Dalai Lama Meditation Quotations

Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.

The very purpose of meditation is to discipline the mind and reduce afflictive emotions.

Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.

What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.

All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.

In order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.

The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is within us. Therefore, the solution is within us too. However, that inner change does not take place immediately in the way that we switch on a light, but takes weeks, months and years.

Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect results from meditation within a short period of time. What is required is continuous sustained effort.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.

To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.

...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation

If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate.