Frases célebres de Dalai Lama
Frases de fe de Dalai Lama
Fuente: Palomo Triguero, Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros, 2013; p. 133. https://books.google.es/books?id=He9BAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA133&dq=cita-logia+dalai+lama&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj24dD8wd7hAhUDKBoKHXL9DvwQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=dalai%20&f=false ISBN 9781629346847.
Fuente: Citado en Meditations for Living In Balance: Daily Solutions for People Who Do Too Much (2000), de Anne Wilson Schaef; p. 11.
Dalai Lama Frases y Citas
“La existencia es una realidad para vivir, más que un problema para resolver.”
Respuesta de Gyatso a la pregunta '¿Su exilio es una tragedia?'. La respuesta completa: «La existencia es una realidad para vivir, más que un problema para resolver. A lo mejor, si me quedaba en el Tibet, me habría corrompido. De todos modos es bueno que esté fuera, porque así no corro riesgo alguno». (op.cit. p. 194)
Fuente: Wolpin, Samuel. Los Maestros del Sendero. Ed. Kier. Entrevista con el Dalai Lama: p. 194. https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&id=eTKQ5mrVbYkC&dq=La+existencia+es+una+realidad+para+vivir%2C+m%C3%A1s+que+un+problema+para+resolver.+dalai+lama&q=dalai#v=snippet&q=dalai&f=false ISBN 9789501710267.
sin fuentes
“Comprender el vacío no es nada fácil.”
Fuente: Dalai Lama: El arte de la compasión.
Fuente: [‘Dalai Lama’] (2002), p. 99.
Discurso en el Central Park de Nueva York, el 15 de agosto de 1999.
Fuente: Dalai Lama: El arte de la compasión.
Fuente: [‘Dalai Lama’] (2002), p. 13.
Dalai Lama: Frases en inglés
“Our own security is enhanced when peace breaks out between warring parties in other continents.”
Nobel lecture (1989)
Contexto: Our own security is enhanced when peace breaks out between warring parties in other continents.
But war or peace; the destruction or the protection of nature; the violation or promotion of human rights and democratic freedoms; poverty or material well-being; the lack of moral and spiritual values or their existence and development; and the breakdown or development of human understanding, are not isolated phenomena that can be analysed and tackled independently of one another. In fact, they are very much interrelated at all levels and need to be approached with that understanding.
Nobel acceptance speech (1989)
Contexto: With the ever-growing impact of science on our lives, religion and spirituality have a greater role to play by reminding us of our humanity. There is no contradiction between the two. Each gives us valuable insights into the other. Both science and the teachings of the Buddha tell us of the fundamental unity of all things. This understanding is crucial if we are to take positive and decisive action on the pressing global concern with the environment. I believe all religions pursue the same goals, that of cultivating human goodness and bringing happiness to all human beings. Though the means might appear different the ends are the same.
Nobel lecture (1989)
Contexto: Because we all share this small planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. That is not just a dream, but a necessity. We are dependent on each other in so many ways, that we can no longer live in isolated communities and ignore what is happening outside those communities, and we must share the good fortune that we enjoy.
Deity Yoga (1987)
Contexto: Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind. When the mind becomes the practices, one is a practitioner of religion, and when the mind does not become the practices one is not.
“Some say I am a good person, some say I am a charlatan — I am just a monk.”
Daily Telegraph interview (2006)
Contexto: Some say I am a good person, some say I am a charlatan — I am just a monk... I never asked people like Richard Gere to come, but it is foolish to stop them. I have Tibetans, Indians, backpackers, AIDS patients, religious people, politicians, actors and princesses. My attitude is to give everyone some of my time. If I can contribute in any way to their happiness, that makes me happy.
Nobel acceptance speech (1989)
Contexto: I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed.
The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share. Although I have found my own Buddhist religion helpful in generating love and compassion, even for those we consider our enemies, I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.
The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality (2005).
Contexto: My confidence in venturing into science lies in my basic belief that as in science so in Buddhism, understanding the nature of reality is pursued by means of critical investigation: if scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.
The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one’s desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.
In [Rubin, Gary, Your Emotional Fitness: Everything You Need to Know to Live a Life of Abundance, http://books.google.com/books?id=CGqu8-5W7UUC&pg=PA173, April 2013, Balboa Press, 978-1-4525-7059-4, 173–].
Nobel acceptance speech (1989)
Contexto: As we enter the final decade of this century I am optimistic that the ancient values that have sustained mankind are today reaffirming themselves to prepare us for a kinder, happier twenty-first century.
I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend, that together we succeed in building a better world through human understanding and love, and that in doing so we may reduce the pain and suffering of all sentient beings.
:Dalai Lama in his “Commemoration of the First Anniversary of September 11, 2001
Nobel lecture (1989)
Dalai Lama honours Tintin and Tutu, BBC (Friday, 2 June 2006) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5040198.stm
"Kindness and Compassion" p. 47.
The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness (1990)
News conference in Vancouver, B.C. as quoted in The Globe and Mail. (8 September 2006) http://web.archive.org/web/20070326201154/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060908.BCDALAILAMA08/TPStory/.
As quoted in "Dalai Lama says 'too many' refugees in Europe" http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/Dalai-Lama-says-too-many-refugees-in-Europe/articleshow/52522387.cms, The Times of India (31 May 2016)
"Kindness and Compassion" p. 47.
The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness (1990)
“Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”
As quoted in Words Of Wisdom: Selected Quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2001) edited by Margaret Gee, p. 71.
On the killing of al-Queda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden by US military forces, as quoted in "Dalai Lama suggests Osama bin Laden's death was justified" by Mitchell Landsberg, in The Los Angeles Times (4 May 2011) http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0504-dalai-lama-20110504,0,7229481.story.
As quoted in "Dalai Lama urges students to shape world" in The Seattle Times (15 May 2001) http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20010515&slug=dalai15m0.
Letter to Deng Xiaoping (1981)
The New York Times (12 November 2005).
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito”
The earliest known example of this quote comes from a January 1993 article in Time magazine, where it is associated with British businesswoman Anita Roddick:: "Even Body Shop trucks are employed as rolling billboards for pithy slogans. Roddick's current favorite, taken from the side of one of her company's lorries: IF YOU THINK YOU'RE TOO SMALL TO HAVE AN IMPACT, TRY GOING TO BED WITH A MOSQUITO".
IN the 21st century, it was cited as an "African proverb". Earliest attribution to Dalai Lama is from 2004.
Disputed
Fuente: Philip Elmer-DeWitt, "Anita the Agitator" https://books.google.com/books?id=Cm7uAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22anita+roddick%22+mosquito&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=mosquito, Time, 1993-01-25
Fuente: https://indianinthemachine.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/if-you-think-youre-too-small-to-make-a-difference-try-sleeping-in-a-closed-room-with-a-mosquito-african-proverb/
Fuente: https://books.google.com/books?id=K8Q53xW1ie8C&pg=PA1&dq=%22too+small+to+make+a+difference%22+mosquito+lama&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjjxrTbkbnJAhVHLYgKHVfdB84Q6AEIIjAB#v=onepage&q=%22too%20small%20to%20make%20a%20difference%22%20mosquito%20lama&f=false
Answering the question: "Do sentient beings have free will?" in Dzogchen : The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection (2001), p. 168, ISBN 155939157X.
"A Talk to Western Buddhists" p. 89
The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness (1990)
Letter to Deng Xiaoping (1981)
“It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.”
Ocean of Wisdom: Guidelines for Living (1989) ISBN 094066609X
Unsourced variant: In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.