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Dialogue Between The Dalai Lama
and Dr Leonardo Boff
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The Dalai Lama, a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate is
a great spiritual and Buddhist Leader. He is the
Author of many spiritual books.
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Leonardo Boff, a Brazilian Theologist is one of the
renovators of the Theology of Freedom.
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In a round table discussion about religion and freedom
in which Dalai Lama and myself were
participating at recess I maliciously,
and also with interest, asked him :
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Your holiness,what is the best religion?
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I thoughthe would say:
The Tibetan
BuddhismorThe
oriental religions,much older than
Christianity
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The Dalai Lama paused, smiled and looked
me in the eyes .
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which surprised me because I knew of
the malice contained in my question.
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He answered:
The best
religion is the one
that gets youclosest to God.
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It is the
one that
makes youa better
person.
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To get out of my embarassment with
such a wise answer, I asked:
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What is
it that
makes mebetter?
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He responded:
Whatever makes you more compassionate, more
sensible, more detached, more loving, more
humanitarian, more responsible, more ethical.
The religion that will do that for you
is the best religion
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I was silent for a moment, marvelling and
even today thinking of his wiseand irrefutable response:
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I am not interested, my friend, about
your religin or if you are religious
or not.
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What really is
important to me is
your behaviour in
front of your peers,family, work,
community, and in
front of the world.
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Remember,
the universe isthe echo of our
actions and our
thoughts.
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The law of action
and reaction is notexclusively for
physics. It is also
of human
relations.IfI act with
goodness, I will
receive goodness.
IfI act with eviI, I
will get evil.
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What our
grandparents told us is
the pure truth.
You will always have
what you desire for
others.
Being happy is not a
matter of destiny.
It is a matter ofoptions.
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Finally he said:
Take care of your Thoughts because they become Words.
Take care of your Words because they will become Actions.
Take care of your Actions because they will become Habits.
Take care of your Habits because they will form your Character.
Take care of your Character because it will form your Destiny,
and your Destiny will be your Life
and
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There is
no
religionhigher
than the
Truth.
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The End
May we strive on diligently alongThe Spiritual Path to realize
The Truth
With Metta,
Bro. Oh Teik Bin