What is your religion is not really important: Dalai Lama
I‘ve got an email with
title “your religion is not important”. In this email, a Brazilian theologist of
freedom named Leonardo Boff had a dialogue with the Dalai Lama. I like the wise
answer from Dalai Lama.
With his
interest, he asked Dalai Lama:
“What is
the best religion?”
Dalai
Lama answered,
“The
best religion is the one that gets you closest to God. It is the one that makes
you a better person.”
Such a
wise answer, Boff asked again:
I ‘ve got an email with the
title “your religion is not important”. In this email, a Brazilian theologist of
freedom named Leonardo Boff had a dialogue with the Dalai Lama. I like the wise
answer from Dalai Lama.
With his interest, he asked
Dalai Lama:
“What is the best
religion?”
Dalai Lama
answered,
“The best religion is the one
that gets you closest to God. It is the one that makes you a better
person.”
Such a wise answer, Boff asked
again:
“What is it that makes me
better?”
Dalai Lama
responded:
“Whatever that makes
you
More
compassionate,
More sensible,
More detached,
More loving,
More
humanitarian,
More
responsible,
More ethical”
“The religion that would do that
for you is the best religion”
“I am not interested, my friend,
about your religion or if you are religious or not. What really is important to
me is your behavior in front of your peers, family, work, community, and in
front of the world.”
“Remember, the universe is the
echo of our actions and our thoughts.”
“The law of action and reaction
is not exclusively for physics. It is also of human relations. If I act with
goodness, I will receive goodness. If I act with evil, I will get
evil.”
“What our grandparents told us
is the pure truth. You will always have what you desire for others. Being happy
is not a matter of destiny. It is a matter of options.”
Finally, Dalai Lama
said:
“Take care of your Thoughts
because they become Words.
Take care of your words because
they will become Actions.
Take care of your Actions
because they will become Habits.
Take care of your Habits because
they will form your Character.
Take care of your Character
because it will form your Destiny and your destiny will be your
Life
And
“There is no religion higher
than the Truth”
Posted by Devi at 11:23 am,
Friday, April 30, 2010
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