Dharamshala: Kyabje Menri Trizin Rinpoche, head of Yungdrung Bon said that the four commitments of His Holiness the Dalai Lama are but a perpetual remedy for the problems of the modern world and went on to review why each of the commitment is relevant now more than ever.
Reviewing the importance of human values, Rinpoche pointed out to take a closer look at the events of the 20th century which is by far the most violent in the recent history of mankind. The violence and atrocities of the 20th century as Rinpoche argued happened due to the absence of moral concepts and lack of consistency in the practices of those values, to say the least.
Given the fast-paced globalisation, Rinpoche emphasised that the need for universal secular ethics is necessary more than ever, further emphasising that the moral ethics need be based on religion but rather as something that can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without faith.
“The values should be such that people of diverse faith and belief must find something in common,” asserts Rinpoche.
As for His Holiness’ commitment to religious harmony, Rinpoche advised overlooking the differences in religious beliefs and accepting the fact that all religions share and advance the same message that ultimately connects them all.
Likewise, the third and fourth commitments urged Rinpoche to require more contributions from the Tibetans in particular while he commended the fact that Tibetans have been able to preserve much of its unique culture, religious traditions, and language against considerable odds.
Watch the full address here:
༧གོང་ས་མཆོག་གི་ཐུགས་བསྐྱེད་དམ་བཅའ་བཞིའི་ཐོག་གཏམ་བཤད་ལས་རིམ་ཉིན་ ༣ པ།
༄༅། །ཉིན་གསུམ་པའི་ལས་རིམ་ཐོག་དཔལ་ས་སྐྱའི་༧སྐྱབས་མགོན་༧གོང་མ་ཁྲི་འཛིན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་། ༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་དགའ་ལྡན་ཁྲི་ཆེན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག དཔལ་༧རྒྱལ་དབང་ཀརྨ་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག ༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་སྨན་རིའི་ཁྲི་འཛིན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག ༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཞི་ཆེན་རབ་འབྱམས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག འབྲི་གུང་༧སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེ་ཚང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག ༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཇོ་ནང་རྒྱལ་ཚབ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་བཅས་ནས་སྤྱི་ནོར་༧གོང་ས་༧སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་ཐུགས་བསྐྱེད་དམ་བཅའ་བཞིའི་སྐོར་གསུང་བཤད་གནང་གི་རེད།
Posted by TIBET TV on Saturday, 5 December 2020