Dalai Lama Quotes about Meditation

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.

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Peace, Sadness, Meditation

Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

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Wisdom, Prayer, Meditation

If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate.

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Meditation, World, Want

The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is within us. Therefore, the solution is within us too. However, that inner change does not take place immediately in the way that we switch on a light, but takes weeks, months and years.

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Light, Years, Meditation

All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.

Dalai Lama

Thinking, Meditation, Training

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

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Buddhism, Meditation, Technique

Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect results from meditation within a short period of time. What is required is continuous sustained effort.

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Practice, Effort, Meditation

If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.

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Pursuit Of Happiness, Meditation, Inner Peace

His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2017). “The Dalai Lama’s Book of Transformation”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

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Meditation, Technique, May

The very purpose of meditation is to discipline the mind and reduce afflictive emotions.

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Discipline, Meditation, Mind

In order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.

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Order, Meditation, Spiritual Buddhist

His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.23, Penguin Books India

To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.

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Prayer, Meditation, Awareness

Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.

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Practice, Meditation, Miserable

...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

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Meditation, Mind, Delight

His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.77, Penguin Books India

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.

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Compassion, Imagination, Meditation

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

In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.

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Practice, Meditation, Three

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). “How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.20, Simon and Schuster