Our Task Is To Strike A Balance…

Published on Nov 01, 2007 by in DharmaTalk

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Taking life seriously does not mean spending our whole lives meditating as if we were living in the Himalaya Mountains or in the old days in Tibet. In the modern world, we have to work to earn our living, but we should not get entangled in a nine-to-five existence, where we live without any view of the deeper meaning of life.

Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.

– Sogyal Rinpoche

photo by Ananda. coach finding balance in Adho Mukha Vrkasana

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