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The Fact That There Is Always A Positive Side To Life Is The One Thing That Gives Me A Lot Of Happiness. This World Is Not Perfect. There Are Problems. But Things Like Happiness And Unhappiness Are Relative. Realizing This Gives You Hope.

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The Fact That There Is Always A Positive Side To Life Is The One Thing That Gives Me A Lot Of Happiness. This World Is Not Perfect. There Are Problems. But Things Like Happiness And Unhappiness Are Relative. Realizing This Gives You Hope.

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We Need To Take Action To Develop Compassion, To Create Inner Peace Within Ourselves And To Share That Inner Peace With Our Family And Friends. Peace And Warm-heartednes S Can Then Spread Through The Community Just As Ripples Radiate Out Across The Water When You Drop A Pebble Into A Pond

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Pain Can Change You, But That Doesn't Mean It Has To Be A Bad Change. Take That Pain And Turn It Into Wisdom.

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.

The More We Are Concerned For The Well Being Of Others, The Closer We Will Feel To Each Other.

The Deep Root Of Failure In Our Lives Is To Think, 'oh How Useless And Powerless I Am.' It Is Essential To Think Strongly And Forcefully, 'i Can Do It,' Without Boasting Or Fretting.

I Find That Because Of Modern Technological Evolution And Our Global Economy, And As A Result Of The Great Increase In Population, Our World Has Greatly Changed: It Has Become Much Smaller. However, Our Perceptions Have Not Evolved At The Same Pace; We Continue To Cling To Old National Demarcations And The Old Feelings Of 'us' And 'them'.

Remember That Sometimes Not Getting What You Want Is A Wonderful Stroke Of Luck.

The Way To Overcome Negative Thoughts And Destructive Emotions Is To Develop Opposing, Positive Emotions That Are Stronger And More Powerful.

We Believe In Self Creation. That's Why Buddhists Believe In The Four Noble Truths.

What Is The Meaning Of Life? To Be Happy And Useful.

If It Can Be Solved, There's No Need To Worry, And If It Can't Be Solved, Worry Is Of No Use.

According To Buddhist Practice, There Are Three Stages Or Steps. The Initial Stage Is To Reduce Attachment Towards Life. The Second Stage Is The Elimination Of Desire And Attachment To This Samsara. Then In The Third Stage, Self-cherishing Is Eliminated

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

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.

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.

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

Democratic Institutions Are Necessary And Very Important, And If I Remained At The Head Of Government, It Could Be An Obstacle To Democratic Practice. Also, If I Were To Remain, Then I Would Have To Join One Of The Parties. If The Dalai Lama Joins One Party, Then That Makes It Hard For The System To Work.

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

To Develop Patience, You Need Someone Who Willfully Hurts You. Such People Give Us Real Opportunities To Practice Tolerance. They Test Our Inner Strength In A Way That Even Our Guru Cannot. Basically, Patience Protects Us From Being Discouraged.

In Daily Practice, Reflect On The Benefits Of Love, Compassion And Kindness, Then Reflect On The Disadvantages Of Anger. Such Continuous Contemplation, The Growing Appreciation Of Love, Has The Effect Of Reducing Our Inclination Towards Hatred And Increasing Our Respect For Love. By This Means Even Anger Can Be Diminished.

Inspirational Love

We Have A Natural Creative Ability And It Is Very Important To Realize This.

Along With Selfishness, Anger Is One Of The Most Serious Problems Facing The World Today

At A Personal Level, As A Buddhist Practitioner, I Deliberately Visualize And Think About Death In My Daily Practice. Death Is Not Separated From Our Lives. Due To My Research And Thoughts About Death, I Have Some Guarantee And Some Conviction That It Will Be A Positive Experience.

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.

If We Don't Understand Phenomena, We Are More Likely To Do Things To Harm Ourselves And Others.

Although You Can Find Certain Differences Among The Buddhist Philosophical Schools About How The Universe Came Into Being, The Basic Common Question Addressed Is How The Two Fundamental Principles-external Matter And Internal Mind Or Consciousness-although Distinct, Affect One Another. External Causes And Conditions Are Responsible For Certain Of Our Experiences Of Happiness And Suffering. Yet We Find That It Is Principally Our Own Feelings, Our Thoughts And Our Emotions, That Really Determine Whether We Are Going To Suffer Or Be Happy.

For Change To Happen In Any Community, The Initiative Must Come From The Individual.

My Hope And Wish Is That One Day, Formal Education Will Pay Attention To What I Call 'education Of The Heart'.

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