Dalai Lama's message to Indian police is...
February 17, 2021 12:00
The Dalai Lama on Wednesday said it is okay for police to be rigid on their job as long as the motivation of their action is larger good. "Rigidity is simply a method of discipline. Whether it is violent or not entirely depends on the motive. As police, under certain circumstances, you need to use harsh methods, but the larger motivation is protecting people," he said.
The Dalai Lama was giving a talk on "Empathy and Compassion in Policing" at the request of the Indian Police Foundation. He was addressing the members of the police force virtually from his residence in Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh.
Emphasising on the need for humans to be compassionate and empathetic, he said such teachings should be part of one's education. "The west...the British introduced modern education, but you should also try to preserve the thousand-year-old traditions of the country, which are ahimsa, compassion, empathy.
"We should pay more attention to educate students in a secular way. That kind of education will automatically make people more compassionate," the Dalai Lama said, adding that the Indian police is the "protector of karuna and ahimsa". He said with leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Rajendra Prasad, who preached non-violence, India could be an example for the rest of the world to learn about the co-existence of people of "different religions, languages, scripts".
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