If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Learning is the first step in making positive changes within yourself. Other factors are conviction, determination, action & effort. Learning & education… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Without religion, also there is a way, it could be this way, through education, through scientific findings, then you get conviction. Not… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Perhaps our teachings seem less religious and more technical, like psychology, so they are easier for secular people to use. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Because the existing education system is oriented towards materialistic goals we need to pay special attention to inner values such as tolerance,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Study and practice are both very important, but they must go hand in hand. Faith without knowledge is not sufficient. Faith needs… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Americans are interested because they are open-minded. They have an education system that teaches them to find out for themselves why things… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, both learning and practice are extremely important, and they must go hand in hand. Without knowledge, just to rely on… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Sectarian feelings and criticism of other teachings or other sects is very bad, poisonous, and should be avoided. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In spiritual growth, it is important to avoid imbalances between academic or intellectual learning and practical implementation. Otherwise there is a danger… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it include elements of love and compassion, for… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
One problem with our current society is that we have an attitude towards education as if it is there to simply make… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
To develop genuine devotion, you must know the meaning of teachings. The main emphasis in Buddhism is to transform the mind, and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We can only transform humanity and create a happier more compassionate world through education. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
One country ... one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches ... We… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We have to think and see how we can fundamentally change our education system so that we can train people to develop… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Education is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society. Compassion and peace of mind bring a sense of confidence… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Therefore we have to make effort through well through every corner, media people, education sort of institution, and family, parents, everywhere. It… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-al ready-are. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Everybody loves to talk about calmness and peace, whether in a family, national, or international context, but without inner peace how can we make… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We can change society, change humanity by changing ourselves as individuals. By cultivating inner values, we can change our own lives and those of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I don't want to convert people to Buddhism — all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My belief is that the various religious traditions have great potential to increase compassion, the sense of caring for one another, and the spirit… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
