Tibet’s exiled non secular chief the Dalai Lama known as for folks to coach their minds to domesticate compassion and cautioned that digital expertise needs to be used solely to learn humanity, at a two-day gathering in northern India that ended Thursday.
About 180 folks attended the two-day Thoughts & Life Dialog on Interdependence, Ethics and Social Networks within the viewers corridor on the Dalai Lama’s residence in Dharamsala, a hillside metropolis within the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh that’s residence to the Tibetan government-in-exile.
About 100 attendees had been Western scientists and students and members of the Thoughts & Life Institute, a corporation whose mission is to tell and advance the rising subject of contemplative science and its utility to real-world challenges.
Among the many different attendees had been Tibetan monks and nuns who’ve participated in science applications at Emory College, college students of science from the Tibetan Medical & Astro-Science Institute, the Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, and lamas and abbots from the facilities of studying at monasteries in South India.
Coaching the thoughts in cultivating compassion includes growing ideas of even-mindedness, or equanimity, the Dalai Lama stated.
“We’ve held numerous Thoughts & Life dialogues, and I really feel they’ve been essential,” he stated on the primary day of the occasion on Oct. 12, based on a report on the Dalai Lama’s official web site. “On the earth at massive, a substantial amount of consideration has been paid to bodily issues, however a lot much less to the thoughts. And but, once we discuss happiness and struggling, they’re inside, psychological experiences. If we have now no peace of thoughts, we gained’t be joyful.”
“Lots of the conflicts we see on the planet are about bodily issues, materials assets and energy,” the Dalai Lama went on to say. “Subsequently, we have to have a look at what went on up to now and study from it in order that we are able to assemble a future primarily based on peace, happiness and togetherness.”
“The basis of peace of thoughts is compassion,” he stated. “As quickly as most of us are born, our moms handle us and provides us our first classes in compassion. With out this we might not survive. That is how our life begins. As kids we develop up in an environment of compassion.”
The Tibetan non secular chief additionally stated that expertise needs to be used to learn humanity.
“Typically talking, whether or not or not expertise might be regarded as good or unhealthy is determined by how it’s used,” he stated on the second day of the gathering, based on a report on his official web site. “We human beings shouldn’t be slaves to expertise or machines. We needs to be in cost.”
When people are too materialistic, they regard human values as being of secondary significance, he stated.
“We should keep in mind that we’re human beings and we have to apply human values, no matter we do,” the Dalai Lama stated. “Principally, we should be motivated by warmheartedness. Expertise is meant to serve human wants; subsequently, it must be guided by human values.” It additionally wants to assist defend the atmosphere, he stated.
The Thoughts & Life Institute was based greater than three a long time in the past by Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th and present Dalai Lama, Chilean scientist and thinker Francisco Varela, and American lawyer and social entrepreneur R. Adam Engel.
Whereas science depends on empiricism, expertise, remark, and evaluation, the three believed that well-refined contemplative practices and introspective strategies may very well be used as equal devices of investigation.
Translated by Tenzin Dickyi for RFA Tibetan. Written in English by Roseanne Gerin.