Loving Kindness

Loving Kindness

Date Posted:
November 2009

The following are a series of quotes by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

Each one of us is responsible for all other living beings’ happiness, besides our own. As a result, your loving kindness is the most wish-fulfilling thing in life, more precious than anything else in this world. That makes for a most satisfying, fulfilling life.

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Bodhicitta

I will bring all sentient beings to enlightenment by myself alone.

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Solving Problems

The way to solve problems in your life is to open your heart to others and think differently. This has a better result and brings more peace and happiness into your life, especially ultimate happiness, which you will experience forever, and that you can give to everyone who is suffering and who needs your help.

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Cherishing Others

If you cherish another person, another sentient being, there is enlightenment, and you cause that being to achieve every happiness. If you don’t cherish that being, there is no enlightenment for you. Therefore, this person, this one sentient being, is the most precious thing in one’s own life. Therefore, what is called “I” needs to be let go of forever. And what is called other, even one sentient being, is to be cherished forever.

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If you follow self-cherishing thoughts, those thoughts become your identity. Then anger, pride, the jealous mind – all this negative emotional stuff arises. When you let go of the “I” and cherish others, negative emotional thoughts do not arise. That’s very clear. Anger does not arise for those you cherish.

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The sun of real happiness shines in your life when you start to cherish others.