"It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come."
"Within the body there are billions of different particles. Similarly, there are many different thoughts and a variety of states of mind. It is wise to take a close look into the world of your mind and to make the distinction between beneficial and harmful states of mind. Once you can recognize the value of good states of mind, you can increase or foster them."
The highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism is a fairly clear example of a SEI type. Identified at two and installed at four, he was raised in an environment that prioritized scholastic training and monastic discipline. Still, for someone with such an extensive nominal authority (whatever actual authority he had definitely ended in 1959, when he escaped to India amid an uprising triggered by fears of his arrest), he's surprisingly calm, compromising and open-minded.
The Middle Way Approach — abandoning the claim to independence in favour of genuine autonomy within China — cost him enormously with more radical members of his own diaspora, but he, paradoxically, refused to bulge on his own compromising — fits the type that is No. 1 Compromiser of the socion. A religious leader, he prased aspects of Marxism. Eventually, he devolved even his nominal authority, repealing all his political duties. Other leaders-in-exile often strike a pose of a dramatic, persecuted hero, aided by this posture being cheap in a situation where you aren't actually ruling anything. He refused to behave that way.
The Dalai Lama can manage the mood of his interlocutors well, creative-Fe style. Every journalist who meets him writes about it. The giggling through solemn occasions, defusing tension. "I am not only a socialist but also a bit leftist, a communist. In terms of social economy theory, I am a Marxist. I think I am farther to the left than the Chinese leaders. [Bursts out laughing.] They are capitalists." He isn't interested in EIE-style high drama, or even the demonstrative IEI vulnerability, but in Alpha SF good mood, occasionally showing even the characteristic "sugary" communication style of the Fe creative. On sexual and gender issues, he often avoided a clear stance, being willing to say what his interlocutors expressed, but generally claiming a live-and-let-live attitude. When he gets embroiled in scandals, he tends to sweep it under the rug, then to intensify whatever caused it in the first place. Somewhat faceitously, even his school of Buddhism, Madhyamaka, "teaches that all phenomena are empty of an independent, inherent essence (svabhāva), existing instead purely through interdependent origination (pratītyasamutpāda)," which is quite a socionically "dynamic" approach, although of course, it's not that strong of a dichotomy, and he didn't choose it himself, being installed as a kid into a specific scholastic lineage with a fixed curriculum.
He has the Ne-ish curiosity about the outside world. His characteristic Mind and Life dialogue format is that he convenes notable people — physicists, philosophers — and asks them questions, listens, and reacts with visible delight. But note that he isn't the one generating any original hypotheses, his appetite for novelty is met from outside, which fits Ne in its suggestive position.
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