"If they begin to practise mindfulness, they'll experience joy, happiness, transformation, and they can fix for themselves another kind of aspiration.
Once one has successfully employed Lojong meditation to cultivate this conviction, one will naturally experience joy when regarding oneself as having taken a step on the path to Buddhahood.
If we (as a team, a department, a company, an organization) can regularly delight those we serve, we will experience a joy that puts a spring in our step, a lift in our hearts, and a focus in our minds that will, in turn, produce better results, higher quality, more engagement, less turnover, better market reputation, and generally more satisfaction with our work.
Thursday's Lifeclass will address what animals can teach us, and Friday's episode will discuss how we experience joy.
Over time, you will find that you can avoid the traps altogether, because your perfection of effort will cause you to experience joy when you have recognized and avoided a trap before falling into it in the first place.
That way, the wealthy elite could ensure that their offspring will experience the joy and satisfaction they did in acquiring wealth through honest effort alone and not through the largess of others.
As we walk this life, we will experience both joy and sorrow.
With this greater awareness you will experience more joy, more contentment and more fulfillment.
The last time I will experience the joy of first seeing my child on an ultrasound screen.
