Dalai Lama 'Work for peace, and don't expect help from God and governments'

The Dalai Lama speaks with German news media Deutsche Welle - ​Dalai Lama on Paris attacks: 'Work for peace, and don't expect help from God and governments'

​"The problems that we are facing today are the result of superficial differences over religious faiths and nationalities. We are one people."

“We cannot solve this problem only through prayers. I am a Buddhist and I believe in praying. But humans have created this problem, and now we are asking God to solve it. It is illogical. God would say, solve it yourself because you created it in the first place.”

"So let us work for peace within our families and society, and not expect help from God, Buddha or the governments,"   read full article

Right -- magical thinking will not solve our problems.  Neither will religious institutions and dogmas that divide people - setting us against each other. The Dalai Lama is right -- We (all of humanity) are one people.  It's time we started acting like it.  It's time we started taking responsibility.  It's time we started truly taking care of each other - our sisters and brothers -  worldwide.