The Dalai Lama should not be partisan either, should remain above.

Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.

I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered.

To my mind, there are two things that, in life, you can do about death. Either you can choose to ignore it, in which case you may have some success in making the idea of it go away for a limited period of time, or you can confront the prospect of your own death and try to analyze it and, in so doing, try to minimize some of the inevitable suffering that it causes. Neither way can you actually overcome it.

Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable.

To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.