The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

I don't often get into a bad mood, since it does not help anything and clouds my judgment, but I can certainly see that sometimes things go terribly wrong. We need to understand the reasons for this and work towards building new conditions that will bring about better circumstances.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle understanding of how the mind functions.

Anyone can be happy by simply training their brain.

You're not insensitive or indifferent, but you're also not vulnerable to the upheavals that cause emotional stress because you can buffer that... So that's the result of meditation; you could call that emotional balance.