The Dalai Lama’s new album called Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama won the award for the Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording at the recent Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. It is a 10-part lesson in living a peaceful and nourishing life. The words are spoken by the Dalai Lama with soothing music provided by artistes such as the sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan and his sons, Ayaan Ali Bangash and Amaan Ali Bangash.

At a time when conflict is a common language of expression, the 90-year-old’s gentle speech arrives as an antithesis. It values compassion and warm-heartedness. In one of the tracks titled Harmony, he insists that there’s too much emphasis on “My country, their country”. The Dalai Lama urges us to “completely forget past histories” and “think of new realities.”