Dalai Lama: I shout and say harsh words

Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Einstein
are cited by him as people who inspire him, but says he has been most
heavily influenced by the second-century Indian Buddhist monk Nagarjuna. “He
said that there is a huge gap between appearances and reality. Appearance is
something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is
interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a
peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.”

But he hasn’t quite mastered this himself, he concedes. He gets angry “quite
often” with “advisers, secretaries, other people around me when they make
some little, little mistake, then sometimes I burst. Oh yes! Anger and I
shout! And some harsh words. But that remains for a few minutes, then it’s
finished.”

At 76, he wakes at 3.30 every morning, meditates for four hours, pounds the
treadmill, and then uses Buddhist prostrations to relax. He hasn’t watched
television for two years, doesn’t read novels or poetry, but is a BBC radio
addict. He stops work just after three in the afternoon, and is tucked up in
bed by 7pm.

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