Vastaanottajat: ohhdl@dalailama.com
Dear Sir,
I have written a self-published book which seeks to show that the purely selfish military kind of power benefit point of view supports excellent moral. The book is available in the internet for free at stores.lulu.com/khtervola. About how the values mentioned in the book connect to Buddhism, I have written the following:
Inside the scientifical picture of the world Buddhist enlightenment would refer to the happiness produced by completely healthy ways of living, healthy especially in what comes to the use of attention which would not be robot like like that of a one used to memorising everything taught in school but instead naturally observant and so able to adabt to every situation that life brings - with the increased understanding (the ability to pay attention to many essential points) bought by education being a part of the reaction.
Human values and a holistic view of the world relate directly to the Buddhist compassion toward all living beings. Justice is the way to support good and prevent harm to the living beings. Carrying responsibility about the consequences of one's actions relates to being aware about them and caring for all the others.
Naturality connects to health: following the natural ways of functioning of humans brings health. By natural attention we mean paying attention to things in a way that suits the situation and in a way that our ture nature commands us to use in such a situation.
I hope that this could be of any use to You.
Yours sincerely, Kaisa Hannele Tervola
Finland, Europe
www.paradisewins.net
Hannele Tervola
Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Vastaanottajat: hannele.tervola@gmail.com
27 September 2007
hannele.tervola@gmail.com
Hannele Tervola
Dear Hannele,
I want to acknowledge receipt of your email sent to the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama dated 24 September.
I appreciate that you have taken the time to write to us to let us know of your book.
All the best,
Rinchen Dhondrub