Dalai Lama - Conquer your "self"

The Dalai Lama points out the connection between suffering and afflictive emotions, the "enemy within". The real enemy is always within, not without. As long as it remains there, lasting happiness cannot be achieved.

Once you have made up your mind to tackle this "enemy within", to make it count, you realized the true aspiration to seek freedom from suffering.

This is called "renunciation" in Buddhist terms.

Source: Lecture on the Four Noble Truth given in London 1997, organized by the Network of Buddhist Organizations (U.K.) in association with the Office of Tibet (London)

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[davy209]

There always has to a religious troll in every Buddhist clip on YouTube, honestly, proselytizing on the web is pointless, annoying, and a sign of pitiful desperation! Try to keep an open mind when it comes to other religions or just save your time and everyone else by just not watching these clips. Thank you for your time! :)

[takepiro8]

I watch this video unconciously whenever I am bothered by negative emotion.

[EarlySeed]

@luvner @lamebrisee well my question comes from the fact that in the dhammapada a point is made about indulgence vs. self-control, and how the latter is wiser... Suppose I want to smoke a joint, I might regret doing so after because I lacked self-control, but where do you draw the line? A life where one always practices self-control can lead to a life not lived, am I right? Certain things that are bad for me can be a great experience, where is the line drawn?

[luvner]

@EarlySeed

just a question, why would you regret something you want to do?

[FlopTruth]

He's talking about evil. I need to get a robe

[lamebrisee]

You can do everything you want as long you don't harm sentient beings with body speech and mind. Actually freedom means being free of doing things which do not

hurt others and the end yourself.

[EarlySeed]

@MrBrunothedog Thank you, another question I have is how to distinguish between something you want to do, that you would regret not doing if you decided not to, and something you want to do, that you would regret doing if you decided to do it... Many people tell me: do the things you want to do in life or else you'll regret it, the buddhist teachings say something completely different, any opinions on this question are welcome.

[childofconvenant]

@kantaification thanks

[MrBrunothedog]

@EarlySeed Hi, not 100% sure if this is what you are looking for, but it helped me with a lot of similar issues I was having. Type Anatta into wikipedia.

[EarlySeed]

I have a question i hope someone with insight can answer.. In buddhism there is much talk about the search for objective reality as opposed to subjective delusion and illusion. I have been studying the human brain and am faced with the idea that thought and mind itself is an illusion, how does one go about accepting the nature of his own thoughts/mind. What we call reality is still seen from a subjective point of view, the point of view of the human mind. Thank you!