Tibetan Quotes - Page 6

• Tibetans are great with meritorious practices.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Practice

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• What I like about Tibetan Buddhism is it was taken to Tibet in the 7th century and then again in the 11th. It has everything that had been collected in India up until that time. And so on all levels, it's so vast.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Taken, Buddhism, India

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• I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.

  Joni Mitchell

  Television, Hamburgers, Used

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• As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

  Dalai Lama

  Long, Chinese, Alive

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• If enough people are sensitive to the tragedy of Tibet, I think it will produce a change politically as well. But furthermore, it's important for the people in Tibet. Now communication is such [that] people know what is happening. Even Tibetan people would know that the Interfaith or the international group of religious people - that everybody who is religious is taking up their cause. It would help them a lot if we give them courage, and that in itself is enough.

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, Communication, Thinking

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that.

  Elie Wiesel

  Giving Up, Lasts, Century

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• The Tibetan religion has a past. And furthermore it has such an appeal. There again young people today are drawn to Buddhism and to Tibet. It's not only because of the Dalai Lama. It's because of what Tibet represents. There is a vast reservoir of knowledge, of mystical knowledge, which can be found in Tibet.The Chinese shouldn't be afraid of that really. They have other means of survival.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Buddhism, Past

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• I think Dogen can be a very good introduction for people who want to meditate in whatever way, whether it's yoga, qigong, or Tibetan. It can help widen and deepen anyone's meditation experience.

  Kazuaki Tanahashi

  Yoga, Thinking, Qigong

  Source: blogs.sfzc.org

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• Spiritual models for me are the communities of Tibetans living in exile in India, or the banjars of Bali, which exist in times of difficulty, oppression. Alternative spaces-perhaps this kind of communication can take place over the Net? Probably only up to a point as the Net's controlled by the military. But the idea is to live outside multi-national, monocultural, commodification prison, outside the grey areas of power-mad, monied collusion.

  Anne Waldman

  Spiritual, Military, Communication

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• When Tibetan lamas die they stay in a realization of clear light nature of the mind for several days or weeks.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Light, Mind, Realization

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• My mother was a spiritualist. We had weekly séances at our house with a neighbor who was a medium and various friends, and so I was brought up with the idea that there are many realms of being all around us. So that prepared me for Buddhism, and especially Tibetan Buddhism with all its talk of different realms and dimensions of being.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Mother, Buddhism, Ideas

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• As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are mostly the same. And as he pointed out during the recent disturbances, the Chinese are suffering under a tough government much as the Tibetans are.

  Pico Iyer

  Government, Views, Suffering

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• I would now put all my heart with the Tibetan people and the Tibetan cause, but not at the expense of the Chinese, and not say that Tibetans are good and Chinese are bad. And in my own life, I hope I would learn to be a little less full of right and wrongs, and a little more able to see everything as a potential right.

  Pico Iyer

  Heart, People, Chinese

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the God Ram-Ram-Ram (etc. with or without charm) on their fingers; or honour Vishnu with his thousand names of invocation, Allah with his ninety-nine; or they may make use of the prayer-wheels and the rosary: the main thing is that they are settled down for a time at this work and are tolerable to look at. This kind of prayer has been invented for the benefit of the pious who have thought and elevations of their own.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Prayer, Names, Ninety Nine

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• In the early '60s there was very little reliable information on Tibetan Buddhism. I was living in London and I had joined the Buddhist Society. For the most part, people there were either interested in Theravada or Zen Buddhism. There was almost no one into Tibetan Buddhism at that time.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Buddhist, Buddhism, People

  Source: fpmt.org

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• Self-rule means that China must stop its intensive effort to colonize Tibet with Chinese settlers and must allow Tibetans to hold responsible positions in the government of Tibet.

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Government, Self

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience yet they are often overlooked as a vehicle for exploring reality. In the dream state our bodies are at rest, yet we see and hear, move about and are even able to learn. When we make good use of the dream state it is almost as if our lives were doubled: instead of a hundred years we live to be two hundred -- Tibetan Buddhist Tarthang Tulku from

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Buddhist, Moving

  Stephen LaBerge (2012). “Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life”, p.7, Sounds True

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• China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China.

  Dalai Lama

  Troops, Unions, Accepting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Because my main concern is the Tibetan Buddhist culture, not just political independence, I cannot seek self-rule for central Tibet and exclude the 4 million Tibetans in our two eastern provinces of Amdo and Kham.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Two, Self

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to change the way people think about animals. I encourage the Tibetan people and all people to move toward a vegetarian diet that doesn’t cause suffering.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving, Animal, Thinking

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• I have been clear in my position for quite a while, but the Chinese have not responded. Therefore, we are now in the process of holding a referendum on our policy among all the Tibetan community in exile and even inside Tibet, to check whether the majority thinks we are on the right track.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Track, Community

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

  Ella Maillart

  Boys, Climbing, Hiking

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• It is my dream that the entire Tibetan plateau should become a free refuge where humanity and nature can live in peace and in harmonious balance. It would be a place where people from all over the world could come to seek the true meaning of peace within themselves, away from the tensions and pressures of much of the rest of the world

  Dalai Lama

  Dream, People, Humanity

  "Nobel lecture". www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1989.

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• Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Tibetan, or other historical traditions, are all different streams in the same river, different currents in the same ocean. With the long view, we can trust that the seeds that we're planting are transforming the world.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Ocean, Long, Historical

  Source: eomega.org

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• Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be free.

  Pico Iyer

  People, May, Monk

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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