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The Dalai Lama’s 10 Virtuous Actions
Adapted from Living Wisdom with His Holiness The Dalai Lama (Sounds True, 2006).
Here are beautiful guidelines from His Holiness The Dalai Lama for living an ethical life. At their heart is a way to keep ourselves from harming others and to cultivate a path of virtue in the world.
“Self-interest is at the root of any intention to harm others; it is not wholesome. Therefore, a bodhisattva restrains the attitude of self-interest. What does self-interest mean? We do not talk about completely forgetting ourselves, because in order to strive for buddahood, a bodhisattva must develop strong, determined self-confidence. But we have to clearly distinguish between this and an inferior kind of self-cherishing. This can be accomplished by following the Ten Virtuous Actions”—His Holiness The Dalai Lama
• Protecting and saving life.
• Giving and not taking what is not given.
• Treating your partner respectfully—respecting your marriage vows.
• Speaking honestly.
• Speaking with the goal to bring harmony among beings.
• Speaking gently.
• Refraining from gossip.
• Being happy for others’ accomplishments.
• Being loving toward all.
• Having a view that includes karma and understands the middle way between the two extreme views of eternalism and nihilism, accompanied by the two kinds of accumulations (of merit and wisdom).
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add your comment »colleen, what you said just shows, that a. you have never met the man, b. you understand little about the tibetan people. the Dalai Lama comes from a region of tibet, as do most tibetans, were for centuries the only food they ate came from yaks and barley. the yaks they raised themselves, the barley they traded for yaks, as nothing will grow in the earth where he comes from. bodies adapt to the diet they are fed, he needs animal protein, when he went totally vegetarian and he did try, he got so sick, he had to be hospitalized, twice. this holds true for many of the older monks who originally lived in tibet they can also not tolerate a complete meat free diet. the tibetan monks born in india or other places fare much better and the monasteries they live in are completely vegetarian.
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The Dalai Lama is such a hypocrite. He often also speaks of animals and how we should care for them. He boasts of vegetarian diets yet he does not follow one himself. He contradicts everything he stands for and I am sure these actions are no different.
I agree with them, I just don't believe he himself is following them.
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His Holiness is one of my greatest inspirations. With him i say, "my religion is Love." May his impartial love and compassion serve as an example for all of us, regardless of what we call ourselves.
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Sometimes we all need to be reminded of God's words - whether it be by the Dalai Lama or someone else. Our world is already filled with so many beautiful and wonderful miracles. It could be even moreso if we all strived to live by these philosophies.
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those are not all suggestion from H.H. the Dalai Lama, however it would not hurt us if we followed them.
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Whether we follow these laws or the Commandments,all are good ideals for all humanity to live by.In turn bringing people together to cause harmony and unity,and a better way of living.Is that not what most of us would strive for anyway?
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...life and our belief systems ( religion) should always come down to one word...."respect"...if we all practice this, what a better place to live
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The dahli lama, moses etc are just ment who have distorted the truth for whatever reason they may have even unknowingly done this as the truth of how we need to live is never mentioned, yet God implanted those laws in us at our birth they are the 7 natural laws.
1. Freewill of actions and thought
2. Cause and effect
3.resonance (attraction)
4. Service
5. Forgiveness of those who do us wrong>
6. Love and self respect to live the above laws.
7. Transmutation, this depends on how we have lived the previous 6 laws.
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I believe that if we all followed these guidelines we would find that we have also obeyed the Ten Commandments, since we could not carry out these actions and simultaneously violate any of the commandments. A friend of mine says that being a Buddhist has made her a better Christian, and that makes sense to me.
One of the earlier comments reminded me of a bumper sticker I saw a few months ago: "Jesus called. He wants his religion back."
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it,s not so eassy to do this.. it is eassy when you like a person.. but if you don,t....like it..
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