What is the Best Religion?

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Dialogue Between The Dalai Lama

and Dr Leonardo Boff


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The Dalai Lama, a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate is

a great spiritual and Buddhist Leader. He is the

Author of many spiritual books.


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Leonardo Boff, a Brazilian Theologist is one of the

renovators of the Theology of Freedom.


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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 :


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Your holiness,what is the best religion?


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I thoughthe would say:

The Tibetan

BuddhismorThe

oriental religions,much older than

Christianity


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The Dalai Lama paused, smiled and looked

me in the eyes .


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which surprised me because I knew of

the malice contained in my question.


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He answered:

The best

religion is the one

that gets youclosest to God.


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It is the

one that

makes youa better

person.


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To get out of my embarassment with

such a wise answer, I asked:


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What is

it that

makes mebetter?


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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


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I was silent for a moment, marvelling and

even today thinking of his wiseand irrefutable response:


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I am not interested, my friend, about

your religin or if you are religious

or not.


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What really is

important to me is

your behaviour in

front of your peers,family, work,

community, and in

front of the world.


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Remember,

the universe isthe echo of our

actions and our

thoughts.


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The law of action

and reaction is notexclusively for

physics. It is also

of human

relations.IfI act with

goodness, I will

receive goodness.

IfI act with eviI, I

will get evil.


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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 ofoptions.


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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


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There is

no

religionhigher

than the

Truth.


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The End

May we strive on diligently alongThe Spiritual Path to realize

The Truth

With Metta,

Bro. Oh Teik Bin

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