The Dalai Lama Foundation-Canada

We Can All Bridge the Divide with Compassion
Tom Cordaro
The Lisle Sun
16 June 2006

The Dalai Lama was once asked to explain his religion. In response, he said that his entire religious belief system could be summed up in one word: compassion.

Compassion is not the same as pity. Pity allows us to stand apart from suffering and to commiserate over one another’s pain. Compassion, on the other hand, becomes possible when we create a space in our hearts for another person to enter. Compassion requires that we give up the dividing lines and distinctions we create between “us” and “them.”

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Lama Teaches Tibetan Anger Mangement
Karen Gram
Vancouver Sun
10 June 2006

BUDDHISM I Watch out for the drunken elephant.

Actually, take a good look at it. It’s on a rampage through our minds and if we just pay attention, it’ll go away, says a prominent Buddhist teacher who is in Vancouver this weekend.

Awareness at the right moment is the key.

His Eminence Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche, a prominent lama of Tibet and recent PhD from Harvard, says people everywhere are slaves to their emotions. And when emotions attack, it’s like a drunken elephant that overwhelms us in a matter of seconds.

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Willing your Way to Happiness
Colleen O’Connor
Denver Post
4 June 2006

Inspired by the Dalai Lama, a boulder think tank founded by researcher Adam Engle is discovering new links between how we think and how it affects our lives and bodies.

It seems like you think about it every day, that pesky problem that won’t leave you in peace, making you anxious or depressed or irritable. You wonder if you’ll ever feel different about it. Or are you just stuck in a funk forever?

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Twenty Five Years of Kindness
Snow Lion Publications
3 June 2006

A quarter century ago, the Dalai Lama launched his first series of teachings in North America. The result of these amazing teachings was Kindness, Clarity, and Insight, the very first book of teachings by the Dalai Lama in the English-speaking world. Snow Lion Publications has just released a new, hardcover edition of this significant title in celebration of both its own 25-year anniversary and the quarter-century of Western teachings by the Tibetan leader. Despite the subsequent publication of more than 60 volumes in English by the Dalai Lama, Kindness, Clarity, and Insight is considered by many to be his “heart message” to the West – a foundational key to understanding his other work. These teachings dynamically and concisely introduced, and continue to introduce, the range of the Dalai Lama and his message – all of the topics he holds most dear – and is perhaps the most readable, yet substantive and wide-ranging, of the Dalai Lama’s works.

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