Sakyong Mipham Quotes
Top 74 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sakyong Mipham
Sakyong Mipham Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Your life and your practice should not be separate. You bring your practice into experience. You bring it about.
When we have gone beyond the boundaries of hope and fear, we are able to work with whatever comes our way.
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.
I write about whatever is timely - whatever is happening at the time for me - with what the expressive feeling is.
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.
True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.
Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.
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."
Meditation practice is relevant because in meditation our conceptual mind relaxes and we can feel who we are at heart.
One of my favorite Tibetan sayings is Even if you're going to die tomorrow, you can learn something tonight.
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?
People sometimes don't like organized situations. Sometimes people need to be left alone more. Sometimes people need environmental support.
Even when we speak of selflessness, the mind goes to "me." We think, "I'm selfless," but everything is selfless.
Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.
My books definitely are ambassadors, as you called them. They express what the vision is, what the purpose is.
It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor-the determining factor of success and happiness is contentment.
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.
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.
The principles of Buddhism and Shambhala can be effective in helping the course of what is happening in the world.
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.
If we are going to live in a society, there has to be an attitude where people really do care for others.
After you run, there's a sense of accomplishment; you feel like your life is meaningful. It's a moment of clarity.
We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.
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.
When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.
When I came to the West and heard about knights slaying dragons, I was shocked. In Tibet, the dragon symbolizes incomprehensible profundity.
The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.
Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have.
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?
It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity ...
People can be trained in certain principles, but then they actually have to apply them and try them out.
The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.
Shambhala teachings say we all have the potential to accomplish our enlightened nature - our basic goodness.
I think we are very environmental people. We need to be supported environmentally. Books very much have that imprint on the mind.
In Tibetan, we say people who have good windhorse have the sense they can accomplish what they want to do.
What is my great wish and intention, is to make a base of compassion and to encourage people to work to shift the energy.
If we cut speed and relax with what's going on in our life right now, kindness and patience will naturally come about.