The Dalai Lama Foundation-Canada

Krisy Gashler
Ithaca Journal
11 October 2007

At Cornell University the Dalai Lama spoke about peace.

“Genuine peace comes through inner peace,” he said. “Internally, if you’re full of hatred, full of suspicion, full of fear, then through that way, it is impossible to achieve genuine peace.”

The Dalai Lama told his university audience that they could help alleviate inequality and suffering in developing countries by educating students from these countries.

“Bring or welcome more students from these poorer countries,” he said. “Give them vision, give them self-confidence, give them skill.”

“Instead of sending soldiers, send more students,” he said. “America is part of humanity, Africa, same human family. Brothers, sisters who have prosperity, go to these areas and bring more prosperity.”

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Dalai Lama

Peace is not just the absence of violence, but the manifestation of human compassion. Compassion and love are the source of external and internal peace. Without inner peace, it is impossible to have world peace.

dpa
22 July 2007

Appealing for peace in the world, the Dalai Lama spoke in the German city of Hamburg on this July Sunday.

“How can we discuss things without trust,” he asked.

He appealed for more peace and justice in the world. “The 20th century was marked by violence, but the 21st century could be a century of peace,” said the Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

He told the audience of 10,000 he would like to see a worldwide organization where people could devote their lives to the cause of peace.

“We cannot change the world merely by resolutions of the United Nations. We have to start with the individual,” he said.

“People from societies that teach peacefulness, tolerance and sympathy are more peaceful by nature,” he said, adding that it was shocking that Sunnis and Shiites could fight one another in Iraq or Catholics and Protestants could do so in Northern Ireland.

“They have the same God, yet they still kill one another,” he said. “Violence can never be the right way. We have to find a human solution to problems.”

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