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The practice of cultivating altruism has a beneficial effect not only from the religious point of view but also from the mundane point of view, not only for long term spiritual development but even in terms of immediate rewards. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Point View Rewards

I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one's own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Change Attitude Situation

Karma is a Sanskrit word meaning "action." It denotes an active force, the inference being that the outcome of future events can be influenced by our actions. To suppose that karma is some sort of independent energy which predestines the course of our whole life is simply incorrect. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Sanskrit Meaning Karma

In the process of developing an accurate assessment of who you actually are, you need to appreciate the disparity between how you appear to your own mind and how you indeed exist. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Exist Process Developing

When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Objects Destroyed Selflessness

The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Success Happiness Good

Human beings are children of the Earth. Whereas our common Mother Earth has tolerated our conduct up to now, she is showing us at present that we have reached the limits of what is tolerable. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Earth Human Children

The first moment of consciousness of the new being must be preceded by its substantial cause, which must be a moment of consciousness. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Moment Consciousness Preceded

The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Growth Poor World

Or recite this mantra: om mani padme hum (pronounced "om mani padmay hum"). -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Pronounced Hum Mani

When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Wisdom Convenience Actions

Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

God Irrespective Agnostics

Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Dangerous Principles Consequences

As free human beings we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are prevented from using our creative potential, we are deprived of one of the basic characteristics of a human being. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

World Human Free

No matter how much violence or how many bad things we have to go through, I believe that the ultimate solution to our conflicts, both internal and external, lies in returning to our basic or underlying human nature, which is gentle and compassionate. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Conflicts External Lies

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Peace World Develop

Live a life that transcends your own! -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Live Life Transcends

In both the global community and the family, human beings need harmony and cooperation, which comes through mutual respect. Altruism is the most crucial factor. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Family Human Cooperation

On every level - as individuals, and as members of a family, a community, a nation, and a planet - the most mischievous troublemakers we face are anger and egoism. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Level Individuals Family

Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Action Positive Negative

Someone else's action should not determine your response. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Response Action Determine

The sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness. Bodily health, material wealth and companions and friends are three factors for happiness. Contentment is the key that will determine the outcome of your relations with all three of these factors. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Happiness Contentment Factors

The acquisition of mental skills is a matter of volition and focused effort; it is not a special mystical gift given to the few. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Effort Acquisition Mental

He told me that while he was in a Chinese Communist gulag for almost eighteen years, he faced danger on a few occasions. I thought he was referencing a threat to his own life. But when I asked, "What danger?" he answered, "Losing compassion toward the Chinese. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Communist Chinese Years

So one fundamental attitude shared by Buddhism and science is the commitment to keep searching for reality by empirical means and to be willing to discard accepted or long-held positions if our search finds that the truth is different. By -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Buddhism Fundamental Attitude

The view that all aspects of reality can be reduced to matter and its various particles is, to my mind, as much a metaphysical position as the view that an organizing intelligence created and controls reality. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

View Mind Reality

In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Life Pay Peace

What is more, I have come to the conclusion that whether or not a person is a religious believer does not matter much. Far more important is that they be a good human being. I -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Conclusion Person Religious

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Judge Success Give

By saying that phenomena are empty of intrinsic existence, we are declaring not their nonexistence but their interdependence, their absence of concrete reality. And the emptiness of phenomena, far from being a mental construct or a concept, corresponds to the reality itself of the phenomenal world. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Existence Interdependence Phenomena

A revolution is called for, certainly. But not a political, an economic, or even a technical revolution. We have had enough experience of these during the past century to know that a purely external approach will not suffice. What I propose is a spiritual revolution. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Revolution Called Political

Violence is a reaction by short-sighted, out-of-control people. At 81, I believe it cannot be resolved through prayers or government help. We have to begin the change at individual level and then move on to neighbourhood and society. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

People Violence Short-Sighted

Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Inseparable Ancient Experience

Once you realize things are always changing, if you are passing through a difficult period you can find comfort in knowing that the situation will not remain that way forever. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Changing Forever Realize

If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy! -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Happiness Happy Chances

The stated good intentions of the various religions are not sufficient; we must implement them in daily life in society. Then we can know the real value of their teachings. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Sufficient Society Stated

When our minds are clouded by hatred, selfishness, jealousy, and anger, we lose not only control but also our judgment. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Selfishness Jealousy Hatred

Ultimately, the source of our problems lies at the level of the individual. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Ultimately Individual Source

THE WORLD HAS BECOME more and more interdependent, so that a lasting peace on the national, regional, and global levels is possible only if we take the interests of all people into account. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Regional World Interdependent

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Historically East West

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Happiness Made Ready

Science and technology are powerful tools, but we must decide how best to use them. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Science Tools Technology

With a strong sense of the imminence of death, you will feel the need to engage in spiritual practice, improving your mind and not wasting your time on various distractions ranging from eating and drinking to endless talk about war, romance, and gossip. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Romance Death Practice

I do not think about converting others to Buddhism or merely furthering the Buddhist cause. Instead, I try to think of how I as a Buddhist can contribute to the happiness of all living beings. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Buddhism Buddhist Converting

All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Ignorance Suffering Caused

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Anger Hook Hatred

Rather, spend more on health and education for poor people. This is not forced socialism but voluntary compassion. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Spend People Health

as we Tibetans lived quite happily for many centuries behind our wall of mountains - the -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Tibetans Mountains Lived

Because of the interdependent nature of everything, we cannot hope to solve the multifarious problems with a one-sided or self-centered attitude. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Attitude Interdependent Nature

The mind is compared to a wild horse,and the practice of ethics is compared to the reins by which this wild horse is tamed. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Compared Wild Tamed

