7 Quotes by Thupten Jinpa

In subsequent studies, Warneken and Tomasello found that children were willing to help even when doing so involved hardship and interrupting their play.Interestingly, they also found that rewarding the children was counterproductive. The children who were rewarded for helping were later less likely to help than those who had never been rewarded. Studies also show that infants as young as six months demonstrate clear preference for toys that enact helping behavior rather than hindering.

Witnessing kindness makes us feel compassionate, and compassion predicts helping behavior.

Emptiness does not imply non-existence; emptiness implies the emptiness of intrinsic existence, which necessarily implies dependent origination. Dependence and interdependence is the nature of all things; things and events come into being only as a result of causes and conditions. Emptiness makes the law of cause and effect possible.

First to explain ethical discipline: It’s the root of higher transmigration; It’s the staircase to liberation; It’s the antidote to suffering;.

He is untainted by elaborations of the eight mundane concerns.77.

Come here, I shall bless you within nonduality;.

Therefore hold this fact of not being the object of your own disapproval.