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I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later. There is not much hurry. If in day to day life you lead a good life, honesty, with love, with compassion, with less selfishness, then automatically it will lead to Nirvana.
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There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.
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You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.
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During the day extend that attitude to everyone you meet. Practice cherishing the simplest person (clerks, attendants, etc) or people you dislike.
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Of course, there are different truths on different levels. Things are true relative to other things long and short relate to each other, high and low, and so on. But is there any absolute truth? Something self-sufficient, independently true in itself? I don't think so.
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If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you.
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Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.
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If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out.
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We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.
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Compassion is not helpless pity, but an awareness and determination that demands action.
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Morally speaking, we should be concerned for our whole environment.
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I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to.
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Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
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In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.
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Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.
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We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of friendship in which there is less need to hide what we feel or what we are doing.
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There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.
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I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness.
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Love is wanting others to be happy.
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Without changing one's self, without peace in one's self, world peace is not possible.
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