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Hatred, Jealousy And Excessive Attachment Cause Suffering And Agitation. I Feel Compassion Can Help Us Overcome These Disturbances And Let Us Return To A Calm State Of Mind. Compassion Is Not Just Being Kind To Your Friend. That Involves Attachment Because It Is Based On Expectation. Compassion Is When You Do Something Good Without Any Expectations - Based On Realizing That "the Other Person Is Also Just Like Me".

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Hatred, Jealousy And Excessive

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Hatred, Jealousy And Excessive Attachment Cause Suffering And Agitation. I Feel Compassion Can Help Us Overcome These Disturbances And Let Us Return To A Calm State Of Mind. Compassion Is Not Just Being Kind To Your Friend. That Involves Attachment Because It Is Based On Expectation. Compassion Is When You Do Something Good Without Any Expectations - Based On Realizing That "the Other Person Is Also Just Like Me".

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There Is A True Feminist Movement In Buddhism That Relates To The Goddess Tārā. Following Her Cultivation Of Bodhicitta, The Bodhisattva's Motivation, She Looked Upon The Situation Of Those Striving Towards Full Awakening And She Felt That There Were Too Few People Who Attained Buddhahood As Women. So She Vowed, 'i Have Developed Bodhicitta As A Woman. For All My Lifetimes Along The Path I Vow To Be Born As A Woman, And In My Final Lifetime When I Attain Buddhahood, Then, Too, I Will Be A Woman.'

If There Is A Solution To A Problem, There Is No Need To Worry. And If There Is No Solution, There Is No Need To Worry.

If You Have A Great Deal Of Knowledge, But You're Governed By Negative Emotions, Then You Tend To Use Your Knowledge In Negative Ways. Therefore, While You Are Learning, Don't Forget The Importance Of Warmheartedness.

Patience As We Wait To Take Action Is A Kind Of Compassionate Mind. Impatience On The Other Hand Can Be A Source Of Failure.

Anger Is The Real Destroyer Of Our Good Human Qualities; An Enemy With A Weapon Cannot Destroy These Qualities, But Anger Can. Anger Is Our Real Enemy.

We Have To Adopt A Wider Perspective, And Always Find Common Things Between The People Of North, East, South, And West. Conflict Comes From The Basis Of Differencs.

The Most Important Thing Is Transforming Our Minds, For A New Way Of Thinking, A New Outlook: We Should Strive To Develop A New Inner World.

Because Of The Great Differences In Our Ways Of Thinking, It Is Inevitable That We Have Different Religions And Faiths. Each Has Its Own Beauty. And It Is Much Better That We Live Together On The Basis Of Mutual Respect And Mutual Admiration.

We Need Material Development, But We Need To Understand That By Itself It Doesn't Bring Peace Of Mind.

Just Because They're Not On Your Road Doesn't Mean They've Gotten Lost.

There Is Competition, But It Is Used In A Good Way. It Is Positive To Want To Go First, Provided The Intention Is To Pave The Way For Others, Make Their Path More Easy, Help Them, Or Show The Way. Competition Is Negative When We Wish To Defeat Others, To Bring Them Down In Order To Lift Ourselves Up.

Historically, The East Was More Concerned With Understanding The Mind And The West Was More Involved In Understanding Matter.

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.

One Can Be Deceived By Three Types Of Laziness: Of Indolence, Which Is The Wish To Procrastinate; The Laziness Of Inferiority, Which Is Doubting Your Capabilities; And The Laziness That Is Attachment To Negative Actions, Or Putting Great Effort Into Non-virtue.

If You Want Change, Create The Causes.

The Meaning Of Life Is Happiness.

Meaning Of Life

Choose To Be Optimistic, It Feels Better.

The Key To Genuine Happiness Is In Our Hands. To Think This Way Is To Discover The Essential Values Of Kindness, Brotherly Love And Altruism. The More Clearly We See The Benefits Of These Values, The More We Will Seek To Reject Anything That Opposes Them; In This Way We Will Be Able To Bring About Inner Transformation.

Where There Is A Mind, There Are Feelings Such As Pain, Pleasure, And Joy. No Sentient Being Wants Pain: All Wants Happiness Instead.

Once You Have A Genuine Sense Of Concern For Others, There’s No Room For Cheating, Bullying Or Exploitation.

Concern For Others

Not So Long Ago People Believed In Ideologies, Systems, And Institutions To Save All Societies. Today, They Have Given Up Such Hopes And Have Returned To Relying On The Individual, On Individual Freedom, Individual Initiative, Individual Creativity.

We Human Beings Are Social Beings. We Come Into The World As The Result Of Others’ Actions. We Survive Here In Dependence On Others. Whether We Like It Or Not, There Is Hardly A Moment Of Our Lives When We Do Not Benefit From Others’ Activities. For This Reason, It Is Hardly Surprising That Most Of Our Happiness Arises In The Context Of Our Relationships With Others.

If Every 8 Year Old In The World Is Taught Meditation, We Will Eliminate Violence From The World Within One Generation

Compassion Is The Wish For Another Being To Be Free From Suffering; Love Is Wanting Them To Have Happiness.

The True Hero Is One Who Conquers His Own Anger And Hatred.

If We Lose Our Hope, That's Our Real Disaster!

Painful Experiences

I Have Never Been Any Place Where I Was Not First Invited. And Upon Invitation, If I Feel That There Is Potential For Making Some Contribution To Humanity, I Will Comply In Spite Of Being Tired.

Material Development Alone Does Not Yield Genuine Inner Peace.

Everyone Wants A Happy Life Without Difficulties Or Suffering. We Create Many Of The Problems We Face. No One Intentionally Creates Problems, But We Tend To Be Slaves To Powerful Emotions Like Anger, Hatred And Attachment That Are Based On Misconceived Projections About People And Things. We Need To Find Ways Of Reducing These Emotions By Eliminating The Ignorance That Underlies Them And Applying Opposing Forces.

In Some Respects I Have Been The Most Unlucky Because I Have Spent More Time Living As A Refugee Outside My Country Than I Have Spent In Tibet. On The Other Hand, It Has Been Very Rewarding For Me To Live In A Democracy And To Learn About The World In A Way That We Tibetans Had Never Known Before.

Moving Towards Better Rather Than Moving Away From Bad Is An Attitude Of Embracing Life Rather Than Rejecting It.

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