Book:Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies for Modern Life
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Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies for Modern Life is published by Doubleday Books and authored by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.
Partial Index under development thanks to Katherine Adams.
Editions
- Hardcover (October 2005) ISBN 0-76792-065-1
- Trade Paperback
- Audio CD (July 2007) ISBN 1-59030-515-9
Partial Index of Hardcover Edition
- basic goodness,
- 26, as energy of windhorse
- 28, confidence, in the difference between us and the Buddha
- compassion
- 106-110, “unfettered yearning”, “mind’s genuine energy”, “the foil of bewilderment”.
- 109, two kinds of compassion
- dark age
- 44-45, Padmasambhava’s prediction of this dark age
- Dawa Sangpo
- 190 after he received the transmission from the Buddha
- dragon
- 143-163
- drala
- 22, definition as relates to windhorse
- 24,where found
- drip
- 21 definition;
- 21-26 examples of, contrasting with windhorse and drala
- 73 "thickens our view"
- drowa
- 78, a word for human beings, translated as "movers"
- drukdra
- 144, ”the sound of dragons”
- emptiness
- 137, “beyond perceiving things in a dualistic way”
- eternalism
- 135
- exertion
- 69, exertion and payu: "exertion is the moment that follows payu"
- 71, exertion and drip: “When exertion arises, doubt -- which manifests as drip --disappears.”
- equanimity
- 133-139
- garuda
- 121-139
- ground lungta
- 167-171
- kali yuga
- 44-45, Padmasambhava’s prediction of this dark age
- karma
- 32-33, definition of, moving in two directions (virtue and nonvirtue), how we try to ignore it, engaging in virtue
- 50-58, chapter on karma
- 50, definition of karma, sanskrit for action
- 52, seven karmic stages of how a seed becomes a fruit
- 55, law of karma, “according to the law of Karma happiness comes from previous virtuous causes”
- KI KI SO SO ASHE LHA GYAL LO
- 170-1, 195, , “may heaven be victorious”
- klesha
- 10, used as what blocks basic goodness
- lhasang
- 162, juniper smoke ceremony
- lion
- 87-117
- lotok
- 10, Tibetan, meaning “backward” refers to (p.12) not understanding cause of happiness
- lungta
- 21, definition of
- meek
- 42, the Tibetan definition as “content”
- mercy
- 82, “having enough friendliness with our own minds to see someone else’s predicament”
- middle way
- 136, “surpasses existence or non-existence”, known as “uma”
- nihilism
- 135
- nyingje
- 18, in Tibetan “noble heart”, compassion
- 90
- Padmasambhava
- 44-45, his prediction of this dark age
- payu
- 42, “the most important tool in life”
- 43, “What derails payu is lack of attention.”
- 44-49 “Payu is the first step in taking care of our life”
- 81-84, as in knowing when to stop
- prajna,
- 30, definition of as “best knowledge”
- 31, as relative prajna, defined as “knowing how things work and thinking accurately”
- 129, three kinds
- 132, leads to fearlessness
- Ridgen
- 9-10, in the legend of Shambhala, in Tibetan art and culture (symbolism, manifestations), including basic goodness
- 191,”possessor of the family”
- samsara
- 11-15, definition and examples of, the “me” plan
- 25,26, darkness of, examples of
- space
- 16, view, accommodation quality
- 131, freedom
- suffering
- 96-7 the remedy is a reality check
- tashi tendrel
- 159, auspicious coincidence eg. Golfer Ben Hogan: “The more I practice the luckier I get.”
- tiger
- 41-84
- tulku
- 88 “Gold and tulkus must be beaten.”
- wangthang
- 138, "field of power"
- Windhorse
- 21-27, Chapter entitled “Windhorse”
- 32, defined as the ability to ride the inherent strength and vitality of our awareness
- wish-fulfilling jewel
- 21, symbolism on prayer flags
- ziji
- 83, inner confidence
Notes: payu - see discernment
