Tibetan Quotes
Tibetan Quote of the day
There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.
A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.
When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.
I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.
I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.
Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.
I think Dogen can be a very good introduction for people who want to meditate in whatever way, whether it's yoga, qigong, or Tibetan. It can help widen and deepen anyone's meditation experience.
I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.
The Chinese had accused the Tibetans of being terrorists, which is weird. A Tibetan terrorist is like an Amish hacker. It just doesn't fit.
In Tibetan, we say people who have good windhorse have the sense they can accomplish what they want to do.
At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again.
Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience.
The person who is tormenting the Tibetans feels they have to get rid of the Tibetans in order to be happy.
The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule.
Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be free.
Buddhism - Tibetan Buddhism - teaches us many things, peace comes from within, we must be free ourselves from earthly desires...
When Tibetan lamas die they stay in a realization of clear light nature of the mind for several days or weeks.
Western Tibetan Buddhists are always looking out there at the distant snow peaks and they lose the flowers along the path.
At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.
A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries into the nature of the universe.
As a dialectical teacher, I have had many lives where I have taught Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and mysticism. I teach in many different modalites. But the theme that unites them - is love.
I teach Zen, tantric mysticism, jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, Tibetan mysticism, occultism and psychic development. I also teach poetry and literature, film and many other different things.
With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment.
The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It's clear - clear light.
I make small mistakes every day. But major mistakes? It doesn't seem so. I've examined my service to the Tibetan people and to humanity, and I've done as much as I can in my life.
You are already the awakeness that you seek!
Achala, worrying and scheming about your next life, before you have even completed this one, is not a good practice." Rinpoche
We just have to remind ourselves that the source of any happiness is mind itself.
They asked a wise man: Why don’t we ever hear you backbiting and slandering?He said: I’m still not happy with myself to start with others.
The big realization when we go beyond the ego is simply seeing that we've always been ok.
We can learn to return home to our open hearts at any moment.
Rest as the awareness that is aware without using thought.