11 OVERCOMING ANGER AND HATRED -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Overcoming Hatred Anger

A famous Tibetan meditator once said, "I have only one task at hand: to stand guard at the entrance of my mind. When the afflictions are at the ready, I remain at the ready; when they stand easy, I stand easy." Once -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Tibetan Stand Ready

However, if you are just making a show of your spiritual accomplishments in order to get money, for example, that is hypocrisy. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Money Hypocrisy Making

We are dependent on each other in so many ways that we can no longer live in isolated communities and ignore what is happening outside those communities. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Communities Dependent Longer

Sleep is the best meditation. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Sleep Meditation

Spend some time alone every day. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Spend Day Time

The specific areas of science that I have explored most over the years are subatomic physics, cosmology, and biology, including neuroscience and psychology. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Cosmology Physics Biology

We all prefer the love of others to their hatred. We all prefer others' generosity to their meanness. And who among us does not prefer tolerance, respect, and forgiveness of our failings to bigotry, disrespect, and resentment? In -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Prefer Hatred Love

Seek to be an oasis of caring and concern as you live your life. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Seek Life Oasis

Because we all share
an identical need for love,
it is possible to feel that
anybody we meet,
in whatever circumstances,
is a brother or sister. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Share Love Meet

To train the mind, you must exercise the patience and determination it takes to shape that steel. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Mind Steel Train

I believe the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in that religion or this religion, we are all seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness ... -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Life Religion Happiness

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Life Man Dear

Compassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere, and as a result you feel peaceful and content. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Compassion Atmosphere Content

The smile is a very important feature of the human face. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Face Smile Important

For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion. So in order to practice compassion, you should have an enemy. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Compassion Enemy Teachers

Yet again I was reminded that the way in which things and events unfold does not always coincide with our expectations. Indeed, this fact of life - that there is often a gap between the way in which we perceive phenomena and the reality of a given situation - is the source of much unhappiness. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Expectations Reminded Things

The human mind is something very unique and precious. Possessing an unusual elasticity and capacity for wisdom, it can evolve at a rate found in no other life-form. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Precious Human Mind

The consequences of karma are definite: Negative actions always bring about suffering, and positive actions always bring happiness. If you do good, you will have happiness; if you do bad, you yourself suffer. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Negative Actions Bring

The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one's existence, to have a good heart. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Kindness True Essence

According to Lyubomirsky, the three factors that seem to have the greatest influence on increasing our happiness are our ability to reframe our situation more positively, our ability to experience gratitude, and our choice to be kind and generous. These -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Ability Lyubomirsky Positively

the three factors that seem to have the greatest influence on increasing our happiness are our ability to reframe our situation more positively, our ability to experience gratitude, and our choice to be kind and generous. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Ability Positively Gratitude

And a compassionate person creates a warm, relaxed atmosphere of welcome and understanding around him. In human relations, compassion contributes to promoting peace and harmony. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Warm Relaxed Compassionate

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Share Knowledge Immortality

Far from applying the teachings of their religion in our personal lives, we have a tendency to use them to reinforce our self-centered attitudes. We relate to our religion as something we own or as a label that separates us from others. Surely this is misguided? -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Lives Attitudes Religion

From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption
but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Assumption View Chance

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Happy Practice Compassion

The time one has to live is like the sun peeping through clouds, -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Clouds Time Live

There are various positive side effects of enhancing one's feeling of compassion. One of them is that the greater the force of your compassion, the greater your resilience in confronting hardships and your ability to transform them into more positive conditions. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Compassion Positive Side

It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience, and compassion. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Patience Tolerance Compassion

Living in society, we must share the suffering of our fellow citizens and practice compassion and tolerance not only toward our loved ones but also toward our enemies. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Living Society Enemies

Enemies provide us some of the best opportunities to practice patience, tolerance, and compassion. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Tolerance Enemies Patience

Water may be extremely dirty, yet its nature remains clear. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Water Dirty Clear

After all, all human beings are the same - made up of flesh, bone, and blood. We all want happiness, and we all try to avoid suffering. We are the members of one single human family, and our arguments are born from secondary causes. Disputes, lies, and killings are useless. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Bone Made Flesh

Buddhism and science share a fundamental reluctance to postulate a transcendent being as the origin of all things. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Buddhism Things Science

If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Attitude Tolerance Patience

Rather, genuine compassion is based on the rationale that all human beings have an innate desire to be happy and overcome suffering, just like myself. And, just like myself, they have the natural right to fulfill this fundamental aspiration. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Genuine Suffering Compassion

Love is the absence of judgment. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Love Judgment Absence

In replacing religion as the final source of knowledge in popular estimation, science begins to look a bit like another religion itself. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Estimation Science Religion

There's a Tibetan saying: 'Wherever you have friends that's your country, and wherever you receive love, that's your home.'" There -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Tibetan Country Love

We can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being better. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Deny Possibility

According to my experience, the principal characteristic of genuine happiness is peace: inner peace. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Peace Experience Principal

Happiness is a combination of inner peace, economic viability, and above all, world peace. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Peace Happiness Economic

An eye for an eye....we are all blind -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Eye Blind

Eventually, at Buddhahood, you become capable of remaining in the innate -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Eventually Buddhahood Innate

Initially, the positive emotions derived from cultivating our higher natures may be weak, but we can enhance them through constant familiarity, making our experiences of happiness and inner contentment far more powerful than a life abandoned to purely impulsive emotions. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Initially Weak Familiarity

We have no means of discriminating between right and wrong if we do not take into account others' feelings, others' suffering. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Feelings Suffering Others

People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to change the way people think about animals. I encourage the Tibetan people and all people to move toward a vegetarian diet that doesn't cause suffering. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

People Vegetables Animals

Whether you believe in God or not does not matter much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Matter Buddhist God

Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Earth Nature Share

A compassionate concern for others' well-being is the source of happiness. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Happiness Compassionate Concern

