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Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies for Modern Life
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Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies for Modern Life

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You're stuck in the airport security line, late for a flight. The line isn't moving. You're angry at the security personnel for taking so long, you're irritated at the other passengers for having so much stuff, you're mad at your boss for sending you on this trip in the first place. By the time you get to your gate you're angry, deflated, and exhausted. Then someone cuts in front of you in the line to board and you snap. "There's a line, you know!" Is that really you, standing in an airport, yelling at a stranger, emotions raging?

It happens to most of us more than we'd like to admit. In an instant, our lives seem out of control and overwhelming. It's always something, isn't it? But what if you could approach every part of your life--from the smallest decisions to life's biggest setbacks--with total confidence, clarity, and control?

According to Sakyong Mipham, we all have that power. The secret is simple: If you just stop thinking about yourself all the time, happiness and confidence will come naturally. It sounds absurd and, what's more, impossible. But in Ruling Your World, Sakyong Mipham shares ancient secrets on how to take control of our lives and be successful while cultivating compassion for others and confidence in our own intelligence and goodness. The key to this well-being lies in the ancient strategies of the warrior kings and queens of Shambhala.

The kingdom of Shambhala was an enlightened kingdom of benevolent kings and queens and fiercely trained warriors. No one knows for sure whether this kingdom was real or mythical, but there are ancient guidebooks to this land and practical instructions for creating a Shambhala in your own world, bringing peace, purpose, and perspective into your life and environment.

Sakyong Mipham, the descendant of a warrior king, has inherited these teachings and gives us the lessons and myths of the great rulers and warriors of Shambhala. He makes these teachings relevant to our twenty-first-century lives in a fresh and witty voice and helps us all to realize our potential for power and control in a seemingly uncontrollable world.

For the first time ever, revered spiritual leader Sakyong Mipham brings the lessons of the ancient Shambhala warriors and rulers to the Western world and shows us how to live our lives with confidence.

Photograph © Diana Church

LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 6, 2018
ISBN9780525591931
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Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies for Modern Life

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    so much wisdom and insight to help with our spiritual practice! And no stress or pressure
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Enjoyable and informative. More words to fill up the space.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Not the book, a recorded seminar, the different audios were mildly distracting but a good listen anyway.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    This is great book with examples of how to practice meditation with good knowledge and wisdom provided
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Great read with some very enlightening teachings and useful metaphors. There’s a metaphor used about us being like a house with 5 windows - each representing the 5 senses. There’s a monkey outside each window shouting for attention. There’s a 6th monkey that’s in the house, that’s our sixth sense. That’s the sense of mind and when we meditate we’re training that sixth sense not to pay so much attention to what’s happening outside. That’s one clever monkey-mind metaphor if I’ve ever seen one.
    There’s also the idea of why it’s so important for us to understand what we’re trying to do when we meditate. I think, as mentioned, people stop meditating or don’t bother with it because of this lack of meaning/purpose for the practice. I also loved the analogy of meditation as practice for a marathon- focus. We can’t switch from couch potatoes to marathon runners or improve our running without training for that. Same goes for the mind. Brilliant.

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
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    Probably useful, but too neurotically presented. Not a book :/

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