Quote

After I handed over all my authority, I feel now our struggle [for Tibet ] become much, much safer. And me personally, the day I officially handed over, that night, very unusual sound. I am quite free now.

Dalai Lama

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dalai Lama
Sound
Safer
Night
Handed
Become
Unusual
Feel
Personally
Feels
Authority
Much
Struggle
Quite
Officially
Free
Tibet

More quotes by Dalai Lama

Image
I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.
Dalai Lama
Image
Without technology humanity has no future, but we have to be careful that we don’t become so mechanised that we lose our human feelings.
Dalai Lama
Image
I am not promoting Buddhism. I am promoting human values.
Dalai Lama
Image
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama
Image
We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.
Dalai Lama
Image
We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share
Dalai Lama
Image
Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead.
Dalai Lama
Image
Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.
Dalai Lama
Image
Today, due to the massive Chinese population transfer, the nation of Tibet truly faces the threat of extinction, along with its unique cultural heritage of Buddhist spirituality.
Dalai Lama
Image
Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence.
Dalai Lama
Image
You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived.
Dalai Lama
Image
Warm-heartedne ss and concern for others’ well-being are a condition for happiness, whether you are religious or not.
Dalai Lama
Image
Anger, pride and competence are our real enemies.
Dalai Lama
Image
There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child.
Dalai Lama
Image
Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.
Dalai Lama
Image
I just want to live as a simple Buddhist monk, but during the last thirty years I have made many friends around the world and I want to have close contact with these people. I want to contribute to harmony and peace of mind, for less conflict. Wherever the possibililty is, I'm ready. This is my life's goal.
Dalai Lama
Image
According to Buddhist practice, there are three stages or steps. The initial stage is to reduce attachment towards life. The second stage is the elimination of desire and attachment to this samsara. Then in the third stage, self-cherishing is eliminated
Dalai Lama
Image
Humans are not machines-we are something more. We have feeling and experience. Material comforts are not sufficient to satisfy us. We need something deeper-human affection.
Dalai Lama
Image
There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.
Dalai Lama
Image
The more we are concerned for the well being of others, the closer we will feel to each other.
Dalai Lama