The world will be saved by the western woman" - The Dalai Lama -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Lama Dalai Woman

If your mental health is sound, then when disturbances come, you will have some distress but quickly recover. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Sound Recover Mental

Fanaticism leads to counterfanaticism, which is just as much to be feared. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Fanaticism Counterfanaticism Feared

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Treasure Good Friend

The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Patience Enemy Condition

Every being wants happiness and does not want suffering. If we do not respect this fact, there will be more and more suffering on this planet. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Suffering Happiness Fact

Compassion is by nature gentle, peaceful, and soft, but it is very powerful. It is those who easily lose their patience who are insecure and unstable. Thus, to me, the arousal of anger is a direct sign of weakness. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Peaceful Compassion Gentle

I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend,
that together we may succeed in building a better world
through human understanding and love,
and that in doing so we may reduce
the pain and suffering of all sentient beings. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Oppressor Friend World

A little nonconceptuality can provide a much needed vacation. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Vacation Nonconceptuality Provide

It is in relation to enemies that we can primarily practice patience and tolerance and thus reduce the burden of anger and hatred. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Hatred Relation Enemies

The purpose of our lives is to be happy -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Happy Purpose Lives

Kindness is essential to mental peace. As you will see in the pages ahead, the central method for achieving a happier life is to train your mind in a daily practice that weakens negative attitudes and strengthens positive ones. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Kindness Peace Essential

Whether people are beautiful and friendly or unattractive and disruptive, ultimately they are human beings, just like oneself. Like oneself, they want happiness and do not want suffering. Furthermore, their right to overcome suffering and be happy is equal to one's own. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Oneself Disruptive Ultimately

I took note of the Buddha's teaching that in one sense a supposed enemy is more valuable than a friend, for an enemy teaches you things, such as forbearance, that a friend generally does not. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Friend Buddha Enemy

Positive and negative actions are determined by one's own motivation. If the motivation is good, all actions become positive; if the motivation is wrong, all actions become negative. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Motivation Actions Positive

We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Planet Visitors Good

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Results Buddha Conduct

Given that a significant percentage of children suffer from attention deficit problems in today's world, especially in more materially affluent societies, I am told that substantial efforts are being made to understand the faculty of attention and its causal dynamics. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

World Societies Dynamics

Wherever you have friends that's your country, and wherever you receive love, that's your home. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Country Love Home

Our inner lives are something we ignore at our own peril, and many of the greatest problems we face in today's world are the result of such neglect. Not -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Peril Neglect Lives

The more honest you are, the more open, the less fear you will have, because there's no anxiety about being exposed or revealed to others. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Open Honest Fear

If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Fixable Worry Problem

In Tibet there were practitioners in retreat who so strongly reflected on impermanence that they would not wash their dishes after supper. - PALTRUL RINPOCHE'S SACRED WORD -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Tibet Supper Paltrul

For example, if a person once had money but has none now, it's no use going shopping. Similarly, although we may have accumulated virtuous karma previously, it cannot benefit us if we have no virtuous karma in the present. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Shopping Similarly Person

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'
No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Tibetan Tragedy Difficulties

But for all its benefits in offering moral guidance and meaning in life, in today's secular world religion alone is no longer adequate as a basis for ethics. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Life Ethics Benefits

The Dalai Lama took the Archbishop's hand, and then they were more eight than eighty, laughing and making jokes together as they strolled toward the terminal, yellow umbrella sheltering above them. Even -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Dalai Lama Archbishop

It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behaviour. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Oneself Illogical Expect

If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Buddhism Good Strong

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Happiness Events Determined

You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Future Present Anxious

Anger and hatred are the greatest obstacles to compassion and love. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Anger Love Hatred

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Hatred True Hero

Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the "enemies" who appear from time to time in our lives. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Anger Defeat Lives

To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Indefensible Remain Indifferent

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Compassion Love True

In fact ants, to cite just one example, work unselfishly for the community; we humans sometimes do not look good by comparison. We are supposed to be higher beings, so we must act according to our higher selves. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Ants Work Community

Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Respect Truth Development

Exile has enabled me to discover the rest of the world, to meet other peoples, to get to know other traditions. Nothing could be more valuable. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Exile World Peoples

Our altruistic mind is the key to our happiness as individuals, families, nations, and as an international community. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Families Nations Individuals

If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Solved Problem Worrying

I think that generally, being honest with oneself and others about what you are or are not capable of doing can counteract that feeling of lack of self-confidence. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Generally Self-Confidence Honest

In Buddhism, since the definition of "living" refers to sentient beings, consciousness is the primary characteristic of "life. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Living Life Buddhism

After identifying the scope of suffering, we need to discover its sources, which are twofold: afflictive, or counterproductive, emotions, and contaminated karmas. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Afflictive Emotions Suffering

Unless the direction of science is guided by a consciously ethical motivation, especially compassion, its effects may fail to bring benefit. They may indeed cause great harm. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Motivation Compassion Benefit

My meetings with many different sorts of people the world over have, however, helped me realize that there are other faiths, and other cultures, no less capable than mine of enabling individuals to lead constructive and satisfying lives. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Helped Faiths Cultures

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Compassionate Attitude Change

We must have a human approach. As far as socioeconomic theory, I am Marxist. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Approach Marxist Human

Peace. Profound happiness, unlike fleeting pleasures, is spiritual by nature. It depends on the happiness of others, and it is based on love and tenderness. We -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Peace Happiness Profound

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Effectively Rules Break

If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Extend Shift Focus

Ignorance is the root of everything that stands in the way of these attainments. Ignorance binds us to suffering; therefore ignorance has to be clearly identified. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Attainments Ignorance Root

I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Western Friends Tradition

If at the beginning and end of our lives we depend upon the kindness of others, why in the middle of our lives should we not act kindly toward them? It is the pragmatic choice. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Lives Beginning End

