Thubten Yeshe (1935–84) was a Tibetan lama who, while exiled in Nepal, co-founded Kopan Monastery and the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition. He followed the Gelug tradition, and was considered unconventional in his teaching style.
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There’s a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience.
—Lama Thubten Yeshe
One action produces a reaction; that is karma.
—Lama Thubten Yeshe
Topics: Karma
Some children are wiser than adults.
—Lama Thubten Yeshe
Topics: Children
It’s not just philosophy, not just words; it’s knowing how the mind functions; only then can you develop loving-kindness; only then can you become a spiritual person.
—Lama Thubten Yeshe
Just understand your mind: how it works, how attachment and desire arise, how ignorance arises, where emotions come from. It is sufficient to know the nature of all that; just that gives so much happiness and peace.
—Lama Thubten Yeshe
Your mind is your religion.
—Lama Thubten Yeshe
Topics: Mind
Buddhist meditation doen’t necessarily mean sitting cross-legged with your eyes closed. Simply observing how your mind is responding to the sense world as you go about your business – walking, talking, shopping, whatever – can be a really perfect meditation and bring a perfect result.
—Lama Thubten Yeshe
Topics: Meditation
Examine your own mental attitudes. Become your own therapist.
—Lama Thubten Yeshe
When you check your own mind properly, you stop blaming others for your problems.
—Lama Thubten Yeshe
The mind is very powerful. Therefore, it requires firm guidance. A powerful jet plane needs a good pilot; the pilot of your mind should be the wisdom that understands its nature.
—Lama Thubten Yeshe
The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts.
—Lama Thubten Yeshe
We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is impermanent: changing, changing, changing … .
—Lama Thubten Yeshe
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