The Dalai Lama, a world-famous Buddhist leader, suggests ‘secular ethics’
beyond religion in this 21st century. Through the secular ethics he suggested,
we learn the inner value of the inseparable connection between my happiness
and the happiness of others and the true consideration of the happiness of other
people. And we can achieve a creative and happy life through the warm mind
of compassion and discernment and their rational practice. We must learn how
to remove the negative element of mind caused by ethical foundation of
compassion, a representative spirituality, as well as the science of mind that
combines the discernment. The structure of this secular ethics can be
summarized into a project of knowledge and ethics where we can face up to
the negative elements of our personality, promote our own positive intuition and
thereby accomplish final enlightenment. Based on such structure of secular
ethics, the Dalai Lama argues that all the problems of modern times should be
fundamentally solved through education. He is still practicing his own
philosophy that the inner value of happiness can be restored through education
and that one can be happy only when one participates in the world though
ethical practice.