Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Quotes about Suffering

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Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.

Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Mind, Suffering, Causes

Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.6, Tharpa Publications UK

The cause of happiness and the solution to our problems do not lie in knowledge of material things. Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Lying, Mind, Suffering

Faith is like pure eyes that enable us to see a pure and perfect world beyond the suffering world of samsara.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Eye, Perfect, Suffering

Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.80, Tharpa Publications UK

When we want a cup of tea our main wish is to drink tea, but to fulfill this wish we naturally develop the secondary wish to find a cup. In a similar way, the main wish of those who have great compassion is to protect all living beings from their suffering, but to fulfill this wish they know they must first attain Buddhahood themselves and so they naturally develop the secondary wish to attain enlightenment.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Compassion, Tea, Suffering

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Quotes about Suffering

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