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Matthieu Ricard Quotes about Suffering

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Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

Matthieu Ricard
Wisdom, Buddhism, Suffering

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

Matthieu Ricard
Buddhism, Envy, Suffering

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

Matthieu Ricard
Suffering, Tasks, Matter

Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities.

Matthieu Ricard
Mean, Buddhism, Suffering

Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

Matthieu Ricard
Mind, Suffering, Translate

There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.

Matthieu Ricard
Suffering, Our Actions, Ethics

There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.

Matthieu Ricard
Compassion, Suffering, Openness
Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

Matthieu Ricard
Buddhism, Mind, Suffering

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

Matthieu Ricard
Empathy, Brain, Suffering
"Is Compassion Meditation the Key to Better Caregiving?" by Matthieu Ricard, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.

What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.

Matthieu Ricard
Buddhism, Suffering, Tasks

You get [something] in your body that is the suffering or the problem, and then you [add] a second one, which is worry. In both cases, [it is] pointless.

Matthieu Ricard
Worry, Suffering, Add
Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others

Matthieu Ricard
Evil, Suffering, Good And Evil
Matthieu Ricard, Trinh Xuan Thuan (2009). “The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet”, p.19, Broadway Books

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