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Age: 61
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In looking for my mind, I discovered that it seems to be in many different places. Sometimes it is drinking a glass of water, remembering swimming in the summer, feeling the breeze. In this contemplation I observed that the self is more elusive than I thought.
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The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.
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Each of us holds human destiny in our hands. It will be completely determined by how the mind feels about itself.
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When the mind is totally present, it is relaxed, nimble, and sensitive. It feels lighter and clearer. It notices everything, but it is not distracted by anything. It is the feeling of knowing exactly where you are and what you are doing.
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When we appreciate something, that means we have allowed ourselves to relax and take it in.
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Your life and your practice should not be separate. You bring your practice into experience. You bring it about.
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Shambhala existed in Tibet and has been continued over the years, and now it is in the West. At its core, it is very much dedicated to the basic theme of benefiting others.
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My books definitely are ambassadors, as you called them. They express what the vision is, what the purpose is.
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It is said that if our intention is to help others-even if we are unable to follow it through-we will never have any regret. Regret is a result of trying to make me happy.
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If you want to be miserable, think of yourself. If you want to be happy, think of others.
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If we are going to live in a society, there has to be an attitude where people really do care for others.
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The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing.
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Auspicious coincidence is the right thing happening at the right time.
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As a leader, people push you. They really want to keep pushing you until you get aggressive. Then they say, Oh, see, it doesn't work.
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If we cut speed and relax with what’s going on in our life right now, kindness and patience will naturally come about.
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We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.
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If you see life as an opportunity, or if you see helping others as an opportunity, then all of a sudden you become joyous. You want to go forward.
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We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.
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When I was going into one of my first meditation retreats, I asked my father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for some advice. He said, How you act when you're alone affects the rest of your life. Even in solitude, the ruler engages in virtue.
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Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.
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