“Our repeated experience of frustration, dissatisfaction and misery does not have external conditions as its root cause. – The Dalai Lama, The Path to Enlightenment, p33 “We wish to avoid suffering, but because our minds are not cultivated in wisdom we run directly towards suffering like a moth caught in the light of a flame.” – The Dalai Lama, The Path to Enlightenment, p32-33 Control over one’s future evolution is to be won during one’s life, not at the time of death.” Everything that confronts them is unknown, for they never took the time to apply the methods that reveal the nature of mind, birth, life and death. Having passed their entire lives ignoring death and sheltering themselves from thoughts of it, when it strikes they become utterly shocked and lose all courage and confidence. “Death holds very little hope for ordinary worldly person with no spiritual experience. – The Dalai Lama, The Path to Enlightenment, p32 “They who possess spiritual understanding can control their destiny at the time of death, but for ordinary beings the process is very much an automatic chain reaction of karmic seeds and habitual psychic response patterns.” The Dalai Lama was officially recognized at the age of four There is no need to enter the after-death state empty-handed.”
“If one cultivates spiritual qualities such as mental harmony, humility, non-attachment, patience, love, compassion, wisdom and intelligence able to deal effectively with the problems of this life and because the wealth that one is amassing is mental rather than material, it will not have to be left behind at death. “Although it is essential to maintain a reasonable material basis on which to live, the emphasis in one’s life should be on cultivating the mental and spiritual causes of happiness.” “To ignore death and its implications will not prevent us from dying nor will it help us to enter the after-death state with any degree of spiritual maturity.” – The Dalia Lama, The Path to Enlightenment, p31 “A materialistic mind is an unstable mind, for its happiness is built on transient, physical circumstances.” – The Dalai Lama, The Path to Enlightenment, p31 “The difficulty with a purely materialistic interpretation of life is that, in addition to ignoring an entire dimension of the mind, it does not deal effectively with the problems of this life.” – The Dalai Lama, The Path to Enlightenment, p30 “The deepest impulse of all sentient beings is to experience happiness and to avoid suffering.” – The Dalai Lama, The Path to Enlightenment, p26 “Although all humans are equal, each of us has our individual background our unique way of seeing and appreciating things, our own spiritual and philosophical tastes.” – The Dalai Lama, The Path to Enlightenment, p25 When the sighted children get to know the visually impaired children better, then they are more likely to have compassion for them.“After attaining enlightenment he turned the Wheel of Dharma for beings of good fortune, revealing what must be overcome and what must be accomplished in order to transcend the stages and levels leading to higher rebirth, liberation and omniscient perfection.” There is a difference between pity and compassion. When children are exposed to other children who are less fortunate then them, this makes them that much stronger. This is the best type of education a child can have. Sometimes parents enroll their fully sighted children with visually impaired children at this school. I am a member of the board of directors of the Blind Children's Learning Center in North Tustin, CA. If we open our eyes to it, we will become closer to a reality in which people have compassion and understanding. There is a great deal of pain in the world that we ignore. We need to make an effort to see how the world really is instead of how it is fixed in our minds. Compassionate acts help people better relate to each other. Once you have an inner peace, then you can start helping others, and when you help others, you continue to make your inner peace stronger. It is also important to take care of yourself before you help others. It is important to have your own inner peace before you help others. When you do acts of compassion, you are also helping yourself. He preaches that compassion and inner peace are important and that one leads to the other.