Contemplation

Mipham Rimpoche

• Using certain thoughts that are helpful. The wish for love. The wish for kindness. Wishing all living beings "happiness". Looking into their eyes and saying (thinking) "I hope this person finds happiness. I hope they heal. I hope they find enlightenment."
• Today is a good day. It's always a good day for me.
• The search for happiness - Samsara - circular - we are spinning our wheels. Samsara is that sense in the mind that says... one more thing, one more bite, one more... Instead change the notion. may all beings be happy. May beings not suffer. What about others, as opposed to what about me?
• If you want to be miserable, think about yourself. If you want to be happy, think about others.
• Zeejee - means dignity or confidence. When our minds begin to relax and when we begin to believe in our own strength. Develop a level of contentment and discernment and a belief in ourselves.
  
• Discernment is the notion is that "I am in this life. I am in the flow. I need to be mindful."
• How do we know that we are satisfied - contentment - we know what it is - this is enough. This is not going to get any better. If I do not know what is enough, then even when I have enough I will not know it.