Rev. Danny Fisher

Today’s quote is yet another from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, whom I first quoted and wrote a short biography for in this post.  He celebrates his 75th birthday this week, and we wish him a happy one.  This is it:

The essence of dharma practice is to bring about a discipline within the mind, a state of mind free of hatred, lust and harmful intentions. Hence the entire message of the buddhadharma could be summed up in two succinct statements: “Help others,” and “If you cannot help them, at least do not harm others.” It is a grave error to think that apart from such a disciplining of the physical and mental faculties there is something else called “the practice of dharma.” Various, and in some cases divergent, methods to achieve such an inner discipline have been taught in the scriptures by the Buddha.