I)Attitude

Your Attitude Determines Your Altitude

True Achievement and Virtue

The Importance of Perseverance

How Can We Find the Answers to the Questions of Life?

Who can save you?

Inspiration of Li Bai

No Danger Whatsoever

We Should All Live With Hope

A Positive Mind

Don’t Bother Me, Mind of Negativity!



II)Buddhism in the Modern World

The Power of the Mind Transcends All, Including the Universe and Science

Compassion is the root of success

Science and Buddhism: Its All Mind

Calisthenics for the Mind

I Am a Fan of Master Vimalakirti

The Difference Between Mind and Brain



III)Overcoming Obstacles

Undefeated

Have You Ever Been Gripped by Fear?

How to cope when the going gets tough?

Success is Simply Not Giving Up

Unrivaled Bravery

Depression Will Be Cured!

Soaring Over Setbacks and Obstacles



IV)The Preciousness of Life

Impermanence: The Important Lesson Taught by Suffering

Don’t Waste Your Life

A Fool’s Blessings

A Compassionate Coexistence with Water

Be Your Own Spiritual Guide

Shed Your Mental Burden in Order to Find the Mind

Modern Perspective on the Releasing of Life



V)Getting Back Up On Your Feet

For what do we persist?

Wisely Treating Our Wounds

Bid Farewell to the Past

A Tip on Making a Comeback

How to Cope When One Day You Hit Rock Bottom?

The Right Way to Heal Yourself

The Potential of the Mind

The Secret to Emerging from Failures



VI)Buddhadharma

The Three Stages of the Buddhist Path: Listening, Contemplation??? and Practice

Yogis and Practitioners

What is the Ultimate?

Overcoming Twenty Mental Challenges

Death Without Fear

Non-Practice is True Practice

Exoteric and Esoteric Buddhism, One and the Same



VII)Success

The Rebounding Echoes of Exceptional People

Listen Attentively to the Sound of Your Own Thoughts

The Diligent are the Most Captivating

The Benefits of an Immense Mind

Trivia

Restless Genius: Revelations of an Inventor

Create a Full, Positive Life

The Definition of Real Success

Enacting the Dance of Everlasting Vitality



　　Shang Rinpoche often says, “The length of a person’s life is not important, but one must be accountable for it.” Everyone is granted a life, but are they able to live it with brilliance and meaning? Or do they simply blindly follow the crowd? The ability to decide this has always been in our hands, yet compelled by the tumultuous currents of life, some lose their sense of direction, while others have the misfortune of being submerged! In order to commandeer your sailboat with stability, you certainly must possess even greater wisdom. Perhaps we are not particularly endowed with wisdom, but please believe that in every generation there will appear a few sages who are possessed with this sense of direction and come to direct the herd of lost sheep. Or there may be some reincarnated buddhas and bodhisattvas who are unwilling to let go of or abandon those people who need them.



　　We must admit that information has oversaturated this age and that people’s inner ability for awareness has been blunted. It is even more terrible how the environment has worsened to the point that it renders people powerless. All sorts of illnesses which doctors are unable to do anything about have appeared one after another in this century, including spreading epidemics. Furthermore, there are diseases such as depression, bipolar disorder, and the like which are not clearly understood. It is nearly impossible to avoid these afflictive forces which plague us incessantly from morning to night. Other than spending huge sums of money to attend spiritual growth seminars, is there any other way for this generation to acquire a wisdom which is eternal? Shang Rinpoche has said, “The light of a firefly comes from within itself, and the radiance of wisdom must gradually come to illuminate and extend and proliferate from within the continual experience of frustration and defeat. Nobody can help you with this.”



　　Thus, Rinpoche guides us to start from inner awareness to get acquainted with our minds. How shall we coexist with our afflictions? How to trek out of the deep valley of our life? How to seize the moment, to transform ourselves, to achieve a true state of ease and allow the power with our life to extend infinitely? How to become the master of our own life? We must still begin with understanding our own mind. And how do we accomplish that? It is exactly this treasure which we now recommend to each and every reader in the form of these precious texts.



　　-the editor