We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness
Dalai LamaThere must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.
Dalai LamaThere are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort
Dalai LamaA zero itself is nothing, but without a zero you cannot count anything; therefore, a zero is something, yet zero.
Dalai LamaI always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!
Dalai LamaIn 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.
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