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Sakyong Mipham
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Sakyong Mipham
Age: 61
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Shambhala does have unique teachings, as do many Buddhist traditions. For example, certain teachings within Shambhala have to do with raising the personal windhorse, or the energy of the individual, so a person has good fortitude to be able to live a good life.
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Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.
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When people say that meditation makes them calm, they are often referring to this stability of the mind. A stable mind creates the foundation for a happier and more contented person.
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In Tibetan, we say people who have good windhorse have the sense they can accomplish what they want to do.
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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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What is my great wish and intention, is to make a base of compassion and to encourage people to work to shift the energy.
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In a speedy and aggressive culture, we need different principles to live by-bravery and insight. The first moment of bravery is building trust in the mind, which we do in meditation. When we know how to create peace in our own mind, we can transform the world.
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We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.
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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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Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because it strengthens our incentive to motivate ourselves.
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Being human is a precious situation, and we shouldn't waste time in useless activities.
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...This jewel is the wisdom and compassion that it takes to act not on behalf of ourselves but for all beings. This is where real confidence and competence come from. Once we possess this jewel, our life becomes blessed.
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After you run, there's a sense of accomplishment you feel like your life is meaningful. It's a moment of clarity.
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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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Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.
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Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.
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Shambhala teachings say we all have the potential to accomplish our enlightened nature - our basic goodness.
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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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A lot of people do their practice. They meditate on compassion. Then they yell at people afterwards. That is not quite working. One of the things I try to emphasize is contemplative meditation - bringing your thought and intention into meditation.
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What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when we don’t want to.
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