“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
♥Dalai Lama
“There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.”
♥
Dalai Lama was asked, “What thing about humanity surprises you the most?”
“Man…. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.
Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
“Sleep is the best meditation.”
Dalai Lama as a small child.
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seapunk2 
Jun 28, 2012 @ 16:14:12
I like the quote about money and health, so true.
Jun 28, 2012 @ 16:18:10
Be careful about guilt by association. He may have found in Mao what most of us cannot see!
Jun 28, 2012 @ 17:49:47
I don’t hold the Dalai Lama guilty by association. The Dalai Lama had his own agenda and may have been unaware of the horrors perpetrated on millions of Chinese people by Mao and his wife as well as turning the Chinese people against each other to a degree that I couldn’t imagine. Mao wanted to be God to the Chinese people, and he met his goal. Dalai Lama wanted Tibet.
I’ve read many books on Chinese history and the latest, one worth reading is “Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China” written by Jung Chang. Though not a history book, per se, it contains quite a bit of history, and an absolute must read.
Jun 28, 2012 @ 19:23:52
Thanks for the heads-up!