The Dalai Lama is a wonderful spiritual teacher. I have listed below his inspiring instructions on living a life filled with loving Zen in the new millennium.
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, respect for others and responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go some place you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
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I really like this blog – I can see it’s fairly new – but you’ve some great things to share – keep it up!
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Most of those sayings there don’t sound very “zen” at all. In fact I’d say they’re rife with counter productive ideas if you are intending to live a life of non-attachment and a realization of sunyata and emptiness of individual existence.
The Dali Lama is a monster. Advocating nuclear arms. Terrible spiritual leader.
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This is a lovely list, at the same time both meaningful and practical. It is all too often that spirituality is far from pragmatism, since many spiritual leaders live a very niche life, apart from the stresses of work, life, and family. Although the advice here is more general than specific, it is still applicable to modern living.
One nit to pick – I find it difficult to believe that the Dalai Lama, of Tibetan Buddhist tradition, would be writing anything about the Zen Buddhist tradition. While these traditions are mostly compatible, there are some differences in expression.
Could you please provide a citation to the original source of this material?
Also, thank you for mindful blog. Keep up the good work.
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Life is deeply mixed with the philosophical and religious conceptions of existence, consciousness, and happiness, and touches on many other issues, such as symbolic meaning, ontology, value, purpose, ethics, good and evil, free will, conceptions of God, the existence of God, the soul and the afterlife.
The Zen picture quote equals the art of living with art of doing nothing..just allow things to unfold and get done at their opportune pace. All the stress the mankind suffers from comes from carrying the sense of doership and dropping doership is all is needed for freedom from stress and its related ill effects which range from minor irritations to major violence in individual and society as a whole. Dropping doership intellectually may be easy but at experiential level can take even lifetime but its worth it.
I am now eagerly looking forward to new things on this Blog, my soul needs constant nourishment .
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These statements were falsely attributed to the Dalai Lama in an email hoax. They actually derive from advice in Life's Little Instruction Book: 511
These don't sound like anything the Dalai Lama would say. Did you check your sources???
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Great list to remember. Agree that this doesn’t sound like the Dalai Lama. Did some research & it does seem as though it’s from Life’s Little Instruction Book. All the same, it’s good stuff!