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Jamgon Kongtrul
"Continue practice into everyday life with a single meditation, always keeping in mind the intention to help others in all activities, eating, dressing, sleeping, walking, or sitting." --
Source : Jamgon Kongtrul, Koṅ-sprul Blo-gros-mthaʾ-yas, Ken McLeod (2005). “The great path of awakening: the classic guide to lojong, a Tibetan Buddhist practice for cultivating the heart of compassion”, Shambhala Pubns
Jamgon Kongtrul
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“When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.”
“What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.”
“If you paint for product, you have to follow the rules that keep you on the track of your expectation. You have to calculate, organize, plan every move. When you paint for process, you listen to the magic of inner voices, you follow the basic human urge to experiment with the new, the unknown, the mysterious, the hidden. Process is adventure; product happens only within the parameters designed.”
“[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.”
“Only youth has a taste of immortality.”
“History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.”
“Well, there is a contradiction in a sense. If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think that you are part of a system - I am part of a system which encourages people to buy things and do things which are not to their best interest. And to that extent you could say it was contradictory.”
Source : "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 201.
“Fearless what that means to me, knowing your enough, when you know in your heart and your mind that you're enough you're fearless. It's not just a magazine, it's a lifestyle, right? So embrace that - I am fearless!”
