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Cultivating Care And Concern For Others Gives Rise To A Kind Of Inner Strength. No Matter What Difficulties Or Problems You Face, In This Wider Context They’ll Seem Less Significant And Troubling To You. The Inner Strength, Self-confidence And Courage You Gain By Focussing On Others’ Needs Instead Of Your Own, Brings With It A Deep, Calm Sense Of Satisfaction.

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Cultivating Care And Concern

Dalai Lama

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Cultivating Care And Concern For Others Gives Rise To A Kind Of Inner Strength. No Matter What Difficulties Or Problems You Face, In This Wider Context They’ll Seem Less Significant And Troubling To You. The Inner Strength, Self-confidence And Courage You Gain By Focussing On Others’ Needs Instead Of Your Own, Brings With It A Deep, Calm Sense Of Satisfaction.

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Genuine Concern

Concern For Others

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Common Humanity

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A Calm Mind Helps Our Human Intelligence To Assess The Situation Realistically.

A Calm Mind Is Good For Our Physical Health, But It Also Enables Us To See Things More Realistically.

In Spiritual Growth, It Is Important To Avoid Imbalances Between Academic Or Intellectual Learning And Practical Implementation. Otherwise There Is A Danger That Too Much Intellectualiza Tion Will Kill The More Contemplative Practices And Too Much Emphasis On Practical Implementation Without Study Will Kill The Understanding. There Has Got To Be A Balance.

Violence Will Only Increase The Cycle Of Violence.

There Is Soul Music, Soul Food, And Soul Love.

Food For The Soul

If We Have A Positive Mental Attitude, Then Even When Surrounded By Hostility, We Shall Not Lack Inner Peace.

Hard Times Build Determination And Inner Strength. Through Them We Can Also Come To Appreciate The Uselessness Of Anger.

Choose To Be Optimistic, It Feels Better.

Consciousness Will Always Be Present, Though A Particular Consciousness May Cease. For Example, The Particular Tactile Consciousness That Is Present Within This Human Body Will Cease When The Body Comes To An End. Likewise, Consciousnesses That Are Influenced By Ignorance, By Anger Or By Attachment, These Too Will Cease. But The Basic, Ultimate, Innermost Subtle Consciousness Will Always Remain. It Has No Beginning, And It Will Have Not End.

I Have Always Had This View About The Modern Education System: We Pay Attention To Brain Development, But The Development Of Warmheartedness We Take For Granted.

If You Lose Your Temper, Your Sound Sleep Will Go, And You Will Have To Use A Tranquilizer Or Sleeping Pills? Then Gradually, More White Hair, Wrinkles.

Although It Is Difficult To Pinpoint The Physical Base Or Location Of Awareness, It Is Perhaps The Most Precious Thing Concealed Within Our Brains. And It Is Something That The Individual Alone Can Feel And Experience. Each Of Us Cherishes It Highly, Yet It Is Private.

I Have Three Commitments. Number One Commitment Is Promotion Of Human Value. Number Two Commitment Is Promotion Of Race Harmony. Number Three Commitment Is About Tibet. My Retirement Is The Third Commitment. The Previous Two Commitments, To My Death, I Have Committed.

When You Hate Someone Intensely, 80% Of What You Think Is Delusion.

Whenever I Visit A Market And See The Chickens Crowded Together In Tiny Cages That Give Them No Room To Move Around And Spread Their Wings And The Fish Slowly Drowning In The Air, My Heart Goes Out To Them. People Have To Learn To Think About Animals In A Different Way, As Sentient Beings Who Love Life And Fear Death. I Urge Everyone Who Can To Adopt A Compassionate Vegetarian Diet.

Today We Face Many Problems. Some Are Created Essentially By Ourselves Based On Divisions Due To Ideology, Religion, Race, Economic Status, Or Other Factors. Therefore, The Time Has Come For Us To Think On A Deeper Level, On The Human Level, And From That Level We Should Appreciate And Respect The Sameness Of Others As Human Beings.

Change Only Takes Place Through Action, Not Through Meditation And Prayer.

A Compassionate Attitude Helps You Communicate More Easily With Your Fellow Human Beings. As A Result, You Make More Genuine Friends And The Atmosphere Around You Is More Positive, Which Gives You Greater Inner Strength. This Inner Strength Helps You Spontaneously Concern Yourself With Others, Instead Of Thinking Only About Yourself.

Genuine Friends

Some Feel That You Lose Your Independence If You Don't Let Your Mind Just Wander Where It Wants To, If You Try To Control It. But That Is Not The Case. If Your Mind Is Proceeding In The Correct Way, One Already Has The Correct Opinion. But If Your Mind Is Proceeding In An Incorrect Way, Then It's Necessary, Definitely, To Exercise Control.

Inner Values Like Friendship, Trust, Honesty And Compassion Are Much More Reliable Than Money - They Always Bring Happiness And Strength.

There Are Techniques Of Buddhism, Such As Meditation, That Anyone Can Adopt. And, Of Course, There Are Christian Monks And Nuns Who Already Use Buddhist Methods In Order To Develop Their Devotion, Compassion, And Ability To Forgive.

Remember That The Best Relationship Is One In Which Your Love For Each Other Exceeds Your Need For Each Other.

On Love, Not Harming Others, And Respecting All Beings. Even Animals Have These Elements In Their Behavioral Patterns. We Should Start By Observing How Animals Act. They Are Honest And Appreciate It When We Are Honest With Them. If You Present Something Nice To An Animal In One Hand While Hiding A Rope In The Other, The Creature Will Know Your Intention. Yet Animals Have No Religion, No Constitution. Basic Nature Has Endowed Them With The Faculty Of Discernment. It Is The Same For Humans.

If We Human Beings Rely Only On Material Development, We Can’t Be Sure Of A Positive Outcome. Employing Technology Motivated By Anger And Hatred Is Likely To Be Destructive. It Will Only Be Beneficial If We Seek The Welfare Of All Beings. Human Beings Are The Only Species With The Potential To Destroy The World. Because Of The Risks Of Unrestrained Desire And Greed We Need To Cultivate Contentment And Simplicity.

Indulgence In Resentment And Vengeance Will Only Further Increase Miseries To Oneself And Others In This Life And In Lives To Come.

A Balanced And Skillful Approach To Life, Taking Care To Avoid Extremes, Becomes A Very Important Factor In Conducting One's Everyday Existence.

The Enemy Is A Very Good Teacher.

As Far As Social-economic Theory Is Concerned, I Am Still A Marxist

The Meaning Of Life Is Happiness.

Meaning Of Life

Peace And The Survival Of Life On Earth As We Know It Are Threatened By Human Activities Which Lack A Commitment To Humanitarian Values. Destruction Of Nature And Nature's Resources Result From Ignorance, Greed And Lack Of Respect For The Earth's Living Things.

In Disagreements With Loved Ones, Deal Only With The Current Situation. Don't Bring Up The Past.

Rules To Live By

Tibetans Must Take Full Authority And Responsibility For Developing Industry, Looking From All Different Perspectives, Taking Care Of The Environment, Conserving Resources For Long-term Economic Health, And Safeguarding The Interests Of Tibetan Workers, Nomads, And Farmers.

Today Different Ethnic Groups And Different Nations Come Together Due To Common Sense.

For Discovering One's True Inner Nature, I Think One Should Try To Take Out Some Time, With Quiet And Relaxation, To Think More Inwardly And To Investigate The Inner World. That May Help.

The Very Purpose Of Our Life Is To Seek Happiness.

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