3 Powerful Principles From The Dalai Lama That Can Help Get You Through Any Crisis
How to tackle pandemics, politics, and your own personal well-being.
“Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.” — Dalai Lama
On one beautiful day many millennia ago, the Buddha was teaching a student about the nature of life. The youngster was having a hard time understanding the lesson on self-inflicted pain, so Siddhartha started explaining it with a metaphor.
The Buddha asked the student: “If the person is stuck by an arrow, is it painful?”
Without hesitation the student replied: “It is.”
The Buddha went on: “If the same person is stuck by a second arrow, is that not even more painful?”
Once again, the student agreed: “It is.”
This is what Sidhartha was waiting for. Taking a deep breath, he showed the student the nature of suffering: “In life, we cannot always control getting hit by the first arrow. However, the second arrow is how we react to the first. With this second arrow, comes the possibility of choice.”
