{"id":936,"date":"2009-11-26T10:19:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T10:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/11\/thanksgiving-quotes-the-dalai-lama-basting-turkey.html"},"modified":"2009-11-26T10:19:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T10:19:46","slug":"thanksgiving-quotes-the-dalai-lama-basting-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/11\/thanksgiving-quotes-the-dalai-lama-basting-turkey.html","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Quotes: The Dalai Lama on Precious Human Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/dalai_lama_thanksgiving_quotes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dalai_lama_thanksgiving_quotes.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/124\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/11\/dalai_lama_thanksgiving_quotes-thumb-200x259-9679.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: left\" height=\"259\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nposted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0861715160\/\"><strong><em>Ethan Nichtern<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a>(Something to contemplate while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicurious.com\/video\/technique-videos\/technique-videos-poultry\/1896810047\/poultry-basting-a-turkey\/1915433298\">basting turkey<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tofurkey\">tofurkey<\/a>)<\/p>\n<h4>A Precious Human Life<\/h4>\n<p>Every<br \/>\nday, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to have woken up, I am<br \/>\nalive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it, I am<br \/>\ngoing to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out<br \/>\nto others, to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings, I am<br \/>\ngoing to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry<br \/>\nor think badly about others, I am going to benefit others as much as I<br \/>\ncan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dalailama.com\/\">His Holiness the Dalai Lama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>posted by Ethan Nichtern (Something to contemplate while basting turkey or tofurkey) A Precious Human Life Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to have woken up, I am alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it, I am going to use all my energies&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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