Here are just a few morsels that we heard today as the dialogue moved to a consideration of issues of emotion and its relation to attention and emotion on day 4.
“I describe myself as a messenger of Ancient Indian thought.”
HH Dalai Lama
“Many of the problems we are facing today in the world are of our own making due to greed, fear and so on. Therefore, we cannot neglect our inner mind - it is a key factor in both personal happiness and the well-being of the world.”
HH Dalai Lama
“How can the inner life be introduced into the education of young people? One view is morals come from religious training. Another view is that there is a fundamental and universal level of ethics that can be taught to all - things like affection, respect for others and a sense of interconnection. Modern education can teach these things.”
HH Dalai Lama
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I agree that we have a profound responsibility to our commitment to children and the passage of our values and belief that we can all belong to a peaceful world. As a public school teacher, I will continue to dedicate my life to not only to the academic acquisitions but more importantly to those values which promote understanding and compassion. This commitment extends not just to our people to people communications but goes beyond to our relationships to all the living bounties of nature. My classroom has the poster of the polar bear proclaiming “everything is connected” where all can see it. As often as necessary our focus goes to that poster where my hope is that children will understand its meaning beyond its purely academic intent.
Yes, but one has to know that science can not be the basis for the universal ethic, because ethic is not something to be found in Nature. Ethic is a human choice. In the study of Nature trough science, it is not possible to find anything pertaining to the human society. Think of river. Some people may conceive it as a frontier between two countries. But this is just a societal point of view. The river just “is”. Ethic decisions of the responsibility of we human beings, independent from what we can “see” in the Nature.
I wish you five great days of dialogs, which always bring optimism since 1987 !
Thank you so much for sharing the conference with us! It is so appreciated by those of us who wish we could be there to hear all of the presentations.
How can inner life be introduced into education of young people ? As an answer to His Holiness and to everybody interested, I think that my ood friend Valentino giacomin has the real, practical answer: please click: http://www.aliceproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=20&Itemid=3
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Same as http://www.aliceproject.org/ and just check the philosophy of His awesome project. (and maybe … sustain it as You can … )
Dharma dreamers as Valentino are rare examples of how a proper practice can transform the inner and the outher experience of education. I’m a Valentino’s fan.