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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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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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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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Auspicious coincidence is the right thing happening at the right time.
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