Dalai Lama Quotes About Meditation
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If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.
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Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.
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Meditation is valuable for all of humanity because it involves looking inward. People don't have to be religious to look inside themselves more carefully. It is constructive and worthwhile to analyze our emotions, including compassion and our sense of caring, so that we can become more calm and happy.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.
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What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.
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If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.
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If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation
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There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.
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All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.
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The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is within us. Therefore, the solution is within us too. However, that inner change does not take place immediately in the way that we switch on a light, but takes weeks, months and years.
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Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect results from meditation within a short period of time. What is required is continuous sustained effort.
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If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.
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We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
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Now you are on the Buddhist way. Keep up your meditation, as there is no instant illumination. The mind moves slowly into this. Do not become attached to your method. When, in the course of your meditation, your consciousness will have expanded and been transformed, you will then recognize that all the ways are valid ways.
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Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
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Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
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...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.
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Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
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In order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.
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To develop genuine devotion, you must know the meaning of teachings. The main emphasis in Buddhism is to transform the mind, and this transformation depends upon meditation. in order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate.
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The very purpose of meditation is to discipline the mind and reduce afflictive emotions.
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When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.
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There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.
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