Dalai Lama Quotes About Enemies

• If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Teacher

  Dalai Lama (2016). “The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

• If there is love, there is hope that one may have real families, real brotherhood, real equanimity, real peace. If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Real, Confusion

  "The Little Book of Buddhism". Book by Dalai Lama, 2000.

• Every single being, even those who are hostile to us, is just as afraid of suffering as we are, and seeks happiness in the same way we do. Every person has the same right as we do to be happy and not to suffer. So let's take care of others wholeheartedly, of both our friends and our enemies. This is the basis for true compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Helping Others, Compassion

• The enemy is a very good teacher.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivational, Teacher, Enemy

• Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.

  Dalai Lama

  Gratitude, Buddhist, Opportunity

• The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Lying, Teaching, Persistence

• From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Views, Enemy

• We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. According to Shantideva, enemies are really good for us as we can learn a lot from them and build our inner strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Tolerance, Enemy

• The source of peace is within us; so also the source of war. And the real enemy is within us, and not outside. The source of war is not the existence of nuclear weapons or other arms. It is the minds of human beings who decide to push the button and to use those arms out of hatred, anger or greed.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, War, Anger

• It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Compassion, Practice

  "Ocean of Wisdom: Guidelines for Living". Book by Dalai Lama, 1989.

• For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Teacher, Compassion, Practice

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). “How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

• Everything is interconnected. My
  interest is linked to everyone else's. Our survival and future are linked. Therefore the destruction of your so-called enemy is actually the destruction of your self.

  Dalai Lama

  Self, Survival, Enemy

• Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Dalai Lama, Sofia Stril-Rever (2010). “My Spiritual Journey”, p.28, Harper Collins

• Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can. Anger is our real enemy.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Real, Cancer

• Easy times are the enemy, they put us to sleep. Adversity is our friend, it wakes us up

  Dalai Lama

  Adversity, Sleep, Enemy

• Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within.

  Dalai Lama

  Enemy, Comeback, Has Beens

  Dalai Lama (2005). “The World of Tibetan Buddhism: An Overview of Its Philosophy and Practice”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

• The compassion we feel normally is biased and mixed with attachment. Genuine compassion flows towards all living beings, particularly your enemies. If I try to develop compassion towards my enemy, it may not benefit him directly, he may not even be aware of it. But it will immediately benefit me by calming my mind. On the other hand, if I dwell on how awful everything is, I immediately lose my peace of mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Attachment, Hands

• It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Challenges, Tolerance

• The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Mind, Enemy

• Infinite altruism is the basis of peace and happiness. If you want altruism, you must control hate and you must practice patience. The main teachers of patience are our enemies.

  Dalai Lama

  Teacher, Hate, Practice

• The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Kindness, Enemy

• It is time to fill the world with strong and powerful deeds. It is common knowledge that no great captain in the world has ever destroyed all of his enemies and lived with a sense of satisfaction. If one enemy is killed, two more will appear. It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings which is the way to bring peace to all.

  Dalai Lama

  Strong, Powerful, Compassion

• In olden times when there was a war, it was a human-to-human confrontation. The victor in battle would directly see the blood and suffering of the defeated enemy. Nowadays, it is much more terrifying because a person in an office can push a button and kill millions of people and never see the human tragedy that he or she has created. The mechanization of war, the mechanization of human conflict, poses an increasing threat to peace.

  Dalai Lama

  War, Blood, Office

  "Pathways to Peace: Interreligious Readings and Reflections". Book by A. Jean Lesher, p. 111, 2005.

• An enemy is indeed a precious teacher.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Teacher, Enemy

  Dalai Lama XIV (2002). “Illustrated Teachings of the Dalai Lama”

• My enemy is my greatest teacher.

  Dalai Lama

  Wisdom, Teacher, Enemy

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