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Giving Up Attachment To The World Does Not Mean That You Set Yourself Apart From It. Generating A Desire For Others To Be Happy Increases Your Humanity. As You Become Less Attached To The World, You Become More Humane. As The Very Purpose Of Spiritual Practice Is To Help Others, You Must Remain In Society.

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Giving Up Attachment To The World Does Not Mean That You Set Yourself Apart From It. Generating A Desire For Others To Be Happy Increases Your Humanity. As You Become Less Attached To The World, You Become More Humane. As The Very Purpose Of Spiritual Practice Is To Help Others, You Must Remain In Society.

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The Ultimate Source Of My Mental Happiness Is My Peace Of Mind. Nothing Can Destroy This Except My Own Anger.

A New Way Of Thinking Has Become The Necessary Condition For Responsible Living And Acting. If We Maintain Obsolete Values And Beliefs, A Fragmented Consciousness And Self-centered Spirit, We Will Continue To Hold Onto Outdated Goals And Behaviors.

Everybody Wants A Happy Life And A Peaceful Mind, But We Have To Produce Peace Of Mind Through Our Own Practice.

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Without Your Own Effort It Is Impossible For Blessings To Come.

Buddha Was Speaking About Reality. Reality May Be One, In Its Deepest Essence, But Buddha Also Stated That All Propositions About Reality Are Only Contingent. Reality Is Devoid Of Any Intrinsic Identity That Can Be Captured By Any One Single Proposition - That Is What Buddha Meant By "voidness." Therefore, Buddhism Strongly Discourages Blind Faith And Fanaticism.

We Can Only Transform Humanity And Create A Happier More Compassionate World Through Education.

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.

If You Resort To Violent Methods Because The Other Side Has Destroyed Your Monastery, For Example, You Then Have Lost Not Only Your Monastery, But Also Your Special Buddhist Practices Of Detachment, Love, And Compassion.

The Affection Is Mainly Biological Factor. Then Further Sort Of Strengthening, That Religion Helps.

If The Work Is Worthwhile, Then Whether We Can Complete It Or Not, It's Worth Making The Attempt. That's Why Courage Is Important.

In Some Cases, In Order To Protect Global Issues Some Sacrifice For National Interest Is Worth It In The Long Run. Global Warming, These Things, They Suffer Everybody.

We Have To Think And See How We Can Fundamentally Change Our Education System So That We Can Train People To Develop Warm-heartedness Early On In Order To Create A Healthier Society. I Don't Mean We Need To Change The Whole System, Just Improve It. We Need To Encourage An Understanding That Inner Peace Comes From Relying On Human Values Like, Love, Compassion, Tolerance And Honesty, And That Peace In The World Relies On Individuals Finding Inner Peace.

As Human, We All Have The Same Human Potential, Unless There Is Some Sort Of Retarded Brain Function. The Wonderful Human Brain Is The Source Of Our Strength And The Source Of Our Future, Provided We Utilize It In The Right Direction. If We Use The Brilliant Human Mind In The Wrong Way, It Is Really A Disaster.

Don't Use Buddhism To Become A Buddhist. Use Buddhism To Become Better At Whatever Else In Your Life You Are Doing Already.

Always Engage Yourself Positively With Situations.

Whether You Call It Buddhism Or Another Religion, Self-discipline, That's Important. Self-discipline With Awareness Of Consequences.

It Is My Fundamental Belief That All Human Beings Share The Same Basic Aspirations: That We All Want Hapiness And That We All Share Suffering. Asians, Just Like Americans, Europeans, And The Rest Of The World, Share A Desire To Live Life To Its Fullest, To Better Ourselves And The Lives Of Our Loved Ones.

If The Situation Was Such That There Was Only One Learned Lama Or Genuine Practitioner Alive, A Person Whose Death Would Cause The Whole Of Tibet To Lose All Hope Of Keeping Its Buddhist Way Of Life, Then It Is Conceivable That In Order To Protect That One Person It Might Be Justified For One Or 10 Enemies To Be Eliminated If There Was No Other Way.

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My Earnest Request Is That You Practice Love And Kindness Whether You Believe In A Religion Or Not

Those Who Don't Have A Life Filled With Luxury May Have A Home Filled With Compassion, Based On Their Choice To Be Content And To Practice Self-discipline. Even When We Have Physical Hardships, We Can Be Very Happy.

