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Sakyong Mipham
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Age: 61
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The bones and tendons of the mind are mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is the mind’s strength, and awareness is its flexibility. Without these abilities, we cannot function. When we drink a glass of water, drive a car, or have a conversation, we are using mindfulness and awareness.
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Shambhala teachings say we all have the potential to accomplish our enlightened nature - our basic goodness.
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The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.
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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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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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Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In Tibetan, we say people who have good windhorse have the sense they can accomplish what they want to do.
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We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.
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Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.
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When the mind is totally present, it is relaxed, nimble, and sensitive. It feels lighter and clearer. It notices everything, but it is not distracted by anything. It is the feeling of knowing exactly where you are and what you are doing.
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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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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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Your life and your practice should not be separate. You bring your practice into experience. You bring it about.
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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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