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If we can feel confident in our goodness, it will illuminate our life and society

Sakyong Mipham

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Sakyong Mipham
Age: 62
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Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
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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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There are no boundaries-only possibilities
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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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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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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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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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You need to become more genuine to who you are. So, people pushing you can help take you to the level where you really understand the principles and enter them into action.
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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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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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Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem, it kind of gets to the point.
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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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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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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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Sometimes it seems like most people are being pulled into a negative energy, but then you meet strong individuals or strong leaders and they are free from it.
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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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To shift the direction of our planet, we must now be willing to experiment with the theory that within the speed and stress, we are good.
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