Dalai Lama
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The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and a prominent advocate for peace, compassion, and nonviolence. As the 14th Dalai Lama, he has been a vocal proponent of human values, interfaith dialogue, and the pursuit of a more compassionate and harmonious world. His efforts in promoting Tibetan culture and autonomy, alongside his Nobel Peace Prize award in 1989, underscore his commitment to resolving conflicts through peaceful means and fostering mutual understanding among diverse communities.
Dalai Lama
Quotes
The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and a prominent advocate for peace, compassion, and nonviolence. As the 14th Dalai Lama, he has been a vocal proponent of human values, interfaith dialogue, and the pursuit of a more compassionate and harmonious world. His efforts in promoting Tibetan culture and autonomy, alongside his Nobel Peace Prize award in 1989, underscore his commitment to resolving conflicts through peaceful means and fostering mutual understanding among diverse communities.
A Compassionate state of mind brings inner peace, and therefore a healthier body.
Sleep is the best meditation.
I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul. Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances. There is soul music, soul food, and soul love... People need to climb the mountain not simply because it is there but because the soulful divinity needs to be mated with the spirit.
I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
In pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose!
It is a question of our own peace and mental stability.
So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?
Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent. Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness." Therefore, Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.
You're happy when you help others become happy.
Love and compassion are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.
We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern for others.
All religions are essentially the same in their goal of developing a good human heart so that we may become better human beings.
In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.
Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.
