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The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.

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Matthieu Ricard
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 15
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A big part of pain is the subjective reaction of trying to revolt against pain. If it's there, it's better to deal with it. Most of it is I cannot stand it, and that component is enhancing pain so much.
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Anyone can be happy by simply training their brain.
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Changing your attitude has a curative effect... Maybe you can go directly to a change of mind, a change of attitude.
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The way you experience [pain] can change so much depending on your attitude.
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There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.
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The basic root of happiness lies in our minds outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.
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It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.
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Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.
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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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Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.
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We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind.
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What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
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Happiness is not the endless pursuit of pleasant experiences - that sounds more like a recipe for exhaustion - but a way of being that results from cultivating a benevolent mind, emotional balance, inner freedom, inner peace, and wisdom. Each of these qualities is a skill that can be enhanced through training the mind.
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Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill.
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The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world or, to put it another way, to transform ourselves so we can become better human beings in order to serve others in a wiser and more efficient way. It gives your life the noblest possible meaning.
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Just be free, and at least you will go through adversity with a stronger mind, and therefore, you'll be less affected, and pain will affect you less.
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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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If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.
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When you see those in healthcare who don't get this burn-out, they are very motherly, fatherly, or loving and attentive with the patients. [These] wonderful caretakers, doctors, and nurses don't get as much burn-out as people who are more defensive of the feelings and suffering of others.
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