What are the Dalai Lama’s main commitments? What are their benefits? Do you share any of his commitments?
The Dalai Lama believes that in order to achieve peace, we should look for our commonalities instead of our differences. In order to achieve this, we need to be taught how to see each other’s commonalities in school. School is the place where everyone learns about socializing and is where we learn multiple values. He believes that the educational system has a great role in who we become as a human. This is why he believes that from the very beginning of our educational process, we should learn values that bring love and peace. The writer states,”My wish is that, one day, formal education will pay attention to the education of the heart, teaching love, compassion, justice, forgiveness, mindfulness, tolerance and peace.”
The benefits of learning those values would include in less violent conflicts and a better sense of what it means to be human. Instead of focussing in all the bad, we would be inclined to focus on all the good each and every one of us brings to the table. Then and maybe only then may we see that we’re all human and we make mistakes, but we are also able to fix our mistakes. We may always have conflicts, but realizing that violence is not the nace may change the end result. The writer truly believes that, “Our children should grow up with the idea that dialogue, not violence, is the best and most practical way to solve conflicts.” Not only do children change the future but they may also influence the present.
I do believe that most ideas should be implemented in our school system. The only issue is that we’re all human with our own ideas and belief systems. It would be extremely complicated to get everyone on board and it could take many, many years for things to change. Some people may never change at all. I do believe that if the educational system begins to teach our children more than what there is in textbooks, then maybe we could change.As the author states, “The educational systems of the future should place greater emphasis on strengthening human abilities, such as warm-heartedness, a sense of oneness, humanity and love.” When children begin to see the good in being good, it may influence their adulthood and they may begin to create a pattern with their new generations.
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I liked how you mentioned that in order to teach people to have peace within others it has to start within the educational system. I like this approach of spreading peace because it is where the seed is planted for kids to learn not to be violent and learn the similarities with others. Another reason why the school system is a good way to spread peace and not violence because it may be difficult to spread peace with Adults who already have a certain way of thinking and changing that mindset can be difficult.
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This is a solid write-up. I have a similar position to you in the way that I think this is a good idea on the Dalai Lama’s part but I understand that this would be difficult to implement.
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Hi Carmen,
I agree with your post on how people should find commonalities to achieve peace and how those can be found by people’s objectives being similar like pursuing education. I had an instance where this occurred changing a hostile situation into a new friend. Someone made a very offensive comment on my complexion where I simply ignored it which made them furious. After a while of not reacting, they tried to start a fight outside the college math class. He was mad that I would just ignore him and even avoided hearing him out so I laughed and said: ” Listen I got a test today, I work full time and have 5 classes I don’t even have the time to start a fight. So you do you ” the guy actually started laughing and explained it as well then apologized for his outburst. Some random guy found the struggle of college as a respectable commonality making him ashamed of even making such a negative statement towards me. I told him I was heading to Starbucks so he followed and we talked about our math class. A rememberable moment of how commonalities can create peace.
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