Quotations and Sayings

If you have a good heart, especially bodhicitta, it stops the suffering of your family and all sentient beings, and brings happiness to everyone, up to enlightenment.

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The way to solve the problems in your life is to cherish others.

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If you cherish others as you cherish yourself, then everyone will treat you in the same way as they treat themselves.

Numberless buddhas and bodhisattvas love every sentient being, every ant, every mosquito, every one of us. Numberless buddhas and bodhisattvas love you.

1. May the mainland Chinese government realize that His Holiness Dalai Lama is the embodiment of all the buddhas, be totally devoted to his holy wishes, and invite His Holiness to China. May billions of Chinese see His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s face and hear his Buddhadharma. May they totally enjoy the happiness of Dharma and may they offer Tibet back to the Tibetan people. May His Holiness Dalai Lama be the religious and political leader and establish Buddhadharma, so that there will be millions more bodhisattvas than before. May that help to spread Buddhadharma in the world and may people have the opportunity to achieve enlightenment.

2. May we continue forever to offer service to the monasteries that preserve and spread Dharma, offering salaries to all the teachers who educate and offering all the expenses for the geshes’ examinations and the Jamyang Kunche debate. May special offerings be given to the monks who memorize thousands of texts and expand and spread the Dharma. May the monasteries produce more realized and learned pure good-hearted teachers, spread Dharma all over the world and bring all sentient beings to enlightenment.

3. May we be able to build stupas and scriptures, especially the two very large Maitreya Buddha statues, to purify sentient beings’ karma and defilements, and bring them to enlightenment as quickly as possible. May we especially generate love and kindness and bodhicitta, and bring sentient beings to enlightenment as quickly as possible. May all the funding be found immediately.

4. May Dharma books produced by the organization be most beneficial for sentient beings, not only by reading or doing practice, but by keeping them in the house, seeing and touching them. Just by that, may all their holy wishes succeed immediately according to holy Dharma.

5. May all the suffering of sentient beings be healed and may their negative karma be purified immediately. May they immediately actualize the path of guru devotion, the three principal aspects of the path, the two stages and the unified state of Vajradhara in this lifetime. May everybody immediately abandon thoughts of harming others and only become a source of happiness to others.

6. May all the hospice patients who joined the FPMT purify the negative karma accumulated from beginningless rebirth immediately. May they die with compassion for sentient beings, and faith in the Buddhadharma, with no fear of death and may they be extremely happy. May they be born in a pure land and get enlightened. May they receive a perfect body, meet a perfect teacher and achieve enlightenment.

7. May Geshe Sopa Rinpoche and all the gurus have a long life.

It would be wonderful if you could recognize that your own attachment is the cause of every single problem that you experience. Problems with your husband, wife, children, society, authorities, everybody; having a bad reputation; your friends not liking you; people talking badly about you; hating your teacher, your lama, or your priest; all this truly comes from your own attachment. You can really check up…

We Westerners always have to blame something external when things go wrong, "I'm not happy, so I'd better change this." We're always trying to change the world around us instead of recognizing that it's our own attachment that we have to change. 
   — Lama Yeshe
   From Every Problem on Earth Comes From Attachment 

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My approach is to expose your ego so that you can see it for what it is. Therefore, I try to provoke your ego. There’s nothing diplomatic about this tactic. We’ve been diplomatic for countless lives, always trying to avoid confrontation, never meeting our problems face to face. That’s not my style. I like to meet problems head on, and that’s what I want you to do, too.
   — Lama Yeshe
   From Questions and Answers in Ego, Attachment and Liberation

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You must recognize that your real enemy, the thief who steals your happiness, is the inner thief, the one inside your mind, the one you have cherished since beginningless time. Therefore, make the strong determination to throw him out and to never let him back in.
   — Lama Yeshe
   From Developing Equilibrium

Letting go of attachment is (not losing anything), it’s achieving inner peace and satisfaction.
By letting go of attachment you gain inner satisfaction and peace.
Letting go of attachment brings inner satisfaction and peace.

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Cherishing others is opening the door for all happiness of oneself and all others.
Cherishing others opens the door to every happiness for self and others.
Cherishing others opens the door to happiness.

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Cherish everyone as/greater than/more than your/the most precious wishfulfilling jewel.
Cherish everyone as the most precious wish-fulfilling jewel.
Cherish everyone as the most precious jewel.

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Cherish everyone because they are fulfilling all your wishes.

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Think that everyone you meet is fulfilling all your wishes.

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Less desire means less pain, more satisfaction, more freedom, better meditation, more realization, more inner peace and happiness in life.
Less desire means less pain, more satisfaction, freedom and peace.
Less desire brings less pain, more freedom, better meditation and realization.
Less desire means less pain.
Less desire means less pain and more satisfaction.

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The root of your problems ceases when you cherish others.
The root of your life’s problems becomes non-existent when you cherish others.

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No desire means no pain of attachment and pain of anger and jealousy (disturbing emotional pain). There is tranquility/peace, openness, (no barriers), space for sincere love and compassion arises.
No desire means no emotional pain of attachment, anger, and jealousy. There is peace, openness, and space for genuine love and compassion to arise.

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The sun shining of real happiness starts in your life (only) when you start to cherish others.
The sun of real happiness shines in your life when you start to cherish others.

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If/When there is no anger inside, there is no enemy outside.
No anger inside means no enemy outside.

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See everyone as most precious and fulfilling all your wishes.
See everyone as precious and fulfilling all your wishes.

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Cherishing others is the source of all happiness.

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For happiness, cherish others.

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Every second of my human life is more precious than the sky filled with wish-granting/most precious jewels.
Every second of this human life is more precious than skies of wish-granting jewels.
Every second of this human life is more precious than skies of jewels.

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Every second of my human life has all the/unbelievable freedom to choose hell or enlightenment, samsara or liberation/enlightenment.
In every second of this human life there is freedom to choose between hell or enlightenment, samsara or liberation.
Every second of this human life gives us the freedom to choose between hell and enlightenment, samsara and liberation.

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The hell realm could appear this minute, so practice Dharma right now.
Hell can appear any moment, so practice Dharma now.

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Death could come any minute, so transform life/the mind into Dharma.
Death could come any minute, so make your mind Dharma.
Death could come any minute, so transform your life into Dharma.

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There is no new samsaric pleasure ever experienced/No samsaric pleasure is new, so let go of clinging, which creates/causes samsara.
No pleasure is new, so let go of the clinging that creates samsara.
There is no samsaric pleasure that is new, so let go of the clinging that creates samsara.

You should be like the guru and your mind the disciple, or you should be like the police and protect your mind. You know what is right and beneficial based on what is beneficial for yourself and others.