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The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.

Sakyong Mipham

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Sakyong Mipham
Age: 61
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The bones and tendons of the mind are mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is the mind’s strength, and awareness is its flexibility. Without these abilities, we cannot function. When we drink a glass of water, drive a car, or have a conversation, we are using mindfulness and awareness.
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The nature of our mind may be displayed in many ways, but Ashe is the fundamental basis.
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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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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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There is a tendency sometimes within the Shambhala community to make it just about meditating and, so, less about compassion. Shambhala is based upon compassion, but a lot of people come in and say, I need to get more meditation. I need to do this for me, me, me. That's fine, but the view here is much more societal.
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This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.
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Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom.
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A lot of people talk about the spirituality of Buddhism, and it is a spiritual discipline. But in Shambhala there also is a notion that you have to be synchronized with both heaven and earth.
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When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.
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Auspicious coincidence is the right thing happening at the right time.
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Many people think spirituality has nothing to do with success or accomplishing - that it's something you do with removal, with leaving the world.
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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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I think Shambhala can be a very strong force as a social example of how you can try to live a life balanced in terms of both the spiritual and the secular.
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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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If we can feel confident in our goodness, it will illuminate our life and society
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Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.
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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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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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Every moment of our life is important.
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