‘Your future projects and plans are like nets cast in a dry riverbed: they’ll never bring what you want. Limit your desires and aspirations.’
Words of my Perfect Teacher
Tibetan Buddhism
Morning meditation — Remember that calmness and compassion.
‘Remember that calmness and compassion are an important part of living a fruitful, positive human life.’
Dalai Lama
Morning meditation — When the time is right to help someone.
‘On occasion, when the time is right to help someone,
Undertake it altruistically to achieve it as best you can.’
Advice to the Yogis of Solu-Khumbu
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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
Morning meditation — We can give time to the mind, really wanting to make it better and better.
‘We can give time to the mind, really wanting to make it better and better. This is a kind of grasping, but there is nothing wrong in wanting to make life better, not in this dharma context. At least it is going in the direction of dharma.’
Geshe Tashi Tsering
Morning meditation — In order to recognise the essential nature.
‘In order to recognise the essential nature of the mind, we have to peel off different layers and clear away obscurations.’
Dalai Lama
Morning meditation — Whenever the desire to move.
‘Followers of the way. Whenever the desire to move or say something occurs, first examine the mind.’
Acharya Shantideva
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