Dalai Lama XIV Quotes

As a Buddhist, I see no distinction between religious practice and daily life. Religious practice is a twenty-four hour occupation.

I took note of the Buddha's teaching that in one sense a supposed enemy is more valuable than a friend, for an enemy teaches you things, such as forbearance, that a friend generally does not.

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

Those questions which are unexpected and complicated are the ones I appreciate most. They can help me a great deal. as I am compelled to take an interest in something that might not otherwise have occurred to me.

If your mental health is sound, then when disturbances come, you will have some distress but quickly recover.

if we lose our human values by having everything mechanied, then machines will dictate our lives.

On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as an eternal, unchanging principle such as soul, or as a fundamental substratum of reality. ... In the Buddhist investigation of reality, at least in principle, empirical evidence should triumph over scriptural authority, no matter how deeply venerated a scripture may be. ~ 14th Dalai Lama in his talk to the Society for Neuroscience in 2005 in Washington.

The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.