SCHWARTZ: If we observe the behavior of animals we see that they also torture and kill. . . . So, if we look to nature as a guide to how things are, it would seem that evil and aggression are a very fundamental part of reality.

DALAI LAMA: My belief may be too simple, but I feel that from birth to death affection is the most important basis of the very existence of all sentient beings, particularly humans. Negative factors, such as anger and aggression, are a part of our human make-up, but I do not think that they are the main, dominant forces.
p. 27
Bstan-'dsin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, et al. "Dialogue: Buddhism, Neuroscience & the Medical Sciences"
MindScience: An East-West Dialog
Wisdom Books, 1994
MindScience: An East-West Dialog Wisdom Publications, 1991. Edited by Daniel Goleman and Robert Thurman. Carl E. Schwartz is an instructor in psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School.

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