![]() ![]() Instead, wherever he was, he saw himself as part of a larger community, anywhere in the world. He described his own travels and how, as a stateless person, he could have felt isolated and alone. Focusing on material wealth or competition rather than on interdependency and the general good “eventually creates anger, so the person will not be happy.”Ĭountering this outlook is within our power. “Instead of trust, there is fear and distrust,” he said. Now, people are clustered in big cities but often without a sense of their interdependency. “Tibet, in ancient times, was lonely but happy.” Even in the sparsely populated, mountainous country, “When one family needed some help, they could ask,” he said, relying on a strong sense of community. Isolation, he pointed out, can be largely a state of mind. But being alone should be a choice: “With technology, the oneness of people becomes more clear,” he added. ![]() He said he personally has found solitude useful for meditation. If health professionals advise that it is not safe to gather, we need to respect that. Science and intellectual analysis, he stressed, are vital. As individuals and as leaders, when we reach out to others, lifting them up, we experience that connection, and the resulting fulfillment brings us happiness.Įven during a pandemic, he advised, we can find peace. “Happiness is in the mind,” the Dalai Lama said. The potential for happiness is in that connectivity. “We should say ‘my planet.’ We have to live on this planet together.” “We can no longer say ‘my nation, my country,’ ” he said. Especially when faced with global crises such as the pandemic and climate change, he said, people must engage as a global community. We are each one of 7 billion human beings.” Occasionally aided by an interpreter, the 85-year-old religious leader stressed that point repeatedly. Speaking from his home in Dharamshala, India, the Dalai Lama, longtime leader of Tibetan Buddhism, spoke with Brooks, HKS professor of the practice of public leadership and HBS professor of management practice, for 90 minutes in a live segment of Brooks’ HBS class called “Leadership and Happiness.” The Dalai Lama answered questions from students about their concerns and their duties in a troubled world.Ĭonnection - even as people are usually now forced to work and study separately - is the key to happiness, he said. Brooks of Harvard Business School (HBS) and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). That was the theme of an online conversation Saturday night between the Dalai Lama and Professor Arthur C. Yet that may not have to be so, and, in fact, such turmoil can offer opportunities for both personal and professional fulfillment. our aspirations is that these practices can actually reduce health care costs because it can enable people to be more healthy.In this time of COVID-19 and civil unrest in America, happiness often seems increasingly elusive. “And so there is evidence to suggest that people who are happier and have higher levels of well-being actually have biology that is more conducive to health. “It’s public health because disturbing emotions we know cause changes in the body that impact our physical health,” Davidson said. ![]() Teaching others how to do that through the practice of meditation, learning to live happier, can have real long-term benefits. So anger no longer find independent target,” he said.Įven as a spiritual leader, His Holiness said he believed scientific research into meditation is important because having evidence and knowledge about the physical and mental benefits meditation can have on a person can only enhance “the well-being of the world.” It’s a way to deal with problems and find “peace of mind” within oneself without relying on outside escapes, such as drugs or alcohol, he said.ĭavidson said having good health doesn’t just mean the “absence of illness” in the body, but also removing suffering from the mind. “In the case of one human being who gives you problem, and you feel very negative with that person consider your enemy. ![]() If it’s a another person you’re angry with, the Dalai Lama suggested recognizing that you are angry at that person and then letting that anger go. ![]()
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