127 Quotes by Sakyong Mipham

Shambhala teachings say we all have the potential to accomplish our enlightened nature – our basic goodness.

In meditation we are continuously discovering who and what we are.

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.

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.

To be gentle is to understand that life is a journey deserving constant attentiveness. Therefore it is gentleness that allows us to finish a marathon, not putting pressure on ourselves to immediately think about the next one. Gentleness is “just doing it” in such a way that we can do it again and again.

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

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

The first thing you have to do is acknowledge the basic and fundamental goodness of all beings. If you don’t, then you are going to have conflict. That’s at the core of Shambhala.

If the mind is flexible, the world is flexible.