Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 48

• In my mind of course natural disaster like tsunami, and these things, also I think indirectly may relate to human behavior. But then major sort of problems actually they're due to a lack of moral principle.

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  Thinking, Mind, Principles

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

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  Mean, Clothes, Body

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• I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to.

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  Ethical Principles, Want, Ethics

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• As human beings we are all the same. We have this marvelous intelligence, which sometimes creates problems for us, but when influenced by warm-heartedness can be very constructive. In this context we need to appreciate the value of having moral principles.

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  Appreciate, Principles, Needs

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• What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.

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  Compassion, Imagination, Meditation

  Dalai Lama, Alexander Berzin (1997). “The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra”, p.56, Shambhala

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• The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality.

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  Kindness, Reality, Keys

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• Peace in the world relies on individuals finding inner peace.

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  Inner Peace, World, Individual

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• Because past environmental destruction was the result of ignorance, we can easily forgive it. Today, we are better informed. Therefore, it's essential that we make an ethical examination of what we have inherited, what we are responsible for, and what we will pass on to coming generations. Ours is clearly a pivotal generation. We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue.

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  Communication, Ignorance, Past

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• We must have a pure, honest, and warm-hearted motivation, and on top of that, determination, optimism, hope, and the ability not to be discouraged. The whole of humanity depends on this motivation.

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  Determination, Motivation, Optimism

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• Misunderstanding may arise by confusing the Buddhist and scientific definitions of death. Within the scientific system you spoke quite validly of the death of the brain and the death of heart. Different parts of the body can die separately. However, in the Buddhist system, the word death is not used in that way. You'd never speak of the death of a particular part of the body, but rather of the death of an entire person. When people say that a certain person died, we don't ask, "Well, which part died?"

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  Buddhist, Heart, People

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• In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are of deities or Buddhas, and they try to send a message of the value of the spiritual.

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  Spiritual, Responsibility, Artist

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• Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.

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  Mind, Enlightenment, Technique

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• We have to adopt a wider perspective, and always find common things between the people of north, east, south, and west. Conflict comes from the basis of differencs.

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  Perspective, People, West

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• Even without a religion, we can become a good human being.

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  Humans, Human Beings, Good Human Being

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• Nothing comes into being without a cause and when all the conditions are created, there is nothing that can prevent the consequence.

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  Causes, Conditions, Consequence

  Dalai Lama (2016). “The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is permanent.

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  Permanent

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• Ultimately, the decision to save the environment must come from the human heart. The key point is a call for a genuine sense of universal responsibility that is based on love, compassion and clear awareness.

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  Responsibility, Heart, Compassion

  Dalai Lama XIV (2009). “Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.48, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• All People and things are interdependent. The world has become so small that no nation can solve its problems alone, in isolation from others. That is why I believe we must all cultivate a sense of responsibility based on love and compassion for each other.

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  Believe, Responsibility, Compassion

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• I think governments can't do much.

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  Thinking, Government

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• If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

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  Views, People, Miracle

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• I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

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  Feet, Lifetime, Tibet

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• I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

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  People

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• I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

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  Thinking, Reason, Century

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• I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Civilization, Long

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. June 24, 2012.

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• As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

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  Long, Chinese, Alive

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