Ethics for the New Millennium
A case for compassion as the practical basis of ethics, argued without appeal to any one religion.
The Dalai Lama sets out an ethics that does not depend on religious belief, grounded instead in what he takes to be a universal desire for happiness and an equally universal capacity for compassion. Written for a general readership, the book argues that concern for others is the practical route to one’s own contentment, and applies the principle to work, politics and suffering.
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Jeffrey Sachs
Of course, I am very attracted to the Dalai Lama for many aspects of his wisdom and Buddhist ideas and overwhelmingly about the need to put compassion at the centre of our lives and at the centre of our global thinking. Not only to help those in need but actually to help ourselves, because it is the core principle of the Dalai Lama that the way to our own happiness is by attentiveness and compassion to others.
Interview · September 2010
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