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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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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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The basic root of happiness lies in our minds outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.
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We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind.
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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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Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
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In the freshness of the present moment, past is gone, future is not yet born, and—if one remains in pure mindfulness and freedom—disturbing thoughts arise and go without leaving a trace. That is basic meditation.
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Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives.
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What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
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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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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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Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
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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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The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.
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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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Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that comes our way.
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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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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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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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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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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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