Sakyong Mipham
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.Collection: Life
This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.Collection: Inspirational
Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.Collection: Fitness
Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.Collection: Positive
Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.Collection: Inspirational
Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.Collection: Heart
To protect this earth is to protect the very spirit of lifeCollection: Earth
True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.Collection: Firsts
The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.Collection: Self
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?Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Bravery
The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.Collection: World
Being fooled into trying to make things work out for 'me' is called samsara.Collection: Work Out
We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.Collection: World
When we have gone beyond the boundaries of hope and fear, we are able to work with whatever comes our way.Collection: Gone
Sometimes people feel disappointed when they hear about practicing compassion: "You mean I have to be nice?" It's kind of a letdown. We often overlook compassion, seeing it as merely a pit stop on the way to more advanced practices. We want something more; we don't even know what. But that's just a trick of our mind. One of the greatest teachings is to practice compassion.Collection: Sympathy
If the mind is flexible, the world is flexible.Collection: Mind
When I was going into one of my first meditation retreats, I asked my father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for some advice. He said, "How you act when you're alone affects the rest of your life." Even in solitude, the ruler engages in virtue.Collection: Father
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?Collection: Exercise
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.Collection: Past
Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.Collection: Karma
If you want to be miserable, think of yourself. If you want to be happy, think of others.Collection: Thinking
As the conceptual, material world increases its hold on us, and inanimate objects become more lifelike, we humans must become more human. Open hearts, kindness and care-these are our most precious gifts.Collection: Buddhist
Meditation practice is relevant because in meditation our conceptual mind relaxes and we can feel who we are at heart.Collection: Heart
There are no boundaries-only possibilitiesCollection: Boundaries
In Tibetan, we say people who have good windhorse have the sense they can accomplish what they want to do.Collection: People
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.Collection: Buddhism
Shambhala is a tradition where there were rulers, kings, and powerful people who actually were very benevolent and kind. They got things done, and they didn't abandon their tradition.Collection: Kings
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.Collection: Spiritual
The nature of our mind may be displayed in many ways, but Ashe is the fundamental basis.Collection: Mind
Your regular teachers will get mad at you. If you keep asking something again and again, they will get tired of saying the same thing. A book will not do that. A book always will be there for you. In whatever you want, the book will be there.Collection: Teacher
You need to become more genuine to who you are. So, people pushing you can help take you to the level where you really understand the principles and enter them into action.Collection: People
I think we are very environmental people. We need to be supported environmentally. Books very much have that imprint on the mind.Collection: Book
Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road, they themselves learned from and studied a book.Collection: Teacher
A book very much is the center of the road, so people always can refer back to it.Collection: Book
Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.Collection: Principles
Many people think spirituality has nothing to do with success or accomplishing - that it's something you do with removal, with leaving the world.Collection: Thinking
One of the characteristics of every great teacher I've known is tremendous exertion. It's interesting: You may see them as spiritual people or compassionate people, but the driving force is that incredible exertion - and their ability to sustain it.Collection: Spiritual
If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind of fearfulness in the cradle of loving-kindnes."Collection: Love
People sometimes don't like organized situations. Sometimes people need to be left alone more. Sometimes people need environmental support.Collection: People
A lot of people talk about the spirituality of Buddhism, and it is a spiritual discipline. But in Shambhala there also is a notion that you have to be synchronized with both heaven and earth.Collection: Spiritual
The principles of Buddhism and Shambhala can be effective in helping the course of what is happening in the world.Collection: Buddhism
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.Collection: Spiritual
I would say courage first; then wisdom, which is a sense of knowledge and confidence; and also the wish and desire to uplift. The underlying notion is "How do I help?" That attitude really is a spiritual journey and a path.Collection: Uplifting
There is a tendency sometimes within the Shambhala community to make it just about meditating and, so, less about compassion. Shambhala is based upon compassion, but a lot of people come in and say, "I need to get more meditation. I need to do this for me, me, me." That's fine, but the view here is much more societal.Collection: Compassion
Shambhala is a Buddhist tradition with its own unique view and approach.Collection: Buddhist
Fundamentally, Buddhism is for the awakenment and benefit of beings. So, you can't say, "Oh, you can't have it because you're not ready for it." That goes against the fundamental principle.Collection: Buddhism
Shambhala existed in Tibet and has been continued over the years, and now it is in the West. At its core, it is very much dedicated to the basic theme of benefiting others.Collection: Years
A lot of people dabbling means Buddhism has come into the mainstream, where people begin to use these terms and ideas, and they become less foreign.Collection: Mean
Shambhala can be relevant in terms of what is going on in the world.Collection: World