Dalai Lama Lama Quotes

#1. Are there any celebs I'd like to meet? I'd love to meet the Dalai Lama. #Quote by Martin Shaw

#2. Give up grasping and see things as they are. THE SEVENTH DALAI LAMA #Quote by Lama Surya Das

#3. The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings ... . As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become. - FROM THE DHAMMAPADA (SAYINGS OF THE BUDDHA) #Quote by Lama Surya Das

#4. You're into happiness?" the technician says, her eyes never leaving the computer screen.
"I'm writing a book about it," I say.
"About happiness?" she says.
"Yes," I say.
" Didn't the Dali Lama already write that book? #Quote by Lisa Grunwald

#5. Lenin in a top hat and frock coat would be a far greater anomaly than the Grand Lama of Thibet or a Zulu chief in that costume. #Quote by Wyndham Lewis

#6. When we ground ourselves in the present moment, we spontaneously connect better with others. We become more responsive and less reactive, listening more deeply and speaking with greater clarity. #Quote by Lama Surya Das

#7. A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age. #Quote by Ram Dass

#8. It is usually a mistake to believe that any opinion or situation is objectively good or bad, since everything depends on the perspective of the viewer. #Quote by Lama Surya Das

#9. I consider in my own mind whether thou art a spirit, sometimes, or sometimes an evil imp, said the lama, smiling slowly. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#10. Because someone is a lama or is part of a monastic order or claims to be part of a succession, doesn't really mean they know anything. Always examine the individual's consciousness, their ability to transmit light. #Quote by Frederick Lenz

#11. You watch and see! #Quote by Lama Feher Alsharif

#12. Everything is available in the natural state, #Quote by Lama Surya Das

#13. Who put the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp, who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong? #Quote by Barry Mann

#14. Our sorrows provide us with the lessons we most need to learn. #Quote by Lama Surya Das

#15. The Saint did not seem to be aware that he was multiplying miracles with an easy grace that would have made a Grand Lama look like a third-rate three-card man. #Quote by Leslie Charteris

#16. am late for my afternoon coffee with Linda Leaming, an American who has lived in Bhutan for the past nine years. Asia has attracted its share of spiritual seekers, or lama lickers as they're sometimes called, but Bhutan was closed to outsiders until the 1970s. Even after that, it was not an easy country to get to. You had to want it. #Quote by Eric Weiner

#17. And I say, 'Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.' And he says, 'Oh, uh, there won't be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.' So I got that goin' for me, which is nice. #Quote by Bill Murray

#18. You don't need to see different things, but rather to see things differently. #Quote by Lama Surya Das

#19. Having a calling or meaningful and fulfilling purpose in life does not necessarily mean being drawn to a certain kind of job, task, or professional mission. Many people are compelled instead to commit themselves to a particular set of values - ones that they infuse into every aspect of their life, regardless of the various roles they play or situations they address as they go through their daily lives. #Quote by Lama Surya Das

#20. Seekers inevitably want to get a better handle on life; we want to figure things out. We know intuitively that the events of our lives are not always arbitrary. We feel connected, however intangibly. We know that it is in our higher self-interest to unravel the mysteries in our own lives. There must be a higher purpose and greater meaning. As we become more and more spiritually evolved, we become more determined to find wisdom and reach a deeper understanding of our lives and our paths. #Quote by Lama Surya Das

#21. People think live is, you know, this spiritual thing, "the lama said. "This 'feeling'. But that's not my thing. In my book, love is physical act. Love is not ethereal. Love is sticking by someone when they're in the nuthouse. Love is when you keep calling someone when they don't call you back. Love is dirty and solid. Love is, you know, earth and shit and blood and hair. #Quote by Sara Gran

#22. The Lama of the Crystal Monastery appears to be a very happy man, and yet I wonder how he feels about his isolation in the silences of Tsakang, which he has not left in eight years now and, because of his legs, may never leave again. Since Jang-bu seems uncomfortable with the Lama or with himself or perhaps with us, I tell him not to inquire on this point if it seems to him impertinent, but after a moment Jang-bu does so. And this holy man of great directness and simplicity, big white teeth shining, laughs out loud in an infectious way at Jang-bu's question. Indicating his twisted legs without a trace of self-pity or bitterness, as if they belonged to all of us, he casts his arms wide to the sky and the snow mountains, the high sun and dancing sheep, and cries, Of course I am happy here! It's wonderful! Especially when I have no choice! #Quote by Peter Matthiessen

#23. Well there were other Maharajis, so Neem Karoli Baba was his technical name, like there are a thousand Lamas called Rinpoche. #Quote by Surya Das

