Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/30/2010

"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/29/2010

"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/28/2010

"The underlying principle of this teaching is the universal principle of causality. What becomes important in the understanding of this basic teaching is a genuine awareness of one´s own potentials and the need to utilize them to their fullest. Seen in this light, every human action becomes significant."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/27/2010

"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/26/2010

"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. Pride leads to violence and evil. The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/25/2010

"It is easy to point out the mistakes of others, while it is hard to admit one´s own mistakes. A man broadcasts the sins of others without thinking, but he hides his own sins as a gambler hides his extra dice."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/24/2010

"A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/23/2010

"Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/22/2010

"To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/21/2010

"A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/20/20/10

"There is a saying in Tibetan, "Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength." No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/19/2010

"One has to try to develop one's inner feelings, which can be done simply by training one's mind. This is a priceless human asset and one you don't have to pay income tax on."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/18/2010

"It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/17/2010

"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."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/16/2010

"Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/15/2010

"In Buddhism, both learning and practice are extremely important, and they must go hand in hand. Without knowledge, just to rely on faith, faith, and more faith is good but not sufficient. So the intellectual part must definitely be present. At the same time, strictly intellectual development without faith and practice, is also of no use. It is necessary to combine knowledge born from study with sincere practice in our daily lives. These two must go together."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/14/2010

"Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities that lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and natural resources results from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth´s living things."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/13/2010

"As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility towards others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/12/2010

"Our ancestors viewed the earth as rich and bountiful, which it is. Many people in the past also saw nature as inexhaustibly sustainable, which we know is the case only if we care for it. It is not difficult to forgive destruction in the past that resulted from ignorance. Today, however, we have access to more information, and it is essential that we re-examine ethically what we have inherited, what we are responsible for, and what we will pass on to coming generations."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/11/2010

"Our beautiful world is facing many crises.... It is not a time to pretend everything´s good."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/10/2010

"Just as we should cultivate gentle and peaceful relations with our fellow human beings, we should also extend that same kind of attitude towards the natural environment. Morally speaking, we should be concerned for our whole environment."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/9/2010

"We are all here on this planet, as it were, as tourists. None of us can live here forever. The longest we might live is a hundred years. So while we are here we should try to have a good heart and to make something positive and useful of our lives. Whether we live just a few years or a whole century, it would be truly regrettable and sad if we were to spend that time aggravating the problems that afflict other people, animals, and the environment. The most important thing is to be a good human being."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/8/2010

"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."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/7/2010

"In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/6/2010

"Whether we are rich or poor, educated or uneducated, whatever our nationality, color, social status, or ideology may be, the purpose of our lives is to be happy."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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