Dalai Lama on the thing about humanity that surprises him most

Every so often an unsolicited email arrives in our inboxes and survives the spontaneous DELETE button. This is one of them.
Here’s a question that was posed to the Dalai Lama: “What thing about humanity surprises you the most?" His answer was as follows:

'Man'

Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.

Then he sacrifices his money to recuperate his health!

And then he is so anxious about the future that he doesn’t enjoy the present,

And as a result he doesn’t live in the present or the future!

And he lives as if he’s never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived!

In the 15 seconds it took me to read these profound words, it made me accutely aware that it may take 15 or 50 years to get to this point – or miss the point altogether.

Can you be fully present in meetings, in conversations and in silence?
Can you indeed, be in the moment or present?

Think about how easy it would be if we all could do stop, pause, breath, reflect and then respond to situations, people and processes that would enable greater communication and negotiation and take us to the sweet spot of connection.

Great leaders connect with their heart, head and hands – usually in that order. What about you?


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