Study and Education
In a meeting at the University of San Francisco in September, 2003, the Dalai Lama offered the following advice on the importance of education:
One way of working is to see an immediate human need, someone in distress, and immediately take concrete action to help that person. That is very good…it is also very important to work in a broader way, through education, so you create many people taking that kind of altruistic action. Education is the key. Understanding leads to conviction, which leads to enthusiasm, which sustains action.
Education for basic human values is very important. No one exists as an isolated individual. Problems far away will eventually affect us. This is not religion, but reality. It is essential to understand the reality of our situation, and develop the basic human values of warmth, affection, kindness and compassion. So this idea of curricula for peace and ethics is very important…not only important, but urgent.
It is our hope to offer as many and as wide a variety of resources as possible in order to provide education for the development of basic human values. If you would like to participate, please contact JoAnn Bush with your ideas and suggestions.
Please use the links on the right as a starting point.
Geshe Jinpa Sonam's Teaching, Hindu Temple of Central Indian, February 2008