O refúgio mais seguro do mundo é a liberdade do nosso ser. Uma vez em contato com o ser natural, vivemos livres de resistências, receptivos a todos os aspectos da experiência. Participamos plenamente da vida, compreendendo e realizando nossa oportunidade única como seres humanos.
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"O presidente Lula precisa tocar no assunto com vigor quando tratar com a China", afirmou o líder tibetano no exílio. O dalai-lama, que na quinta-feira, 6, esteve em Genebra, fez duras críticas contra o governo de Pequim. "Para ser uma superpotência, a China não poderá contar apenas com os lucros. Só o dinheiro não garantirá uma boa imagem da China no mundo. Verdade e transparência serão essenciais. Isso será fundamental para a imagem da China no futuro", disse.Geneva, 6 August – “The issue of Tibet needs to be solved. How to do it is something we need to discuss,” His Holiness told a gathering of Chinese and Tibetan scholars and officials at a conference organized jointly by the International Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Swiss-Tibetan Friendship Association. (Click here for full text of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's speech |
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(pt) "Toda expansão é vida, toda contração é morte. Todo amor é expansão, todo egoísmo é contração. O amor, portanto, é a única lei da vida. O que ama vive, o que é egoísta está moribundo. Portanto, amai pela causa do amor, pois o amor é a única lei da vida."
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In dealing with a situation, the choice is there already....The way to work with that, in making that choice, is not to go according to your sense of comfort but go according to straightforwardness. If there are two choices, one is ahead of you, right in front of you, and the other choice is slightly off-center. There may be ten or twelve hundred choices, but there is one choice waiting for you on the road. The rest of them are waiting on the side, as sidetracks. It seems that the journey straight ahead is scarier, more frightening. Therefore the other choices waiting on the side become more attractive, like restaurants and drive-in movies on the side of the road. The choice has to be straightforward, based on common sense, basic sanity. Actually it is transcendental common sense.
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It is important to have a good experience of what life is. I have been really lucky to be able to experience both western and eastern cultures and I am so grateful to everyone who has helped me in both cultures. In combination, being in India and the West has been a rich experience that I’ve been privileged to absorb from both sides. 
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Hoje está muito clara a importância do budismo no enriquecimento da nossa cultura contemporânea. Penso que é especialmente pela influência iluminada de Sua Santidade o Dalai Lama que os ensinamentos atemporais do budismo desafiam e ampliam nossas visões em diferentes áreas, como a ciência, a neurociência, a educação, a economia, a saúde, a medicina e também a própria visão espiritual e o diálogo inter-religioso e intercultural.
It's very moving to know that somebody in the past became Buddha. Twenty-five hundred years ago a guy called Siddhartha became Buddha. He actually did those things and made an enormous impact and impression on people—so enormous that we still continue to follow his way and share his ideas. It's very powerful that somebody actually achieved enlightenment and went so far as to proclaim it, and to teach, and to share his life of eighty years with his students. He spoke; he taught; and he showed us how to behave, how to handle ourselves with other people. It's an extremely powerful experience. Enlightenment is no longer a myth or concept, but something that actually did take place. It did happen—I think that is the basis of our conviction.
We live in a time of profound change. Science and technology continue to expand our ability to understand and change life. Our impact on the environment has grown to the point that we are affecting the planet as a whole. Economies and societies can no longer be thought of separately, for they are intertwined in a global community. Our actions as individuals and as societies affect not just ourselves but our global neighbors. Now more than ever it is imperative that we contemplate and understand our relationship to and the impact of our actions on each other as individuals, as countries, and as inhabitants of our planet.
Practice with the bodhisattva attitude every day. People can't see your mind; what people see is a manifestation of your attitude in your actions of body and speech. So pay attention to your attitude all the time. Guard it as if you are the police, or like a parent cares for a child, like a bodyguard, or as if you are the guru and your mind is your disciple. - Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Temos de enxergar que tudo o que exigimos (e até obtemos) irá depois nos decepcionar. Essa descoberta é nossa mestra. É por isso que devemos tomar cuidado com amigos que estão em dificuldades, para os quais não devemos demonstrar nossa simpatia acenando-lhes com falsas esperanças e promessas de tranqüilidade. Essa espécie de simpatia - que não é a verdadeira compaixão - simplesmente retarda mais seu aprendizado. Em certo sentido, a melhor ajuda que podemos oferecer a alguém é apressar seu desapontamento. Embora isso pareça cruel, não o é na verdade. Ajudamos aos outros e a nós mesmos quando começamos a enxergar que todas as nossas exigências habituais são mal direcionadas".
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