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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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/5/2010

"Don´t try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/4/2010

"Buddha-Nature exists in everyone no matter how deeply it may be covered over by greed, anger and foolishness, or buried by his own deeds and retribution. Buddha-Nature can not be lost or destroyed; and when all defilements are removed, sooner or later it will reappear."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/3/2010

"Wisdom is the best guide and faith is the best companion. One must try to escape from the darkness of ignorance and suffering, and seek the light of Enlightenment."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/2/2010

"I love friends, I want more friends. I love smiles. That is a fact. How to develop smiles? There are a variety of smiles. Some smiles are sarcastic. Some smiles are artificial-diplomatic smiles. These smiles do not produce satisfaction, but rather fear or suspicion. But a genuine smile gives us hope, freshness. If we want a genuine smile, then first we must produce the basis for a smile to come."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/1/2010

"I believe in justice and truth, without which there would be no basis for human hope."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/31/2010

"Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something,and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/29/2010

"Attachment is the mind stuck to an object."

~Lama Zopa Rinpoche

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/28/2010

"The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves."

~Pema Chodron

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/27/2010

"Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth."

~Pema Chodron

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/26/2010

"We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart."

~Pema Chodron

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