Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

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A Brief Look at the Life of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

Sakyong Mipham, born in 1962, is the son of Chogram Trungpa Rinpoche who established Shambhala Center in Boulder and also started Naropa University. Since his father's passing Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche has established the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya in memory of his father and is now continuing the Sakyong Shambhala lineage in Red Feathers Lake, Colorado

Mipham Wrote Ruling Your World 

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Contemplating worldly gain and loss reveals that we spend part of our life trying to get it together, and the other part watching it fall apart. As soon as we have time --"I have a whole hour free" -- we are losing it. As soon as we make a friend, we're losing him. As soon as we have fame, it becomes tinged with notoriety. As soon as we have wealth, we're losing it. Looking for something new to gain helps us forget to look but a few seconds back at the last thing that we lost. Fabricating this chain of desire is how we keep ourselves in samsara. We are using instability to try to make stability. We're investing in hope and fear, banking on denial of a simple truth: all the pleasure the world can offer eventually turns to pain. Everything we gain subject to loss.

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There are some great meditations in this book. I really enjoyed this simple, straight forward book. Highly Recommended!

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    Turning the Mind Into an Ally

    by: Sakyong Mipham

    This book and Sakyong Mipham's more recent "Ruling Your World," are permanent fixtures in my library. Sometimes Buddhist writings can be difficult to understand or relate to, but this author has a Western background and is able to communicate ideas in ways that are easy to identify with for people without a background in Buddhist thought. Our culture and the media encourage "monkey mind," and it's hard to gain control of inner thought processes in a world that constantly communicates "Buy More, Do More, Be More." This book offers a means of calming the internal turmoil and developing your mind to reach its potential.

    Especially helpful, was the practical information on meditation, such as how to sit, what posture to assume and when to meditate. Sometimes authors assume a certain level of sophistication of their readers that is unwarranted and the discussion starts out on an esoteric level and leaves the reader wondering how to proceed. If you are new to meditation practice, the materials at the end of the book will answer your practical questions, while the chapters on calming the mind and developing your meditation practice will point you in the right direction. I also got a great deal of benefit from the chapters dealing with the pitfalls and plateaus to expect when developing a practice. I'd give this book 6 stars if I could.

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    Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche Visits Surmang Dutsi Til in Tibet

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    Arousing Bodhichitta / Mipham

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    Learning to Meditate / Mipham

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    The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya

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    The 10% Advantage / Mipham

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    Compassion / Mipham

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    Running Meditation: Beginner Experience

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    mirit wrote...

    "As soon as we have time --"I have a whole hour free" -- we are losing it" Thanks for the reminders... The physical me is always forgetting the truth in this life.
    Great Lens

    ReplyPosted April 20, 2009

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    mindfulobserver wrote...

    I really like what Sakyong has to say about happiness. Check it out!

    ReplyPosted July 15, 2008

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    flowski wrote...

    Very interesting! Thanks for the Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche spotlight.

    ReplyPosted March 16, 2008

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    Silver_Lotus wrote...

    Excellent! I especially enjoyed the videos.

    ReplyPosted February 01, 2008

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