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Love And Compassion Are The Pillars Of World Peace.

The Enemy Is A Very Good Teacher.

In Buddhism, Ignorance As The Root Cause Of Suffering Refers To A Fundamental Misperception Of The True Nature Of The Self And All Phenomena.

No Single Tibetan Dreaming Return Of Previous Sort Of Backwardness, Therefore As Far As Economy Development Is Concerned, Tibet Remain Within The People's Republic Of China, We Will Get Greater Benefit.

I Think When Tragic Things Happen It Is On Surface. It Is Like The Ocean. One The Surface A Waves And Sometimes The Wave Is Very Serious And Strong. But It Comes And Goes, Comes And Goes, And Underneath, The Ocean Always Remains Calm. Tibetans Have A Saying: "if Bad News Comes To You Listen Here" (points To The Right Ear) "and Let It Our Here" (points To The Left Ear).

So Our Future Is In Our Own Hands. What Greater Free Will Do We Need?

For Tibetans, The Real Strength Of Our Struggle Is Truth - Not Size, Money, Or Expertise. China Is Much Bigger, Richer, More Powerful Militarily, And Has Much Better Skill In Diplomacy. They Outdo Us In Every Field. But They Have No Justice. We Have Placed Our Whole Faith In Truth And In Justice. We Have Nothing Else, In Principle And In Practice.

To Foster Inner Awareness, Introspection, And Reasoning Is More Efficient Than Meditation And Prayer.

Learning Is The First Step In Making Positive Changes Within Yourself. Other Factors Are Conviction, Determination, Action & Effort. Learning & Education Help Develop Conviction About The Need To Change & Increase Your Commitment. Conviction Then Develops Into Determination. Next, Strong Determination Leads To Action: A Sustained Effort To Implement The Changes. This Final Factor Of Effort Is Critical.

We Can Live Without Religion And Meditation, But We Cannot Survive Without Human Affection.

The Very Purpose Of Our Life Is To Seek Happiness.

Every Human Should Have The Idea Of Taking Care Of The Environment, Of Nature, Of Water. So Using Too Much Or Wasting Water Should Have Some Kind Of Feeling Or Sense Of Concern. Some Sort Of Responsibility And With That, A Sense Of Discipline.

A Sense Of Contentment Is A Key Factor For Attaining Happiness

Attaining Happiness

I Think There's Every Reason This 21st Century Will Be Much Happier.

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.

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.

When Invitation Come, Then I Inquire Just To See New Place Or Seeing Just The One Sort Of Family, Then Not Much Interest.

From Adversity We Can Learn The Value Of Patience.

I'm Sure All Of Us Agree That We Need To Overcome Violence, But We First Need To Examine Whether It Has Any Value. From A Strictly Practical Perspective, On Certain Occasions Violence Appears To Be Useful. We Can Solve A Problem Quickly By Force. But This Success Is Often At The Expense Of The Rights And Welfare Of Others. Although One Problem Has Been Solved, The Seed Of Another Has Been Planted.

The Nature Of The Mind Is Such That If Certain Mental Qualities Are Developed On A Sound Basis, They Not Only Remain, But They Also Increase. In Fact, Once Properly Developed, The Mind's Good Qualities Eventually Increase Indefinitely. Therefore Spiritual Practice Brings Us Long-term Happiness And Inner Strength.

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.

In The Buddha's Life Story We See The Three Stages Of Practice: Morality Comes First, Then Concentrated Meditation, And Then Wisdom. And We See That The Path Takes Time.

We Had A Rule In Tibet That Anyone Proposing A New Invention Had To Guarentee That It Was Beneficial, Or At Least Harmless, For Seven Generations Of Humans Before It Could Be Adopted.

Don't Be A Person Of Success, Be A Person Of Value.

I Must Have Dialogue With The Chinese Government, And Dialogue Requires Compromise. Therefore, I'm Speaking For Genuine Self-rule, Not For Independence.

Through Training There Is Knowledge. You Can Produce Compassion, Love, Forgiveness. You Can Change Yourself.

Forgiveness Love

Whether Or Not We Follow Any Particular Spiritual Tradition, The Benefits Of Love And Kindness Are Obvious To Anyone.

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