HH 14TH DALAI LAMA

DAILY ADVICE FROM THE HEART

Transform your thoughts into positive ones. It is a mistake to think that everyone is bad. Some people are wicked, that's true, but that does not mean everyone is. There are also many people who have a noble and generous spirit.

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HH 14TH DALAI LAMA

Book : 365 Dalai Lama

HH The great 14th Dalai Lama

The Buddha used to say to his monks that if they didn't eat enough they would weaken their bodies and this is a mistake; but he would also tell them that by living a life that was too comfortable they would exhaust their merit. In this way, he was exhorting us to reduce our desires, to be satisfied with what we have and develop spiritually, but at the same time to keep healthy. Whether one eats too much or too little, in either case one will eventually fall ill. We should avoid any extremes   in our daily life.

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HH The great 14th Dalai Lama

Book: 365 Dalai Lama

HH 14th Dalai Lama

If you are a religious person, then at the moment of death you should reconnect with your faith and pray. If you believe in God, tell yourself that even if it is sad to come to the end of one's life, God must have his reasons and death is something profound that you are unable to fathom. This thought will definitely help you.

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HH 14th Dalai Lama

HH Dalai Lama XIV

If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.

Dalai Lama XIV

OSHO

The sixth of August can never be forgotten. That day we proved that civilization has not happened to humanity yet, that we are barbarians, that we are cannibals, that we are still animals. Darwin is wrong; the whole idea of evolution is just imagination. Instead of believing in Darwin, I believe in the monkeys, because monkeys also have their idea: they think man has fallen — and certainly he has fallen — from the trees. Falling from the height, you call that evolution? The sixth of August proved the monkeys are right, because to drop atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the ugliest thing that man has done in the whole of history. Everything else paled before it.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki are wounds which have not healed yet. And rather than healing those wounds, America is piling up nuclear weapons. Naturally, afraid of America, Russia is doing the same; they are piling up nuclear weapons.

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OSHO

OSHO

MONEY I am not against money – I am against money-mindedness! I am not against possessions, I am against possessiveness. And these are two totally different dimensions, diametrically opposite to each other.  

To be against money is stupid. Money is a beautiful means – a means of exchange. Without money there cannot be an evolved culture, society or civilization.  Just imagine that money has disappeared from the world. Then all that is comfortable, all that is giving you convenience will disappear with it. People will be reduced to utter poverty. Money has done a tremendous work; one has to appreciate it. Hence, I am not against money but I am certainly against money-mindedness – and people don’t make the distinction. The whole human past has lived in confusion.  Renounce money-mindedness, but there is no need to renounce money. 

Money has to be created, wealth has to be created. Without wealth all science will disappear, all technology will disappear, all the great achievements of man will disappear. Man will not be able to reach the moon, man will not be able to fly. Without money life will become very dumb, just as without language all art, all literature, all poetry, all music will disappear. Just as language helps you to exchange thoughts, to communicate, so money helps you to exchange things; it is also a form of communication.But money-minded people cling to money; they destroy its whole purpose.

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OSHO

OSHO

Some people had come this morning and I told them: always try to go deeper and deeper into yourself. There should be such a depth inside that it is immeasurable. He who goes deep beyond measure reaches unbelievable heights. The heights of life are directly related to the depths. Those who want height, but not depth, will certainly fail. The peaks of height are supported by the depth – there is no other way. The real thing is the depth; those who find it will automatically reach the heights. Only those who have depth inside, like an ocean, can reach the heights of the snow-peaked mountains. Depth is the price which must be paid to reach the heights. And remember, nothing in life is ever free.  Ramateertha used to say that in Japan he had seen pine and cedar trees which were three to four hundred years old, but less than a foot high. You must have seen how great and tall pine and cedar trees grow. Then who stops those trees from growing, and how? When he inquired about it, he was told that they don’t touch the leaves and branches, but they keep cutting the roots to prevent them from growing downward. And the rule is that unless roots grow downward, a tree will not grow upward. There is a relationship between above and below, so those who want to attain to the heights must spread roots deep into the soul. If the roots do not grow inward, then life can never rise upward. But we have totally forgotten this rule and, as a result, lives which could have risen high like cedars can’t rise even a foot above their base. Man becomes smaller and smaller because the roots into his soul become shallower and shallower.

The body is the surface, the soul is the depth. How can he who lives only in the body find depth? Live in the soul, not in the body. Always remember that whatever you think, speak or do, should not be limited to the body. Think, speak and act also on a level higher than the body. Only through that, do roots gradually grow into the soul and reach the depth.

OSHO

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