Once we are able to combine a feeling of empathy for others with a profound understanding of the suffering they experience, we become able to generate genuine compassion for them. We must work at this continually. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Experience Combine Feeling

War is massacre. It is 100 per cent negative. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

War Massacre Negative

All problems, including terrorism, can be overcome through education, particularly by introducing concern for all others at the preschool level. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Problems Including Terrorism

If we get used to putting up with minor hurts, we will gradually develop tolerance for greater pain. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Hurts Pain Putting

However, if we can transform our attitude towards suffering, adopt an attitude that allows us greater tolerance of it, then this can do much to help counteract feelings of mental unhappiness, dissatisfaction, and discontent. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Dissatisfaction Suffering Adopt

We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Friend Learn Real

Joy can span from the pleasure of others' good fortune, what Buddhists call mudita, to the pleasure in others' misfortune, what the Germans call schadenfreude. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Pleasure Buddhists Germans

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Remember Luck Wonderful

I do not judge the universe. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Universe Judge

Idealistic as it may sound, altruism should be the driving force in business, not just competition and a desire for wealth. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Idealistic Sound Altruism

Adopting an attitude of universal responsibility is essentially a personal matter. The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in our daily life. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Adopting Matter Attitude

True compassion does not stem from the pleasure of feeling close to one person or another, but from the conviction that other people are just like me and want not to suffer but to be happy, and from a commitment to help them overcome what causes them to suffer. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Suffer True Happy

Your Holiness, elite education makes us arrogant, conceited. It makes us think we are the answers to everything. You know what this expensive education does to us? It destroys us. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Holiness Conceited Makes

The creatures that inhabit this earth
be they human beings or animals
are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Earth Animals Contribute

Once a year go some place you've never been before -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Year Place

Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Peace Conflicts Differences

If we analyze or dissect a flower, looking for the flower among its parts, we shall not find it ... And yet, we cannot deny the existence of flowers and of their sweet scent. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Parts Analyze Dissect

Our self-centered acts in turn cause us unhappiness and a tendency to repeat our nonvirtuous behavior, thereby producing more misery. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Behavior Misery Self-Centered

So, anyway, I think that cultivating positive mental states like kindness and compassion definitely leads to better psychological health and happiness. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Happiness Cultivating Positive

Negative thoughts and emotions are what obstruct our most basic aspiration - to be happy and to avoid suffering. When we act under their influence, we become oblivious to the impact our actions have on others: they are thus the cause of our destructive behavior both toward others and to ourselves. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Negative Aspiration Suffering

The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Happiness Purpose Life

We should see destructive emotions as enemies, first identifying them and then engaging in techniques to destroy them. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Enemies Destructive Emotions

Mental tranquility, or calmness, is a very important source of happiness. An external enemy, no matter how powerful, cannot strike directly at our mental calmness, because calmness is formless. Our happiness or joy can only be destroyed by our own anger. The real enemy of joy is anger. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Calmness Tranquility Mental

In order for the study of consciousness to be complete, we need a methodology that would account not only for what is occurring at the neurological and biochemical levels but also for the subjective experience of consciousness itself. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Consciousness Complete Order

The undisciplined mind is like an elephant. If left to blunder around out of control, it will wreak havoc. But the harm and suffering we encounter as a result of failing to restrain the negative impulses of mind far exceed the damage a rampaging elephant can cause. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Undisciplined Mind Elephant

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Feel Peace Love

In accepting that suffering is a part of your daily existence, you could begin by examining the factors that normally give rise of feelings of discontent and mental unhappiness. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Existence Unhappiness Accepting

Meanwhile, spring came, and with it the outpourings of Nature. The hills were soon splashed with wild flowers; the grass became an altogether new and richer shade of green; and the air became scented with fresh and surprising smells
of jasmine, honeysuckle, and lavender. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Nature Spring Outpourings

THE BASIC SOURCES OF HAPPINESS ARE a good heart, compassion, and love. If we have these, even if we're surrounded by hostility, we'll feel little disturbance. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Compassion Basic Sources

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Greatest Good Adversity

I accept everyone as a friend. In truth, we already know one another, profoundly, as human beings who share the same basic goals: We all seek happiness and do not want suffering. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Friend Profoundly Accept

You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them - for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Things Compassion Actions

Silence is sometimes the best answer -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Silence Answer

Violence can only breed more violence and suffering. Our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Suffering Violence Breed

Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Anger Mind Ultimate

His tears and his spontaneous laughter are teachings within the teaching, reminding us of the incarnate dimension of wisdom. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Reminding Wisdom Tears

It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Live Collective Individual

The first step in restoring faith among those you lead is to inspire them with a sense of purpose - just -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Purpose Step Restoring

Contemplative traditions on the whole have historically emphasized subjective, first-person investigation of the nature and functions of consciousness, by training the mind to focus in a disciplined way on its own internal states. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Contemplative Subjective First-Person

Politicians need religion even more than a hermit in retreat. If the hermit acts inspired by bad motivation, he'll harm only himself. But if a politician, who can directly influence an entire society, acts with bad motivation, a large number of people will experience the negative consequences. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Motivation Retreat Hermit

As long as space endures, as long as sentient beings remain, until then, may I too remain and dispel the miseries of the world. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Long Remain Endures

So long as people give priority to material values, then injustice, inequity, intolerance, and greed - all the outward manifestations of neglect of our inner values - will persist. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Inequity Intolerance Injustice

If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Gun Kill Reasonable

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in relgion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is toward happiness ... -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Life Happiness Purpose

Just like a trained scientist, a disciplined mind will have the knowledge of what to look for and the ability to recognize when discoveries are made. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Scientist Made Trained

