“Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a disciplined or undisciplined state of mind. It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness
Meditation takes a disciplined mind, a "selfish" mind, however the inner peace found through meditation helps the whole world. In Vipassana, we meditate and conclude with a Metta Prayer - May all beings be happy! We repeat several times.
Meditation helps balance the vijnanomaya kosha by stilling the mind and allowing us to access a pure place of feeling and knowing, so that we can know what is right without having to “think” about it. It can also be described as the level of gut feeling or intuition. Dr. John Douillard
“Is this what you have in mind,' I asked the Dalai Lama, 'when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the world are the most selfish beings of all, that by cultivating altruism they actually achieve ultimate happiness for themselves?'
Yes. That's wise selfish,' he replied. 'Helping others not means we do this at our own expense. Not like this. Buddhas and bodhisattvas, these people very wise. All their lives they only want one thing: to achieve ultimate happiness. How to do this? By cultivating compassion, by cultivating altruism.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Wisdom of Forgiveness
Meditation helps balance the vijnanomaya kosha by stilling the mind and allowing us to access a pure place of feeling and knowing, so that we can know what is right without having to “think” about it. It can also be described as the level of gut feeling or intuition. Dr. John Douillard
“Is this what you have in mind,' I asked the Dalai Lama, 'when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the world are the most selfish beings of all, that by cultivating altruism they actually achieve ultimate happiness for themselves?'
Yes. That's wise selfish,' he replied. 'Helping others not means we do this at our own expense. Not like this. Buddhas and bodhisattvas, these people very wise. All their lives they only want one thing: to achieve ultimate happiness. How to do this? By cultivating compassion, by cultivating altruism.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Wisdom of Forgiveness
“Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy happiness. As with compassion, when cultivating loving-kindness it is important to start by taking a specific individual as a focus of our meditation, and we then extend the scope of our concern further and further, to eventually encompass and embrace all sentient beings. Again, we begin by taking a neutral person, a person who inspires no strong feelings in us, as our object of meditation. We then extend this meditation to individual friends and family members and, ultimately, our particular enemies.
We must use a real individual as the focus of our meditation, and then enhance our compassion and loving-kindness toward that person so that we can really experience compassion and loving-kindness toward others. We work on one person at a time.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
We must use a real individual as the focus of our meditation, and then enhance our compassion and loving-kindness toward that person so that we can really experience compassion and loving-kindness toward others. We work on one person at a time.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”
“He told me that while he was in a Chinese Communist gulag for almost eighteen years, he faced danger on a few occasions. I thought he was referencing a threat to his own life. But when I asked, "What danger?" he answered, "Losing compassion toward the Chinese.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”
“He told me that while he was in a Chinese Communist gulag for almost eighteen years, he faced danger on a few occasions. I thought he was referencing a threat to his own life. But when I asked, "What danger?" he answered, "Losing compassion toward the Chinese.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life
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