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The five cravings are for wealth, fame, sex, fancy food, and lots of sleep.
five true powers, five kinds of energy. The five powers are faith, diligence, mindfulness, concentration, and insight.
You are very happy that you have a path, and thus you begin to have power.
gives you strength and energy that other people can feel.
When you have faith, your eyes are bright and your st...
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The Power of Diligence
Practice regularly, daily, with the support of your family, friends, and community—this is diligence.
You are able to practice mindfulness, but your motivation is not to prove that you are able to do it.
The point is to practice for your well-being and enjoyment.
We all have a seed of anger, a seed of despair, and a seed of jealousy in us.
You should not allow other people around you to touch these seeds, and you should not allow yourself to water them.
There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it.
You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it;
read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or y...
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two aspects of diligence concern taking care of negative seeds, the third and fourth, nourishing positive seeds.
always invite good seeds to manifest. You know that you have a seed of love, a seed of forgiveness, a seed of joy, of peace, of happiness.
The seeds of awakening, understanding, and compassion are always in us.
Read something, say something, watch something that will water the seed of compassion, of loving kindness,
True diligence can bring a lot of joy, a lot of happiness to you and your loved ones.
Mindfulness is the energy of being aware of what is happening in the present moment.
When we have the energy of mindfulness in us, we are fully present, we are fully alive, and we live deeply every moment of our daily life.
Mindfulness is the capacity to recognize things as they are.
If we lose this power of mindfulness, we lose everything.
When you drink your tea, just drink your tea. Enjoy drinking your tea.
life is precious, that we have to treasure every moment of life.
Insight comes from understanding.
Practice looking deeply into the nature of what upsets you to see what the most mindful and compassionate response may be.
to help my student, I must learn to be patient.
first need to offer him my love and insight.
Three virtues are required if we are to be true leaders: the virtue of cutting off, the virtue of loving, and the virtue of insight.
A good leader also has the virtue of loving. You have the capacity to be affectionate, to accept, forgive, and embrace the other person with loving kindness and compassion.
Without compassion, you are utterly alone. That is why compassion is the ground of happiness.
A good leader also has to have the virtue of insight. Knowledge is not the same as insight.
Wisdom or insight is born from looking deeply. A genuine leader has the wisdom to show us the path out of suffering.
If you lead with the three virtues of cutting off, offering love, and cultivating insight, you have real authority.
Simply having the title of leader is not enough. Titles do not give true power.
A good leader is one who exercises only this kind of authority. She doesn’t strive for it or want to use it, but it comes naturally.
She inspires people by her way of living, and people listen to her because of her authenticity.
The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, “The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.”
when power is based on spiritual authority and is a manifestation of love, wisdom, and freedom from afflictions, it can establish justice, maintain order, and withstand challenges peacefully, without resorting to violence or oppression.
Buddhists and many other spiritual seekers also want power, but they seek the powers of faith, diligence, mindfulness, concentration, and insight.
Spiritual and political power are not mutually exclusive. Emperor Ashoka, who reunified India in the third century B.C., adopted the teachings of the Buddha and became a wonderful king for all of India.
wasn’t happy because I was always fearful. I was a victim of fear, jealousy, hatred, and greed.
Now I no longer have any fear or any afflictions. I don’t have anything to lose. I
I have a lot of freedom and peace. That is why I said ‘O my hap...
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mindful business: it takes an investment in developing insight that will guide you, protect you, and put you and your business on the right path.
Finding ways to protect yourself and promote your own well-being is the most basic investment you can make.
The foundation of your investment, the key to transforming your professional life, is mindfulness.
Mindfulness is the energy of attention.
capacity in each of us to be present one hundred percent to what is happenin...
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