[Dalai Lama:] Today we call it the Big Bang. Tomorrow we'll no doubt give it another name. Let's not allow ourselves to be imprisoned by words. This set and that set are ephemeral. Let's accept the void with a smile, and since everything depends on our mind, let's have confidence in our mind.
p. 246
The Dalai Lama and Jean-Claude Carriere Violence and Compassion
Doubleday, 1996
English translation of Force du bouddhisme (Editions Robert Laffont-Fixot,1994). Conversations between Bstan-'dsin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, and Jean-Claude Carriere.

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