Dalai Lama

1. I think that alcoholics should be granted liver transplants. One of the Dalai Lama’s teaching is empathy which he defines as our ability to feel someone else’s suffering or putting ourselves into someone else’s shoe. If we put ourselves into this patient’s shoe, we realise that he needs a liver transplant to survive. We could also perceive that he/she feels pain; the idea of just thinking that our days to live counted makes us feel pain and suffering. Moreover, if we put ourselves into this…

When you hear term "happiness", you think of happy thoughts or events in the past you have been through that has caused the feeling of happiness to occur. Although it is just a feeling, a mere sensation you feel throughout your body, it has the amount of force and meaning to push anybody beyond their limits. The definition of happiness can be explained by a mental state or emotion you feel after pleasant thoughts and/or memories intervene from contentment to joy. Sure, you can live on with this…

into both factual and optional depth of true happiness and what kinds of factors play into it. This article, in many ways, combines and goes further into what the first two article that we have read, which were “The Sources of Happiness” by the Dalai Lama and Cutler and “We have No Right to Happiness” by C.S. Lewis. But with this article, as I have mentioned before, goes deep into the source of it all: where it lies in our minds and our everyday daily actions. The main focus of this article is…

Buddhism automatically think of the Dalai Lama, but what most people do not know is that there is more than one Dalai Lama within this culture and that the lama plays more than one role in Buddhism. Tibetan Buddhism lamas are referred to as being a type of teacher and plays roles in religious rituals. Without just the lama there is two different types of lamas one being the well-known lama the Dalai Lama and then the not so famous lama the Karmapa Lama. The Dalai Lama comes from a Mongol word…

case with the Dalai Lama of Tibet. Dalai Lama is the spiritual father and teacher of Buddhism in Tibet; he is a monk who has a very high position within his people and followers. Tenzin Gyatso is currently the fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet.…

Coach P is a man of character. He has succeeded because, he now has 300 wins in the book. Also Coach P is a inspiration, he is in love with sports, and hopes we are too. Next, he teaches you right from wrong, and he is very serious about our grades, if we don’t pass he gives a assigned punishment. Another word for character is complexion, moreover, he is a man of his word, and he will never lie to you. Abraham Lincoln once quoted,” Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a…

Community Project The assignment I was assigned was to do a community project for my community or anywhere that needed some significant help. What I choose was to pick a park near my home in Stockton which is called Panella Park. This was an ideal place because, everyone enjoyed the park when I was a kid, however no one really comes by anymore because of the increase of technology. With this I decided that I wanted to pick up the trash that laid there because of how much fun I had when I was…

One point that helps for me to identify with the Dalai Lama is that he recognizes different religions and their diversity while promoting the honoring of all of them. Also, reading how the Dalai Lama connected religion and science really helped me to come closer in my religion because I did not feel as if I was betraying it for also believing in the wonderful nature of science…

Throughout history, storytelling has been an essential piece of the culture in which our society lives. Stories have been sources of information, communication, and entertainment for many. This does not change in the article, “The Dalai Lama’s Ski Trip: What I learned in the Slush with His Holiness,” written by Douglas Preston. This is an entertaining yet informative tale about how Preston helped welcome a famous and controversial figure visiting the United States in 1991. In addition to…

Compassion is helping out a neighbor and to suffer with them through a hard time. Compassion motivates people to go out of their way to help physical, spiritual, or emotional. The Dalai Lama once said that "compassion is a necessity, not a luxury", and that without it humanity cannot survive. One moment of compassion I have experienced is my father and I helping out my neighbor when he had to get both of his knees replaced. He could not do any yard work anymore after the surgery. My Dad and I…