We Must Make an Effort with a Strong Motivation to Serve Others: His Holiness the Dalai Lama/ENG

2017. június 23./CTA/TibetPress

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Eden Prairie, Minnesota: “We must make an effort with a strong motivation to serve others. Employ technology and skills, as you do, to try building a happier humanity,” said His Holiness the Dalai Lama, while addressing over 2000 employees of Starkey Hearing Technologies in Eden Prairie, MN, USA on 22 June.

His Holiness’ address centered on his three main commitments, which are promotion of human values; promotion of religious harmony and understanding among the world’s major religious traditions and third, preservation of Tibet’s Buddhist culture and protect natural environment of Tibet.

“Scientists indicate that basic human nature is compassionate and that a healthy mind is important for our physical health. Since loving kindness is the basis of a happy life, I make it my number one commitment to promote awareness of the importance of warm-heartedness,” His Holiness said.

Rising unrest and instability in the world cannot be solved through prayer but instead through action and service, he added. “While there is a contradiction between our prayers and our behaviour. Instead we must make an effort, with a strong motivation, to serve others. We can employ technology and skills, as you do, to try building a happier humanity.”

On his second commitment to promote religious understanding, His Holiness said, “The sad divisions some people make on grounds of religion are an extension of the division between ‘us’ and ‘them’, which is so often the basis of exploitation, bullying and violence.” He acknowledged that there are philosophical differences among religious traditions but the common goal is to develop compassion, the idea that helping others brings benefit, while harming them brings grief.

“Language, and therefore hearing, is crucial to human beings, so the work you all do is really helpful,” His Holiness told members of the Starkey Technologies. A global hearing technology company headquartered in Eden Prairie, Starkey supports veterans and active military service personnel with a suite of revolutionary hearing technologies and other resources.

“At Starkey Hearing Technologies, we share His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama’s belief that the need for authentic, intentional human-to-human relationships is more vital than ever,” said Bill Austin. “Guided by our sense of universal responsibility and our collective understanding of the importance of compassion and conscious kindness, we anticipate that this discussion will be a catalyst for even greater opportunities to expand caring and sharing around the world.”

At the talk, musician Gene Simmons told His Holiness that he had come to hear His Holiness because his 92-year-old mother, a holocaust survivor, had told him to. In response, His Holiness thanked him and remembered his own mother, Diki Tsering as his first teacher of kindness and compassion.

Tomorrow His Holiness will participate in a groundbreaking panel discussion “A Call for Compassion and Conscious Kindness,” with friends and fellow global humanitarians Bill Austin, Tani Austin and Forest Whitaker, UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation, Advocate for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Founder and CEO of the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative (WPDI).