Tibetan Quotes - Page 8

• Spiritually, yes, now many people knows Tibetans in spiritual field are very, very advanced but in material field is very, very backward.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, People, Fields

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• No single Tibetan dreaming return of previous sort of backwardness, therefore as far as economy development is concerned, Tibet remain within the People's Republic of China, we will get greater benefit.

  Dalai Lama

  Dream, People, Development

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age.

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  Ram Dass

  Writing, Dark, Age

  Interview with Douglas Gillies, www.douglasgillies.com.

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• Buddhism - Tibetan Buddhism - teaches us many things, peace comes from within, we must be free ourselves from earthly desires...

  Peter Sagal

  Buddhism, Desire, Teach

  "Panel Round One". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. September 26, 2015.

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• A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Thinking, Sheep, Years

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• Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience.

  Gelek Rimpoche

  Buddhist, Taught, Reaching

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• Buddha activity doesn't mean radiating light and elevating yourself up a thousand feet in the air. That's not the point. The point is, as Zen is always saying - and Tibetans understand this also very well - every activity becomes perfect Buddha activity.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Mean, Light, Air

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• A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries into the nature of the universe.

  Fritjof Capra

  Nature, Science, Records

  "The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1975.

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• People always ask, "Why jazz?" and I'm like "Why not?" It's kind of like asking Seurat, "Why so many dots?" I imagine if you asked Bjork, "Why the Tibetan bells?" She'd probably be like "That's just what I heard." It's the same thing. This is just the way I see music.

  Melody Gardot

  People, Jazz, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Western Tibetan Buddhists are always looking out there at the distant snow peaks and they lose the flowers along the path.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Buddhist, Flower, Snow

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• For some people, every door opens, and they meet just who they need to meet when they need to meet them, all the conditions come together. For other people, there is one problem after the other, even though they are so sincere. And from a Tibetan point of view, this is because of a lack of merit.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Doors, Views, People

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• A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

  Jena Malone

  Friendship, Religious, Buddhist

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• Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

  Dalai Lama

  Sacrifice

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• Well you know, the comic strip [Doctor Strange]... yeah, was an Asian man, in fact, a very ancient Tibetan man living on the top of a mountain. The film script that I was given wasn't an Asian man, so I wasn't asked to play an Asian man - I was asked to play an ancient Celtic person.

  Tilda Swinton

  Men, Doctors, Play

  Source: southernbellasways.com

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• Tibetans - at least traditionally - are so totally permeated with the dharma that they don't see any difference between dharma and everyday life, really. And therefore they enjoy it because they don't make a separation.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Differences, Everyday, Separation

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• Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches and reach. And who, despite all this, seems pretty sane and beneficent by the standards of most gods. Oh, and who sometimes swears in Tibetan.

  Stephen Baxter

  Phones, Black, Corporations

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• He [Dalai Lama] feels, and I feel, and everyone feels the suffering and frustration of the Tibetans who long for action, who long for a militant response. But, in some ways very few of those individuals have ever been in the position of being head of state.

  Pico Iyer

  Frustration, Long, Suffering

  Source: layoga.com

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• The person who is tormenting the Tibetans feels they have to get rid of the Tibetans in order to be happy.

  Robert Thurman

  Order, Feels, Persons

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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• Up to now my involvement in the Tibetan freedom struggle has been part of my spiritual practice, because the issues of the survival of the Buddha Teaching and the freedom of Tibet are very much related. In this particular struggle, there is no problem with many monks and nuns, including myself, joining.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Struggle, Teaching

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Real, Teaching, School

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• Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had Tibetan students in exile take their classes in English after the age of ten so that they will know more about the outside world. But one of the great things he's done is to bring all the Tibetan groups together in exile, as perhaps they couldn't have been when they weren't in exile and they weren't under such pressure.

  Pico Iyer

  Opportunity, Class, Age

  Source: layoga.com

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• If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!

  Dalai Lama

  Strength, Real, Painful Experiences

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• Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Karma, Buddhist

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• What you think you become.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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