“It has to become a way of life that you help others. It has to become an instinct that when you want something you try to get it for someone else. Right now we have the opposite instinct, “what I want I must take from others, I must deny from others, I must compete with others”. That’s our current instinct, and to change an instinct is very hard.”
“If enough people are able to change that instinct, this whole world will change. People will act differently towards each other. Those who don’t want to be yelled at will stop yelling, in order to not be yelled at. Then it will just be an instinct and the world will change.”
Excerpted from a lecture in Phoenix, Arizona in which Geshe Michael Roach teaches how to achieve success in every aspect of your life: to reach financial prosperity and a successful and satisfying career; to become full of energy; to enjoy warm and lasting personal relationships; to become a calm and more focused person; and to help change our family, our community, and our world.
The Knowledge Base (https://www.theknowledgebase.com) is an ongoing project to preserve and publish the life work of Geshe Michael Roach. The Knowledge Base Archive currently contains over 10,000 hours of teachings by Geshe Michael Roach and more than 12,000 pages of original translations, books and course materials.
Geshe Michael is the first American to have been awarded the degree of Geshe, or Master of Buddhism, after more than 20 years of study in Tibetan monasteries. He has used this training to become a prominent international teacher, businessman, philanthropist, author, educator, public speaker, and textual scholar.
The Knowledge Base features thousands of classes and thousands of pages of translations
