Top 37 Thubten Quotes
#1. Just the idea that you are religious doesn't help at all. It does not help you; it does not help others. In order to really help others, you need to gain knowledge-wisdom.
Thubten Yeshe
#3. It is great that even before we become enlightened or generate any lam-rim realizations we are able to offer incredible benefit to others. The person who does this is a very fortunate person and should rejoice very often.
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
#4. Knowing your own mind is the solution to all our problems.
Thubten Yeshe
#5. If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your friends. The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. Check your own mind to see whether or not this is true.
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
#6. A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for self-cherishing.
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
#7. We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change the aspects that lead to confusion and misery in our lives.
Thubten Chodron
#8. Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
#9. It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire's tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental.
Thubten Yeshe
#10. Meditation is the way we realize the nature of the mind.
Thubten Yeshe
#11. When we drop all of our painful effort to attain something, then suddenly there is spaciousness in our consciousness, a sense of being unobstructed, and we are able to enjoy life as it comes.
Anam Thubten
#12. We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is impermanent: changing, changing, changing ...
Thubten Yeshe
#13. It's not just philosophy, not just words; it's knowing how the mind functions; only then can you develop loving-kindness; only then can you become a spiritual person.
Thubten Yeshe
#15. To make our life meaningful, we have to do meaningful actions.
Thubten Zopa
#16. Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip.
Thubten Yeshe
#17. When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
#18. By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment.
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
#19. First of all, merely by living a simple life with a heart dedicated to overcoming self-cherishing, we automatically benefit others.
Thubten Yeshe
#21. Karma is not something complicated or philosophical. Karma means watching your body, watching your mouth, and watching your mind. Trying to keep these three doors as pure as possible is the practice of karma.
Thubten Yeshe
#22. Examine your own mental attitudes. Become your own therapist.
Thubten Yeshe
#23. At certain times, a silent mind is very important, but 'silent' does not mean closed. The silent mind is an alert, awakened mind; a mind seeking the nature of reality.
Thubten Yeshe
#25. Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others.
Thubten Yeshe
#26. Live with compassion. Work with compassion. Die with compassion. Meditate with compassion. Enjoy with compassion. When problems come, experience them with compassion.
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
#27. Longchenpa said, "Good concepts are like a golden chain. Bad concepts are like an iron chain.
Anam Thubten
#28. Whenever you hear that someone else has been successful, rejoice. Always practice rejoicing for others-whether your friend or your enemy. If you cannot practice rejoicing, no matter how long you live, you will not be happy.
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
#29. Be blissful and enjoy your life; do not let yourself become obsessed with anything. Determine to use the rest of your life to benefit others as much as possible.
Thubten Yeshe
#30. Each one of us is responsible for 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.
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
#31. When you check your own mind properly, you stop blaming others for your problems.
Thubten Yeshe
#32. The mind is very powerful. Therefore, it requires firm guidance. A powerful jet plane needs a good pilot; the pilot of your mind should be the wisdom that understands its nature.
Thubten Yeshe
#33. One action produces a reaction; that is karma.
Thubten Yeshe
#34. Buddhist meditation doen't necessarily mean sitting cross-legged with your eyes closed. Simply observing how your mind is responding to the sense world as you go about your business - walking, talking, shopping, whatever - can be a really perfect meditation and bring a perfect result.
Thubten Yeshe
#35. No matter how confused or deluded we may be at the moment, the underlying and essential nature of our being is clear and pure
Thubten Yeshe
#36. When a strong wind blows, the clouds vanish and blue sky appears. Similarly, when the powerful wisdom that understand the nature of the mind arises, the dark clouds of ego disappear.
Thubten Yeshe
#37. It is a simple truth that if we identify ourselves as being fundamentally pure, strong, and capable we will actually develop these qualities, but if we continue to think of ourselves as dull and foolish, that is what we will become.
Thubten Yeshe
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