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We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.

Matthieu Ricard

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Matthieu Ricard
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 15
Bhikkhu
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Limited
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Meditation gives you more inner strength and confidence, and if you don't feel vulnerable, you can put that to the service of others. So it's not just about sitting and cultivating caring mindfulness. It's building up a way of being and then using it for the service of others.
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Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
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Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.
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It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.
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Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
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If there is a remedy or a cure, a solution to a problem or difficulty, why worry?
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Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.
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Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
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I think if your direction in life is clear and if you develop the wish to accomplish/have a fulfilled life and to contribute something to others, I think that definitely gives you such a strength to want to be alive, that that would be the best placebo.
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Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.
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The way you experience [pain] can change so much depending on your attitude.
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I don't often get into a bad mood, since it does not help anything and clouds my judgment, but I can certainly see that sometimes things go terribly wrong. We need to understand the reasons for this and work towards building new conditions that will bring about better circumstances.
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We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.
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What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
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We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind.
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By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness.
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The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at will and especially to free it from the tyranny of mental afflictions and confusion
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For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.
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I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.
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You can't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work.
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