A genuine smile touches something fundamental in us: our natural appreciation of kindness.
Wealth is not necessarily a bad thing when it has been earned in an honest manner and neither other individuals nor the environment suffered for it.
I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.
Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.
Inner values like friendship, trust, honesty and compassion are much more reliable than money – they always bring happiness and strength.
The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.
The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers – the financial crisis has proven this.
Everybody loves to talk about calmness and peace, whether in a family, national, or international context, but without inner peace how can we make real peace? World peace through hatred and force is impossible.
In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it’s very good for your health.
The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one’s own comfort and happiness.
We must live harmoniously with our neighbors.
On a daily basis, you must take more care of your mind than just money, money, money!
In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are of deities or Buddhas, and they try to send a message of the value of the spiritual.
Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.
We have to adopt a wider perspective, and always find common things between the people of north, east, south, and west. Conflict comes from the basis of differencs.
If through practice of insight you develop a sense of ease, then time has no relevance. If you’re miserable, time does matter. It’s so unbearable, so enormous you want to get out of it as soon as possible.
When a problem first arises, try to remain humble and maintain a sincere attitude, and be concerned that the outcome is fair.
The very purpose of meditation is to discipline the mind and reduce afflictive emotions.
If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly.
For a better, happier, more stable and civilized future, each of us must develop a sincere, warm-hearted feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood.