no delete i are all with joy that you have returned to our community and deeply grateful for the blessing you i have given this morning to our community center this you've been joining in richmond with your blessings our new community center is now truly a home good morning i am so happy to be here in berkeley today to welcome the extraordinary and preeminent spiritual leader his holiness the fourteenth dalai lama of tibet to the thirteenth congressional district we are grateful to the tibetan association of northern california and berkeley high school for hosting his holiness wherever i go i am telling people that my district is the most progressive forward thinking district in the and you know this is also one of the most ethnically culturally and spiritually diverse regions in the country more than half of my constituents speak a language other than english more importantly other than english more importantly your holiness by selecting berkeley california for your visit today you could have not chosen a more significant place where peace and compassion are heartily highly regarded the thirteenth congressional district with over eight hundred thousand residents is the birthplace of the free speech movement the bir have chosen the very city where in the nineteenth thirty's small student organizations at the university of california at berkeley protested totalitarianism and fascism and organize annual pea and you have chosen the city where in february one thousand nine hundred sixty six berkeley women protested the war with the march to the oakland induction center to demand an end to the vietnam war and to bring our young men this is truly the heart and the soul of the peace movement in america and we are all tremendously honored by your presence here today i am humbled to introduce the dalai lama who is the spiritual leader of tibet recognized internationally as a buddhist spiritual and philosophical leader as well as a statesman who has worked and still works tirelessly for peace into b people and to promoting world peace women in the respect and affection of world leaders and millions of people throughout the world throughout the world his philosophy of nonviolence offers a solution to the most difficult political environmental and personal problems of our time tolerance neutral respect and reverence for all living things have been the cornerstone of his philosophy the cornerstone and his refusal to use violence in tibet struggle for freedom won him the nobel peace in two thousand and eleven after years of democratic reform of the tibetan government in exile his holiness formally ended the dual spiritual and political authority of the dalai lama reverting to the original tradition the first four dalai lamas to act as spiritual leader of tibet his holiness has travelled extensively sharing his philosophy of peace based on compassion and personal more stress insi what you feed what's the best way to achieve happiness money and after a few days i lost my patient and sheedy you see making this state as you mentioned already i think so this i think it's just people so it just sh child to be happier and to perform better at doing his homework  since we cannot know until we ourselves die what happens to the soul of loved ones is there are fact for what happens or is it just based on belief in any way at the time of death so people who look up to that person at that moment keep your mind should not just and must  day what do you like to do for fun my sort of getting early morning is not for meditation but for so as or the topic of how to achieve happiness you have often said that all beings wish to be happy and that we all share the right to be happy each of us struggle from our own personal pain and  kindness and love to the entire humanity friends also as our us have a home to return to after this if we live in a free country with freedom and liberty that a secured for us though he cannot return to the country he calls home he's committed to making our own world a better home he has devoted his life to giving including even to those who have taken away everything from negotiating table with the representatives of his holder is