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Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 51

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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

People

I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

Thinking, Reason, Century

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

Thinking, Civilization, Long

"Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. June 24, 2012.

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

Long, Chinese, Alive

I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.

Dream, Lama, Dalai

"Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. June 24, 2012.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

People, Chinese, Want

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

Sacrifice, Tibetan

The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

Buddhist, Age, Levels

Interview with Claudia Dreifus. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1993.

A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work.

Work, Machines, Kind

I feel they should be discussed informally, truthfully, honestly, and in some cases, I think, without forgetting ... long-term vision. They should be practical.

Thinking, Long, Vision

"World religions converge at U.N. conference". www.cnn.com. August 29, 2000.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Honesty, Compassion, People

Interview with Robert Thurman, www.motherjones.com. November 1997.

Spiritual practice . . . involves, on the one hand, acting out of concern for others' well-being. On the other, it entails transforming ourselves so that we become more readily disposed to do so.

Spiritual, Hands, Practice

The Dalai Lama (2012). “The Essence Of Wisdom”, p.9, Hachette UK

When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the drug addict feels when indulging his or her habit. Temporary relief is soon followed by a craving for more. And in just the same way that taking drugs in the end only causes trouble, so, too, does much of what we undertake to fulfill our immediate sensory desires.

Thinking, Drug, Sensual

The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.36, Hachette UK

An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

Expectations, Doe, Ethics

(Because) the notion of absolute truth is difficult to sustain outside the context of religion, ethical conduct is not something we engage in because it is somehow right in itself but because, like ourselves, all others desire to be happy and to avoid suffering. Given that this is a natural disposition, shared by all, it follows that each individual has a right to pursue this goal. Accordingly, I suggest that one of the things which determines whether an act is ethical or not is its effect on others' experience or expectation of happiness.

Goal, Expectations, Suffering

While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.

Meaningful, Water, Dying

In the past, the respect people had for religion meant that ethical practice was maintained through a majority following one religion or another. But this is no longer the case. We must therefore find some other way of establishing basic ethical principles.

Past, Ethical Principles, Practice

The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.5, Hachette UK

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

Ethical Principles, Want, Ethics

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.

Appreciate, Principles, Needs

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.

Compassion, Imagination, Meditation

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

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

Concern For Others, Mind, Source

Taking care of our planet is like taking care of our houses. Since we human beings come from Nature, there is no point in our going against nature, which is why I say the environment is not a matter of religion or ethics or morality. These are luxuries, since we can survive without them. But we will not survive if we continue to go against nature.

Luxury, House, Care

The basic condition of human life is happiness.

Life Is, Human Life, Humans

If I had not been a monk, I would have become an engineer.

Monk, Engineers, Ifs

We believe in self creation. That's why Buddhists believe in the Four Noble Truths.

Buddhist, Believe, Self

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