Quotations and Sayings

The most happy thing in my life, the most fulfilling thing, is to work for and to benefit sentient beings. Even just the mere thought to cause happiness for sentient beings, to benefit them, to free them from suffering—this is the BEST offering to all the Buddhas and bodhisattvas, the best puja, this is what pleases their holy minds most.

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One must practice with the bodhisattva attitude every day. People can't see your mind, what people see is a manifestation of your attitude in your actions of body and speech. Pay attention to your attitude all the time, guard it as if you are the police, or like a nanny cares for a child, like a bodyguard, or like you are the guru and your mind is your disciple.

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The office is a place for Dharma practice. When one goes to the office, dealing with people, one has to recognize it's a place to practice lamrim, the three principles of the path, tantra, and the six paramitas. The six paramitas fit very well with daily life—they offer protection for you. Everything is there.

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When you recognize your problem comes from your concept or your concept is the problem, you don't blame others

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The essence of collecting the most extensive merit in your daily life is through the attitude of always keeping your motivation in bodhicitta, the thought to benefit all sentient beings. The more sentient beings you think about, the more merit you collect.

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Try to think, whatever you do, 24 hours a day, of sentient beings: when you chant mantras, eat, go to sleep, go to work, and when you are talking; if you can, keep your mind in that thought.

Then, with every action you collect numberless merits. Not only do you have a happy, satisfying, fulfilling life every day and every moment, but, especially, it is the best thing for the future, and not only liberation from samsara, but enlightenment.

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If you are suffering, use it as the cause to bring happiness to others. This way, whatever kind of life experience you have, you use it on the path. There is no interruption to Dharma practice and one’s life is most beneficial.

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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 the world. That makes for a most satisfying, fulfilling life.

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Whatever problem one experiences, one can think about the benefits of problems and how they are beneficial for one’s own life, to develop one’s mind in compassion, to develop loving kindness, patience, wisdom, and all the positive qualities for the path to liberation.

By thinking of the benefits, one develops this precious quality, this most healthy positive way of thinking that brings happiness, and that stops you from harming yourself and harming others.

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Use problems as ornaments, seeing them as extremely precious, because they make you achieve enlightenment quickly, by getting you to achieve bodhicitta. Experience these problems on behalf of all sentient beings, giving all happiness to sentient beings. This is the ornament.

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Dedicating your life to achieving lamrim realizations, with the goal of liberating numberless beings from the oceans of samsaric suffering and bringing them to enlightenment is what I regard as the most important thing in the world.

Like molding dough in your hand, you can definitely turn your mind whichever way you want for any happiness in life, including achieving full enlightenment – peerless happiness. .

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Like molding dough in your hand, you can definitely turn your mind whichever way you want in life, so as not to be in hell and instead achieve enlightenment, including achieving peace and happiness, with no more problems.

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Everything has to do with your own attitude, your own thinking, your motivation,
Therefore, one can stop all problems right now and achieve peace and happiness. .

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Less desire means less pain, more satisfaction, more freedom in your life, more inner peace and happiness.

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If one does not remember death, one doesn't remember Dharma, so why not take the opportunity to practice and enjoy life with Dharma. This is the safest life now and in the future.

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Since the “I” that exists is merely imputed there is nothing to cherish, nothing to cling too. Goodbye to depression, worries, and fears.

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

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Since you don't like problems, you have no choice except to practice Dharma. That gives freedom and liberation.

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The root of problems in your life becomes non-existent when you start to cherish others.

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No desire means no disturbing emotions, pain of attachment, pain of anger, and pain of jealousy, and there is tranquillity, peace, openness, no barriers, and space for sincere love and compassion.

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Every moment of this human life is to be free from samsara and to achieve everlasting liberation, to be free from the suffering of the lower realms, to achieve the body of a happy migratory being, to be free from suffering and to achieve happiness, abandon non-virtue and practice the virtue of giving up cherishing the “I” and cherishing others, abandoning working for the self and working for others.

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Being free from desire means being free from problems in the mind, which means being free from external problems.

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No desire means no pain, no disappointment, no problems, but inner happiness, peace, and satisfaction.

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If you are happy, make it beneficial for sentient beings. If you are suffering, use it as the cause to bring happiness to others. This way, whatever kind of life experience you have, you can use it on the path. There is no interruption to Dharma practice and one’s life is most beneficial.

This Precious Life

Every second of this human life is more precious than skies of wish-granting jewels.

Rejoicing

Each time you rejoice in your own past, present, and future merits, they double and triple and you collect limitless skies of merit. Thinking about the benefits of rejoicing makes you want to practice rejoicing all day long and all night long.

Devotion and Compassion

The most important thing for success is devotion and compassion—these are the cause of harmony. These are the best puja. Compassion for others reduces problems and people will help you.

Communication

Good communication depends on how much good heart one has.