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12 Timeless Life Lessons Learned from the Dalai Lama

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” Here are more life lessons from the Dalai Lama. The post 12 Timeless Life Lessons Learned from the Dalai Lama appeared first on Lifehack.

"[The Dalai Lama is] the human embodiment of compassion."

There was an article published at the end of May in Madison's Capital Times newspaper titled "How meditation can make the world a better place." The paper summarized the article's main point: "Psychological Science has published a study...Show More Summary

The Dalai Lama: Women Are More Compassionate Leaders

Whether you think his comments were sexist or not, his Holiness Tenzin Gyatso says the next Dalai Lama could be female. Here's why he thinks the fairer sex was born to lead. The Dalai Lama wants women to lead the world so much, he thinks his successor could even be female. Show More Summary

Could the next Dalai Lama be a woman?

He’s said it before, and he’s saying it again. The current, fourteenth Dalai Lama told crowds in Australia this week, “If the circumstances are such that a female Dalai Lama is more useful, then automatically a female Dalai Lama will come.” He went on to say that our world is in need of more female [...]

Immortality For Scientists & Dalai Lama Connected By Social Media

A research initiative under the code name "Avatar" is opening its San Francisco office this summer, and will be launching a social media project connecting scientists around the world with the unprecedented goal of offering hem immortality. Dimitry Itskov, a 31 yr-old media entrepreneur aims o transplant a human brain into a robot body within the next 10 years.

Spot the difference: Dalai Lama greets his waxwork double

Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, right, stands alongside his Madame Tussauds wax double at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Friday. The Dalai Lama is on a national tour of Australia with events throughout the visit carrying the message "Beyond Religion; Ethics fo …

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

  A massive anti-choice bill is introduced in Texas. And another one is introduced in Ohio. “There are few greater sins than to be a woman and to love yourself and your art unapologetically.” The next Dalai Lama could be a woman. Um, what? A school fired a teacher for being a victim of domestic violence. A woman in [...]

John Wagner Givens: Elections, Reincarnation, and the Dalai Lama in Kentucky

None of the possible shortcomings of the Dalai Lama as a democrat do anything to excuse the human rights abuses that have been and continue to be perpetrated by the PRC in Tibet.

The Commencement Speech I'd Give to My 20-Year-Old Self

It's commencement season again, when all the famous folks – President Obama to the Dalai Lama – offer their wisdom and wit to college graduates around the nation. It's a poignant idea, to stand before tens of thousands of fresh-faced new grads, all sitting on spring coils waiting to be launched. Show More Summary

Surely The Dalai Lama Would Approve Of This DOTA Character

It takes a lot to make me laugh out loud at some video game character design. Read more...

Derek Penwell: Why Christians Might Have Something To Learn From The Dalai Lama

Jesus didn't die so we could be the best, but so that we might know what it looks like to give our lives away. Were we to listen, the Dalai Lama might just be able to teach us something about that.

Video: “A real spiritual bond” — Dalai Lama recalls Thomas Merton

After a public talk in Kentucky last week, His Holiness the Dalai Lama recounted his 1968 meeting with Thomas Merton, the Catholic writer, mystic, and proponent of interfaith dialogue. During their three long conversations, Merton and His Holiness discussed their monastic traditions, including day-to-day routines and the goals of their meditations. Merton wrote that he [...]

Dalai Lama’s Lessons for New Grads on Global Responsibility and Compassion

During his commencement speech, the Dalai Lama provides insight into how to make the world a better place.

Dalai Lama In U.S.: Seek Riches And You’ll Never Be Satisfied

The Dalai Lama is visiting Louisville, KY. The Dalai Lama’s second day in Louisville started on a solemn and contemplative note as he began two sessions of teachings at the KFC Yum! Center on Monday morning… The title of the Dalai Lama’s talk was “Atisha’s Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment,” a teaching dating back [...]

Who Knew the Dalai Lama Had Such Sweet Moves?

Ok, to say the Dalai Lama danced might be a stretch, but he doesn’t look necessarily unhappy either as Tulane University President Scott Cowen lead the spiritual leader with parasol in hand. And to Dr. John, no less? Via The Huffington Post: As Dr. Show More Summary

Keith Runyon: Louisville: Faith Festival Prepares City for Dalai Lama's Visit

In November 2011, the city council passed and the mayor signed a resolution committing to a multi-year Compassionate Louisville campaign. In doing so, Louisville (pop. 750,000) became the largest American city to make such a commitm...

Cindy Wigglesworth: Good Human Beings and the Right Temporoparietal Junction

What sets a truly noble person apart? What makes a Gandhi, Dalai Lama, or Mother Teresa different? There is a decision made by these people to hold themselves to a higher standard. They make a decision to live up to noble values -- to live from their highest nature. In what part of the brain does this ability reside?

Rodger Kamenetz: Welcoming The Dalai Lama To New Orleans

In the midst of our wreckage that I speak to you, both as a Jew and as a New Orleanian, because survival is not just a matter of urban planning, or of financial aid, or willfulness. It is something deeper. It is of the soul.

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People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama. - Carmen Electra

To life, not martyrdom

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Recently, I read two articles about dying for a cause. The first, on these pages, by Sally Quinn, addressed the Dalai Lama’s lack of compassion for not criticizing the self-immolation of more than 100 Tibetans since 2009 to protest China’s … Continue reading ?

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