sexuality is fully acknowledged and regarded compassionately without the need to indulge in actions which lead to suffering’- Daishin Morgan
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Purpose of family
Social life begins with our parents; the intellect is cultivated through our teachers; family life is adjusted through experience’- Head of the London Buddhist Vihara
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gender equality
At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every women’- Dalai Llama
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gender equality
‘there is no reason why the next Dalai Llama could not be a women’- Dalai Llama
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Origins of human life
For here there is no Brahma G-d, creator of the round of births, Phenomena alone flew on- Cause and component their condition’- The Visuddhimagga
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Value of the world
Where shall I find such favourable circumstances again? The arising of the Buddha, Faith, the human state itself, the capacity to practise skilful deeds’- The Bodhicaryavatara
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Use and abuse of the environment
I believe that not only should we keep our relations with one another...It is also very important to extent that kind of attitude to the natural environment’- Dalai Llama
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Against; use and abuse of animals
All tremble at violence; all fear death. Comparing others with oneself, one should not kill or cause to kill’- The Buddha in the Dhammapadda
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Buddhist views on the afterlife
‘Having reached perfection, fearless, without craving, without blemish, he has cut off the darts of existence. This body is his last’- The Buddha in the Dhammapadda
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Peace, justice, reconiciliation
‘He abused me. he struck me, he overcame me, he robbed me. Of those who wrap themselves up in it hatred is not quenched’- The Buddha in the Dhammapadda
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Against violence
Whoever injures with violence creatures desiring happiness, seeking his own happiness he dones not gain happiness when he has passed away’- The Buddha in the Dhammapadda
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Against Nuclear Weapons
For peace, the basic thing to do is nor to remove nuclear weapons but to remove the fear, anger and suspicion in us’- Thich Nhat Hanh
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Peacemaking
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourself’- Dalai Llama
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Reasons for crime
from goods not being bestowed on the destitute poverty are rife; from poverty growing rife stealing increased, from the spread of stealing grew violence’- The Buddha in the Digha Nikaya
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Aims of Punishment
‘We should not seek revenge on those who have committed crimes against us, or reeky to their crimes with other crimes...we should reflect that by the law of kamma, they are in danger of lowly and miserable lives to come’- Dalai Llama
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For religious freedom
I always say that every person on this Earth has the freedom to practise or not practise religion. It is right to do either’- Dalai Llama
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Buddhist teaching about wealth
By action, knowledge of the Dhamma, by virtue and noble way of life—By these are mortals purified, not by lineage or wealth’- The Buddha in the Majjhima Nikaya
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Against exploitation of the poor
In five ways does a master minister to his servants and employees, by assigning them work according to their strength, by supplying them with food and wages; by tending them in sickness’- The Buddha in the Digna Nikaya
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Poverty and giving to the poor
Monks, a donor who gives food gives the recipients five things...life, beauty, happiness, strength and discernment’- The Buddha in the Anguttara Nikaya
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Social life begins with our parents; the intellect is cultivated through our teachers; family life is adjusted through experience’- Head of the London Buddhist Vihara
Back
Purpose of family
Card 3
Front
At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every women’- Dalai Llama
Back
Card 4
Front
‘there is no reason why the next Dalai Llama could not be a women’- Dalai Llama
Back
Card 5
Front
For here there is no Brahma G-d, creator of the round of births, Phenomena alone flew on- Cause and component their condition’- The Visuddhimagga
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