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So, The Tendency Of Our Childish Nature Is To Take Small Things Too Seriously And Get Easily Offended, Whereas When We Are Confronted With Situations Which Have Long-term Consequences, We Tend To Take Things Less Seriously

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So, The Tendency Of Our Childish Nature Is To Take Small Things Too Seriously And Get Easily Offended, Whereas When We Are Confronted With Situations Which Have Long-term Consequences, We Tend To Take Things Less Seriously

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Choose To Be Optimistic, It Feels Better.

Irrespective Of Whether We Are Believers Or Agnostics, Whether We Believe In God Or Karma, Moral Ethics Is A Code Which Everyone Is Able To Pursue.

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Reality Is Devoid Of Any Intrinsic Identity That Can Be Captured By Any One Single Proposition - That Is What Buddha Meant By "voidness."

The Main Cause Of Suffering Is Egoistic Desire For One's Own Comfort And Happiness.

The Essence Of All Religions Is Love, Compassion And Tolerance. Kindness Is My True Religion. No Matter Whether You Are Learned Or Not, Whether You Believe In The Next Life Or Not, Whether You Believe In God Or Buddha Or Some Other Religion Or Not, In Day-to-day Life You Must Be A Kind Person.

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Your Motivation Should Be Sincere And Your Life Should Be Of Benefit To Some People. That Is The Main Thing. Don't Care After My Death.

Since We Desire The True Happiness That Is Brought About By A Calm Mind, And Such Peace Of Mind Arises Only From Having A Compassionate Attitude, We Need To Make A Concerted Effort To Develop Compassion.

When Educating The Minds Of Our Youth, We Must Not Forget To Educate Their Hearts.

I Totally Disagree With The View That The Tibet Struggle Will Die, And There Will Be No Hope For Tibet, After The Dalai Lama Passes Away.

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

Cultivating A Close, Warmhearted Feeling For Others Automatically Puts The Mind At Ease.

We All Have The Potential To Be Better Than We Are.

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The 20th Century Was The Century Of War And Blood. The 21st Century Is The Century Of Dialogue.

When You Talk You Are Only Repeating Something You Already Know. But, If You Listen You May Learn Something New.

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Lasting Happiness

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The Invitation Come From Some Institution Who Really Involving So-called My Own Profession, These Fields. And Then Different Universities Or Education Sort Of Institution, I Feel That Is The Place Where The Awareness Of These Things To Start And To Spread A More Human Community. So Then On That Level, Yes, I Have Some Obligation.

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Ethics: The Indispensable Interface Between My Desire To Be Happy And Yours.

It Is Important To Direct Our Intelligence With Good Intentions. Without Intelligence, We Cannot Accomplish Very Much. Without Good Intentions, The Way We Exercise Of Our Intelligence May Have Destructive Results.

If Humanity Is To Survive, Happiness And Inner Balance Are Crucial. Otherwise The Lives Of Our Children And Their Children Are More Likely To Be Unhappy, Desperate And Short. Material Development Certainly Contributes To Happiness - To Some Extent - And A Comfortable Way Of Life. But This Is Not Sufficient. To Achieve A Deeper Level Of Happiness We Cannot Neglect Our Inner Development.

Because We All Share This Planet Earth, We Have To Learn To Live In Harmony And Peace With Each Other And With Nature. This Is Not Just A Dream, But A Necessity.

We Cannot Overcome Anger And Hatred Simply By Suppressing Them. We Need To Actively Cultivate The Antidotes: Patience And Tolerance.

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.

Our Prime Purpose In Life Is To Serve Others.

Purpose Of Life

Spend 5 Minutes Breathing In, Cherishing Yourself; And, Breathing Out Cherishing Others. If You Think About People You Have Difficulty Cherishing, Extend Your Cherishing To Them Anyway.

It Is Time To Fill The World With Strong And Powerful Deeds. It Is Common Knowledge That No Great Captain In The World Has Ever Destroyed All Of His Enemies And Lived With A Sense Of Satisfaction. If One Enemy Is Killed, Two More Will Appear. It Is Important We Cultivate Love And Compassion To All The Sentient Beings Which Is The Way To Bring Peace To All.

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.

Im A Tibetan Monk, Not A Vegetarian.

Love And Compassion Are The Pillars Of World Peace.

If We Can Cultivate A Concern For Others, Keeping In Mind The Oneness Of Humanity, We Can Build A More Compassionate World.

Concern For Others

I Am Increasingly Convinced That The Time Has Come To Find A Way Of Thinking About Spirituality And Ethics Beyond Religion Altogether.

World Peace Must Develop From Inner Peace. Peace Is Not Just Mere Absence Of Violence. Peace Is, I Think, The Manifestation Of Human Compassion.

Whether One Believes In A Religion Or Not, And Whether One Believes In Rebirth Or Not, There Isn't Anyone Who Doesn't Appreciate Kindness And Compassion.