Because dependent and independent are a dichotomy, when you see that something cannot be independent, or functioning under its own power, there is no other option but to see that it is dependent. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Dichotomy Power Dependent

The only way to achieve lasting peace is through mutual trust, respect, love, and kindness. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Respect Love Trust

The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Temples Inside Hearts

I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Century History Twenty-First

I found, as every teacher does, that there is nothing like teaching to help one learn. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Found Learn Teacher

Prana is the aspect of mobility, dynamism, and cohesion, while consciousness is the aspect of cognition and the capacity for reflective thinking. So according to the Guhyasamaja tantra, when a world system comes into being, we are witnessing the play of this energy and consciousness reality. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Aspect Dynamism Prana

What we need today is an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without: a secular ethics. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Ethics Today Approach

I usually say that love and kindness are a universal religion. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Religion Love Kindness

Instead of wondering WHY this is happening to you, consider why this is happening to YOU. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Happening Wondering

Altruism is the surest and most effective way to bring about genuine life satisfaction. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Altruism Satisfaction Surest

In order to achieve peace, tranquility, and real friendship, we must minimize anger and cultivate kindness and a warm heart. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Tranquility Peace Friendship

Ultimately humanity is one, and this small planet is our only home. If we're to protect this home of ours, each of us needs to experience a vivid sense of universal altruism and compassion. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Ultimately Home Humanity

Our attitude towards suffering becomes very important because it can affect how we cope with suffering when it arises. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Arises Suffering Attitude

Eating, working, and making money are meaningless in themselves. However, even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives. P -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Eating Working Making

Buddhism has long had a theory of what in neuroscience is called the plasticity of the brain. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Buddhism Brain Long

Motivated by compassion for all sentient beings, Buddha Shakyamuni observed all these problems, and he reflected on the nature of his own existence. He found that all human beings undergo suffering, and he saw that we experience this unhappiness because of our undisciplined state of mind. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Buddha Shakyamuni Motivated

Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Population Earth Human

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Tomorrow Year Called

Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Generosity Loving-Kindness Natural

As for suffering I do not wish even the slightest; as for happiness I am never satisfied. In this, there is no difference between others and me. Bless me so I may take joy in others' happiness. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Slightest Satisfied Suffering

The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Greater Mind Life

Every human being has the same potential. Whatever makes you feel "I am worthless" is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought, so what could you possibly be lacking? If you have the willpower, then you can do anything. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Potential Wrong Human

The ultimate source of comfort and peace is within ourselves. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Ultimate Source Comfort

To say that all things are interdependent means that they have no inherent existence. The -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Existence Things Interdependent

If as spiritual practitioners we ignore the discoveries of science, our practice is also impoverished, as this mind-set can lead to fundamentalism. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Science Impoverished Fundamentalism

Happiness is not ready made. It comes from your own actionns -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Happiness Made Ready

More dangerous than guns or bombs are hatred, lack of compassion, and lack of respect for the rights of others. As long as hatred dwells in the human mind, real peace is impossible. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Lack Compassion Hatred

No credible understanding of the natural world or our human existence - what I am going to call in this book a worldview - can ignore the basic insights of theories as key as evolution, relativity, and quantum mechanics. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Relativity Existence Worldview

Compassion is the radicalism of our time. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Compassion Time Radicalism

One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Kindness Peace Basic

Sometimes I am fascinated by the power of the human brain. Our human heart can produce such an altruistic state of mind, one that can hold others more dear than oneself. These things are really remarkable. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Brain Human Fascinated

The human body appreciates peace of mind. Things that are disturbing to us have a very bad effect upon our health. This shows that the whole structure of our health is such that it is suited to an atmosphere of human affection. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Mind Body Peace

We all have minds that are capable of knowledge; therefore, if you work at it, eventually knowledge can be gained. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Eventually Gained Knowledge

Let us try to recognize the precious nature of each day. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Day Recognize Precious

Use your good common sense. Is anger useful? If you get angry at someone, the result is good neither for you nor for the other person. Nothing helpful comes of it. In the end, anger does not harm others; it hurts yourself. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Sense Common Good

regret with dignity and grace. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Regret Grace Dignity

It is a mistake to think we will get rid of anger by changing everything in the world that makes us angry. Instead we should look to change ourselves. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Angry Mistake Rid

What marks the transition from non-sentient to sentient beings? A model of increasing complexity based on evolution through natural selection is simply a descriptive hypothesis, a kind of euphemism for "mystery," and not a satisfactory explanation. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Marks Transition Non-Sentient

A genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Lives Genuine Affectionate

The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Affection Anger Change

The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Experience Time Spend

If you can, serve other people, other sentient beings. If not, at least refrain from harming them. I think that is the whole basis of my philosophy. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Serve People Sentient

Philosophically speaking, from the Buddhist point of view, both human beings and animals possess what in Tibetan is called shepa, which can be roughly translated as "consciousness," albeit to different degrees of complexity. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Consciousness Buddhist Tibetan

We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Happiness Learn Order

Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Share Knowledge Immortality

The theory of emptiness ... is the deep recognition that there is a fundamental disparity between the way we perceive the world, including our own existence in it, and the way things actually are. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Emptiness World Including

Indeed, we find that almost all the mental and emotional suffering which is such a feature of modern living - including the sense of hopelessness, of loneliness, and so on - lessens the moment we begin to engage in actions motivated by concern for others. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Living Including Hopelessness

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Compassion Suffering Free

[Through practice] we can get to the point where some disturbance may occur but the negative effects on our mind remain on the surface, like the waves that may ripple on the surface of an ocean but don't have much effect deep down. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Surface Practice Point

As long as the sky exists And as long as there are sentient beings, May I remain to help Relieve them of all their pain. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Long Relieve Pain

