INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE by the Dali Lama at the close of 2008:

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

3. Follow the three R's:
Respect for self
Respect for others and
Responsibility for all your actions

4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.

7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

8. Spend some time alone every day.

9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

11. Live a good, honerable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.

13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the curent situation. Don't bring up the past.

14. Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

15. Be gentle with the earth.

16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been.

17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.



Words to live by.

"INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE by the Dali Lama at the close of 2008:"


Who or what is the/a Dali Lama?

A painting of a lama by S. Dali?
Some sub-species of the spitting Andes animal?


Side note:
I don't need 'Instructions for Life'. I didn't ask for them and I think it's uncalled for to throw a set of 'instructions' into society, when you have a status like His Holiness.

This was been around for a while. Gets passed in email. They sell posters of it like this:





Honestly I have no idea if he actually said it.

What I find interesting about this version isn't the claim or year or the validity of authorship, it's the misspellings. [eg., for Dalai, honorable]

It must mean someone decided to retype it instead of the trusty "cut and paste". Or maybe the first person didn't know how. But, then others pass it along "intact", warts and all. Interesting.



btw, while much of this is useful, #11 is bullshit. I've done many, many totally honorable things that looking back I would have been much happier, then and NOW, if I was a selfish scumbag instead.

Actually not the Dalai Lama:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/dalai.asp

Quote:

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1. Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.

2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.

3. When in another’s lair, show him respect or else do not go there.

4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.

5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.

6. Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and he cries out to be relieved.

7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained.

8. Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.

9. Do not harm little children.

10. Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.

11. When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

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I've got a big Salvador Dali book, I love it.




He had a cool philosophy for life, too. He would have fit in well on XPT.

-Chuck, Vegetarian fanboy

Have you looked at your avatar lately?

The Lama's also believe in owning a class of slaves, fuck them.