Dalai Lama’s 18 rules for living

[The Straight Story]

Dalai Lama’s 18 rules for living

At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama apparently issued eighteen rules ofr living. Since word travels slowly in the digital age these have only just reached me.

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs:
1. Respect for self
2. Respect for others
3. Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

http://www.owenkelly.net/737/dalai-lamas-18-rules-for-living/

And mine:
Don't judge the words of the person based on whether you like them or not, base your judgment of such words on their own merit.

[texastoast]

1. Mine

Don't judge the person based on their words--judge by their actions (which is sometimes the action of speaking their words).

[gateley]

2. Mine. Judge not. nt

[Schema Thing]

3. dalai-lama's? or Andy Rooney?

Snopes would know.

:tinfoilhat:



pretty good words all around... they just kinda have that "e-mail pass it on for karma" feel to them, as opposed to that "Tibetan born holy man" feel.

[bananas]

6. Or Erma Bombeck?

[Madrone]

10. Good catch.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/dalai.asp

[FourScore]

4. Bookmarked. thank you.

[pansypoo53219]

5. things might be bad,

but it could be worse.

[underseasurveyor]

7. My favorite Dalai Llama quote

"Just as you have the natural instinctive desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings, just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings.
So on what grounds do you discriminate?"

[Djinn]

8. My fav's

On Bush's illegal and unprovoked war and occupations:

"In principle, I always believe nonviolence is the right thing, and nonviolent method is in the long run more effective... But, he said, some wars, including the Korean War and World War II, helped "protect the rest of civilization, democracy." He said he saw a similar result in Afghanistan - "perhaps some kind of liberation."

He also said in relation to Iraq it was "more complicated" but still may be justified.

I think DL should ask the woman of Afghanistan just how that liberation is going and the people of Iraq how "justified" they feel the US occupation is.

He is just another reactionary who believes in the fairy stories invented by people (to paraphrase David Cross) who were even dumber than we are now.

That western bourgeoisie searching for "meaning" having dumped conventional western religions see him as progressive just demonstrates the paucity of most of our understanding of the history of Asia and the sub continent.

In the early years of China's occupation of Tibet was the Dalai fighting for the rights of "his" people? No he had more pressing matters to attend to - calling for the donation of jewels and gold in order to build a new throne for him which would rid Tibet of "bad omens" for example.

He is a brilliant PR practitioner however painting him with a peaceful (unless you're a Tibetan peasant in the early 1950's) or democratic (the Tibetan "Government" in exile is akin to the ruling systems of Saudi)brush is farcical

[NJmaverick]

9. Good stuff

Very good stuff

[ObamaTime2008]

11. You have to love the Dalai Lama

:loveya: