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STUDENT QUESTION & ANSWERS After his address, the Dalai Lama responded to the following questions submitted by students: Q. If you could teach a child one thing, what would it be? Compassion and education. Compassion brings warm-heartedness and a sense of community. Education is a good instrument, but sometimes it can be used for harm. Both are needed. Q. Who inspires you? The Buddha. Gandhi. Jesus Christ. Mother Teresa. Animals inspire me, too, when they demonstrate a sharing and peaceful nature, feeding and grooming each other and showing each other affection.” Q. What would you like your legacy to be? As a monk, a Buddhist monk, I am not even allowed to think about that. Q. How do you come to terms with all the suffering you see? Change is in our nature. There will always be change. Nothing is permanent. We have to accept that. Some suffering is unavoidable, such as growing old and death. These are things we have to adjust to. But we have the capacity to overcome suffering. Since we are the creators of some suffering, we all have the answer to overcome it. How do we overcome it? With more optimism, more determination and more hard work.
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