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  • If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.

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    Dalai Lama (2016). “The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
  • Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

  • There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.

  • Death and dying provide a meeting-point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to contribute to each other on the level of understanding and of practical benefit.

  • If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another. Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding, and for assurance at this hour. Most of all, they are looking to you for love.

  • I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend, that together we succeed in building a better world through human understanding and love, and that in doing so we may reduce the pain and suffering of all sentient beings.

    The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.
  • Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life. And a good life does not mean just good food, good clothes, good shelter. These are not sufficient. A good motivation is what is needed: compassion, without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their rights and human dignity.

  • A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.

    His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.21, Shambhala Publications
  • Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They think either that the other's pain may somehow be a cause of happiness for themselves or that their own happiness is more important, regardless of what pain it may cause. But this is shortsighted. No one truly benefits from causing harm to another sentient being. . . . . In the long run causing others misery and infringing their rights to peace and happiness result in anxiety, fear, and suspicion within oneself.

  • With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that can accommodate different individuals and groups with different cultural heritages, having different dispositions and tastes. Each person has the right to choose whatever is most suitable, on the basis of a deep understanding of all others as brothers and sisters.

  • On those days when I can spend a few hours getting some understanding, I feel fulfilled. I feel as if I have made good use of my time.

    Source: www.worldreligionnews.com
  • The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding.

  • Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

    "Be Happy Now: Simple Steps for Enjoying Life". Book by Laura Barrette Shannon, p. 96, March 27, 2012.
  • If we wish to ensure everyone’s peace and happiness we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings

  • Study and practice are both very important, but they must go hand in hand. Faith without knowledge is not sufficient. Faith needs to be supported by reason. However intellectual understanding that is not applied in practice is also of little use. Whatever we learn from study we need to apply sincerely in our daily lives.

  • In spiritual growth, it is important to avoid imbalances between academic or intellectual learning and practical implementation. Otherwise there is a danger that too much intellectualiza tion will kill the more contemplative practices and too much emphasis on practical implementation without study will kill the understanding. There has got to be a balance.

  • We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.

  • We have to think and see how we can fundamentally change our education system so that we can train people to develop warm-heartedness early on in order to create a healthier society. I don't mean we need to change the whole system, just improve it. We need to encourage an understanding that inner peace comes from relying on human values like, love, compassion, tolerance and honesty, and that peace in the world relies on individuals finding inner peace.

  • If science proves facts that conflict with Buddhist understanding, Buddhism must change accordingly. We should always adopt a view that accords with the facts.

    "Scientists Meditate On Happiness" by Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. September 16, 2003.
  • I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.

  • However capable and skillful an individual may be, left alone, he or she will not survive. When we are sick or very young or very old, we must depend on the support of others. There is no significant division between us and other people, because our basic natures are the same. If we wish to ensure everyone's peace and happiness, we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings.

  • If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview.

    "Our Faith in Science" by Dalai Lama, www.nytimes.com. November 12, 2005.
  • Many problems that confront us today are created by man, whether they are violent conflicts, destruction of the environment, poverty or hunger. These problems can be resolved thanks to human efforts by understanding that we are brother and sister and by developing this sense of closeness. We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share.

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  • The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.

    The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.
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Dalai Lama quotes about: Absolute Truth Acceptance Achievement Acting Adversity Affection Age Aging Altruism Anger Anger Management Animal Rights Animals Anxiety Appearance Appreciation Assumption Atmosphere Attitude Authority Avoiding Awakening Awareness Balance Being Different Being Happy Being Human Belief Birds Birth Blame Blessings Boundaries Brotherhood Brothers Brothers And Sisters Buddhism Bullying Caring Challenges Change Changing The World Character Cheating Childhood Children Choices Climate Change Commitment Common Sense Communication Community Compassion Competition Compromise Confidence Conflict Confusion Consciousness Contentment Country Creation Creativity Culture Death Death Penalty Democracy Desire Determination Dialogue Difficulty Dignity Discipline Diversity Dogs Doubt Dreams Drugs Dying Earth Economy Education Education System Effort Ego Egoism Emotions Empathy Encouraging Enemies Energy Enlightenment Enthusiasm Environment Ethics Evidence Exercise Expectations Exploitation Eyes Failing Faith Family Fear Feelings Fighting Flowers Focus Forgiveness Freedom Friends Friendship Frustration Generosity Giving Giving Up Goals God Goodness Gratitude Greed Growth Guns Habits Happiness Happiness And Love Happy Hard Times Hardship Harmony Hate Hatred Healing Health Heart Helping Others Home Honesty Honor Human Nature Human Rights Human Values Humanity Humility Hunger Hurt Identity Ideology Ignorance Independence Individuality Injustice Insecurity Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Intelligence Jealousy Joy Judgement Judging Justice Karma Kindness Knowledge Language Laughter Learning Life Lifetime Loneliness Losing Loss Love Lying Making Money Mankind Materialism Meaning Of Life Meditation Meetings Mindfulness Mistakes Monday Monk Morality Morning Mothers Motivation Motivational Mountain Nature Negative Thoughts Neighbours Never Giving Up Non Violence Nonviolence Opportunity Optimism Overcoming Pain Pain And Suffering Parents Parties Passion Past Patience Peace Peace Of Mind Perception Personal Responsibility Perspective Philosophy Pleasure Politicians Positive Positive Thinking Positivity Poverty Power Prayer Pride Progress Prosperity Purpose Purpose Of Life Quality Reality Rebirth Recognition Reconciliation Refugees Regret Reincarnation Relationships Religion Respect Responsibility Risk Running Sacrifice Sadness Self Confidence Self Control Self Esteem Self Interest Selfishness Seven Sickness Silence Simplicity Sincerity Sisterhood Sisters Slaves Sleep Society Soul Spirituality Sports Spring Strength Stress Struggle Study Success Suffering Survival Sympathy Take Care Teachers Teaching Technology Tibet Today Tolerance Tradition Tragedy Train Training Tranquility Transformation Travel Trust Truth Understanding Universe Values Vegetarian Victory Violence Virtue Vision Volunteer Waiting War Water Weakness Wealth Welfare Well Being Wisdom Worry Yoga