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The Dalai Lama’s Vision for Our World

Who is responsible for our selfishness and anger?

As always is it someone else, or that somebody is here, and now?

We summarize the Dalai Lama’s perspective in a nutshell and offer you a life-altering opportunity.

Who Should Read “A Force for Good” And Why?

In truth, there is no greater good deed, than being able to enjoy spending time with yourself. To escape our thoughts, we are often involved in various activities, but that technique leaves you exactly where you started.

A Force for Good merges different cultures, standpoints, viewpoints, religions, and nations by emphasizing compassion and awareness. As such, it’s highly recommended to all individuals.

About Daniel Goleman

Daniel Goleman is an eminent author of many bestsellers such as: Emotional Intelligence, Working with Emotional Intelligence, Destructive Emotions, Social Intelligence, Focus, Ecological Intelligence, etc.

“A Force for Good Summary”

Even the Dalai Lama has a routine, unlikely behavior for a person whose life is dedicated to freedom. Each day at exact 5.30 a.m., the Dalai Lama – we couldn’t say “enjoy” rather than listens to the BBC news while eating his breakfast.

This time is crucial for understanding the world, not the actual news or events that caused distress. Violence, sorrow, and hate on every corner are only a reflection of what’s happening within. To deal with this reality, one must endure and manage to overcome the negative sensations.

We all share moral responsibility, and social accountability to make this world a better place.

A force for good doesn’t emerge from groups, or activists – it’s an internal privilege. Throughout the ages, we as humans improved our way of life by demonstrations and publicly expressing displeasure. However, the real game actually unfolds behind the curtains.

A simple mindset transformation can spark a powerful an inner shift that can effortlessly remove the attention from negative phenomena. In other words, the capacity to grow morally is decided only by you.

Are you capable of eliminating and eradicating all signs of frustrations, and hatred? – If you are ready for a full-scale shift, then start enforcing some moral principles in your life.

Most of you probably remember the 2008 Lhasa demonstrations, when Chinese officials deliberately shot and injured many peaceful Tibetan protesters – particularly monks. Everyone awaited Dalai Lama’s reaction to the regime brutality.

Hearing the news, he decided to stay calm and respond to the Chinese rule with compassion and love. Calmness is a powerful response in times of crisis; which once again showed Dalai Lama’s greatness.

Unlike other practices and laws, compassion doesn’t belong to any religion, nor is it bounded by principles. It’s merely an innate feeling, whereby one is aware of the reasons for the misbehavior of others. In truth, we all can find these roots deeply embedded in our hearts.

For instance, how can you describe the parental instinct? A 24/7 care, and love for our newborns is one sign of it. Even the genetics are supporting this claim, and we must be guided by it as well.

Three principles are best at describing compassion when put into action: fairness, transparency, and accountability. First and foremost, regardless of your status, education, or religious background – you must agree that all beings deserve fair treatment. Second, remain flexible and open to new solutions. Third, take full responsibility for your actions, don’t pass judgment on other people and don’t blame them for your mistakes.

This trio represents the foundation for being compassionate towards others – simple as that.

Behind the idea of wrongdoing, and right doing, compassion steps in. Your ego and arrogance are the only things that block your peace. If you learn how to engage in right actions, your suffering will reduce automatically, and you will instantly bring light to the world.

Confront injustice with peaceful action or sign of love; don’t add pain by being judgemental. Move from personhood to another more spacious approach and protect people’s right to happiness.

The unusual bond:

At first glance, we often get the wrong impression because things are not as straightforward as one might have hoped. The same logic manifests the togetherness of spirituality and science. Science on one end is based on facts, while spirituality is abstract.

So, what’s the purpose of this link?

Science, on one hand, connects the world by providing explanations on various niches. It’s linked to the need to adapt and operate in different communities. Religions, on the other hand, are more concerned with our intentions and obedience.

Lacking love, understanding, and freedom are primarily responsible for the death of ethics and morality in the workplace. Both democracy and communism are contributing to worldly corruption, exploitation, unequal wealth distribution, selfishness and so on.

We cannot turn a blind eye, to the fact that our governments are intentionally creating a greater gap between the rich and the poor.

The 21st century produces a new set of “profit-junkies” who perceive money as the center of the universe. Their obsession can only be matched by the corruption of our system. The chaos spreads with lightning speed; it’s time that we do something about it in order to prevent a total disaster.

Key Lessons from “A Force for Good”

1.      The inner call
2.      We all deserve equal treatment
3.      The guilty-party is within

The inner call

If we preserve stubborn and “blindfold” attitude to the worldly corruption, then the destructive activities will only continue to pile up.  So, why we must peacefully oppose these concepts?

In truth, only compassion can spark change.

We all deserve equal treatment

Probably no one has told you, but as humans, we all deserve to taste freedom on our lips. Exploiting your potential can only be reached with a pure heart.

The society neglects this law and continues to behave unfairly towards some groups.

The guilty-party is within

In general, people often blame the system for their problems, forgetting that they themselves are part of the same hypocrisy.

Neither the economic, state, or legal governance are the real culprit for what’s going on.

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Our Critical Review

From the very beginning, we knew that this book is going to be an exceptional masterpiece.

If you are familiar with the Dalai Lama’s life trajectory, then you possess all the “equipment” to finish strong.

Emir Zecovic

Emir is the Head of Marketing at 12min. In his spare time, he loves to meditate and play soccer.