“In this century, human knowledge is extremely expanded and developed. But this is mainly knowledge of the external world.
In
the field of what we may call "inner science", dealing with the inner
things, there are many things, I think, that you do not know.
You
spend a large amount of the best human brain-power looking outside -
too much. and it seems you do not spend adequate effort to look within,
to think inwardly. . . . Perhaps now that the Western sciences have
reached down into the atom and out into the cosmos finally to realize
the extreme vulnerability of all life and value, it is becoming
credible, even obvious, that the Inner Science is of supreme
importance. Certainly physics designed the bombs, biology, the germ
warfare, chemistry the nerve gas and so on, but it will be the unhealthy
emotions of individuals that will trigger these horrors.
These emotions can only be controlled reshaped, rechanneled,
by technologies developed from successful Inner Science.”
-- The Dalai Lama speaking at Harvard