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Arianna Huffington My Conversation With The Dalai Lama The Convergence Of Science And Spirituality VIDEO |
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Written by Arianna Huffington
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Monday, 14 May 2012 12:15 |
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At a luncheon in the crypt at St. Paul's before the Dalai Lama received the Templeton Prize today, I was seated next to Canon Mark Oakley. "We need to move beyond relevance to reverberation," he said.
It was a call to move beyond the
shallows to the depths, beyond the momentary novelties of the moment to the echoes of the soul. The Canon summed up the vicious circle we too often find ourselves caught in: "We are," he said, "spending money we don't have on things we don't want in method to mark by pressure clan we don't like."
To find the silence of mind that alone can put back this objectless pry into that has led to an general of force, pain, and drugs -- legal and unlawful -- the Dalai Lama is looking to information (specifically neuroscience) to convince a skeptical increasingly-laical society of the efficacy of contemplation and compassion to change our lives and our world.
As he wrote in his 2005 book, The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of information and Spirituality:
The great service of information is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of endurance at the natural level, but it is only through the cultivation of the qualities of the human heart and the transformation of our attitudes that we can begin to address and overcome our mental endurance... We need both, since the alleviation of endurance must take courtyard at both the natural and the psychological levels.
It is for this decades-long endurance to bring together information and spirituality that he was awarded the Templeton Prize. I sat with him before the awards observance. Here is our conversation:
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Arianna Huffington My Conversation With The Dalai Lama The Convergence Of Science And Spirituality VIDEO
