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Being human is a precious situation, and we shouldn't waste time in useless activities.

Sakyong Mipham

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Sakyong Mipham
Age: 62
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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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When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.
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Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.
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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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The most important thing is having the right mind - a mind that can see it. Once you have an open mind, you see a lot of auspicious coincidence taking place.
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If you rise with a positive attitude - because everything is possible, everything is doable - if you have that level of confidence, you exude it. It actually inspires the people around you.
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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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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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The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.
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Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.
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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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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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The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.
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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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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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There are no boundaries-only possibilities
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Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.
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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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