Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 39

• I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.

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  Men, Animal, Vegetarian Diet

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• Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.

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  Desire, Negative, Sometimes

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.37, Penguin

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• If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills? Then gradually, more white hair, wrinkles.

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  Sleep, Wrinkles, Hair

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• Your friend, your enemy, your neutral all are equal. Genuine compassion is unbiased.

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  Compassion, Enemy, Unbiased

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• Had Tibet not fallen away from dharma China could not have invaded.

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  China, Dharma, Fallen

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• Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind.

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  Mean, Thinking, Mind

  The Dalai Lama, Tsongkhapa (2017). “The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra, Volume 2: Deity Yoga”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

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• We need to teach people that the environment has a direct bearing on our own benefit.

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  Teaching, People, Needs

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact that we can see.

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  Heart, Benefits, Facts

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• The question of world peace, the question of family peace, the question of peace between wife and husband, or peace between parents and children, everything is dependent on that feeling of love and warmheartedness.

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  Peace, Children, Husband

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• Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.

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  Survival, Morality, Conservation

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2004). “Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World”, p.55, Parallax Press

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• For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.

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  Community, Initiative, Individual

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• Determination, with an optimistic attitude is the key to success.

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  Determination, Attitude, Optimistic

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• So long as we are under the control of disturbing emotions, real happiness is hard to find.

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  Real, Long, Emotion

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• We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of a happy life is within us. Trouble makers in many parts of the world are often quite well educated, so it is not just education that we need. We need to pay attention to inner values.

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  Happy Life, Needs, Attention

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• We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not in the buildings but in our hearts and minds.

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  Real, Heart, Mind

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

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  Spiritual, Kindness, Enemy

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• If you utilize obstacles properly, then they strengthen your courage, and they also give you more intelligence, more wisdom.

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  Giving, Obstacles, Ifs

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• If you have a great deal of knowledge, but you're governed by negative emotions, then you tend to use your knowledge in negative ways. Therefore, while you are learning, don't forget the importance of warmheartedness.

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  Way, Negative, Use

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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.

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  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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• Don't compare me with Jesus. He is a great master, a great master.

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  Jesus, Masters, Compare

  The New York Times, November 28, 1993.

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• It is also possible within this lifetime to enhance the power of the mind, enabling one to reaccess memories from previous lives. Such recollection tends to be more accessible during meditative experiences in the dream state. Once one has accessed memories of previous lives in the dream state, one gradually recalls them in the waking state.

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  Dream, Memories, Mind

  "Consciousness at the Crossroads: Conversations with The Dalai Lama on Brain Science and Buddhism". Book by 14th Dalai Lama, 1999.

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• It is not enough to belong to a religion. You also have to put it into practice. Religion is like medicine. You have to ingest it to combat the illness.

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  Practice, Medicine, Illness

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• Life does not wait: Whether we spend our lives meaningfully or not, the time will be used up moment by moment.

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  Waiting, Meaning Of Life, Doe

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• I think when tragic things happen it is on surface. It is like the ocean. One the surface a waves and sometimes the wave is very serious and strong. But it comes and goes, comes and goes, and underneath, the ocean always remains calm. Tibetans have a saying: "If bad news comes to you listen here" (points to the right ear) "and let it our here" (points to the left ear).

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  Strong, Ocean, Thinking

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• Sometimes religion becomes yet another source for more division and even open conflict. Because of that situation, I feel the different religious traditions have a great responsibility to provide peace of mind and a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood among humanity.

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  Religious, Responsibility, Sisterhood

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