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The goal is not to be perfect but simply to be mindful of ourselves, even when we make mistakes.
If you are lost in a forest at night, you can follow the North Star to find your way out. You follow the North Star, but your goal is to get back home; it’s not to arrive at the North Star. The
If you have a spiritual path, the path of love, compassion, and understanding, you feel happy because you know where you’re going. You are on the path of compassion, of protecting life so that happiness becomes possible.
Getting What We Really Want
When we are clear about our motivations, our actions are much more powerful because we can do them with one hundred percent of our intention.
Every one of us has a strong goal for our life. We want to achieve something. We feel a ball of energy in us, a tremendous, powerful source of energy. We want to feel truly alive.
There are those who want to get off the spiral of escalating consumption. They want to live a simple life to have more time and energy to serve living beings.
Bodhicitta is the mind of love, the mind of enlightenment.
“mind of understanding,” because understanding is the foundation of love.
Understanding is love and love is understanding.
What’s our true motivation? We know that business is for making money, but we have to understand what goes along with the profit we’re making.
Money can be used to promote well-being.
It’s important to look deeply into our deepest desire to see its true nature.
We have to identify the source that motivates our actions every day.
We shouldn’t fool ourselves. We have to be really honest and practice deeply to discover the true nature of our desire and motivation.
These cravings are like saltwater: the more you drink, the thirstier you become.
We keep running after money, believing that when (and only when) we have a certain amount of money, we will be happy.
let’s say it’s money—and then we will see that money is not something we need to crave.
When you love, you need to express yourself.
Sexual expression is one way you demonstrate your love.
There are many ways of expressing our love other than sexually. We can still be happy together.
The question is how to express your love and preserve happiness.
If you don’t respect the other person’s body, this is not love.
If the sexual act does not include respect, gentleness, compassion, and loving kindness, I wouldn’t say i...
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This is why sex can be deeply spiritual. It can be a very beautiful act.
Respect is the first ingredient of true love. Not only for mind and spirit, but for the body. You treat her body gently and with a lot of respect, because we are made of body and mind together.
sexual expression is not the only way to express our love.
In Buddhism, a bodhisattva is someone who is awake, mindful, and motivated by a desire to help others wake up, be mindful, and be happy.
The bodhisattva practices the art of living happily in the here and now and shows up in many guises.
And when you have a lot of joy, happiness, and freedom, you can share it with other living beings.
Pain is an inevitable part of life, but happiness is possible.
Buddha’s Four Noble Truths.
The First Noble Truth is that suffering exists. The Second Noble Truth is that suffering has causes. The Third Noble Truth is that happiness is possible. The Fourth Noble Truth ...
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You have to make time for yourself and be there for yourself.
You are a bodhisattva manifesting in the here and now.
This is something anyone in any profession can do: be truly present, fully alive with a compassionate heart.
Power is good for one thing only: to increase our happiness and the happiness of others.
We know that the bottom line of business is profit. But to profit means “to benefit from.”
If our work brings about well-being, there’s nothing wrong with making money.
Looking deeply, we see that it’s possible to work in the corporate world in a way that brings a lot of happiness, both to other people and to us.
When we’re doing something for the benefit of all humankind and the environment, our work has meaning.
Even if it’s also making money, it has meaning, because it can bring we...
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After he attained enlightenment, he sat down at the foot of the bodhi tree and played with children and was very happy. His happiness was not based on fame or money. His happiness was based on his liberation, his peace, and his wisdom.
this fame couldn’t consume and destroy him; this fame only helped his teaching and practice to spread farther.
when you are happy, it is not difficult to earn enough money to live comfortably and simply.
If you have the five spiritual powers and you lose your job, you don’t suffer much.
You know how to live simply, and you can continue to be happy.
You know that sooner or later you will get another job, and you are open...
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True happiness is based on peace.
If you don’t have peace in yourself, you haven’t experienced true happiness.
