Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 50

• I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to.

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  Ethical Principles, Want, Ethics

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• As human beings we are all the same. We have this marvelous intelligence, which sometimes creates problems for us, but when influenced by warm-heartedness can be very constructive. In this context we need to appreciate the value of having moral principles.

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  Appreciate, Principles, Needs

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• What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Imagination, Meditation

  Dalai Lama, Alexander Berzin (1997). “The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra”, p.56, Shambhala

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• The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality.

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  Kindness, Reality, Keys

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• Peace in the world relies on individuals finding inner peace.

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  Inner Peace, World, Individual

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• I think governments can't do much.

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  Thinking, Government

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• If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

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  Views, People, Miracle

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• I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

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  Feet, Lifetime, Tibet

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• I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

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  Education, Buddhist, Views

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• One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

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  Want, Finals, Rebirth

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• If you have only education and knowledge and a lack of the other side, then you may not be a happy person, but a person of mental unrest, of frustration. Not only that, but if you combine these two, your whole life will be a constructive and happy life. And certainly you can make immense benefit for society and the betterment of humanity. That is one of my fundamental beliefs: that a good heart, a warm heart, a compassionate heart, is still teachable.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Heart, Happy Life

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• We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of friendship in which there is less need to hide what we feel or what we are doing.

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  Inspirational, Needs, Able

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• Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.

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  Inspirational, Philosophical, World Religions

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• unless the direction of science is guided by a consciously ethical motivation, especially compassion, its effects may fail to bring benefit. They may indeed cause great harm.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivation, Compassion, Benefits

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• The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Heart, Compassion

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• The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Law, Mind

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• In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. When we worry less about ourselves an experience of our own suffering is less intense. What does this tell us? Firstly, because our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. Secondly, it tells us that genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness.

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  Happiness, Spiritual, Mean

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• The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.

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  Spiritual, Suffering, Stage

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.40, Penguin

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• Who has magnificent self-confidence
  And fears nothing that exists?
  The man who has attained to truth
  And lives free of error.

  Dalai Lama

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Men

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• During the day extend that attitude to everyone you meet. Practice cherishing the "simplest" person (clerks, attendants, etc) or people you dislike.

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  Buddhist, Attitude, Practice

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• When ever Buddhism has taken root in a new land, there has been a certain variation in the style in which it is observed. The Buddha himself taught differently according to the place, the occasion and the situation of those who were listening to him.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Taken, Buddhism

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.116, Penguin Books India

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• Samsara - our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.

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  Buddhist, Different, Consciousness

  "Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

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• To develop genuine devotion, you must know the meaning of teachings. The main emphasis in Buddhism is to transform the mind, and this transformation depends upon meditation. in order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.

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  Buddhist, Teaching, Buddhism

  "Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

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• If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are present among Dharma practitioners, it is great disgrace to practice

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  Humility, Pride, Practice

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• Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.

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  Clever, Humility, Pride

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