Anger diminishes our power to distinguish right from wrong, and this ability is one of the highest human attributes. If it is lost, we are lost. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Anger Wrong Attributes

Any statement or claim that contradicts reason and valid experience cannot be upheld. Therefore, as Buddhists, we must discard any tenet that may contradict reason and valid experience. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Reason Valid Upheld

The view that all mental processes are necessarily physical processes is a metaphysical assumption, not a scientific fact. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Assumption Fact Processes

These four noble truths are the truth of suffering, the truth of its origin, the truth of cessation and the path leading to cessation. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Truth Cessation Suffering

If with a warm heart and patience we can consider the views of others, and exchange ideas in calm discussion, we will find points of agreement. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Discussion Agreement Warm

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Peace Behavior Destroy

What we call a person is a concept attached to a stream of consciousness. This stream, just like the person, is without beginning or end. It is a question of an ephemeral continuum that depends on changing causes and conditions. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Consciousness Person Stream

I always try to share with others the idea that in order to become compassionate it is not necessary to become religious. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Religious Share Idea

WHEN SOMEONE WHOM I HAVE HELPED,
OR IN WHOM I HAV PLACED GRT HOPE
HARMS ME WID GRT INJUSTICE.
MAY I SEE THT ONE AS SACRED FRIEND!! -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Grt Helped Hope

According to the Archbishop and the Dalai Lama, when we see how little we really need - love and connection - then all the getting and grasping that we thought was so essential to our well-being takes its rightful place and no longer becomes the focus or the obsession of our lives. We -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Lama Archbishop Dalai

If, on the other hand, I relate to others from the perspective of myself as someone different - a Buddhist, a Tibetan, and so on - I will then create walls to keep me apart from others. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Buddhist Tibetan Hand

In many areas, too, people are having to deal with environmental problems and, with these, threats to their livelihood and worse. At the same time, many others are struggling t get by in the face of inequality, corruption, and injustice. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Areas People Threats

Buddhist practice is aimed primarily at cultivating the antidotes to these afflictive thoughts and emotions, with the goal of eradicating the root of our unenlightened existence to bring about liberation from suffering. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Buddhist Emotions Suffering

And even when our lives are good, how do we live in joy when so many others are suffering: when crushing poverty robs people of their future, when violence and terror fill our streets, and when ecological devastation endangers the very possibility of life on our planet? -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Good Suffering Future

If on the quantum level, matter is revealed to be less solid and definable than it appears, then it seems to me that science is coming closer to the Buddhist contemplative insights of emptiness and interdependence. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Buddhist Level Matter

If you are calm, even your enemy cannot disturb you. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Calm Enemy Disturb

Contemplating this suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Unbearable Suffering Contemplating

Suffering is inevitable, they said, but how we respond to that suffering is our choice. Not even oppression or occupation can take away this freedom to choose our response. Right -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Suffering Inevitable Choice

Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Responsibility Job Leaders

Those questions which are unexpected and complicated are the ones I appreciate most. They can help me a great deal. as I am compelled to take an interest in something that might not otherwise have occurred to me. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Questions Unexpected Complicated

A happy mind is a healthy mind, and a healthy mind is good for the body. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Mind Healthy Body

When you begin to see that this assignment of extreme virtue or evil to a person or object is what makes them an object of lust or hatred, the emotion built on that exaggeration backs off; we -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Object Hatred Begin

joy is in fact our birthright and even more fundamental than happiness. "Joy, -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Joy Happiness Fact

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Love Necessities Luxuries

May all the ill deeds, obstructions, and sufferings of beings Be transferred to me, without exception, at this moment, And my happiness and merit be sent to others. May all creatures be imbued with happiness! Just -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Obstructions Deeds Exception

THE SELF IS THE ROOT of the mental poisons. Our mind fabricates, projects, and attaches concepts to people and things. Egocentric fixation reinforces the qualities or defects that we attribute to others. From -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Root Poisons Mental

In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice, and human understanding must triumph over ignorance and despair. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Justice End Truth

hatred will not cease by hatred -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Hatred Cease

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Remember Relationship Love

Sooner or later we have to die, and if then we review the past years with regret, it is too late, isn't it? -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Sooner Die Regret

If the mental poisons can finally be transformed into wisdom, it is because their ultimate nature is endowed with primordial, naturally luminous purity. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Wisdom Primordial Naturally

When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Talk Repeating Listen

Developing a kind heart, a feeling of closeness for all beings, does not require following a conventional religious practice. It is not only for those who believe in religion. It is for everyone, regardless of race, religion, or political affiliation. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Developing Heart Practice

I will not propose to you that my way is best. The decision is up to you. If you find some point which may be suitable to you, then you can carry out experiments for yourself. If you find that it is of no use, then you can discard it. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Propose Find Decision

Let distractions melt away like clouds disappearing in the sky. - MILAREPA -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Milarepa Sky Distractions

What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Lives Extreme Importance

Compassion, love, and forgiveness, however, are not luxuries. They are fundamental for our survival. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Compassion Love Forgiveness

The Buddhist understanding of mind is primarily derived from empirical observations grounded in the phenomenology of experience, which includes the contemplative techniques of meditation. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Buddhist Experience Meditation

Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Human Feeling Actions

Suffering is described in terms of three characteristics of impermanence or transitory nature, unsatisfactoriness and selflessness. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Suffering Nature Unsatisfactoriness

Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility ... without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed, or unhappy because of circumstances. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Peace Key Tranquility

When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Mistake Realize Made

At the beginning of our life is birth, during which we suffer, and at the end of our life is death, during which we also suffer. Between these two come aging and illness. No matter how wealthy you are or how physically fit you are, you have to suffer through these circumstances. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Life Birth Death

Like modern science, Buddhism holds the basic premise that, at the most fundamental level, there is no qualitative difference between the material basis of the body of a sentient being, such as a human, and that of, say, a piece of rock. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Buddhism Science Level

