Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 44

• Perhaps our teachings seem less religious and more technical, like psychology, so they are easier for secular people to use.

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  Religious, Teaching, People

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• Your motivation should be sincere and your life should be of benefit to some people. That is the main thing. Don't care after my death.

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  Motivation, People, Care

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• If the Dalai Lama joins one party, then that makes it hard for the system to work.

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  Party, Lama, Dalai

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• Up to now my involvement in the Tibetan freedom struggle has been part of my spiritual practice, because the issues of the survival of the Buddha Teaching and the freedom of Tibet are very much related. In this particular struggle, there is no problem with many monks and nuns, including myself, joining.

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  Spiritual, Struggle, Teaching

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• I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight!

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  Want, Way, Palaces

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• In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of life. If one monastery is destroyed, sometimes it happens.

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  Loss, Way, Sometimes

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• We have never declared war on China. We have only asked them to leave us in peace, to let us have our natural freedom.

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  War, Natural, China

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• It may seem unrealistic to think we can ever become free from hatred, but Buddhists have systematic methods for gradually developing a tolerance powerful enough to give such freedom.

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  Buddhist, Powerful, Thinking

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• Self-rule means that China must stop its intensive effort to colonize Tibet with Chinese settlers and must allow Tibetans to hold responsible positions in the government of Tibet.

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  Mean, Government, Self

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• Even within one person, yesterday and today, there are differences. We must look at a deeper level.

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  Differences, Yesterday, Today

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• China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China.

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  Troops, Unions, Accepting

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• At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

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  Real, War, Tired

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• In some cases, lack of full knowledge or holistic view, that is also part of the problem. But mainly lack of moral principle. So long you have this genuine sort of concern, well being of other. That's the foundation of moral principle.

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  Views, Long, Foundation

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• In a free country, America, or India, and Japan, and many places, democracy country, free country, but still within the sort of rule of law, some injustice, some sort of problems, some discrimination, and also some sort of scandals or the corruptions. These things, you see, they are always in my mind, I think many people agree, lack of moral principle.

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  Country, Thinking, Law

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• Americans are interested because they are open-minded. They have an education system that teaches them to find out for themselves why things are the way they are. Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

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  Believe, Buddhism, People

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• Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy! And once those with material wealth encounter small difficulties, their amount of mental suffering is sometimes bigger than it is for those who have faced such difficulties every day.

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  People, Anxiety, Doubt

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• I always emphasize that it is much safer and better to keep one's own religious faith. The other major religions are thousands of years old and have long traditions.

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  Religious, Years, Long

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• It is worthwhile for one to make an effort to achieve happiness. Just as the purpose of a plant is to grow, so it is that the main purpose of every human being is to survive and to grow until death.

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  Effort, Purpose, Achieve

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• There should be a spirit of dialogue. Whenever we see any disagreements, we must think how to solve them on the basis of recognition of oneness of the entire humanity. This is the modern reality.

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  Reality, Thinking, Oneness

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 1, 2006.

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• As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation.

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  Mind, Development, Should

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• There are differences between us. But it doesn't make sense to emphasize that, because my future and yours is connected with everyone else's. So we have to take seriously our concern for all of humanity. When we focus on our individuality, humanity inevitably suffers. And once humanity suffers, each one of us will also suffer.

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  Differences, Focus, Humanity

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• We must realize that it is best to focus on our oneness, to re emphasize what is the same about each of us rather than dwell on what is different.

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  Oneness, Focus, Different

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• The Buddha gave equal opportunities to women. But we, even as followers of Buddha, neglected that.

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  Opportunity, Followers, Equal

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 1, 2006.

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• I have never been any place where I was not first invited. And upon invitation, if I feel that there is potential for making some contribution to humanity, I will comply in spite of being tired.

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  Tired, Humanity, Firsts

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• In pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose!

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  Running, People, Choices

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