Think about the Dalai Lama.

like the Dalai Lama or Yoda?

The Dalai Lama lives in Dharamsala, India.

A letter came through from the Dalai Lama saying,

One of the first letters was from the Dalai Lama.

The Dalai Lama often states that compassion is his best friend.

At the age of four, he was installed as the 14th Dalai Lama.

A line that the Dalai Lama once said, he said, Love and compassion are necessities.

I think the Dalai Lama should have heard that. I wish he'd been there to hear that.

The Dalai Lama was once in Portugal, and there was a lot of construction going on everywhere.

Think about the enormous moral authority of the Dalai Lama and it comes from his moral humility.

Because if compassion was a chore, nobody's going to do it, except maybe the Dalai Lama or something.

And it just so happened, on the fifth week, there was a public teaching by the Dalai Lama.

They think Buddha was so boring, and they're so surprised when they meet Dalai Lama and he's fairly jolly.

His whole monastery was thrown into prison at the time of the uprising, when the Dalai Lama had to leave

So I snuck in a bunch of little wallet sized pictures of the Dalai Lama, and I would hand them out.

And this is well, at the time I did this 10 years ago that was 36 years after the Dalai Lama had left.

And I'd snuck in because it's totally illegal to have a picture of the Dalai Lama in Tibet it's the quickest way you can get arrested.

In the great teaching of his Holiness the Dalai Lama that he always teaches everywhere, he says that that is the common religion of humanity kindness.

I want to quote this guy the guy in robes, not the other guy the Dalai Lama, who said, If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.

So, for instance the Dalai Lama gets up every morning meditating on compassion, and he thinks that helping other human beings is an integral component of human happiness.

I saw it when the Dalai Lama came to the Riverside Church while I was a pastor, and he invited representatives of faith traditions from all around the world.

Apple launches the iPhone in China and censors the Dalai Lama out along with several other politically sensitive applications at the request of the Chinese government for its Chinese app store.

And when I met her, she had just taken a walk over the Himalayas from Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, into Nepal, across to India 30 days to meet her leader, the Dalai Lama.

I had dinner last week with one of the founders of the mindfulness movement, very important figure, Daniel Siegel, and he was sitting with the Dalai Lama recently, he told me this story, it's a third hand story, but it really hit me.

The Dalai Lama always likes to say he says that when you give birth in your mind to the idea of compassion, it's because you realize that you yourself and your pains and pleasures are finally too small a theater for your intelligence.

look at this situation and say, Well, there's nothing for the Dalai Lama to be really right about really right about or for Ted Bundy to be really wrong about that admits of a real argument that potentially falls within the purview of science.