Tibetan Quotes - Page 7

• It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim rise and fall, shining or sinking into darkness. But true love stays fastened to the axle and doesn't move.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Fall, Passion

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• I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.

  Jaime King

  Learning, Thinking, Southern

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

  Joanna Lumley

  Political, Freedom Of Speech, Suffering

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.

  Barbara Walters

  Believe, Buddhism, Heaven

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• Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.

  Richard Gere

  Buddhist, Gdp, Way

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• The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating speaker on Zen, Taoism, Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity and ancient Greek philosophy... and also a prolific author.

  Nevill Drury

  Philosophy, Teaching, Buddhism

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• The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Frustration, Government, Laughing

  Olaf Stapledon (2013). “Darkness and the Light”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It's clear - clear light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Light

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• With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Enlightenment, Use

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• In my travels, I have found two peoples, the Tibetans and the Fijians, who don't seem to have this problem. Their closeness with their environment, their religions, and their relationships with each other and nature make them feel part of everything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Two, Rama, Problem

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• I teach Zen, tantric mysticism, jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, Tibetan mysticism, occultism and psychic development. I also teach poetry and literature, film and many other different things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Buddhism, Psychics

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• As a dialectical teacher, I have had many lives where I have taught Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and mysticism. I teach in many different modalites. But the theme that unites them - is love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Different

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• I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

  David Bowie

  Buddhism, Study, Young

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.42, Melville House

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• The mystery school continued throughout the greater Egyptian civilization, which was the second age of humankind and later on into the third age of humankind when the Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan high cultures flourished

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Egyptian Civilization, Chinese

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife - from Guangxi we went up to the High Tibetan region. We also went along the Hurunui River on horseback in the South Island of New Zealand.

  Antony Gormley

  Horse, Adventure, Rivers

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• My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

  Dalai Lama

  Genuine Friends, Chinese, Essentials

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• There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.

  Dalai Lama

  Sleep, Men, Doors

  "Your Emotional Fitness: Everything You Need to Know to Live a Life of Abundance". Book by Gary Rubin, p. 173, 2013.

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• I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Irritation, Long

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• I think many people knows what I am thinking. The whole world knows I am not seeking independence, therefore is many Tibetan disappointed, and also some of our supporters - many Indians, many Europeans, many Americans are also disappointed because I am not seeking independence.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, People, Independence

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Spiritually, yes, now many people knows Tibetans in spiritual field are very, very advanced but in material field is very, very backward.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, People, Fields

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• No single Tibetan dreaming return of previous sort of backwardness, therefore as far as economy development is concerned, Tibet remain within the People's Republic of China, we will get greater benefit.

  Dalai Lama

  Dream, People, Development

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The things that can restore us have to get in, too. This is what the wisdom of an open heart is all about. All the spiritual traditions speak of this but I love the Tibetan tradition: "A spiritual warrior always has a crack in his heart because that is how the mysteries can get in."

  Mark Nepo

  Spiritual, Heart, Warrior

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• A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age.

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  Ram Dass

  Writing, Dark, Age

  Interview with Douglas Gillies, www.douglasgillies.com.

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• Buddhism - Tibetan Buddhism - teaches us many things, peace comes from within, we must be free ourselves from earthly desires...

  Peter Sagal

  Buddhism, Desire, Teach

  "Panel Round One". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. September 26, 2015.

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• A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Thinking, Sheep, Years

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