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Your life and your practice should not be separate. You bring your practice into experience. You bring it about. — Sakyong Mipham

When we have gone beyond the boundaries of hope and fear, we are able to work with whatever comes our way. — Sakyong Mipham

You need to eat well, sleep well, and have a roof over your head, but don't go much further than that before extending yourself to others. — Sakyong Mipham

I write about whatever is timely - whatever is happening at the time for me - with what the expressive feeling is. — Sakyong Mipham

To me, the relationship between meditation and running is natural, for one is a training of the mind and one is a training of the body. — Sakyong Mipham

True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish. — Sakyong Mipham

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind. — Sakyong Mipham

Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results. — Sakyong Mipham

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." — Sakyong Mipham

We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency. — Sakyong Mipham

Meditation practice is relevant because in meditation our conceptual mind relaxes and we can feel who we are at heart. — Sakyong Mipham

When we appreciate something, that means we have allowed ourselves to relax and take it in. — Sakyong Mipham

One of my favorite Tibetan sayings is Even if you're going to die tomorrow, you can learn something tonight. — Sakyong Mipham

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it. — Sakyong Mipham

Shambhala can be relevant in terms of what is going on in the world. — Sakyong Mipham

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world? — Sakyong Mipham

People sometimes don't like organized situations. Sometimes people need to be left alone more. Sometimes people need environmental support. — Sakyong Mipham

Even when we speak of selflessness, the mind goes to "me." We think, "I'm selfless," but everything is selfless. — Sakyong Mipham

There are no boundaries-only possibilities — Sakyong Mipham

Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles. — Sakyong Mipham

My books definitely are ambassadors, as you called them. They express what the vision is, what the purpose is. — Sakyong Mipham

Auspicious coincidence is the right thing happening at the right time. — Sakyong Mipham

It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor-the determining factor of success and happiness is contentment. — Sakyong Mipham

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. — Sakyong Mipham

If you see life as an opportunity, or if you see helping others as an opportunity, then all of a sudden you become joyous. You want to go forward. — Sakyong Mipham

The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme. — Sakyong Mipham

The principles of Buddhism and Shambhala can be effective in helping the course of what is happening in the world. — Sakyong Mipham

The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness. — Sakyong Mipham

1. Running with the Mind of Meditation — Sakyong Mipham

Caring for others is the basis of worldly success. — Sakyong Mipham

The nature of our mind may be displayed in many ways, but Ashe is the fundamental basis. — Sakyong Mipham

When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out. We have to learn to let go. — Sakyong Mipham

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow. — Sakyong Mipham

In meditation we are continuously discovering who and what we are. — Sakyong Mipham

is the ability to share what we have with others. — Sakyong Mipham

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart. — Sakyong Mipham

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. — Sakyong Mipham

If we are going to live in a society, there has to be an attitude where people really do care for others. — Sakyong Mipham

After you run, there's a sense of accomplishment; you feel like your life is meaningful. It's a moment of clarity. — Sakyong Mipham

We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness. — Sakyong Mipham

What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when we don't want to. — Sakyong Mipham

When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets. — Sakyong Mipham

I want people to know you can live a life that is less aggressive and still have success. — Sakyong Mipham

When I came to the West and heard about knights slaying dragons, I was shocked. In Tibet, the dragon symbolizes incomprehensible profundity. — Sakyong Mipham

Being fooled into trying to make things work out for 'me' is called samsara. — Sakyong Mipham

A book very much is the center of the road, so people always can refer back to it. — Sakyong Mipham

There is a direct correlation between physical exertion and mental relief. — Sakyong Mipham

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate. — Sakyong Mipham

If the mind is flexible, the world is flexible. — Sakyong Mipham

Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have. — Sakyong Mipham

If you want to be miserable, think of yourself. If you want to be happy, think of others. — Sakyong Mipham

It seems we all agree that training the body through exercise, diet, and relaxation is a good idea, but why don't we think about training our mind? — Sakyong Mipham

It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity ... — Sakyong Mipham

Meditate with delight and run with joy. — Sakyong Mipham

Being human is a precious situation, and we shouldn't waste time in useless activities. — Sakyong Mipham

People can be trained in certain principles, but then they actually have to apply them and try them out. — Sakyong Mipham

The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions. — Sakyong Mipham

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them. — Sakyong Mipham

When we are using this term 'basic goodness,' we are talking about our inherent completeness. — Sakyong Mipham

Shambhala is a Buddhist tradition with its own unique view and approach. — Sakyong Mipham

when we are brave enough to be in the present, we have the power to transform the world. — Sakyong Mipham

To protect this earth is to protect the very spirit of life — Sakyong Mipham

Shambhala teachings say we all have the potential to accomplish our enlightened nature - our basic goodness. — Sakyong Mipham

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it. — Sakyong Mipham

I think we are very environmental people. We need to be supported environmentally. Books very much have that imprint on the mind. — Sakyong Mipham

In Tibetan, we say people who have good windhorse have the sense they can accomplish what they want to do. — Sakyong Mipham

What is my great wish and intention, is to make a base of compassion and to encourage people to work to shift the energy. — Sakyong Mipham

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

If we cut speed and relax with what's going on in our life right now, kindness and patience will naturally come about. — Sakyong Mipham

Every moment of our life is important. — Sakyong Mipham

Heaven is the natural spaciousness of our mind before we make it small with self-protection. — Sakyong Mipham

Each of us holds human destiny in our hands. It will be completely determined by how the mind feels about itself. — Sakyong Mipham

Our root fantasy is that "I" am real and that it's possible for "me" to be happy. — Sakyong Mipham

The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing. — Sakyong Mipham