STARMEDIA: Dalai Lama calls for greater effort, alien to prayer

2013-11-30 By: Fernanda G. Mencos | Fuente: starMedia Editorial

The Dalai Lama asked for a greater effort in prayer so that the world changes and has peace. ¡Find out!

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Only by praying will not achieve peace in the world: Dalai Lama

In fact, he added, of the seven billion inhabitants in the world, thousand do not believe in anything and mentioned that India is the most spiritual country; however, has a huge inequality gap.

According to the Dalai Lama, The problem of corruption is due to the fact that educational systems do not promote human and moral values. They are more focused on the material, instead of promoting the values, but it also happens in religions where many people promote corruption.

The most advanced religions, express, are those that are based on philosophical sources, although they all agree that the basis of happiness is love and compassion.

The spiritual leader of Tibet said that material things give comfort to people, but it's not enough; "la riqueza no da la felicidad; on many occasions, you go to a house with a family that has a lot of wealth, opulence, pero los miembros están distanciados".

"En este momento somos siete mil millones de personas en el planeta, we are projected to be 10 mil millones al concluir este siglo y es lógico que crezca la desigualdad entre ricos y pobres".

Ante 15 mil personas reunidas en la conferencia "La Paz comienza en el corazón", the first of two that will be offered this Sunday, the scholar of Buddhist philosophy, born in a village called Taktser, located in the northeast of Tibet, He also stressed that there are two levels of happiness.

The sensory, what is the materialist, and mental happiness. In fact, when you feel pain or loss, mental happiness is what gives the strength to move forward; while the sensory is superficial, the Dalai Lama noted.

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