Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Dalai Lama Quotes about Buddhism

All Dalai Lama Quotes Acceptance Achievement Acting Adversity Affection Age Aging Altruism Anger Anxiety Appearance Appreciation Atmosphere Attitude Authority Avoiding Awareness Balance Being Happy Belief Birth Boundaries Brotherhood Brothers And Sisters Buddhism quotes Bullying Caring Challenges Change Character Cheating Childhood Children Choices Climate Change Commitment Common Sense Communication Community Compassion Competition Confidence Conflict Confusion Consciousness Contentment Country Creation Creativity Death Death Penalty Democracy Desire Determination Difficulty Discipline Diversity Doubt Dying Earth Education Effort Ego Encouraging Energy Enlightenment Enthusiasm Environment Ethics Exercise Expectations Failing Faith Family Fear Feelings Fighting Focus Forgiveness Freedom Friends Friendship Frustration Generosity Giving Giving Up God Gratitude Greed Growth Happiness Happy Hard Times Hardship Harmony Hate Hatred Healing Heart Helping Others Home Honesty Honor Human Nature Humanity Humility Hurt Identity Ignorance Independence Individuality Insecurity Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Jealousy Joy Judgement Judging Justice Karma Kindness Knowledge Laughter Learning Life Lifetime Loneliness Losing Loss Love Lying Making Money Meaning Of Life Meditation Monday Monk Morality Morning Motivation Motivational Mountain Nature Opportunity Optimism Overcoming Pain Passion Past Patience Peace Peace Of Mind Perception Perspective Philosophy Positive Positive Thinking Positivity Power Prayer Pride Progress Purpose Purpose Of Life Quality Reality Rebirth Recognition Regret Religion Respect Responsibility Risk Running Sacrifice Sadness Self Confidence Self Esteem Selfishness Seven Silence Simplicity Sisterhood Sleep Society Soul Spirituality Sports Spring Strength Stress Struggle Success Suffering Survival Sympathy Teaching Technology Tibet Today Tolerance Tragedy Training Transformation Travel Trust Truth Understanding Values Vegetarian Victory Violence Virtue Vision Volunteer Waiting War Water Weakness Wealth Welfare Well Being Wisdom Worry Yoga

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Inspirational, Buddhist, Buddhism

His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.14, Penguin Books India

Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.

Life, Buddhist, Buddhism

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

Religious, Business, Buddhism

The essence of Buddhism is if you can, help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.

Hurt, Buddhism, Helping Others

In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect.

Respect, Buddhist, Buddhism

In Buddhism, both learning and practice are extremely important, and they must go hand in hand. Without knowledge, just to rely on faith, faith, and more faith is good but not sufficient. So the intellectual part must definitely be present. At the same time, strictly intellectual development without faith and practice, is also of no use. It is necessary to combine knowledge born from study with sincere practice in our daily lives. These two must go together.

Buddhist, Learning, Buddhism

Buddhism does not accept a theory of God, or a creator. According to Buddhism, one's own actions are the creator, ultimately. Some people say that, from a certain angle, Buddhism is not a religion but rather a science of mind.

Buddhism, People, Mind

"The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness". Book edited by Sidney Piburn. "The Nobel Evening Address" p. 115, 1990.

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview.

Spiritual, Believe, Buddhism

"Our Faith in Science" by Dalai Lama, www.nytimes.com. November 12, 2005.

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.

Buddhism, Belief, Prove

The New York Times, November 12, 2005.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

Christian, Buddhist, Buddhism

Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.

Inspirational, Buddhism, Religion

"The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality". Book by 14th Dalai Lama, 2005.

If science proves facts that conflict with Buddhist understanding, Buddhism must change accordingly. We should always adopt a view that accords with the facts.

Buddhist, Buddhism, Views

"Scientists Meditate On Happiness" by Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. September 16, 2003.

Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For others, no Creator. The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.

Teaching, Buddhism, People

Source: www.motherjones.com

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Positive, Buddhist, Buddhism

Dalai Lama, Herbert Benson, Robert Thurman, Howard Gardner, Daniel Goleman (2012). “MindScience: An East-West Dialogue”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

Buddhism, Meditation, Technique

Being concerned about other people is especially relevant in today's world. If we consider the complex inter-connected ness of our modern lives, how we depend on others and others depend on us, our outlook will change. We’ll begin to see 'others' not as somehow distant from us, but as people we are in touch with, people close to us; we will no longer feel indifferent to them.

Change, Buddhist, Buddhism

One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.

Buddhism, Interesting, Greed

As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.

Spiritual, Ignorance, Buddhism

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

According to Buddhism, individuals are masters of their own destiny. And all living beings are believed to possess the nature of the Primordial Buddha Samantabhadra, the potential or seed of enlightenment, within them. So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?

Buddhism, Destiny, Hands

Dalai Lama (2004). “Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection”, Snow Lion Publication

Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent. Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness." Therefore, Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.

Buddhism, Reality, Essence

Source: www.motherjones.com

I have found a much greater appreciation of Buddhism because I couldn't take it for granted here in exile.

Appreciation, Buddhism, Granted

Source: www.motherjones.com

I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself.

Buddhism, Lasts, Violence

Source: www.motherjones.com

Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.

Buddhism, Blind, Discouraging

Source: www.motherjones.com

In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.

Ignorance, Buddhism, Self

You May Also Like: