How to Be a Great Leader-Lessons from the Dalai Lama
What an incredible treat it was to see the Dalai Lama in person in Washington, DC a couple years ago. I’m not sure what I expected, but simply being in the same room with this wise and kind master deeply moved me. He spoke of all the word’s religious traditions and how important it was for us all to be familiar with the beauty in all of them. Repeatedly, I have heard him tell students to stay precisely where they are in their own traditions; to glean wisdom from the 2500 year old Buddhist practices and allow what they learn to enhance–not detract from–their own teachings on...
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Up until about the age of three, I had a bit of a compulsion to always be first. “Me foist!” is what I’d yelp out whenever a queue formed. I loved being at the head of the pack, forging new territory with a red balloon in one hand and a Golden Book in the other. That all changed, however, during the winter of ’68 when my family and assorted relatives took to a local snow-covered hill in an outlying burbs of Cleveland, Ohio.* “Me foist! Me foist!” I exclaimed over and over as my uncle dragged a gigantic toboggan to the crest of the hill. I distinctly remember my aunt and my...
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