“We should practise by showing affection and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being considerate and good-hearted.”
His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama
Author: Sonam Tsering
"I have enough time to rest but I don't have a minute to waste"
Positive states of mind
“All the positive states of mind such as love, compassion, insight and so on, have the quality that you can enhance their capacity and increase their potential to a limitless degree, if you regularly practice them through training and by developing constant familiarity with them.”
His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama
Generate a good attitude
“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.”
His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama
རྡ་སའི་གནམ་གཤིས་དང་མི་གཤིས།
རི་མགོ་གངས་ཀྱིས་གཡོག་སོང་། །
རི་འདབས་འདམ་གྱིས་གཡོས་སོང་། །
རི་ཤོངས་གཉིས་ཀྱི་བར་ནས། །
གཞུང་ལམ་འདམ་ལ་སྦྱར་སོང་། །
སྔ་དྲོར་ཉི་མ་དྲོ་དྲོ། །
ཕྱི་དྲོར་རླུང་བུ་ལྡིང་ལྡིང་། །
ཉིན་ཕྱེད་གཉིས་ཀྱི་བར་ནས། །
ཡུལ་གྱར་གྲང་ལ་སྦྱར་སོང་།།
དགའ་དུས་འཛུམ་དམུལ་ཤིག་ཤིག །
སྐྱོ་དུས་ངར་ངར་ཤིག་ཤིག །
དགའ་སྐྱོ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་བར་ནས། །
མི་གཤིས་རླུང་ལ་སྐུར་སོང་། །
ཕ་བཟང་བུ་ནས།
Spiritual Practice
“Spiritual practice involves, on the one hand, acting out of concern for others’ well-being. On the other, it entails transforming ourselves so that we become more readily disposed to do so.”
His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama
How to distance ourselves from anger?
“The first drawback of anger is that it destroys our inner peace; the second is that it distorts our view of reality. If we think about this and come to understand that anger is really unhelpful, that it is only destructive, we can begin to distance ourselves from anger.”
His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama
Contentment
“A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.”
His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama
Desire for Peace!
“I feel optimistic about the future because humanity seems to be growing more mature; scientists are paying more attention to our inner values, to the study of mind and the emotions. There is a clear desire for peace and concern for the environment.”
His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama
Pay attention to the Inner Values
“The source of a happy life is within us. Troublemakers in many parts of the world are often quite well-educated, so it is not just education that we need. What we need is to pay attention to inner values.”
His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama
Take Action for Peace
“We won’t bring about peace in the world merely by praying for it; we have to take steps to tackle the violence and corruption that disrupt peace. We can’t expect change if we don’t take action.”
His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama