Matthieu Ricard Quotes About Suffering

• Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Wisdom, Children, Lying

• La envidia y los celos surgen de la incapacidad fundamental de alegrarse por la felicidad o el éxito de otra persona.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Budismo, Envidia, Sufrimiento

• Cuando la mente está llena de recuerdos y preocupada por el futuro, se pierde la frescura del momento presente. De este modo, no reconocemos la luminosa simplicidad de la mente que siempre está presente tras los velos del pensamiento.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Recuerdos, Budismo, Simplicidad

• La raíz básica de la felicidad está en nuestra mente; las circunstancias externas no son más que adversas o favorables.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Mentira, Budismo, Raíces

• We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Suffering, Tasks, Matter

• La verdadera libertad significa liberarse de los dictados del ego y de las emociones que lo acompañan.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Media, Budismo, Ego

• Nada va bien por fuera cuando nada va bien por dentro.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Sabiduría, Budismo, Sufrimiento

• Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Pain, Empathy, Feelings

  "Is Compassion Meditation the Key to Better Caregiving?" by Matthieu Ricard, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.

• Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Mean, Buddhism, Suffering

• El conocimiento no significa dominar una gran cantidad de información diferente, sino comprender la naturaleza de la mente. Este conocimiento puede penetrar en cada uno de nuestros pensamientos e iluminar cada una de nuestras percepciones.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Sabiduría, Significado, Budismo

• Al acabar con nuestro sentido de la autoimportancia, lo único que perdemos es un parásito que ha infectado nuestras mentes durante mucho tiempo. Lo que ganamos a cambio es libertad, apertura de espíritu, espontaneidad, sencillez, altruismo: todas ellas cualidades inherentes a la felicidad.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Budismo, Ser, Largo

• There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Suffering, Our Actions, Ethics

• Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

  Matthieu Ricard

  Mind, Suffering, Translate

• La humildad no significa creerse inferior, sino liberarse de la prepotencia. Es un estado de sencillez natural que está en armonía con nuestra verdadera naturaleza y nos permite saborear la frescura del momento presente.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Sabiduría, Creer, Significar

• Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Creativity, Buddhism, Names

• What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Buddhism, Suffering, Tasks

• When faced with adverse circumstances, if you can do something, do it and there is not need to worry. If you can't do anything, then there is no point to worry. So in either case, worrying is an added suffering. But this does not mean of course that we should not be unhappy about injustice, abuse and other kinds of behavior that brings suffering upon others.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Mean, Worry, Abuse

  Fuente: www.nydailynews.com

• Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Empathy, Brain, Suffering

  "Is Compassion Meditation the Key to Better Caregiving?" by Matthieu Ricard, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.

• That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Buddhism, Mind, Suffering

• You get [something] in your body that is the suffering or the problem, and then you [add] a second one, which is worry. In both cases, [it is] pointless.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Worry, Suffering, Add

  Fuente: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

• There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Compassion, Suffering, Openness

  Fuente: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

• El bien y el mal sólo existen en función de la felicidad o el sufrimiento que generan en nosotros mismos y en los demás

  Matthieu Ricard

  Evil, Suffering, Good And Evil

  Matthieu Ricard, Trinh Xuan Thuan (2009). “The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet”, p.19, Broadway Books

• When you see those in healthcare who don't get this burn-out, they are very motherly, fatherly, or loving and attentive with the patients. [These] wonderful caretakers, doctors, and nurses don't get as much burn-out as people who are more defensive of the feelings and suffering of others.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Doctors, Suffering Of Others, Nurse

  Fuente: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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