From USA Today-
Is everybody happy today? And what would that mean? Does God want you to be happy now? How?
Emory University's Center for the study of Law and Religion brought on the biggest international pro on happiness,, the Dalai Lama, yesterday to chat in a round table with major voices of world religions: the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church; British chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and Islamic scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr of George Washington University.
Did the Dalai Lama say anything surprising at the Happiness Summit? Not according to his Twitter fans, who get frequent snippets of Buddhist wisdom uploaded by His Holiness' staff such as:
According to my own experience, the highest level of inner calm comes from the development of love and compassion.
Anyone want to speak against that? Not likely.
Later this week you'll be able to check out the big thinkers' conversations on YouTube. But leading up to this, as part of the university's five year research drive, the Pursuit of Happiness Project, they also loaded up videos from Emory experts from world religions.
More here-
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/post/2010/10/happiness-dalai-lama-emory-christian-jewish/1
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