5 Sentences From The Dalai Lama To Think About

“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is great luck.”

Dalai Lama

Society teaches us that happiness is difficult to obtain and that, once achieved, it does not last long. Precisely because of this way of perceiving life and the happiness that they have instilled in us, we are impassive, we hope it will come by itself, because now we believe we can not do anything to obtain it directly.

One of the most complex points of learning to be happy is that they do not teach us to recognize happiness and value it as such, and this leads us to feel continually frustrated and never makes us reach inner and existential fullness.

Thanks to positive psychology and ancestral philosophy such as that of Buddhism, we can perceive happiness close to us, possible in our lives and indispensable in the life of any human being.

To achieve greater development and greater personal growth, today we will consider one of the philosophies that bring us closest to the perception of fullness and inner peace, or 5 reflections from the Dalai Lama:

– The main goal of our life is to seek and achieve happiness. You will agree with us that people consider it more important to increase their material rather than their spiritual heritage. It seems that the first is urgent, in a hurry, and that the second can wait.

If we base our lives on this way of feeling and seeing the world, we are likely to amass wealth, looking for material security that will never be real. We always imagine hypothetical situations that will lead us to need more money.

Reading this sentence opens our minds and makes us interpret our existence and our goals from a totally different point of view to the one we had up to now.  

– If you want to be happy and make those around you happy, practice compassion. One of the most complicated rules to apply in a person’s life, which is one of the basic pillars for enjoying life and making others happy is compassion. Being a compassionate person means doing everything you can to alleviate the suffering of others and, by extension, your own.

Compassion is built through understanding, acceptance and change. This reflection allows us to understand that developing a compassionate attitude towards others and towards ourselves is the basis for achieving happiness.

– When we experience a tragedy, we can choose two paths: lose hope and adopt self-destructive habits or use the challenge to find our inner strength. We often meet people who tend to complain about their life full of failures and without any opportunities.

In this way they do not perceive that they are continually clinging to the past and use it as an excuse to stop and not move forward in their “now”, present and future. Each person has different life experiences than others, but if we hold on to the past and spend our days thinking about what we have done or could have accomplished, we will not be aware of the here and now.

The present is necessary to continue to improve in all aspects, to grow and to achieve happiness.

–  If your mind is calm and balanced, your abilities to enjoy a happy life will be greater. When we are able to dominate our mind, we will be able to be happy. 

Because? All our thoughts and fears that do not allow us to act as we want and to fully experience happiness originate in our mind. If we can keep our mind calm, we will be able to invest our energies, without borders, and find the best solution, as well as knowing how to manage our own internal conflicts and overcome them in a healthy and balanced way.

If we live with a mind that we cannot and do not know how to control, we will only generate problems and obstacles that do not exist, which make it difficult for us to achieve happiness.

– Most of our problems arise from an attachment to things that we mistakenly believe to be permanent. Detachment is one of the most important basic principles of Buddhism. Much of our suffering originates from attachment to certain material things, situations or people. 

They generate bonds in us that make us believe that if we lose that something, we will suffer and we will never be well. For Buddhism, detachment means not perceiving that need generated by an emotional bond, being aware that our happiness does not depend on the affection of other people or on how much we possess.

Letting go is the best thing you can do when you begin to feel that a given situation becomes just as difficult to “let go”.