[vn-families] Dalai Lama's Words of Wisdom (2)

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Source:
http://www.dailyfreeman.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1769&dept_id=74969&newsid=17232179&PAG=461&rfi=9

Dalai Lama offered a message of compassion, kindness and respect
for other religions and against materialism and fear-based
thinking.

"We all have every right to successful life, happy life,"
he said, emphasizing that money shouldn't be part of the
definition of success or happiness. "We should not forget
our inner values. By inner value I mean ... human affection,
or another word, human compassion."

Just as children blossom when parents show love, communities
respond to compassionate treatment from their neighbors, he
said. "Reach out and create positive atmosphere."

Kind acts help more than the recipient of goodness, he
said. "Benefit first goes to the practitioner."

Hostility similarly hurts those on both sides of conflicts,
he said.

"When fear, hatred, jealousy dominate our mind, then the best
part of our brain which can judge cannot function properly,"
he said, calling such emotions destructive to wisdom. "You will
never get satisfactory result."

Although he is a believer in Buddhism, the world's fourth largest
religion, the Dalai Lama isn't pressing for converts to overtake
the third slot, held by Chinese folk religion. Harmony among
the followers of world's disparate faiths has been important
to the him for much of his life and recent events have only
sharpened his concern.

True believers of any faith would never use religion as a basis
for hatred, but not enough people appreciate that, he said. "In
the name of religion, sometimes more conflict, more divisions
happen," he said.