Quote

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Dalai Lama

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dalai Lama
Discipline
Awareness
Call
Whether
Religion
Another
Consequences
Self
Buddhism
Important
Consequence

More quotes by Dalai Lama

Image
The very purpose of meditation is to discipline the mind and reduce afflictive emotions.
Dalai Lama
Image
Peace in the world depends on peace in the hearts of individuals this depends on each of us practising ethics by disciplining our negative thoughts and emotions, and developing basic spiritual qualities.
Dalai Lama
Image
God exists or God does not exist. Leave it for us. Your task is to learn how to live peacefully.
Dalai Lama
Image
Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness.
Dalai Lama
Image
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.
Dalai Lama
Image
Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist use it to be a better whatever-you-al ready-are.
Dalai Lama
Image
Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.
Dalai Lama
Image
So long as we are under the control of disturbing emotions, real happiness is hard to find.
Dalai Lama
Image
Without love we could not survive. Human beings are social creatures, and a concern for each other is the very basis of our life together.
Dalai Lama
Image
Because the existing education system is oriented towards materialistic goals we need to pay special attention to inner values such as tolerance, forgiveness, love and compassion.
Dalai Lama
Image
Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.
Dalai Lama
Image
The invitation come from some institution who really involving so-called my own profession, these fields. And then different universities or education sort of institution, I feel that is the place where the awareness of these things to start and to spread a more human community. So then on that level, yes, I have some obligation.
Dalai Lama
Image
Let us have that kind of effort from all, except those child or handicapped or too old. But the many people, they sort of have the opportunity to create trouble or to create a good thing, now should think more seriously, should not indulge any work to create more problems.
Dalai Lama
Image
I believe that at every level of society the key to a happier world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good human qualities.
Dalai Lama
Image
Peace is the Only Way for the survival of Humanity
Dalai Lama
Image
Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family.
Dalai Lama
Image
It is not enough to belong to a religion. You also have to put it into practice. Religion is like medicine. You have to ingest it to combat the illness.
Dalai Lama
Image
Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace.
Dalai Lama
Image
The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.
Dalai Lama
Image
The very purpose of our life is happiness, which is sustained by hope. We have no guarantee about the future, but we exist in the hope of something better. Hope means keeping going, thinking, ‘I can do this.’ It brings inner strength, self-confidence , the ability to do what you do honestly, truthfully and transparently.
Dalai Lama