His Holiness Was Here
We all filed into the UNO Arena today to hear His Holiness the Dalai Lama speak to us New Orleanians about resilience – um, we know a little about it already and I, know a lot about it, but I wanted his perspective.
And he didn’t disappoint. He’s got a simple message – compassion, love and kindness, and save the planet, peace not war, and humor.
Asked what to do with children that have been victims of abuse, he wondered aloud if there was a neuroscientist that might figure out a way to cut that part of memory out of the child’s brain. But seriously he said, a child needs someone there, a caretaker, to give them steady affection and having this, the child builds trust, and having trust, the child learns affection and to be affectionate. And if the world is about love – and love requires trust – then this is the anecdote to such horror.
Two quotes that came through loud and clear to this resilient woman were:
Question: How do you remain positive in the face of so many problems?
Answer: Frankly, there is no other choice.
“Peace is not obtained through prayer, peace is obtained through action.”