Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 38

• See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort.

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  Effort, Sides

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

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• What unites all beings is their desire for happiness.

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  Desire

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• Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same.

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  Real, Viewpoints, Non Believer

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.161, Shambhala Publications

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• It is not enough simply to wish that love and compassion should increase in us. We need to make a sustained effort, again and again, to cultivate the positive aspects within us - and the key here is constant familiarity. The nature of human thoughts and emotions is such that the more you engage in them, the more you consciously develop them, the more powerful they become.

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  Powerful, Compassion, Keys

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• As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.

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  Mind, Emotion, Buddha Nature

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• Our prime purpose in life is to serve others.

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  Purpose, Life Is, Purpose Of Life

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• Compassion, along with love, is the face of altruism.

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  Love Is, Compassion, Faces

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• A generous heart and wholesome actions lead to greater peace.

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  Heart, Action, Greater

  The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.77, Hachette UK

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• In the modern world, the interests of a particular community can no longer be considered to lie within the confines of its own boundaries.

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  Lying, Community, World

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• Let us cultivate love and compassion, both of which give life true meaning. This is the religion I preach. It is simple. Its temple is the heart. Its teaching is love and compassion. Its moral values are loving and respecting others, whoever they may be. Whether one is a lay person or a monastic, we have no other option if we wish to survive in this world.

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  Teaching, Heart, Simple

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• May I examine my mind in all actions and as soon as a negative state occurs, since it endangers myself and others, may I firmly face and avert it.

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  Mind, Negative, May

  Dalai Lama (2001). “The Compassionate Life”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• In spiritual growth, it is important to avoid imbalances between academic or intellectual learning and practical implementation. Otherwise there is a danger that too much intellectualiza tion will kill the more contemplative practices and too much emphasis on practical implementation without study will kill the understanding. There has got to be a balance.

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  Spiritual, Buddhist, Learning

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• It's best not to get too excited or too depressed by the ups and downs of life.

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  Excited, Ups & Downs

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• The only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know it. The birds have no such power, nor do the insects, nor does any mammal. Yet if we have the capacity to destroy the earth, so, too, do we have the capacity to protect it.

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  Bird, Mammals, Doe

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• Sin contains its own judgement and punishment.

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  Punishment, Judgement, Sin

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• To be in flow means to be totally absorbed in whatever one is doing at the moment. It occurs when one is fully present and completely focused on the task at hand...Flow can occur during any human activity, whether work or at play.

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  Mean, Hands, Play

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• I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend

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  Compassion, Genuine Concern, Rights

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• There is a true feminist movement in Buddhism that relates to the goddess Tārā. Following her cultivation of bodhicitta, the bodhisattva's motivation, she looked upon the situation of those striving towards full awakening and she felt that there were too few people who attained Buddhahood as women. So she vowed, 'I have developed bodhicitta as a woman. For all my lifetimes along the path I vow to be born as a woman, and in my final lifetime when I attain Buddhahood, then, too, I will be a woman.'

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  Motivation, Buddhism, People

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.292, Penguin Books India

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• World peace must develop from inner peace.

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  Inner Peace, World, Human Compassion

  "Yoga at the Pentagon With Tao Porchon-Lynch" by Dr. Terri Kennedy, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2012.

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• When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.

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  Compassion, Self, Benefits

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• All religion teaches the virtues of love, altruism and patience, while showing us how to discipline and transform ourselves to achieve inner peace and a kind heart. Therefore, they are worthy of our respect.

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  Heart, Discipline, Inner Peace

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• The development of a kind heart, or feeling of closeness for all human beings, does not involve any of the kind of religiosity we normally associate with it...It is for everyone, irrespective of race, religion or any political affiliation.

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  Heart, Race, Political

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• As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.

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  Spiritual, Ignorance, Buddhism

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• So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful.

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  Spiritual, Negative, Firsts

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.43, Penguin

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