Ruling Your World, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
Ruling Your World, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
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Ruling Your World
Ancient Strategies for Modern Life

Author: Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

Series: Shambhala

Narrator: Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

Unabridged: 2 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/06/2018


Synopsis

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

Reviews

Goodreads review by Clark on April 03, 2011

This is a life changing book! I have read Ruling Your World four times now and each time I go back I see new insights. You don't need to be Buddhist in order to read this book and gain your own insights that can be put into your own life. My life, especially in the military, has always been in a con......more

Goodreads review by Krystal on June 24, 2016

Loved it. This is the perfect companion for those trying to find more from life. It has Eastern wisdom written in a way that relates to those of the Western world without sounding cliche or arrogant. The anecdotes remind you that the author is still human, and allow you to be a little kinder to your......more

Goodreads review by Hedry on May 18, 2009

This is my second time reading this book. I don't know if I've ever read the same book twice before... so I suppose that is testament to whether I liked it. The middle gets a bit vague and uses a lot of jargon. I have found that many of these eastern philosophy self-help kind of books fall into a pa......more

Goodreads review by pri on October 16, 2015

Excellent book on meditation and the nature of the mind. I really like Sakyong Mipham's writing style. Quote: We're not playing Pollyanna, we're learning to let go and fly in the space of things as they are. Meditation has shown us that our mind is not solid. It is not made of earth. We cannot measu......more

Goodreads review by Carol on January 25, 2013

So I wanted to start the year out with an inspirational book that would lead me to inner peace. I had purchased this book at the Shambhala Center in Red Feather Lakes, Colorado, some time ago. The subtitle "Ancient Strategies for Modern Life" appealed to me, as did the short chapters. But this book......more