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.
I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.
I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.
I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.
Deciding what to read is also a matter of filtering.
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
I meditate, and when I do, Prince Harry appears in my subconscious and meditates with me. It's a little strange but I don't think there's anything I can do about it. Sometimes he's not the only one; the other day it was me, Prince Harry, the Dalai La...
Home wasn't built in a day.
I was a teacher once.
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
This is the home of hurdling, and the Americans are the kings of the event.
Be an example, not an adviser.
There's a place for farts, and there's a place for sharts.
Lt. Muldoon: Where's... the... shit?
Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.
I was shocked at the anger toward me.
Fear usually looks like anger.
A man's home is his wife's castle.
