Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 53

• We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend to remain dormant. We can develop them on the basis of common sense, common experience and scientific findings. The response to the recent tragedy in the Philippines is an example of how such values are awakened; people helped simply because others are suffering and in need of support.

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  Common Sense, People, Support

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• I'm now nearly 79. At 16 I took responsibility for Tibet and lost my freedom. At 24 I lost my country and became a refugee. I've met difficulties, but as the saying goes: 'Wherever you're happy, you can call home, and whoever is kind to you is like your parents.' I've been happy and at home in the world at large. Living a meaningful life isn't just a matter of money; it's about dedicating your life to helping others.

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  Meaningful, Country, Home

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• For the rest of your life to be as meaningful as possible, engage in spiritual practice if you can. It is nothing more than acting out of concern for others. If you practice sincerely and with persistence, little by little, step by step you will gradually reorder your habits and attitudes so as to think less about your own narrow concerns and more about others' - and thereby find peace and happiness yourself.

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  Meaningful, Spiritual, Attitude

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• Forming a new world religion is difficult and not particularly desirable. However, in that love is essential to all religions, one could speak of the universal religion of love.

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  Love Is, World Religions, Essentials

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern for others.

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  Concern For Others, Concern

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• My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

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  Religious, Commitment, Compassion

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• I do not understand men. They spend their lives to use their health to make money and then they spend their money to restore their health.

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  Men, Use, Making Money

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• Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

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  Buddhism, Self, Discipline

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• My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

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  Faith, Overcoming, Negative

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• One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

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  Want, Finals, Rebirth

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• We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of friendship in which there is less need to hide what we feel or what we are doing.

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  Inspirational, Needs, Able

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• Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.

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  Inspirational, Philosophical, World Religions

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• unless the direction of science is guided by a consciously ethical motivation, especially compassion, its effects may fail to bring benefit. They may indeed cause great harm.

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  Motivation, Compassion, Benefits

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• The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.

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  Inspirational, Heart, Compassion

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• The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not.

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  Happiness, Law, Mind

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• In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. When we worry less about ourselves an experience of our own suffering is less intense. What does this tell us? Firstly, because our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. Secondly, it tells us that genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness.

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  Happiness, Spiritual, Mean

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• The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.

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  Spiritual, Suffering, Stage

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.40, Penguin

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• Who has magnificent self-confidence
  And fears nothing that exists?
  The man who has attained to truth
  And lives free of error.

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  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Men

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• During the day extend that attitude to everyone you meet. Practice cherishing the "simplest" person (clerks, attendants, etc) or people you dislike.

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  Buddhist, Attitude, Practice

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• When ever Buddhism has taken root in a new land, there has been a certain variation in the style in which it is observed. The Buddha himself taught differently according to the place, the occasion and the situation of those who were listening to him.

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  Buddhist, Taken, Buddhism

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.116, Penguin Books India

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• Samsara - our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.

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  Buddhist, Different, Consciousness

  "Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

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• To develop genuine devotion, you must know the meaning of teachings. The main emphasis in Buddhism is to transform the mind, and this transformation depends upon meditation. in order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.

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  Buddhist, Teaching, Buddhism

  "Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

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• If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are present among Dharma practitioners, it is great disgrace to practice

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  Humility, Pride, Practice

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• Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.

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  Clever, Humility, Pride

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• Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival.

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  Buddhist, Love Is, Compassion

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