Quote by Kelsang Gyatso

“If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind.”

— Kelsang Gyatso

“You, a human being, who possess an animal’s mind, please listen to my song. Normally”

— Kelsang Gyatso

“In Sutra of the Four Noble Truths Buddha says: ‘You should know sufferings.’ In saying this Buddha is advising us that we should know…

— Kelsang Gyatso

“Buddha has great compassion that is completely impartial, embracing all living beings without discrimination.”

— Kelsang Gyatso

“Whenever we have a problem, it is easy to think that it is caused by our particular circumstances, and that if we were to…

— Kelsang Gyatso

“is no benefit in denying the sufferings of future lives; when they actually descend upon me it will be too late to protect myself…

— Kelsang Gyatso

“Problems arise only if we respond to difficulties with a negative state of mind. Therefore, if we want to be free from problems, we…

— Kelsang Gyatso

“By doing this, when his or her wisdom of superior seeing directly realizes the emptiness of all phenomena, the Bodhisattva advances from the path…

— Kelsang Gyatso

“Happiness and suffering are states of mind and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we want to…

— Kelsang Gyatso

“want to protect and liberate myself permanently from the sufferings of this life and countless future lives. I can accomplish this only by receiving…

— Kelsang Gyatso

“may die today’ is the realization of death. It is this realization that directly eliminates our laziness of attachment and opens the door to…

— Kelsang Gyatso

“When things go wrong in our life and we encounter difficult situations, we tend to regard the situation itself as our problem, but in…

— Kelsang Gyatso