'Taking life seriously does not mean spending our whole lives meditating as if we were living in the mountains in the Himalayas or in the old days in Tibet. In the modern world, we have to work and earn our living, but we should not get entangled in a nine-to-five existence, where we live without any view of the deeper meaning of life. Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overstretch ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.
'In Buddhism this is what is really meant by discipline. In Tibetan, the term for discipline is ‘tsul trim.’ ‘Tsul’ means ‘appropriate or just,’ and ‘trim’ means ‘rule’ or ‘way.’ So discipline is to do what is appropriate or just; that is, in an excessively complicated age, to simplify our lives.
'Peace of mind will come from this. You will have more time to pursue the things of the spirit and the knowledge that only spiritual truth can bring…'
- Sogyal Rinpoche, in 'The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.'
'In Buddhism this is what is really meant by discipline. In Tibetan, the term for discipline is ‘tsul trim.’ ‘Tsul’ means ‘appropriate or just,’ and ‘trim’ means ‘rule’ or ‘way.’ So discipline is to do what is appropriate or just; that is, in an excessively complicated age, to simplify our lives.
'Peace of mind will come from this. You will have more time to pursue the things of the spirit and the knowledge that only spiritual truth can bring…'
- Sogyal Rinpoche, in 'The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.'