Sakyong Mipham Quotes

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

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

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

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.

It is said that if our intention is to help others-even if we are unable to follow it through-we will never have any regret. Regret is a result of trying to make "me" happy.

The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.

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

To protect this earth is to protect the very spirit of life

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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."

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

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

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

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.

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.

The most important thing is having the right mind - a mind that can see it. Once you have an open mind, you see a lot of auspicious coincidence taking place.

Auspicious coincidence is the right thing happening at the right time.

Part of the notion in Shambhala teachings is that everybody can live their lives so they get weaker and more stressed out as they go along, or so they get more fortitude and strength.

I hope you will attain enlightenment. I am here to tell you that you already have! But you don't know... The difference between the Buddha and us is the confidence in knowing that he was enlightened.

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

For a lot of us, the opposite of auspicious coincidence is obstacles. Life usually is a mixture of both, but as we begin to exhibit exertion, more and more auspiciousness happens.

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

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.

For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine line between trying to be helpful and just putting more junk out there.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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."

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

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

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

Many people think spirituality has nothing to do with success or accomplishing - that it's something you do with removal, with leaving the world.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Once I was running and there was someone on the treadmill next to me who stopped running to answer a question I asked and flew of the back of the treadmill. Being fully engaged has many benefits.

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