Dalai Lama Quotes About Competition

• Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivational, Cheating, Bullying

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). “How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

• There is competition, but it is used in a good way. It is positive to want to go first, provided the intention is to pave the way for others, make their path more easy, help them, or show the way. Competition is negative when we wish to defeat others, to bring them down in order to lift ourselves up.

  Dalai Lama

  Order, Competition, Wish

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

• Here, the certain temple rule, this seems to me to have a certain responsibility to look after the well-being of society and look after Buddhism and culture. I consider these part of the practice of spirituality. There is no competition between spiritual practice and party politics. That is outdated. We already, since 2001, have elected political position. My position is semi-retired. I am looking forward to complete retirement.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Retirement, Party

  Source: www.opti-mystical.com

• I think, that in the twenty-second century, there will be more female reincarnations at female institutions. Then there'll be competition between male lama institutions and female lama institutions. It'll be a positive sort of competition.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Competition, Twenties

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 1, 2006.

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