If You Think You Are Too Small To Make A Difference, Try Sleeping With A Mosquito.

The Only "definitive Truth" For Buddhism Is The Absolute Negation Of Any One Truth As The Definitive Truth.

Instead Of Harboring Fear And Suspicion We Need To Think Of Other People Not As ‘them’ But ‘us’.

All Good Qualities Must Be Sown And Cultivated. We Can’t Expect To Change Overnight From An Ordinary Person Into One With High Realizations.

I Try To Treat Whoever I Meet As An Old Friend [with Dignity, With Honor].

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

Anger And Hatred Lead To Fear; Compassion And Concern For Others Allow Us To Develop Self-confidence, Which Breeds Trust And Friendship.

Self Confidence

Concern For Others

If You Shift Your Focus From Yourself To Others, Extend Your Concern To Others, And Cultivate The Thought Of Caring For The Well Being Of Others, Then This Will Have The Immediate Effect Of Opening Up Your Life And Helping You To Reach Out.

Do Not Let The Behavior Of Others Destroy Your Inner Peace.

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.

Happiness Is Determined More By One's State Of Mind Than By External Events.

Go At Least Once A Year To A Place You've Never Been Before.

Inspiring Travel

More Compassionate Mind, More Sense Of Concern For Other's Well-being, Is Source Of Happiness.

Concern For Others

Yet Even The Rich Have Their Own Kind Of Suffering, Anxiety, Doubt, And Fear. So In Many Cases, Wealthy People Aren't Happy! And Once Those With Material Wealth Encounter Small Difficulties, Their Amount Of Mental Suffering Is Sometimes Bigger Than It Is For Those Who Have Faced Such Difficulties Every Day.

We Cannot Learn Real Patience And Tolerance From A Guru Or A Friend. They Can Be Practiced Only When We Come In Contact With Someone Who Creates Unpleasant Experiences. According To Shantideva, Enemies Are Really Good For Us As We Can Learn A Lot From Them And Build Our Inner Strength.

If Someone Does Not Smile At You, Be Generous And Offer Your Own Smile. Nobody Needs A Smile More Than The One That Cannot Smile To Others.

The Message Of Love And Compassion Will Travel Far And Wide If All Who Follow A Spiritual Path Work Together In Harmony And Mutual Respect.

Working Together

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.

Once You Develop Confidence In Your Own Ability, You'll Be Able To Make A Real Contribution To Creating A Better World. Self-confidence Is Very Important. Not In The Sense Of Blind Pride, But As A Realistic Awareness Of What You Can Do. As Human Beings We Can Transform Ourselves By Our Good Qualities And Reducing Our Faults. Our Intelligence Enables Us To Judge What Is Good From What Is Harmful.

Self Confidence

We Know That To Wage A Nuclear War Today, For Example, Would Be A Form Of Suicide; Or That To Pollute The Air Or The Oceans In Order To Achieve Some Short-term Benefit Would Be To Destroy The Very Basis For Our Survival.

When We Face Problems With Compassion, Sincerity, And Good Motivation, Our Solutions May Take Longer, But Ultimately They Are Better.

In Today's Highly Interdependent World, Individuals And Nations Can No Longer Resolve Many Of Their Problems By Themselves. We Need One Another. It Is Our Collective And Individual Responsibility To Protect And Nurture The Global Family, To Support Its Weaker Members, And To Preserve And Tend To The Environment In Which We All Live.

I Believe The Ultimate Aim Of All Human Beings Is To Obtain Happiness And A Sense Of Fulfillment... I Have Always Stressed The Importance Of Combining Both The Mental And Material Approach To Achieving Happiness For Humankind.

Achieving Happiness

In Order To Be Happy We Must First Possess Inner Contentment; And Inner Contentment Doesn't Come From Having All We Want; But Rather From Wanting And Appreciating Being Grateful For All We Have.

Religion Is Like Going Out To Dinner With Friends. Everyone May Order Something Different, But Everyone Can Still Sit At The Same Table.

Dinner With Friends

Peace Starts Within Each One Of Us. 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 Peace With Neighboring Communities, And So On. When We Feel Love And Kindness Towards Others, It Not Only Makes Others Feel Loved And Cared For, But It Helps Us Also To Develop Inner Happiness And Peace.

It Is Worth Remembering That The Time Of Greatest Gain In Terms Of Wisdom And Inner Strength Is Often That Of Greatest Difficulty.

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.

We Must Each Lead A Way Of Life With Self-awareness And Compassion, To Do As Much As We Can. Then, Whatever Happens We Will Have No Regrets.

I Believe That The Time Has Come For Women To Take More Active Roles In All Domains Of Human Society, In An Age In Which Education And The Capacities Of The Mind, Not Physical Strength, Define Leadership. This Could Help Create A More Equitable And Compassionate Society.

The Two Most Important Things To Remember In Business Are: To Be Aware Of The Consequential Impact On Ecology, And A Caring Relationship Between Employer And Employee.

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