Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Quotes

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• Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.250, Random House

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• In parting, I would like to give you one small piece of advice to keep in your heart. You may have heard me say this before, but it is the key point of the entire path, so it bears repeating: All that we are looking for in life — all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind — is right here in the present moment. Our very own awareness is itself fundamentally pure and good. The only problem is that we get so caught up in the ups and downs of life that we don’t take the time to pause and notice what we already have.

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  Heart, Keys, Giving

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• All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.

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  Mind, Contentment, Moments

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• If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so. The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available.

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  Past, Opportunity, Thinking

  Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.249, Random House

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• If we could see the whole truth of any situation, our only response would be one of compassion.

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  Compassion, Would Be, Situation

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• Meditation is really quite simple. All we have to do is embrace each experience with awareness and open our hearts fully to the present moment. When we are completely at ease with our own being, the ripples of awareness naturally spread out in all directions, touching the lives of everyone we meet.

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  Heart, Simple, Meditation

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• Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed.

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  Inspiration, Yoga Practice, Meditation Practice

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• If you don’t try to stop whatever is going on in your mind, but merely observe it, eventually you’ll begin to feel a tremendous sense of relaxation, a vast sense of openness within your mind - which is in fact your natural mind, the naturally unperturbed background against which various thoughts come and go.

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  Relaxation, Mind, Trying

  Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.57, Random House

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• When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.

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  Mind, Transformed

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• Happiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind.

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  Happiness, Decision, Mind

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• The mind is the source of all experience, and by changing the direction of the mind, we can change the quality of everything we experience.

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  Mind, Quality, Source

  Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.102, Random House

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• When we become fixed in our perceptions we lose our ability to fly.

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  Perception, Fixed, Ability

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “Joyful Wisdom”, p.73, Random House

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• Meditation is actually a very simple exercise in resting in the natural state of your present mind, and allowing yourself to be simply and clearly present to whatever thoughts, sensations, or emotions occur.

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  Exercise, Simple, Meditation

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• So overall, though my life is far from perfect, I'm contented with it. And in a peculiar way, I'm grateful for the troubling emotions I experienced. The obstacles we face in life can provide powerful incentives for change.

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  Powerful, Grateful, Perfect

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• Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart. It's always with us. It always has been, and always will be. When it arises in us, we've simply learned to see how strong and safe we really are.

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  Strong, Heart, Compassion

  Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.109, Random House

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• There's no difference between what is seen and the mind that sees it.

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  Differences, Mind

  Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.151, Random House

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• You don't want to block your thoughts, emotions, and so on; nor do you want to chase after them. If you chase after them, if you let them lead you, they begin to define you, and you lose your ability to respond openly and spontaneously in the present moment. On the other hand, if you attempt to block your thoughts, your mind can become quite tight and small.

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  Block, Hands, Mind

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• The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available.

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  Opportunity, Experience Yourself, Available

  Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.249, Random House

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• Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength.

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  Lying, Keys, Imperfection

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• Any attempt to capture the direct experience of the nature of mind in words is impossible. The best that can be said is that it is immeasurably peaceful and, once stabilized through repeated experience, virtually unshakable. It's an experience of absolute well-being that radiates through all physical, emotional and mental states-even those that might ordinarily be labeled as unpleasant.

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  Emotional, Peaceful, Mind

  Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.22, Random House

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• Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart.

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  Heart, Compassion, Spontaneous

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• It’s so easy to think that we’re the only ones who suffer, while other people are somehow immune to pain, as though they’d been born with some kind of special knowledge about being happy, that, through some cosmic accident, we never received. Thinking in this way, we make our own problems seem much bigger than they really are.

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  Pain, Thinking, People

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• Being human means having power; specifically, the power to accomplish whatever we want.

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  Mean, Want, Being Human

  Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.179, Random House

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• Not recognizing natural mind is simply an example of the mind's unlimited capacity to create whatever it wants.

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  Mind, Want, Example

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• We're all buddhas. We just don't recognize it.

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  Buddhism

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