Meditation is a scientific method to transform human nature from bad to good. Everybody needs to be good-natured with a good heart.

–  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Why do we need to be good? Why shouldn’t we all just stay like we are, each man out for himself, with occasional heroic flashes of selflessness (recorded on social media?)

I don’t know about you, but whatever I see in the news, in history, around me, or in my own life confirms that cutting ourselves off from others, being selfish and mean, doesn’t seem to be a remotely successful strategy for finding lasting happiness or freedom, either individually or collectively.

Instead, the way to develop deeper and deeper happiness is by getting rid of our inner problems – our delusions – and cultivating our boundless potential for good qualities such as love, compassion, patience, and wisdom.

This is the real method to solve our own inner problems – problems of ignorance, depression, anger and so forth – and is also the real method to benefit others practically.

–  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

A happy person is a person who is free from negative thoughts and it connected to others by a mind of love. What are the habits of such a person? Beneficial actions that cherish those around them and create a harmonious society.