Ming has, I'm sure, and a few people have. And what he does there is because His Holiness has always been trying to improve understanding between different kinds of groups of people who identify themselves as different from each other, and his main job there, one of his three main jobs in life,
Deepening Mindfulness in Clinical Practice," which contains a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
So I think these kind of pressures are being built. And also, His Holiness often reminds us that one of the plus side of the growing environmental degradation is that it is reminding us that we're living in one world.
So, it's important when I'm doing something like the book I tell the something which is totally true story about what is behind the glamour and the real project. I had no reason to go to His Holiness , but I still went there. I went to Beacon Theater-- Beacon Theater it's called on 73rd Street?
I just went as a promise to my friend Tashi. And I go and sit in the lecture and His Holiness sits there so quietly. And I remember he was sneezing that day.
I'm told that the Dalai Lama, His Holiness , still meditates for several hours a day.
And I ask him how his life is going. Give me some tips, Your Holiness .
However, we have very compassionate spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Through his many initiatives, His Holiness has encouraged Tibetan women to be part of governance and social economic growth in exile.
Yes. I just recently visited in Tibet last month, and I was offered support at many nunneries. I think I see-- and I give the first book to His Holiness Dalai Lama.
issues related to marginalized individuals and communities and their enduring relationships to holiness and community.
we're among friends, I can be honest, is I'm the most important person in the world. trying to suggest some books. His Holiness Dalai Lama books, all of them are a very good place to start.
The Rolling Stones have a song like that, right? Ain't no satisfaction. So that's His Holiness 's thing on secularism, which is a beautiful book, and it has trainings in the back, which is another novel concept to Western psychologists, which is that you can train yourself to be
But I'm not going to get into that necessarily, unless we go into a question period, and you want me to. So in other words, what His Holiness Dalai Lama is doing is same thing Buddha did. His Holiness is doing it in terms of secular science or materialist science today, which is the orthodoxy.
for others' well being and so on. But in themselves, as His Holiness often reminds us, in themselves they're completely independent of religion. And now there are new research showing that, in fact, you know, qualities like compassion and empathy are, in fact, inborn.
Ming is, how long have you known His Holiness ?
And the third thing I admire about you is environmentalism You're known to be a very avid environmentalist. So the question here is, my friend-- Your Holiness -- Yes. No problem, no problem.
I think at that point, you need hope, more than you need shelter, more than you need food, more than you need a blanket. And I went to Tibet because-- we all go to Tibet because we love His Holiness .