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Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said human inability to address and tackle negative emotions such as fear, jealousy and anger are real contributors to more violence.
Discussing the scope for greater scientific intervention in tackling human emotions, he said, “When we say real peace, it’s related to inner peace. Full of anger impossible to achieve non-violence”. He was taking part in a panel discussion with three prominent scientists, neuroscientist Iri Atsushi, physicist Chu and Professor Sakiko Yoshikawa at Yokohama in Japan on Friday.
“Scientists use their brilliant intelligence to concentrate on physical matter. Now science should include investigation about mind and consciousness. So that the field of scientific research extends not only in the material world but the internal mind. This is the purpose of our meeting,” he said while addressing scientists and participants from Kyoto University.
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He noted that once people develop compassion, more meaningful dialogue can take place which will ultimately lead to a less violent world.
“In order to achieve genuine peace, firstly we must develop inner peace. To demilitarise the world, we should first demilitarise our inner world. Even in the 21st century, we are still seeing violence everywhere. Even though we have updated and transformed our external environment, we have failed to update our thinking which still remains outdated,” he said.
The Dalai Lama said people still understand violence as the right approach to solve problems. “Now through education, we should tell people that violence is outdated, not the right method to solve human problems. Neuroscientist Iri Atsushi made the first presentation on human evolution, followed by more presentations by Physicist Chu and Professor Sakiko Yoshikawa, Kyoto University.
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