Archive for ‘dalai lama’

observation

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

His Holiness spoke of his conversations with highly intelligent western quantum physicists in which the striking similarities between Buddhist teachings and this fascinating field of science were touched on. Just like Nagarjuna describes in his text, these quantum physicists attest that when their work takes them very far into observation of matter and existence, they eventually get to a point where they can no longer prove anything exists at all! Obviously, the fact Buddhists are able to cite an ancient Buddhist text that says essentially the exact same thing as this cutting edge field of western scientific inquiry is quite impressive to the physicists.

link: Tricycle

Quickly

Monday, January 4th, 2010

We should quickly seize enlightenment while we still have the chance. In much less than a century all of us will be dead. We cannot be sure that we will be alive even tomorrow. There is no time to procrastinate. I who am giving this teaching have no guarantee that I will live out this day.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

link: beliefnet

The Paradox of Our Age by The Dalai Lama

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

We have bigger houses but smaller families;
More conveniences, but less time;
We have more degrees, but less sense;
More knowledge, but less judgment;
More experts, but more problems;
More medicines, but less healthiness;
We’ve been all the way to the moon and back,
but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.
We build more computers to hold more information
to produce more copies than ever but have less communication.
We have become long on quantity, but short on quality.
These are times of fast foods but slow digestion;
Tall men but short character;
Steep profits but shallow relationships.
It’s a time when there is much in the window,
but nothing in the room.

link: the dharma bum temple bathroom

Brothers and Sisters

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Lately I’ve been mentally referring to everyone  as my Brother or Sister in order to exercise my Brahama-vihara muscles. I’m glad the Dalai Lama agrees:

A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities. – His Holiness the Dalai Lama

link: beliefnet

Obama Lama

Sunday, September 13th, 2009