Dalai Lama: World peace can be achieved by reducing hatred and strengthening love

RELIGIOUS NEWS AGENCY (REDNA) – Dalai Lama, the religious leader of Tibet Buddhists, emphasized “World peace cannot be achieved by mere talk, but it will be possible when we reduce arrogance and jealousy, anger and hatred, and strengthen our sense of love and compassion”.

Giving a teaching on the “Thirty-seven practices of all the bodhisattvas” to over 45,000 Buddhists from Ladakh and people from all over the world on July 21, 2023, his Holiness stressed that we are all suffering from the climate crisis and global warming, and that we must therefore help each other.
Tibet Post reported his Holiness pointed out that people all over the world are talking about peace. The First and Second World Wars of the last century were a period of great violence.

So many weapons were used to kill and destroy. But it is not enough to declare that war must stop, he said, as long as we aim for our own victory and the defeat of others. He stressed that we are all part of human society and that we all depend on others.

He noted that even if we have different ways of thinking, this is no excuse for fighting each other. He insisted that we must have a sense of the unity of humanity and a desire to establish peace. Today, because we are all so much more interdependent, we need a strong sense of brotherhood and sisterhood.

His Holiness emphasised that, from birth, we are all nurtured with love and affection. Children react openly to their peers, without discrimination. It is only as they grow up that they learn to distinguish between them.
He stressed that “World peace cannot be achieved by mere talk, but it will be possible when we reduce arrogance and jealousy, anger and hatred, and strengthen our sense of love and compassion”.