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. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Business Essential Human

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Prime Purpose Life

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Leads Mind Happiness

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways
either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Life Habits Strength

Instead of looking to blame others and the world around us, we should first look within ourselves. This -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Blame World

A belief in a policy of kindness, and a sense of commonality among all living creatures. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Kindness Creatures Belief

As a Buddhist, I see no distinction between religious practice and daily life. Religious practice is a twenty-four hour occupation. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Buddhist Life Religious

Buddhist scriptures recommend that you hide your good qualities and achievements like a lamp inside a vessel. You should not advertise them unless there is great purpose in doing so. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Buddhist Vessel Scriptures

In general, if we carefully examine any given situation in a very unbiased and honest way, we will realize that to a large extent we are also responsible for the unfolding of events. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

General Events Carefully

People should never sit alone for too long when they're crying. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

People Crying Sit

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Time Unhindered Passes

However, when the idea that objects inherently exist takes hold, fundamental ignorance has been introduced. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Hold Fundamental Introduced

When I doubt that I exist, I pinch myself. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Exist Doubt Pinch

Like and dislike, gain and loss, praise and blame, fame and disgrace: these are the eight mundane concerns which condition our existence. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Dislike Gain Loss

Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Situation Avoid Difficult

Gaining insight into our own negativity is a lifelong task, and one which is capable of almost infinite refinement. But unless we undertake it, we will be unable to see where to make the necessary changes in our lives. Were -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Gaining Task Refinement

Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Practice Mind Happy

When something
needs to be done in the world
to rectify the wrongs,
if one is really concerned
with benefiting others,
one needs to be
engaged, involved.
This is action out of compassion. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Engaged Involved World

The morality of individual liberation (which is the subject of this chapter) is mainly practiced by refraining from physical and verbal actions that cause harm. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Liberation Chapter Harm

What we want is happiness, but if in pursuit of our own personal happiness we ignore the welfare of other sentient beings and only bully and deceive them, the results will be negative. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Negative Happiness Pursuit

For modern science, at least from a philosophical point of view, the critical divide seems to be between inanimate matter and the origin of living organisms, while for Buddhism the critical divide is between non-sentient matter and the emergence of sentient beings. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Critical Divide Matter

Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Happiness Pursuit Expect

I consider prayer to be of immense psychological benefit. But we must accept that its tangible results are often hard to see. When it comes to obtaining certain, direct results, it is clear that prayer cannot match the achievements of, for instance, modern science. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Benefit Immense Psychological

Even if I have to do it alone, I will free all sentient beings from suffering and the causes of suffering, and set all sentient beings in happiness and its causes. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Sentient Suffering Free

I believe the most important thing for humankind is its own creativity. I further believe that, in order to be able to exercise this creativity, people need to be free. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Creativity Important Thing

Of course, I fail sometimes. Sometimes I get irritated. Occasionally I use a harsh word, but when I do, immediately I feel "Oh, this is wrong. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Fail Irritated Occasionally

Being born a human being is a rare event in itself, and it is wise to use this opportunity as beneficially as possible. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Born Human Rare

It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

View Rare Impossible

If people lack moral values and integrity, no system of laws and regulations will be adequate. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Integrity Adequate People

happiness. For example, good -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Happiness Good

We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of friendship in which there is less need to hide what we feel or what we are doing. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Easily Discover Human

The Buddha who stares back at us from the texts will be too much a reflection of ourselves, too little an image of the Enlightened One. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Buddha Enlightened Stares

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Religion Simple Philosophy

Knowledge is like the great army that will help us crush the forces of our own faults. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Knowledge Faults Great

I try to treat every person I meet like an old friend, and that gives me a real sensation of happiness. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Friend Happiness Treat

This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Religion Simple Philosophy

No more can the reader hope to learn virtue merely by reading this book - unless, of course, it is so boring as to demand perseverance! -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Book Perseverance Reader

Be gentle with the earth. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Earth Gentle

Whilst on the subject of the spread of Buddhism in the West, I want to say that I have noticed some tendency towards sectarianism amongst new practitioners. This is absolutely wrong. Religion should never become a source of conflict, a further factor of division within the human community. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

West Buddhism Whilst

It also becomes apparent that our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves but for all others, too. Furthermore, -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Word Action Deed

delight or enchantment (a shining kind of contentment) spiritual -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Spiritual Delight Enchantment

There are going to be frustrations in life. The question is not: How do I escape? It is: How can I use this as something positive? -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Life Frustrations Escape

The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Power Warm-Heartedness Ultimate

Middle Way school is uncomfortable with the potentially essentialist implications of "foundational consciousness" as postulated in the eightfold system. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Middle Foundational Consciousness

In my view, the combination of the first-person method with the third-person method offers the promise of a real advance in the scientific study of consciousness. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Method View Consciousness

We all share an existence marked by suffering and impermanence. Once we recognize how much we have in common, we see that there is no sense in being belligerent with one another. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Impermanence Share Existence

This is a precious gateway into the alleviation of suffering, which I believe to be our principal task on this earth. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Suffering Earth Precious

No matter how bad things become, they will eventually get better. In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice and human understanding must triumph over ignorance and despair. So if the Chinese oppressed us, it could only strengthen us -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Matter Bad Things

If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless. Distraction here and there opens the way for counterproductive emotions, leading to many kinds of trouble. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Scattered Powerless Mind

Within all beings there is the seed of perfection. However, compassion is required in order to activate that seed which is inherent in our hearts and minds ... -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Perfection Seed Compassion

Much of traditional Buddhist practice is directed toward the ability to see life accurately, beyond all the expectations, projections, and distortions that we typically bring to it. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Projections Buddhist Accurately

