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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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Sakyong Mipham
Age: 61
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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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Being human is a precious situation, and we shouldn't waste time in useless activities.
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Every moment of our life is important.
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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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Meditation practice is relevant because in meditation our conceptual mind relaxes and we can feel who we are at heart.
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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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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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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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When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out. We have to learn to let go.
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When we appreciate something, that means we have allowed ourselves to relax and take it in.
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The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.
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What is amazing is how stuck people are in their own habits. It is really hard to get people out of their habits. But once they shift, it also is amazing how rapid the progress can be.
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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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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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The principles of Buddhism and Shambhala can be effective in helping the course of what is happening in the world.
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Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road, they themselves learned from and studied a book.
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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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The nature of our mind may be displayed in many ways, but Ashe is the fundamental basis.
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Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.
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You have people who are good at English but don't have the training in Buddhism or Shambhala, or they have the training but are not good in English. Getting that mixture is really rare.
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