According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.

According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.

Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago.

Unlike physical progress, which is subject to natural restrictions, the qualities of the mind can be developed limitlessly.

Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.

I think many people knows what I am thinking. The whole world knows I am not seeking independence, therefore is many Tibetan disappointed, and also some of our supporters - many Indians, many Europeans, many Americans are also disappointed because I am not seeking independence.

To my mind, there are two things that, in life, you can do about death. Either you can choose to ignore it, in which case you may have some success in making the idea of it go away for a limited period of time, or you can confront the prospect of your own death and try to analyze it and, in so doing, try to minimize some of the inevitable suffering that it causes. Neither way can you actually overcome it.