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We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind.

Matthieu Ricard

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Matthieu Ricard
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 15
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Underestimate
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Anyone can be happy by simply training their brain.
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You're not insensitive or indifferent, but you're also not vulnerable to the upheavals that cause emotional stress because you can buffer that... So that's the result of meditation you could call that emotional balance.
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Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
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The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.
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There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.
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While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.
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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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Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb
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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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