Saya mengagumi Dalai Lama, dengan filosofi yang sederhana namun sarat makna, termasuk kalimat demi kalimat dalam file tsb. Kebetulan isi file itu adalah dialog antara seorang teologia Brazil dengan Dalai Lama. Saking suka dengan kalimat2 dalam file tersebut, sering saya mencari kembali email itu.
Berikut adalah isi file tersebut;
A brief dialogue between a Brazilian Theologist, Leonardo Boff (is one of the renovators of the Theology of Freedom) and the Dalai Lama.
In a
round table discussion about religion and freedom in which Dalai
Lama and myself were participating at recess I maliciously, and also with interest, asked him:
“Your holiness, what is the best religion?”
I thought he would say:
“The Tibetan
Buddhism” or “The oriental
religions, much older than Chritianity”
Dalai Lama paused, smiled and looked me
in the eyes …. which surprised me because I knew of
the malice contained in my question. He answered:
“The best religion is the one that gets you closest to God. It is the one that makes you a
better person.”
To get out of
my embarassment with such a wise answer, I asked:
“What is it that makes me better?”
He responded:
“Whatever makes you more compassionate, more sensible, more detached, more loving, more humanitarian, more responsible, more ethical.”
“The religion that will do that for you is the best religion”
I was silent for a moment, marvelling and
even today thinking of his wise and
irrefutable response:
“I
am not interested, my
friend, about your
religión or if you are
religious or not.
“What really is important to me is your behaviour in front of your peers, family, work, community, and in front of the world.”
“Remember, the universe is the
echo of our actions and
our thoughts.”
“The law of action and reaction is not exclusively for physics. It is also of human relations.
If I act with goodness, I will receive goodness. If I act with eviI, I will get evil.”
“What our grandparents told us is the pure truth.
You will always have what you desire for others. Being happy is not a matter of destiny. It is a matter of options.”
Finally he said:
“Take care of your Thoughts because they become Words. Take care of your Words because they will become Actions.
Take care of your Actions because they will become Habits.
Take care of your Habits because they will form your Character.
Take care of your Character because it will form your Destiny,
and your Destiny will be your Life
… and …
“There is no religion higher than the Truth.”
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