14th Dalai Lama

Buddhist teachers, as well as non-religious people who've also found paths to true happiness, tell us that all of our genuine happiness comes from benefiting others, and all of our suffering comes from selfishness.

It's not selfish to take good care of yourself, of course, but when does self-care turn into selfishness? When does it become a cause of suffering? The Dalai Lama says that compassion is the intelligent way to be selfish, that true happiness comes from opening our hearts to others.

So what's the unintelligent form of selfishness? That's the thought, me, mine, my coffee, my car, my phone, my lunch, my job, my friend, my boyfriend, my girlfriend, my happiness, the idea that as long as I get mine, I'm okay.

And this is a common view today, that if we all act selfishly and just avoid harming each other, we'll create a happy, beautiful world.

This is the source of all happiness.

This is being intelligently selfish.

As the Dalai Lama says, if you want to be happy, cherish others.

One of my teachers is Venerable Sange Kadro, who's still known by her given name, Kathleen MacDonald.

Right.

It's like, well, I mean, the Dalai Lama has to be male.

The Pope has to be male.

Why is it that you're getting certain international organizations just picking on Japan and calling it like you know yeah or like you know sexist sexist yeah yeah so like you know it's just another example of double standards like that Japan is held to but your point earlier about what was

That's just my term for this.

But the Dalai Lama met with Jeffrey Epstein and is mentioned in the Epstein files at least 169 times.

I don't have any of those emails linked.

But that's interesting in itself.

It's like, oh, well, we'll come out with him as a pedophile and as a, this horrible, disgusting person.

And then no one wants to ever read any of his stuff.

And they just, you know, they're, they kind of have, you know, it's like guilty by association with the content kind of thing, you know? Oh, I don't even want to look at anything like that because look at Deepak Chopra, you know, look at the Dalai Lama.

Like, oh, now I just got to throw out all, you know, these spiritual concepts.

in my mind, in my body, everywhere.

I have to say, at the time, I came to America in 1989, and I realized, I started to study Buddhism in the 90s, because the Dalai Lama received the Nobel Prize for Peace, and his speech of acceptance was so inspirational, and you can watch it on YouTube, or you can read it, and it's very easy to find.

But it was so inspirational that I started to study it.

And the Dalai Lama was really a bright light in my life because I had someone guiding me, not from the point of view of obviously a chef, because he's definitely not a cook, but Suddenly is when I started to see the opposition in between what I liked about the teaching from him and what I dislike about my attitude.

And saying, it doesn't work, it doesn't connect, it's opposite of what I like.

So...

Patow stands for Plan to Take on the World.

It was once described as the Dalai Lama plus Coca-Cola.

plus Will.i.am, plus General Electric, plus Elon Musk.

That says something.

He touched into his musicality, and then he took that to a master level through everything that he's done.

The other thing about Quincy is exactly what you said.

Another similar experience I had was when we had the Dalai Lama at Patau and people asked like, what's so special about his holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama? And for me, the thing that's most special is that when he speaks to you, even though there's a whirlwind of everything happening around, you're the only person in the room and the humanity of that.

And Quincy has that as

Foreign media were banned and troops secured the streets.

The government blamed refugees abroad and Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who has long advocated a policy of non-violence for masterminding the unrest.

Whether intentionally or unintentionally, some kind of cultural genocide is taking place.

Tibetan refugees in London and around the globe seized the opportunity to show the world the other side of the smiling face China is presenting publicly in the run-up to the Olympics.

It's been a long time.

When the US criticized China for limiting religious freedom, the Chinese government stated that such accusations were unfounded and unreasonable and that all citizens enjoy full religious freedom.

But monks in Tibet say they don't have freedom of worship and are forced to attend meetings where they are taught that the state must always take precedence and that they must renounce allegiance to the Dalai Lama.

Another young Tibetan said that in the education system too, minor acts of protest are met with heavy punishment.

Like I'm like, yo, stick me, stick me with whatever you got my guy.

I've got five business deals to close and a documentary with a Dalai Lama.

And I'm lit.

And I am going to India on the first week of November.

I'm nervous because I'm like, what am I not nervous, but I'm like, it's almost like you can't wrap your head around.

Like that it's happening.

Like I'm going to get to go to Dharamsala, meet the Dalai Lama, have that moment.

I'm working with like rock stars, musicians, Spin Magazine is coming on board.

But the great Internal Affairs, which was Gear's kind of comeback film, that was shot in 89 and comes out in early 90.

So there's like an eight-year fallow period of Gere making bad movies, but focused on political action, the Dalai Lama starting the Tibet Center in New York, even showing up at the unveiling of the AIDS quilt in New York in 87.

That's big, yeah.

Yes.

But he's really, like, what we're talking about, this kind of, like, understated, reserved guy.

That's more true probably to who he is, a guy who would prefer to sort of stay in his apartment reading spiritual literature or something and meditating.

Hanging with the Dalai Lama.

Yes.

Like I forget all the time, you know? And I, I mean, you know, even in writing a book and being a mildly public figure, it's like, I'm, I fall into the trap daily of trying, you know? And so I, To me, belovedness and even living as the beloved is not reaching this Nirvana-esque awareness of how loved I am.

Yeah, you're floating through life just like the Dalai Lama or something.

I would say it's

much more about practicing remembering as much as possible, meaning I forget all the time.