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Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 39

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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

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

Compassion, Genuine Concern, Rights

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.'

Motivation, Buddhism, People

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

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.

Men, Animal, Vegetarian Diet

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

Desire, Negative, Sometimes

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

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.

Sleep, Wrinkles, Hair

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

Compassion, Enemy, Unbiased

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

China, Dharma, Fallen

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.

Mean, Thinking, Mind

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

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

Teaching, People, Needs

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

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.

Heart, Benefits, Facts

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.

Peace, Children, Husband

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

Survival, Morality, Conservation

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

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

Community, Initiative, Individual

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

Determination, Attitude, Optimistic

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

Real, Long, Emotion

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.

Happy Life, Needs, Attention

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.

Real, Heart, Mind

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

Spiritual, Kindness, Enemy

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

Giving, Obstacles, Ifs

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.

Way, Negative, Use

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.

Sleep, Men, Doors

"Your Emotional Fitness: Everything You Need to Know to Live a Life of Abundance". Book by Gary Rubin, p. 173, 2013.

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

Jesus, Masters, Compare

The New York Times, November 28, 1993.

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.

Dream, Memories, Mind

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

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.

Practice, Medicine, Illness

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

Waiting, Meaning Of Life, Doe

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