"The world
will be saved
by the western woman." 

--The Dalai Lama

Never Give Up
Wednesday 26 December 2007, by HH the XIV Dalai Lama
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When the sun shines,
it shines without any discrimination;
it shines on every point of the country,
every nook and corner.
We should be like that.
--the Dalai Lama

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy... Our own brain, our own heart is our temple, the philosophy is kindness.
--the Dalai Lama

People take different roads
seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road,
doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
--Dalai Llama

What the Dalai Lama said when asked what surprises him most:

Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

He had a scarf given to him by the Dalai Lama in his pocket.
http://leaves1.livejournal.com/33079.html?view=99383#t99383
http://blog.beliefnet.com/stevenwaldman/2009/01/obama-had-the-dalai-lamas-scar.html

I wonder if Obama had any idea how much stuff he would be blamed for?

Info and entertainment in this post found via new LJ friend leaves1

I heard it in nutrition class. Then again on the Buddhist group. Apparently the Buddha ate meat too. I looked up the Dalai Lama's meat habit and discovered that it's old news. He has been eating meat on and off for a very long time. Tibetan Buddhists apparently would rather not talk about it. It seems there is some embarrassment that their holy leader doesn't follow the entire doctrine. To some of them it is wrong to eat meat, that it is contradictory with the teaching of compassion for all living beings.
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The Vatican reports worldwide adherent percentages at:
19.2% Muslim
17.4% Catholic
33% all flavors of Christian

In the US we are supposedly 76.5% Christian.
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