Occupation: Writer Birth: August 3, 1941
The Chinese people absolutely need good spiritual examples. They also could use a citizen of their own, who is free and happy, and pleased with them,….
The tradition of nonviolence, optimism, concern for the individual, and unconditional compassion that developed in Tibet is the culmination of a slow….
A lot of people, after seeking a bit, have some experience, and sometimes will believe they're enlightened. One has to be careful about that. Especia….
That love, in the sense of wishing their happiness, will cause your actions to be effective in relation to that person..
You have to be responsible for yourself, refer to yourself, develop yourself, help others, whatever it may be. So we shouldn't have an idea that the ….
Struggling with the world and having the problem of you vs. the world is a really big problem. You're going to lose because the world is so much bigg….
Live fully each day to the full . . ..
However, because of your interconnectedness with all things, other beings still have a problem, and when you realize that you have no absolute self a….
In Buddhist ideology, the conventional self is that which is constructed in a way by the use of the pronoun, and when you realize there is no absolut….
The understanding of it [absolute] is very important as a beginning point. Then you can use meditation, further reasoning, long-term familiarity etc.….
Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is scien….
Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, polit….
It isn't the meaning of love where you somehow desire that one or you want them or want them to love you..
Actually there's a very bad trend in some cults about how Guru's are supposed to be mean to their students, and there are some who revel in this and ….
When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned what you are left with is an ocean of bliss. What you emerged with what you are is an….
Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells..
Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals..
The idea that somehow "no self, no problem"- I don't exist because I don't have a self- would be a mistaken understanding. However, the selflessness ….
You feel so happy about that, that you feel loving towards these poor being who are suffering in their separateness, and their alienation Then have t….
You can't relate to an absolute or it wouldn't be absolute, it would be relative. On an intellectual level, that's easy. However, you hear theologian….
They [Chinese] will need a sympathetic intercessor with other people in the world to avoid conflict and create trust, and of course, Dalai Lama would….