Top 118 Quotes & Sayings by Sakyong Mipham
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Last updated on November 10, 2024.
If the mind is flexible, the world is flexible.
Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.
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.
We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.
When we have gone beyond the boundaries of hope and fear, we are able to work with whatever comes our way.
Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.
When we appreciate something, that means we have allowed ourselves to relax and take it in.
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?
Shambhala vision is universal. It has no bias towards one type of culture or group. It is not ethnocentric and does not encourage one specific kind of person, race, or religion. Shambhala vision promotes a universality in relationship to basic goodness. All human beings are basically good and an enlightened society, at various levels of manifestation, can occur in any culture.
Auspicious coincidence is the right thing happening at the right time.
Our root fantasy is that "I" am real and that it's possible for "me" to be happy.
The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.
If we can feel confident in our goodness, it will illuminate our life and society
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 people say that meditation makes them calm, they are often referring to this stability of the mind. A stable mind creates the foundation for a happier and more contented person.
The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.
What is my great wish and intention, is to make a base of compassion and to encourage people to work to shift the energy.
The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.
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.
The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.
Even when we speak of selflessness, the mind goes to "me." We think, "I'm selfless," but everything is selfless.
Every moment of our life is important.
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.
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.
True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.
This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.
In meditation we are continuously discovering who and what we are.
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?
If you want to be miserable, think of yourself. If you want to be happy, think of others.
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.
We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.
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.
...This jewel is the wisdom and compassion that it takes to act not on behalf of ourselves but for all beings. This is where real confidence and competence come from. Once we possess this jewel, our life becomes blessed.
It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor-the determining factor of success and happiness is contentment.
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.
I want people to know you can live a life that is less aggressive and still have success.
There are no boundaries-only possibilities
Meditation practice is relevant because in meditation our conceptual mind relaxes and we can feel who we are at heart.
If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending on where we are and what we are doing. In that sense, the present moment is always some kind of beginning.
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.
Your life and your practice should not be separate. You bring your practice into experience. You bring it about.
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.
Each of us holds human destiny in our hands. It will be completely determined by how the mind feels about itself.
Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.
Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.
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.
Being human is a precious situation, and we shouldn't waste time in useless activities.
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.
Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.
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.
What distinguishes Shambhala is its intention of trying to create a society based upon certain principles. So, Shambhala's focus is not just on the individual, but on society as a whole.
When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out. We have to learn to let go.
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.
When I ask people to contemplate selflessness, the sometimes react as if I've asked them to put their house on the market or give away all their money. If there was a self that existed in the way we think, discovering selflessness would be like putting our house on the market. But in the Buddhist tradition, the discovery of selflessness is called "completely joyful." It's not called "the raw end of the deal," or "I'd rather go back to bed," or "This is scary and depressing."
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.
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.
Being fooled into trying to make things work out for 'me' is called samsara.
It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity.
To protect this earth is to protect the very spirit of life
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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