01/04/2026
I deeply resonate with this message from His Holiness, the Dalai Lama.
As someone who hasn’t watched the news for over a decade, I receive information in ways that allow me to focus on what truly matters. Reading this today reminded me that peace and love begin within each of us.
“If we spread love and peace, peace will follow. If we spread hate, hate will follow.”
May this wisdom inspire us all to live with compassion, dialogue, and understanding.
I wish for a world where love and peace prevail, and I hope this message can reach as many hearts as possible.
MESSAGE
I wholeheartedly endorse the powerful appeal for peace made by the Holy Father, Pope Leo, during his Palm Sunday Mass. His call for the laying down of arms and the renunciation of violence resonated profoundly with me, as it speaks to the very essence of what all major religions teach.
Indeed, whether we look to Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism or any of the world's great spiritual traditions, the message is fundamentally the same: love, compassion, tolerance, and self-discipline. Violence finds no true home in any of these teachings. History has shown us time and again that violence only begets more violence and is never a lasting foundation for peace.
An enduring resolution to conflict, including the ones we see in the Middle East or between Russia and Ukraine, must be rooted in dialogue, diplomacy and mutual respect — approached with the understanding that, at the deepest level, we are all brothers and sisters.
I urge for and pray that the violence and conflicts may soon come to an end.
DALAI LAMA
31 March 2026