The Dalai Lama's Guide To Happiness

Such wonderful words.
articiansays...

Never judge others, because the act of judging inherently proves your unworthiness to judge.
You can never feel more valuable than another. The thought that you are greater than another human being, in any way, immediately proves that you are of the same base nature as everyone.
You should never be made to feel less than another. If someone tries to make you feel less than they, they immediately prove themselves as base a human as everyone else, including yourself.

The only human being you have the right to, and should, measure yourself against, is you. We are our own judges, opponents, enemies and obstacles to true happiness.

And also: everyone farts?

Stormsingersays...

He's quite a character, he is. He does seem to fit well with what I know of Buddhism. It's not really a religion, like any other...more of an attitude (or life-philosophy, if you prefer). Most of the things that "churches" teach are not really relevant to the Buddhist philosophy.

The basic rules seem to match the basic rules of most religions, but I'm curious about how they/he propose to deal with the more difficult issues. How does he recommend dealing with the Wall Street crowd buying and corrupting the government for their own benefit (and to the detriment of everyone else)? What would he have recommended (to bring out the hoary old question) to deal with Hitler and Nazi Germany?

The little things are easy and obvious, if too often forgotten. The harder things are still important, if for no other reason than that they provide the foundation that we all must grow from.

chingalerasays...

Of bankers and Nazi's?? The Tibetan Buddhist would simply say of these illusions that life in this incarnation is suffering, lumping thievery and murder no matter the scale into a similar karmic bowl of inevitability, and give it a stir...all the while mumbling the Dharma.

Why does the Dali Llama smile all the time?
Why do bad things happen to good people?
Good Drugs.

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