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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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Sakyong Mipham
Age: 61
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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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If you want to be miserable, think of yourself. If you want to be happy, think of others.
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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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The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.
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Every moment of our life is important.
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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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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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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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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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Shambhala teachings say we all have the potential to accomplish our enlightened nature - our basic goodness.
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Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because it strengthens our incentive to motivate ourselves.
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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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Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.
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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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When we appreciate something, that means we have allowed ourselves to relax and take it in.
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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 self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.
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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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