#24. What is the mind? It is a phenomenon that is not body, not substantial, has no form, no shape, no color, but, like a mirror, can clearly reflect objects #Quote by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

#25. With every breath, the old moment is lost; a new moment arrives. We exhale and we let go of the old moment. It is lost to us. In doing so, we let go of the person we used to be. We inhale and breathe in the moment that is becoming. In doing so, we welcome the person we are becoming. We repeat the process. This is meditation. This is renewal. This is life. #Quote by Lama Surya Das

#26. An ordinary man would have been unable to maintain his balance there, to say nothing of holding on with such narrow support. But the Green Lama had held more difficult positions, according to the Yoga, for hours. #Quote by Kendell Foster Crossen

#27. You are in charge of your own karma, your own life, your own spiritual path, and your own liberation, just as I am in charge of mine. #Quote by Lama Surya Das

#28. The heart is an organ of perception. #Quote by Lama Surya Das

#29. We must never confuse the teacher with the truth. #Quote by Lama Surya Das

#30. The thing is that this life is so precious and mysterious, I don't know what to say about it most of the time. Words are like birds, passing through the trackless sky. The dog barking, the sound of the purling stream, the wind among the weeping willow trees: how are these not right off the tongue of the Buddha?
Lama Surya Das #Quote by Lama Surya Das

#31. Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way. The Lama in Kim #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#32. To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON #Quote by Lama Surya Das

#33. Clothed in facts truth feels oppressed. In the garb of poetry it moves easy and free. #Quote by Rabindranath Tagore

#34. pleasure and pain arise from virtuous and non-virtuous actions which come not from outside, but from within yourself. #Quote by Lama Surya Das

#35. I have been thinking that the crux of happiness matter for me is whether or not I am in the moment, in the flow, at one with what is happening and I am doing. Otherwise, I'm lost in worry, and anxiety about past and future, plagued by what Buddhist meditators call "comparing mind," comparing what is to other so-called possibilities. #Quote by Lama Surya Das

#36. As long as we're preoccupied with our former traumas and triumphs, or our fears and dreams about what might happen down the road, or who said what to whom, it's very difficult to appreciate and cherish the intrinsically joyful gift of life right here and now. #Quote by Lama Surya Das

#37. Jesus was not revolutionary because he said we should love God and each other. Moses said that first. So did Buddha, Confucius, and countless other religious leaders we've never heard of. Madonna, Oprah, Dr. Phil, the Dali Lama, and probably a lot of Christian leaders will tell us that the point of religion is to get us to love each other. "God loves you" doesn't stir the world's opposition. However, start talking about God's absolute authority, holiness, ... Christ's substitutionary atonement, justification apart from works, the necessity of new birth, repentance, baptism, Communion, and the future judgment, and the mood in the room changes considerably. #Quote by Michael S. Horton

#38. Just as a white summer cloud, in harmony with heaven and earth freely floats in the blue sky from horizon to horizon following the breath of the atmosphere – in the same way the pilgrim abandons himself to the breath of the greater life that… leads him beyond the farthest horizons to an aim which is already present within him, though yet hidden from his sight. #Quote by Lama Anagarika Govinda

#39. Building good deeds upon yourself is
always helpful and wise thing for
you and others #Quote by Nima Lama

#40. In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism. #Quote by Barbara Demick

#41. How can a lama say enlightenment is for all beings, yet when he sees me, a woman, he does not give me the teachings as he would a man? #Quote by Perri Birney

#42. My constant daily question is, "What is the best thing I can do now in this situation, given these circumstances? Much is provided; now what is required from me? #Quote by Lama Surya Das

#43. I've also learned that you don't always get to pick the people with whom you travel the journey. You sometimes may think you do, but don't be deceived. And the corollary of that - and this was my real lesson - is that you start to realize that you can love even the people you don't like and must love and help everyone. #Quote by Lama Surya Das

#44. Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life - not learning how to develop psychic powers, not learning how to bow, chant, do yoga, or even meditate, but learning to love. Love is the truth. Love is the light. #Quote by Lama Surya Das

#45. If it's wearing red, yellow, or both, it's a lama," he said. "Bow to it. #Quote by Neal Stephenson

#46. Music is the best source which gives
you real comfort #Quote by Nima Lama

#47. Once, at a seminar, I heard a Westernized lama say that a meditator's state of mind should be like that of a hotel doorman. A doorman lets the guests in, but he doesn't follow them up to their rooms. He lets them out, but he doesn't walk into the street with them to their next appointment. He greets them all, then lets them go on about their business. Meditation is, in its initial stages, simply accustoming oneself to letting thoughts come and go without grasping at their sleeves or putting up a velvet rope to keep them out. #Quote by Marc Ian Barasch