Lama Quotes - Page 5

• Dalai Lama is very interested in learning from and sharing tips with people in other traditions, but he always stresses that we shouldn't underestimate the important differences between them.

  Pico Iyer

  Stress, Differences, People

  "Interview: Pico Iyer". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, LA Yoga Magazine: May 2008: Volume 7/No. 5, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions, and we should go deeper into our own traditions rather than just acquiring the surfaces of others.

  Pico Iyer

  Buddhism, Roots, Tradition

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• The Dalai Lama says that when a Catholic and a Buddhist speak, the Buddhist becomes a deeper Buddhist and the Catholic becomes a deeper Catholic.

  Pico Iyer

  Buddhist, Catholic, Speak

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• The Dalai Lama acknowledges that he's met Westerners who to some extent are clearly Easterners at heart, and he would never want them not to become Buddhists just because they happened to be born in California.

  Pico Iyer

  Buddhist, Heart, California

  Source: layoga.com

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• I think of the Dalai Lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way a great doctor would.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, Doctors, Offering

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• The Dalai Lama says don't pray for peace, don't wait for peace, don't talk about peace - do it right now.

  Pico Iyer

  Waiting, Praying, Dalai

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• Unlike many spiritual leaders, Dalai Lama is never been in a position to just sit on a mountain top handing out wisdom. He's had to live out his principles in the middle of this very complex situation, every day for sixty years or more. I think it's something that moves many people about his example.

  Pico Iyer

  Spiritual, Moving, Thinking

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can go wrong.

  Pico Iyer

  Meditation, Helping, Dalai

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• I think Dalai Lama is always careful about stressing that people be led into the practice by somebody who knows what's going on.

  Pico Iyer

  Stress, Thinking, Practice

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• When I was two years old, I heard about his [Dalai Lama] flight from Tibet. Being very little, I said, "Oh, good Tibetans, bad Chinese." Those were the black-and-white ways that I thought.

  Pico Iyer

  Black And White, Years, Two Year Olds

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are mostly the same. And as he pointed out during the recent disturbances, the Chinese are suffering under a tough government much as the Tibetans are.

  Pico Iyer

  Government, Views, Suffering

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• In the [first] fifteen years [of field work] I can remember just ten times when I had really narrow escapes from death. Two were from drowning in typhoons, one was when our boat was charged by a wounded whale; once my wife and I were nearly eaten by wild dogs, once we were in great danger from fanatical lama priests; two were close calls when I fell over cliffs, once I was nearly caught by a huge python, and twice I might have been killed by bandits.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Dog, Years, Whales

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• Lenin in a top hat and frock coat would be a far greater anomaly than the Grand Lama of Thibet or a Zulu chief in that costume.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Would Be, Anomalies, Coats

  Wyndham Lewis (1929). “The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator”, p.36, Ardent Media

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• The Dali Lama and other notable Buddhist teachers have now indicated that since the world has plunged into a dark age, the information available in the tantras, which include the very, very powerful Kundalini release techniques, should be made available to the public.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Powerful

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• Any part of the piggy Is quite all right with me Ham from Westphalia, ham from Parma Ham as lean as the Dalai Lama Ham from Virginia, ham from York, Trotters Sausages, hot roast pork. Crackling crisp for my teeth to grind on Bacon with or without the rind on Though humanitarian I'm not a vegetarian. I'm neither crank nor prude nor prig And though it may sound infra dig Any part of the darling pig Is perfectly fine with me.

  Noel Coward

  Food, Pigs, Virginia

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• If I prayed as much as I pluck, I'd be the Dalai Lama.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Pluck, Dalai, Ifs

  Kathie Lee Gifford (2009). “Just When I Thought I'd Dropped My Last Egg”, p.152, Ballantine Books

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• Performing for the Dalai Lama - those are words I never imagined coming out of my mouth.

  Joe Nichols

  Mouths, Coming Out, Performing

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• One of the things that people sense is that you are not doing this for self-glorification, you are doing it for the sake of others. The Dalai Lama has been in exile for so many years, yet the Chinese are running scared of him.

  Desmond Tutu

  Running, Self, Years

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• If I am practicing spiritual poverty, which says that I own nothing, then the problems aren't mine and neither are the energy and compassion pouring through my heart to try to solve them. I am just a link in the process. If I don't take anything personally, then I can do great work without flagging. The Dalai Lama once said, 'Try with all your might - to work very, very hard - to make the world a better place, and if all your efforts are to no avail . . . no hard feelings!'

  Bo Lozoff

  Spiritual, Heart, Compassion

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• Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954; he was up against Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai from the time that he was fifteen. So he's no newcomer or naive when it comes to politics.

  Pico Iyer

  Country, War, Years

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• He [Dalai Lama] feels, and I feel, and everyone feels the suffering and frustration of the Tibetans who long for action, who long for a militant response. But, in some ways very few of those individuals have ever been in the position of being head of state.

  Pico Iyer

  Frustration, Long, Suffering

  Source: layoga.com

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• Dalai Lama is taking a subtle and nuanced view of politics and he is thinking in terms of events well beyond our lifetime.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, Views, Events

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• With the war in Iraq, he [Dalai Lama] feels that the causes of that lie maybe hundreds of years ago, and he says, "What we do now may have consequences far into the future that we will never see."

  Pico Iyer

  War, Lying, Years

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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

  Dalai Lama

  Party, Dalai, Hard

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• One thing I learned from his holiness the Dali Lama is the importance of humor.

  Marina Abramovic

  Holiness, Importance, One Thing

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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