{"id":38777,"date":"2025-11-17T08:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/richard-gere-says-his-best-parenting-advice-came-from-the-dalai-lama\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T08:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:21:22","slug":"richard-gere-says-his-best-parenting-advice-came-from-the-dalai-lama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/richard-gere-says-his-best-parenting-advice-came-from-the-dalai-lama\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Gere says his best parenting advice came from the Dalai Lama"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/691a9c41e1a9cbb014de4fbd?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Richard Gere and the Dalai Lama.\"\/><figcaption>Richard Gere says the biggest lesson he wants his kids to learn comes from the Dalai Lama.<\/p>\n<p>Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Richard Gere, 76, says the most important lesson he wants his sons to remember is to be kind.<\/li>\n<li>The actor said the message was inspired by a conversation between his friends and the Dalai Lama.<\/li>\n<li>A practicing Buddhist since 1978, Gere has shared a close friendship with the Dalai Lama for decades.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When it comes to parenting, Richard Gere, 76, says he has one simple lesson that he hopes his sons never forget.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;You show kindness. That&#039;s the best thing you can do,&quot; the &quot;Pretty Woman&quot; actor told People in an interview published on Saturday. Gere has three sons: one with his ex-wife, Carey Lowell, and two with his current wife, Alejandra Silva.<\/p>\n<p>Gere said that the life lesson he hopes to instill in his children was inspired by a conversation between a couple he knew and the Dalai Lama.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I remember His Holiness was asked many, many years ago by a friend of mine \u2014 they were a couple,&quot; Gere said. &quot;She was pregnant and they were worried, how do you bring a kid into this world, how do you teach them.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;And His Holiness said, &#039;Teach them to be kind to insects, whom normally people don&#039;t think well of and step on and don&#039;t even think about it. To even respect the life of an insect, [that&#039;s] something that carries over into all of your life,&#039;&quot; Gere said, recalling the Dalai Lama&#039;s words.<\/p>\n<p>A practicing Buddhist since 1978, Gere has shared a close friendship with the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, for decades.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/691a866089026fbb4d0dc05e?format=jpeg\" alt=\"The Dalai Lama and Richard Gere.\"\/><figcaption>The actor has been practicing Buddhism since his 20s.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell Gerber\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In October, Gere told People that his spiritual journey began in his 20s, when he found himself asking big questions about purpose and meaning.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It wasn&#039;t a particular event, but I think there was just an ongoing innate questioning of what is this?&quot; Gere said. &quot;Why am I here? What am I supposed to do of any value? What has meaning? What lasts? Is there anything that lasts? Is there anything that has real meaning and real depth to it? And I think a lot of people in their 20s go through that.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The actor also served as a producer on &quot;Wisdom of Happiness,&quot; a documentary featuring the spiritual leader, which premiered at the Zurich Film Festival in October 2024.<\/p>\n<p>In an article published in October, Gere told GQ that he first met the Dalai Lama in the foothills of the Himalayas, where the spiritual leader was living in exile.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Even from the first time I met him, he&#039;s completely simple and direct and honest. There&#039;s no pretense about him whatsoever. So it&#039;s like talking to a favorite uncle, or your idealized version of your dad, or a college professor who you thought was just the greatest guy in the world,&quot; Gere said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Gere says the biggest lesson he wants his kids to learn comes from the Dalai Lama. Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images Richard Gere, 76, says the most important lesson he wants his sons to remember is to be kind. The actor said the message was inspired by a conversation between his friends and the Dalai Lama. 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