The spiritual leader of Buddhists, the 14th Dalai Lama, during an online teaching for Russian Buddhists, told how to get on the path to peace and happiness. Attachment and anger, he says, help to curtail thinking about "emptiness," which makes it clear that not all things are instigated by cause and effect.Nagarjuna, His Holiness recalled, says that if a person wants to achieve full enlightenment, it is necessary to develop both the "view of emptiness" and "compassion - Bodhichitta." This can be done by mentally "replacing oneself with others", "meditation on an equal attitude towards everyone," cultivating "good thoughts in relation to others."
The Dalai Lama is convinced that no living creature wants to suffer, and everyone wants happiness. “But most of the suffering in the world is created by people themselves because of selfishness and self-centeredness. A person cannot find happiness if he thinks only of himself and does not care about others. Selfishness leads to shortcomings and vices and harms us not only now, but also in the distant future. And the more we care about others, the more happiness we experience,” the Dalai Lama concluded.
