14th Dalai Lama

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute.

14th Dalai Lama

As a Buddhist, I see no distinction between religious practice and daily life. Religious practice is a twenty-four hour occupation.

14th Dalai Lama

As free human beings we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are prevented from using our creative potential, we are deprived of one of the basic characteristics of a human being.

14th Dalai Lama

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there’s no use.

14th Dalai Lama

At a personal level, as a Buddhist practitioner, I deliberately visualize and think about death in my daily practice. Death is not separated from our lives. Due to my research and thoughts about death, I have some guarantee and some conviction that it will be a positive experience.

14th Dalai Lama

Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective.

14th Dalai Lama

Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed.

14th Dalai Lama

Basically we are all the same human beings with the same potential to be a good human being or a bad human being. The important thing is to realize the positive side and try to increase that; realize the negative side and try to reduce. That’s the way.

14th Dalai Lama

Basically, therefore, we should approach others openly, recognizing each person as another human being just like ourselves. There is not much difference between us all.

14th Dalai Lama

Be a good human being, a warmhearted, affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief.

14th Dalai Lama