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Since it's topical, I'll post here some excerpts from articles on the Dalai Lama's visit to Montreal. (In one article, Peggy Curran notes that his English not quite up to knowing the word mischief doesnt cut it when you kill 3,000 people.)
Speaking at the Palais des congrs in Monteral during the Second Global Congress on Worlds Religions Tibets exiled spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama called on China to allow information to flow more freely and create an independent judiciary. The Dalai Lama also warned against corruption in India.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama is on a two-day visit to Montreal. The Worlds Religions Congress has been organised to ponder over the state of the worlds religions 10 years after Sept. 11 attack in 2001.
Talking about religion the Dalai Lama stressed the believers of all faiths are more alike than they are different. Proclaiming the wrongness of post 9/11 campaigns that tarred all Muslims for the actions of Osama bin Ladens Al-Qaeda bombers, the Dalai Lama said:
'If you criticize Islam due to the acts of a few mischievous people, you will need to criticize Christianity or Judaism, too'.
'If we use religion for division and more solitude, thats wrong and destructive. But its the person who uses it who makes it wrong, not the religion. You dont have to be religious to be a good person. But if you have faith, you must be serious about it. You cant cheat God.'
The Dalai Lama said that all religious traditions share the same common values love, compassion, forgiveness, tolerance and self-discipline. And people everywhere stumble on the same emotional obstacles fear, anger, jealousy, suspicion and hatred. 'We need to find ways to minimize these destructive emotions.'
'We will not achieve understanding through prayers to God or Buddha,' the Dalai Lama said. 'We have to make an effort to talk to each other', His Holiness said warning that the faithful and non-believers alike have a long way to go to heal old wounds and learn to coexist. (Posted on September 8, 2011 by iSikkim)
Sitting in an armchair, he spoke about promoting compassion, cooperation and being united, saying you have to be 'selfish wise' and care for each other, instead of being 'foolish wise', by lying and hurting each other.
The Dalai Lama says we must promote human compassion and that females can show great leadership in this respect, adding that he knows this from personal experience, with a mother who never lost her temper with her children.
'Certainly a model of my compassion, the first seed, first experience comes from my mother,' he said.
He said we can go a long way by researching and visiting different countries and getting broader views of the world, and by thinking we are all part of humanity instead of a mentality of pitting 'us' against 'them.'
'Now what we learned from the past century, violence won't solve problems, only through dialogue,' he said.
'Twentieth century has become century of bloodshed, now this century should be century of dialogue.' (Posted By: Shuyee Lee 9/7/2011)
He pointed to his head and said that everyone, himself included, has the potential to develop harmful feelings and its the job of religions to help people keep them under control.
'Through awareness we try to minimize these destructive emotions and try to increase these constructive emotions,' he said. (The Canadian Press)
The spiritual leader also said, 'Your enemy is your best teacher,' and that it takes a troublemaker to practice skills of forgiveness, love and compassion. (Global Montreal : Wednesday, September 07, 2011)
Speaking at the Palais des congrs in Monteral during the Second Global Congress on Worlds Religions Tibets exiled spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama called on China to allow information to flow more freely and create an independent judiciary. The Dalai Lama also warned against corruption in India.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama is on a two-day visit to Montreal. The Worlds Religions Congress has been organised to ponder over the state of the worlds religions 10 years after Sept. 11 attack in 2001.
Talking about religion the Dalai Lama stressed the believers of all faiths are more alike than they are different. Proclaiming the wrongness of post 9/11 campaigns that tarred all Muslims for the actions of Osama bin Ladens Al-Qaeda bombers, the Dalai Lama said:
'If you criticize Islam due to the acts of a few mischievous people, you will need to criticize Christianity or Judaism, too'.
'If we use religion for division and more solitude, thats wrong and destructive. But its the person who uses it who makes it wrong, not the religion. You dont have to be religious to be a good person. But if you have faith, you must be serious about it. You cant cheat God.'
The Dalai Lama said that all religious traditions share the same common values love, compassion, forgiveness, tolerance and self-discipline. And people everywhere stumble on the same emotional obstacles fear, anger, jealousy, suspicion and hatred. 'We need to find ways to minimize these destructive emotions.'
'We will not achieve understanding through prayers to God or Buddha,' the Dalai Lama said. 'We have to make an effort to talk to each other', His Holiness said warning that the faithful and non-believers alike have a long way to go to heal old wounds and learn to coexist. (Posted on September 8, 2011 by iSikkim)
Sitting in an armchair, he spoke about promoting compassion, cooperation and being united, saying you have to be 'selfish wise' and care for each other, instead of being 'foolish wise', by lying and hurting each other.
The Dalai Lama says we must promote human compassion and that females can show great leadership in this respect, adding that he knows this from personal experience, with a mother who never lost her temper with her children.
'Certainly a model of my compassion, the first seed, first experience comes from my mother,' he said.
He said we can go a long way by researching and visiting different countries and getting broader views of the world, and by thinking we are all part of humanity instead of a mentality of pitting 'us' against 'them.'
'Now what we learned from the past century, violence won't solve problems, only through dialogue,' he said.
'Twentieth century has become century of bloodshed, now this century should be century of dialogue.' (Posted By: Shuyee Lee 9/7/2011)
He pointed to his head and said that everyone, himself included, has the potential to develop harmful feelings and its the job of religions to help people keep them under control.
'Through awareness we try to minimize these destructive emotions and try to increase these constructive emotions,' he said. (The Canadian Press)
The spiritual leader also said, 'Your enemy is your best teacher,' and that it takes a troublemaker to practice skills of forgiveness, love and compassion. (Global Montreal : Wednesday, September 07, 2011)