Dalai Lama Quotes

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation.

Buhhdism is wisdom. As long as we have wisdom, we can put all things to the best use, we can turn everything in the direction of happiness.

Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

Buddha's teachings are scientific methods to solve the problems of all living beings permanently.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.

One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince's son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence. Burnt by the fires of the world, and already weary with it, Buddha turned to ethics.

We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief.

Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself.

I haven't reached nirvana yet, but I've been to Detroit.

Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.

When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because our interests are inextricably linked, we are compelled to accept ethics as the indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

The flip side of happiness is suffering.

If everything is happy go-lucky all the time, you don't know when you're experiencing joy and feeling life at its finest moments. You have to suffer a little.

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.