Buddhist film (about 80 minutes).
Dalai Lama
Morning meditation — The aim of spiritual practice is to become.
‘The aim of spiritual practice is to become the friend of all beings, concerned about them and ready and able to help them.’
Dalai Lama
Morning meditation — One should reflect and try to find out.
‘One should reflect and try to find out the difference between “self” and “others”.’
Dalai Lama
Morning meditation — Noticing a single shortcoming in ourselves.
‘Noticing a single shortcoming in ourselves is far more useful than seeing a 1,000 in someone else. We can correct our own.’
Dalai Lama
Morning meditation — Kindness and the good heart.
‘Kindness and the good heart are important at the beginning, in the middle and at the end.’
Dalai Lama
Afternoon meditation — Shantideva reasons that we don’t discriminate between different parts of our body.
‘Shantideva reasons that we don’t discriminate between different parts of our body, so why do we discriminate between all living beings?’
Dalai Lama
Morning meditation — The other type of love and compassion arises.
‘The other type of love and compassion arises when one realises that others are human beings, sentient beings “just like me”.’
Dalai Lama
Afternoon meditation — One day will we get a green hat.
‘We have; yellow hat, red hat, black hat — one day will we get a green hat so lamas take more care of environment.’
Dalai Lama