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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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Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
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The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.
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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 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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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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Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives.
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Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.
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Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb
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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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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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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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Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.
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The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.
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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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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 state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
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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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We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.
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I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.
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