Auspicious coincidence is the right thing happening at the right time.
It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor-the determining factor of success and happiness is contentment.
If we can feel confident in our goodness, it will illuminate our life and society.
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?
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.
Being human is a precious situation, and we shouldn’t waste time in useless activities.
If you want to be miserable, think of yourself. If you want to be happy, think of others.
When we appreciate something, that means we have allowed ourselves to relax and take it in.
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.
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.
Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit – waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have.
When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out. We have to learn to let go.
What is my great wish and intention, is to make a base of compassion and to encourage people to work to shift the energy.
When we have gone beyond the boundaries of hope and fear, we are able to work with whatever comes our way.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom.
Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first.