I can't imagine you having an audience with the Dalai Lama. Could you really be so dismissive a deep rich tradition such as Buddhism, that puts impersonal values above all others and dissolves the separation between individuals as a delusion, finding compassion one of the more intrinsic parts of human nature. Stanford Medical School has a whole program as part of its psychology program to train people in compassion. There are actually scientific studies that show physiological changes that happen when people become more attuned and compassionate. Some say we are hard-wired to be "relational" so it's becoming more than a personal preference/delusion and more of a scientific truth about how we are as human beings.