Compassion for happiness

We must develop the education of compassion or teaching of warm-heartedness.

Our world has become smaller and we can easily exchange information with each other. That’s a context in which we can try to develop more compassionate attitudes among our society. One thing we need to understand is that the real source of trouble for us all is not something outside us but something here within. It’s our feelings of suspicion, fear, and anger that we really need to subdue. Not simply love, compassion is something holy or something important, precious, not that way. It's something very relevant in order to become a happy human being, a happy family. Medical scientists also found through their research and experiments a more compassionate mind automatically develops a calm mind, because a compassionate mind creates self-confidence and inner strength. So that brings a more calm mind. That's extremely helpful to maintain a healthy body. With inner strength, more compassionate, less anxiety, less stress. No matter what busy work, but will not create much stress. If you take a more self-centered attitude, then more anxiety, more stress. That is what automatically creates a hypocrite way, saying something nice, doing something different. That destroys trust from others. And you yourself will not be happy, but deep inside, lonely feeling. You can't trust yourself either and carry your life more hypocrite way, and deep inside, much anxiety. Anxiety brings anger. Anger destroys our health and friendly atmosphere in our home. So, you see, thinking deeper way, then compassion is something very, very important. Every human activity carried with compassion then becomes a more human way and constructive and beneficial.

So we really need to educate about a sense of concern for others' well-being. This is for one's own happiness-concern about one's own happiness, more taking care of others' well being, give more happiness to others, and one could get maximum happiness.

~Collected from Dalai Lama's speech at Santa Clara University.