Contentment and Ambition - Yangsi Rinpoche [Jun 23, 2024]

Contentment and Ambition: Balancing Relaxed Contentment with a Drive for Full Awakening
Yangsi Rinpoche invites us to take on the mental attitude that is the very best environment for nurturing wisdom: contentment combined with ambition. In his chapter on patience from The Bodhisattva’s Guide to the Way of Life, Shantideva describes dissatisfaction as an unsettled, ungrounded mental state which is the main fuel for full-blown anger. Rinpoche adds a contemporary twist to this classical description of dissatisfaction-that we are continually pulled outside of ourselves to fulfill what we perceive to be an absence or lack. Viewing our minds as the very source of dissatisfaction and contentment is a life’s journey, and easier to say than to put into practice. Join Geshe Lharampa Yangsi Rinpoche as he points to ways we can settle dissatisfaction, care for ourselves while developing contentment, and adopt a gently ambitious, relaxed-yet-driven energy that will allow us to see ourselves-and each other-as we really are.