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Thursday
Mar062014

HH Dalai Lama in U.S. Senate

His Holiness the Dalai Lama offers the opening prayer in the U.S. Senate today. Among his words, from Shantideva’s Way of the Bodhisattva: “As long as space remains, and as long as sentient beings remain, until then may I too remain and help dispel the misery of the world”.

And, perhaps of greater relevance to the U.S. Senate, from the Pali Dhammapada: "All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him".

[NOTE: The Dhammapada is thought to contain the authentic teachings of the Buddha himself, spoken by him, memorized, and then compiled in the 3rd century B.C. for oral transmission].

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