Matthieu Ricard Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Wisdom, Children, Lying

• Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

  Matthieu Ricard

  Buddhism, Envy, Suffering

• When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Memories, Buddhism, Simplicity

• The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Lying, Buddhism, Roots

• We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Suffering, Tasks, Matter

• True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Mean, Buddhism, Ego

• Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Suffering

• Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Pain, Empathy, Feelings

  "Is Compassion Meditation the Key to Better Caregiving?" by Matthieu Ricard, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.

• Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Mean, Buddhism, Suffering

• Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our thoughts and illuminate each one of our perceptions.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Wisdom, Mean, Buddhism

• By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Buddhism, Self, Long

• There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Suffering, Our Actions, Ethics

• Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

  Matthieu Ricard

  Mind, Suffering, Translate

• Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in harmony with our true nature and allows us to taste the freshness of the present moment.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Wisdom, Believe, Mean

• Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Creativity, Buddhism, Names

• What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Buddhism, Suffering, Tasks

• Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Empathy, Brain, Suffering

  "Is Compassion Meditation the Key to Better Caregiving?" by Matthieu Ricard, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.

• That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Buddhism, Mind, Suffering

• You get [something] in your body that is the suffering or the problem, and then you [add] a second one, which is worry. In both cases, [it is] pointless.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Worry, Suffering, Add

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

• There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Compassion, Suffering, Openness

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

• Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others

  Matthieu Ricard

  Evil, Suffering, Good And Evil

  Matthieu Ricard, Trinh Xuan Thuan (2009). “The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet”, p.19, Broadway Books

• When you see those in healthcare who don't get this burn-out, they are very motherly, fatherly, or loving and attentive with the patients. [These] wonderful caretakers, doctors, and nurses don't get as much burn-out as people who are more defensive of the feelings and suffering of others.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Doctors, Suffering Of Others, Nurse

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

• When faced with adverse circumstances, if you can do something, do it and there is not need to worry. If you can't do anything, then there is no point to worry. So in either case, worrying is an added suffering. But this does not mean of course that we should not be unhappy about injustice, abuse and other kinds of behavior that brings suffering upon others.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Mean, Worry, Abuse

  Source: www.nydailynews.com

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