Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Quotes

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• Developing compassion and wisdom and helping those in need is the true meaning of life.

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  Compassion, Meaning Of Life, Needs

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.184, Tharpa Publications UK

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• When things go wrong in our life and we encounter difficult situations, we tend to regard the situation itself as our problem, but in reality whatever problems we experience come from the side of the mind. If we were to respond to difficult situations with a positive or peaceful mind they would not be problems for us; indeed, we may even come to regard them as challenges or opportunities for growth and development. Problems arise only if we respond to difficulties with a negative state of mind. Therefore, if we want to be free from problems, we must transform our mind.

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  Positive, Buddhist, Attitude

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.5, Tharpa Publications US

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• Love is the real nuclear bomb that destroys all our enemies, because when we love all living beings, we have no enemies.

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  Real, Love Is, Enemy

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• Patience is a mind that is able to accept fully and happily, whatever occurs. It is much more than just gritting our teeth and putting up with things. Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises, having given up the idea that things should be other than what they are.

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  Mean, Ideas, Mind

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.319, Tharpa Publications UK

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• Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be acheived unless we first establish peace within our own minds. We can send so-called 'peacekeeping forces' into areas of conflict, but peace cannot be oppossed from the outside with guns. Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.

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  Peace, Gun, Helping Others

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• When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.

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  Happy, Mind, Contentment

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2003). “The New Meditation Handbook: Meditations to Make Our Life Happy and Meaningful”, p.12, Tharpa Publications UK

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• All the happiness there is in the world arises from wishing others to be happy.

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  Wish, World, Arise

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• Everything we have and everything we enjoy, including our very life, is due to the kindness of others. In fact, every happiness there is in the world arises as a result of others' kindness.

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  Kindness, World, Facts

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness”, p.83, Tharpa Publications US

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• Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions.

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  Real, Lying, Mind

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness”, p.17, Tharpa Publications US

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• In reality, our mind is the creator of all the things we experience.

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  Reality, Mind, Creator

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• Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.

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  Helping Others, Creating, Mind

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.11, Tharpa Publications UK

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• We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved unless we first establish peace within our own minds.

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  Yoga, Mind, Wish

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.11, Tharpa Publications UK

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• We need to keep a constant watch over our mind and learn to distinguish between the beneficial and harmful thoughts that are arising moment by moment. Those who are able to do this are truly wise.

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  Wise, Mind, Watches

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.123, Tharpa Publications UK

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• The path to enlightenment is really very simple - all we need to do is stop cherishing ourself and learn to cherish others. All other spiritual realisations will naturally follow from this.

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  Spiritual, Simple, Enlightenment

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• We are all interconnected in a web of kindness from which it is impossible to separate ourself.

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  Kindness, Impossible, Interconnected

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness”, p.83, Tharpa Publications US

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• The moment we let go of our obsessive concern for our own welfare, our mind naturally relaxes and becomes lighter.

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  Letting Go, Mind, Relax

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.151, Tharpa Publications UK

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• When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively deeper levels of inner peace, we will develop tremendous enthusiasm to practice

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.9, Tharpa Publications UK

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• If we transform our ordinary mind into love and compassion we will naturally act in a positive way.

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  Compassion, Mind, Ordinary

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2000). “Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness”, p.227, Tharpa Publications UK

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• Listening is a lamp that dispels the darkness of ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Darkness, Listening

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2002). “Understanding the Mind: Lorig, an Explanation of the Nature and Functions of the Mind”, p.207, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• The cause of happiness and the solution to our problems do not lie in knowledge of material things. Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind.

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  Lying, Mind, Suffering

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• We do not need to become unhappy just because things don't go our way.

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  Unhappy, Needs, Way

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• The solution to all the problems of daily life is to cherish others.

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  Daily Life, Problem, Life Is

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.112, Tharpa Publications UK

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• Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time these discriminations are incorrect or have little meaning. For example, our habitual way of categorizing people as friends, enemies, and strangers depending on how they make us feel is both incorrect and a great obstacle to developing impartial love for all living beings. Rather than holding so tightly to our discriminations of the external world, it would be much more beneficial if we learned to discriminate between valuable and worthless states of mind.

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  People, Mind, Enemy

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness”, p.127, Tharpa Publications US

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• The more we control our mind, the more our inner peace increases and the happier we become

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  Inner Peace, Mind, Increase

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2003). “The New Meditation Handbook: Meditations to Make Our Life Happy and Meaningful”, p.4, Tharpa Publications UK

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• Our mental attitude transforms a situation into either a problem or an opportunity.

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  Attitude, Opportunity, Problem

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