Posted: Jun 08, 2014 7:20 pm
In response to the question posed to the Dalai Lama I would just say practice compassion. Compassion is hard, and like anything hard you only get good at it with constant practice. And the practice also teaches by demonstration. If someone is pleasant it evokes a pleasant response in the same way unpleasantness evokes an unpleasant response. So if you want a compassionate world respond to unpleasantness with compassion and pleasantries and you engage in the struggle. And if you are good at it you should seek out unpleasant people just for your own benefit. If they don't respond you get the opportunity to practice patience, another difficult thing that needs constant training.