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I Feel That Compassionate Thought Is The Most Precious Thing There Is. It Is Something That Only We Human Beings Can Develop. And If We Have A Good Heart, A Warm Heart, Warm Feelings, We Will Be Happy And Satisfied Ourselves, And Our Friends Will Experience A Friendly And Peaceful Atmosphere As Well. This Can Be Experienced Community To Community, Country To Country, Continent To Continent.

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I Feel That Compassionate

Dalai Lama

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I Feel That Compassionate Thought Is The Most Precious Thing There Is. It Is Something That Only We Human Beings Can Develop. And If We Have A Good Heart, A Warm Heart, Warm Feelings, We Will Be Happy And Satisfied Ourselves, And Our Friends Will Experience A Friendly And Peaceful Atmosphere As Well. This Can Be Experienced Community To Community, Country To Country, Continent To Continent.

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I Consider Myself As A Free Spokesman For The People.

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.

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Common Experience

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Suffering Of Others

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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.

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We Forget That Despite The Superficial Differences Between Us, People Are Equal In Their Basic Wish For Peace And Happiness.

As Human Beings We Have The Same Experience Of Destructive And Constructive Emotions. We Also Have A Human Mind Capable Of Developing Wisdom. We All Have The Same Buddha Nature.

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Although Violence And The Use Of Force May Appear Powerful And Decisive, Their Benefits Are Short-lived. Violence Can Never Bring A Lasting And Long Term Resolution To Any Problem, Because It Is Unpredictable And For Every Problem It Seems To Solve, Others Are Created. On The Other Hand, Truth Remains Constant And Will Ultimately Prevail.

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One Mongolian Leader Became A Very, Very Brutal Dictator And Eventually Became A Murderer. Previously, He Was A Monk, And Then He Became A Revolutionary. Under The Influence Of His New Ideology, He Actually Killed His Own Teacher. Pol Pot's Family Background Was Buddhist. Whether He Himself Was A Buddhist At A Young Age, I Don't Know. Even Chairman Mao's Family Background Was Buddhist. So One Day, If The Dalai Lama Becomes A Mass Murderer, He Will Become The Most Deadly Of Mass Murderers.

It Is Difficult To Violently Suppress People In The Long Run, As The Example Of The Soviet Union And The Eastern European Countries Has Shown.

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Without Freedom, Creativity Cannot Flourish. The Right To Freedom Is Crucial To Progress In Any Society; And The Context Is Having A Sense Of Global Responsibility.

Happiness Mainly Comes From Our Own Attitude, Rather Than From External Factors.

Wherever I Go Meeting The Public... Spreading A Message Of Human Values, Spreading A Message Of Harmony, Is The Most Important Thing.

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Common Humanity

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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.

When We Are Caught Up In A Destructive Emotion, We Lose One Of Our Greatest Assets: Our Independence.

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Spiritual Buddhist

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Feelings Of Anger, Bitterness, And Hate Are Negative. If I Kept Those Inside Me, They Would Spoil My Body And My Health. The Are Of No Use.

True Happiness Comes From Having A Sense Of Inner Peace And Contentment, Which In Turn Must Be Achieved By Cultivating Altruism, Love And Compassion, And By Eliminating Anger, Selfishness And Greed.

A Simple Smile. That's The Start Of Opening Your Heart And Being Compassionate To Others.

Don't Let A Little Dispute Injure A Great Relationship.

I'd Rather Be Kind Than Right. You Can Always Be Kind.

The Best Way Of Fulfilling Your Own Interest Is To Take Care Of Others.

You Can Develop The Right Attitude Toward Others If You Have Kindness, Love And Respect For Them, And A Clear Realization Of The Oneness Of All Human Beings.

If There Are Sound Reasons Or Bases For The Points You Demand, Then There Is No Need For Violence. On The Other Hand, When There Is No Sound Reason That Concessions Should Be Made To You But Mainly Your Own Desire, Then Reason Cannot Work And You Have To Rely On Force. Thus Using Force Is Not A Sign Of Strength But Rather A Sign Of Weakness.

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.

Love And Compassion Are Necessities, Not Luxuries. Without Them Humanity Cannot Survive.

Internal Peace Is An Essential First Step To Achieving Peace In The World. How Do You Cultivate It? It's Very Simple. In The First Place By Realizing Clearly That All Mankind Is One, That Human Beings In Every Country Are Members Of One And The Same Family.

