View on Buddhism - Depression & Selfishness (The Dalai Lama)
“There was an empirical study that found that people who have the tendency to use more self-referential terms (I, me, myself) tend to have more health problems and earlier deaths.
These people have more involvement with the self. Being self-absorbed has an immediate effect of narrowing one’s focus and blurring one’s vision. It is like being pressed down by a heavy load.
If, on the other hand, you think more about others’ well-being, it immediately makes you feel more expansive, liberated and free. Problems which before may have seemed enormous would then seem more manageable.
Extend your thoughts to all sentient beings. Have a strong commitment to an altruist mind that never degenerates.”
View on Buddhism - Depression & Selfishness (The Dalai Lama)
“There was an empirical study that found that people who have the tendency to use more self-referential terms (I, me, myself) tend to have more health problems and earlier deaths.
These people have more involvement with the self. Being self-absorbed has an immediate effect of narrowing one’s focus and blurring one’s vision. It is like being pressed down by a heavy load.
If, on the other hand, you think more about others’ well-being, it immediately makes you feel more expansive, liberated and free. Problems which before may have seemed enormous would then seem more manageable.
Extend your thoughts to all sentient beings. Have a strong commitment to an altruist mind that never degenerates.”
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