If we lose our human values by having everything mechanied, then machines will dictate our lives. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Mechanied Lives Lose

If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Problem Waste Time

Be the change you wish to be -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Change

Real compassion is based on reason. Ordinary compassion or love is limited by desire or attachment. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Real Reason Compassion

Bhagavan - in Tibetan, "One who has destroyed the four Maras,"2 which are death, distraction, pride, and the emotional obscurations. The -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Tibetan Maras Bhagavan

True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

True Time Spirituality

As far as I am concerned, any deed done with good motivation is a religios one. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Concerned Deed Good

I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn't mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence, motivated by compassion, recognising the rights of others. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Action Non-Violence Compassion

Neither a space station nor an enlightened mind can be realized in a day. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Day Space Station

If we use the brilliant human mind in the wrong way, it is really a disaster. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Disaster Brilliant Human

True change is within; leave the outside as it is. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

True Leave Change

All truths in science must be demonstrated either through experiment or through mathematical proof. The idea that something must be so because Newton or Einstein said so is simply not scientific. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Proof Truths Science

Lha Gyal Lo! (Victory to the gods) -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Gyal Lha Victory

Our feelings of contentment are strongly influenced by our tendency to compare. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Compare Feelings Contentment

There is more to human existence and to reality itself than current science can ever give us access to. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Human Existence Reality

Great compassion is the root of altruistic action, the object of amazement to the world;there is no greater source of help and happiness. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Great Action World

You must understand that even if your adversaries seem to be harming you, in the end their destrucive activity will turn against them. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Understand Adversaries Harming

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Difference Mosquito Small

The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Business Human Survival

So now," the Dalai Lama concluded, "in quantum physics, they also have a similar view. Any objective thing does not really exist. There is nothing ultimately we can find. This is similar to analytical meditation." The -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Dalai Lama Concluded

For those of us who profess to believe in a particular religious practice, it is extremely important that we try to help each other and cultivate a feeling of affection for each other. That is the source of happiness in our life. The -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Practice Profess Religious

When things go smoothly, then we can pretend we are something very special. But something happens, something unexpected, then we are forced to act like normal human beings. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Smoothly Special Things

Most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Permanent Troubles Stem

Any mental state that destroys calmness of mind and brings about mental misery, which upsets, afflicts, and torments the mind, is said to be a delusion. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Afflicts Misery Upsets

CIf you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Truthful Trust Cif

Despite all differences of class or ideology, mentally, emotionally, we all have the same basic nature. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Mentally Emotionally Ideology

If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Suffering Fear Pain

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Peace Obtain Outer

Thus, the flower exists: its forms and characteristics are inscribed in our mind. But its nature is devoid of any intrinsic existence. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Exists Mind Flower

We are all born free of religion, but none of us are born free of the need for compassion. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Free Born Religion

When the positive qualities of your mind increase and negativities decrease, that is what blessing means. The -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Decrease Positive Qualities

The secret to my own happiness, my own good future, is within my own hands. I must not miss that opportunity! -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Happiness Future Hands

It is not enough to be compassionate, we must act. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Compassionate Act

So many of our problems arise because, in our naive untrained state, we confuse our thoughts with actual reality. We seize on the content of our thoughts as real and build our entire perception and response to reality on it. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Thoughts State Reality

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Religion Simple Kindness

I think the person who has had more experience of hardships can stand more firmly in the face of problems than the person who has never experienced suffering. From this angle then, some suffering can be a good lesson for life. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Person Suffering Experience

Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Lamp Dispelling Ignorance

I do not agree that ethics requires grounding in religious concepts or faith. Instead, I firmly believe that ethics can also emerge simply as a natural and rational response to our very humanity and our common human condition. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Faith Ethics Agree

Analyze. Think, think, think. When you do, you will recognize that our ordinary way of life is almost meaningless. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Analyze Meaningless Recognize

As you breathe in, cherish yourself.
As you breathe out, cherish all Beings. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Cherish Breathe Yourself

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Choose Optimistic Feels

The enemy is a very good teacher. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Teacher Enemy Good

Change is part of the world.
Until the last moment,
Anything is possible. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Change World Moment

Learn and obey the rules very well so you will know how to break them properly. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Learn Properly Obey

We must realize that when basic needs have been met, human development is primarily about being more, not having more ... . -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Met Human Realize

The fundamental question is how to develop and maintain compassion. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Compassion Fundamental Question

By mobilizing our thoughts and practicing new ways of thinking, we can reshape our nerve cells and change the way our brains work. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Thinking Work Mobilizing

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. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Buddhism False Claims

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Great Risk Account

Examine your attitudes toward food, clothes, and shelter. By reducing expectations you will promote contentment. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Clothes Examine Food

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Seek Development Compassion

We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Suffering Humanity Recognize

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Man Goal Previous

My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Earnest Request Practice

Everywhere and in every society, people endure suffering and adversity - even those who enjoy freedom and material prosperity. Indeed, it seems to me that much of the unhappiness we humans endure is actually of our own making. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Society People Adversity

Our future is in our hands. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Hands Future

It is important to consider others at least as important as ourselves. This is the essence of spirituality. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Important Spirituality Essence

Each one of us is responsible for reducing the negative potential of every situation we have to face. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Face Responsible Reducing

It became clear that this man, although supposedly my enemy, was in fact just another human being, an ordinary person like myself. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Man Enemy Clear

One thing you should remember is that mental transformations take time and are not easy. I think some people from the West, where technology is so good, think that everything is automatic. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Easy Thing Remember

The present is that elusive moment between what no longer exists and what has not yet happened. These notions that we take as "reality" are pure intellectual fabrications that do not involve an independent reality, existent in itself. According -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Happened Reality Present

My religion is kindness. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Kindness Religion

An open heart is an open mind. -- Dalai Lama Xiv

Open Mind Heart