Death Means Change Our Clothes. Clothes Become Old, Then Time To Come Change. So This Body Become Old, And Then Time Come, Take Young Body.

When We Have Inner Peace, We Can Be At Peace With Those Around Us. When Our Community Is In A State Of Peace, It Can Share That Peace With Neighboring Communities.

We Should Practice By Showing One Another Love And Helping One Another. It Is A Mistake To Pursue Happiness And To Seek To The Avoid Suffering By Deceiving And Humiliating Other People. We Must Try To Achieve Happiness And Eliminate Suffering By Being Good-hearted And Well-behaved.

Looking At Various Means Of Developing Compassion, I Think Empathy Is An Important Factor: The Ability To Appreciate Others' Suffering.

If Your Life Becomes Only A Medium Of Production, Then Many Of The Good Human Values And Characteristics Will Be Lost.

Characteristics

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.

Religion Does Not Mean Just Precepts, A Temple, Monastery, Or Other External Signs, For These As Well As Hearing And Thinking Are Subsidiary Factors In Taming The Mind.

One Scientist Had Discussions About Love And Compassion. Usually, He Felt Irritation. After Our Meeting, For Some Months, Anger Never Come.

To Be Aware Of A Single Shortcoming Within Oneself Is More Useful Than To Be Aware Of A Thousand In Somebody Else.

Modern Education Is Premised Strongly On Materialistic Values. It Is Vital That When Educating Our Children's Brains That We Do Not Neglect To Educate Their Hearts, A Key Element Of Which Has To Be The Nurturing Of Our Compassionate Nature.

If We Had To Accept The Idea Of An Independent Creator, The Explanations Given In [several Buddhist Texts] Which Completely Refutes The Existence Per Se Of All Phenomena, Would Be Negated.

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.

Right From The Moment Of Our Birth, We Are Under The Care And Kindness Of Our Parents, And Then Later On In Our Life When We Are Oppressed By Sickness And Become Old, We Are Again Dependent On The Kindness Of Others. Since At The Beginning And End Of Our Lives We Are So Dependent On Other's Kindness, How Can It Be In The Middle That We Would Neglect Kindness Towards Others?

I Only Escaped From Tibet Because I Feared My People Would Resort To Desperate Violence If The Chinese Took Me As Their Prisoner.

In Some Cases Is Keeping Your Mouth Shut The Best Answer.

Keeping Your Mouth Shut

It Is Vital That When Educating Our Children's Brains That We Do Not Neglect To Educate Their Hearts.

We Have To Make A Sustained Effort, Again And Again, To Cultivate The Positive Aspects Within Us.

Again And Again

The Real Test Of Compassion Is Not What We Say In Abstract Discussions But How We Conduct Ourselves In Daily Life.

There Are Five Billion Human Beings And In A Certain Way I Think We Need Five Billion Different Religions, Because There Is Such A Large Variety Of Dispositions. I Believe That Each Individual Should Embark Upon A Spiritual Path That Is Best Suited To His Or Her Mental Disposition, Natural Inclination, Temperament, Belief, Family And Cultural Background.

We Can't Be Useful To Ourselves Unless We're Useful To Others .... Anyone Concerned Only By His Own Well-being Will Suffer Eventually. Anyone Concerned With The Well-being Of Others Takes Care Of Himself Without Even Thinking About It. Even If We Decide To Remain Selfish. Let Us Be Intelligently Selfish - Let Us Help Others.

I Am Not Promoting Buddhism. I Am Promoting Human Values.

By Developing A Sense Of Concern For Others' Well-being, Then No Matter What Others' Attitudes Are, You Can Keep Inner Peace.

Concern For Others

Open Your Arms To Change But Don't Let Go Of Your Values.

Most Real Change Is Slow. Happiness And Joy Are The Purpose Of Life. If We Know That The Future Will Be Very Dark Or Painful, Then We Lose Our Determination To Live. Therefore, Life Is Something Based On Hope.

Be A Good Human Being, A Warm-hearted Affectionate Person. That Is My Fundamental Belief. Having A Sense Of Caring, A Feeling Of Compassion Will Bring Happiness Of Peace Of Mind To Oneself And Automatically Create A Positive Atmosphere.

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