If there is trouble, some understanding brings a benefit from it.
Life becomes useful when you confront a difficulty; it provides a kind of value for your life to have the kind of responsibility to confront it and overcome it. Whereas if you do not feel such difficulties, there's no such responsibility, no role for you to play in your life. . . . That challenge allows you to practice your ability.
Basically, the purpose of life is to serve other people. From that point
of view, a difficulty is really a great opportunity. I have often said
that our generation of Tibetans is seeing the saddest part in all of Tibetan
history. So from that angle it is . . . a great honor, a great privilege
. . . to face these times, to confront them.