If we only practice compassion on the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true compassion we have to put our money where our mouth is. — Gelek Rimpoche Copy Share Image
Training in compassion is a mental activity. but our mind should also be brought to the level where every action we take is influenced by compassion. That means engaging ourselves in compassion in action. — Gelek Rimpoche Copy Share Image
The more successful you become, the more the demands of your ego will increase. In the beginning, you simply want to succeed, but your ego will not be satisfied. When you become a little more successful your ego wants to kill your competition. And when you become even more successful, it wants to make you the universal king. There's no… — Gelek Rimpoche Copy Share
If we only practice compassion on the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk… — Gelek Rimpoche Copy Share Image
Training in compassion is a mental activity. but our mind should also be brought to the level where every action we take is influenced… — Gelek Rimpoche Copy Share Image
The capability of human life is beyond our imagination. What counts is the human capacity to investigate and transform our own mind and the… — Gelek Rimpoche Copy Share Image
The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves. — Gelek Rimpoche Copy Share Image
That's the ego talking. But it's not the real you. You are a good and wonderful person. You are kind. You have a compassionate… — Gelek Rimpoche Copy Share Image
Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience. — Gelek Rimpoche Copy Share Image
Ego's trick is to make us lose sight of our interdependence. That kind of ego-thought gives us a perfect justification to look out only… — Gelek Rimpoche Copy Share Image
