Gelek Rimpoche famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Ego's trick is to make us lose sight of our interdependence. That kind of ego-thought gives us a perfect justification to look out only for ourselves. But that is far from the truth. In reality we all depend on each other and we have to help each other. The husband has to help his wife, the wife has to help the husband, the mother has to help her children, and the children are supposed to help the parents too, whether they want to or not.
-- Gelek Rimpoche

#Mother #Husband #Children
The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.
-- Gelek Rimpoche

#Mean #Ego #Helping
The more successful you become, the more the demands of your ego will increase. In the beginning, you simply want to succeed, but your ego will not be satisfied. When you become a little more successful your ego wants to kill your competition. And when you become even more successful, it wants to make you the universal king. There's no telling what ego wants because our desire doesn't have any limit; therefore, its demands continually increase.
-- Gelek Rimpoche

#Kings #Successful #Competition
That's the ego talking. But it's not the real you. You are a good and wonderful person. You are kind. You have a compassionate nature.
-- Gelek Rimpoche

#Real #Talking #Ego
Training in compassion is a mental activity. but our mind should also be brought to the level where every action we take is influenced by compassion. That means engaging ourselves in compassion in action.
-- Gelek Rimpoche

#Mean #Compassion #Mind
If we only practice compassion on the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true compassion we have to put our money where our mouth is.
-- Gelek Rimpoche

#Running #Compassion #Practice
The capability of human life is beyond our imagination. What counts is the human capacity to investigate and transform our own mind and the world around us in a powerful and positive direction.
-- Gelek Rimpoche

#Powerful #Imagination #Mind
Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience.
-- Gelek Rimpoche

#Buddhist #Taught #Reaching

I feel betrayed by own mother.
Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
I wanted to live. For the father and brother who I never knew and for my mother who was cheated of a life of happiness. I wanted to live for them. And I wanted to live for me.
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
The only day in your life.... Your mother smiled when you cried...
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.
To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?

Gelek Rimpoche famous quotes

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