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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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Sakyong Mipham
Age: 61
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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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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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The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.
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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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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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A lot of times people do spiritual practice just for themselves. I try to turn that a little bit. I try to make spiritual practice more a part of the community. I write about infusing people with compassion.
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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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As a leader, people push you. They really want to keep pushing you until you get aggressive. Then they say, Oh, see, it doesn't work.
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When I was going into one of my first meditation retreats, I asked my father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for some advice. He said, How you act when you're alone affects the rest of your life. Even in solitude, the ruler engages in virtue.
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Auspicious coincidence is the right thing happening at the right time.
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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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If you want to be miserable, think of yourself. If you want to be happy, think of others.
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Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have.
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Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.
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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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The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.
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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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Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.
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Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.
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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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