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Whatever you train, you change your brain.
Matthieu Ricard
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Matthieu Ricard
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 15
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Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.
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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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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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Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb
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Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.
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Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.
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We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind.
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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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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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Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works!
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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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We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases.
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There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.
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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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We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.
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Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others
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Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
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It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.
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Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.
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When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought.
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