“Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, o…”

“Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind. When the mind becomes the practices, one is a practitioner of religion, and when the mind does not become the practices one is not.”

— Dalai Lama

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Title: Wikiquote: Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
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Deity Yoga (1987)

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Lama, Dalai. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama

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