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The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available.
YONGEY MINGYUR RINPOCHE, O Magazine, Jan. 2007
We're all buddhas. We just don't recognize it.
YONGEY MINGYUR RINPOCHE, Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom
Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.
YONGEY MINGYUR RINPOCHE, The Joy of Living
Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength.
YONGEY MINGYUR RINPOCHE, Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom
When you see your own desire to be happy, you can't avoid seeing the same desire in others.
YONGEY MINGYUR RINPOCHE, Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom
Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships.
YONGEY MINGYUR RINPOCHE, The Joy of Living
When we become fixed in our perceptions, we lose our ability to fly.
YONGEY MINGYUR RINPOCHE, Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom
Ignorance, vulnerability, fear, anger, and desire are expressions of the infinite potential of your buddha nature. There's nothing inherently wrong or right with making such choices. The fruit of Buddhist practice is simply the recognition that these and other mental afflictions are nothing more or less than choices available to us because our real nature is infinite in scope.
YONGEY MINGYUR RINPOCHE, Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom
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.
YONGEY MINGYUR RINPOCHE, The Joy of Living
The best part of all is that no matter how long you practice, or what method you use, every technique of Buddhist meditation ultimately generates compassion.
YONGEY MINGYUR RINPOCHE, Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom
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