Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama Quotes

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence. ”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamat: “The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “We can't say that all religions are the same, different religions have different views and fundamental differences. But it does not matter, as all religions are meant to help in bringing about a better world with better and happier human beings. On this level, I think that through different philosophical explanations and approaches, all religions have the same goal and the same potential.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “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.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “Sleep is the best meditation.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself, one's own family or nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “Compassion is the radicalism of our time.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to get rid of suffering, and everyone has the basic right to do this. In this way, all here are the same, whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, Easterner or Westerner, believer or non-believer, and within believers whether Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and so on. Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, 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 that 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. And there are ways in which we can consciously work to develop feelings of love and kindness. For some of us, the most effective way to do so is through religious practice. For others it may be non-religious practices. What is important is that we each make a sincere effort to take our responsibility for each other and for the natural environment we live in seriously.” more

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace. The other phenomena mentioned above are similarly interrelated. Thus, for example, we see that a clean environment, wealth or democracy mean little in the face of war, especially nuclear war, and that material development is not sufficient to ensure human happiness.

Material progress is of course important for human advancement. In Tibet, we paid much to little attention to technological and economic development, and today we realize that this was a mistake. At the same time, material development without spiritual development can also cause serious problems. In some countries too much attention is paid to external things and very little importance is given to inner development. I believe both are important and must be developed side by side so as to achieve a good balance between them. Tibetans are always described by foreign visitors as being a happy, jovial people. This is part of our national character, formed by cultural and religious values that stress the importance of mental peace through the generation of love and kindness to all other living sentient beings, both human and animal. Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquillity. In that state of mind you can deal with situations with calmness and reason, while keeping your inner happiness. This is very important. Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed or unhappy because of circumstances.” more

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “Consider the following. We humans are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others' actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others' activities. For this reason it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.

Nor is it so remarkable that our greatest joy should come when we are motivated by concern for others. But that is not all. We find that not only do altruistic actions bring about happiness but they also lessen our experience of suffering. Here I am not suggesting that the individual whose actions are motivated by the wish to bring others' happiness necessarily meets with less misfortune than the one who does not. Sickness, old age, mishaps of one sort or another are the same for us all. But the sufferings which undermine our internal peace -- anxiety, doubt, disappointment -- these things are definitely less. In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. When we worry less about ourselves an experience of our own suffering is less intense.

What does this tell us? Firstly, because our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. Secondly, it tells us that genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness.” more

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