How to live with a positive Motivation - Centrul Budist White Mahakala FPMT Study GroupCentrul Budist White Mahakala FPMT Study Group

How can we turn the lives we already have into Dharma? How can our everyday actions like working, cooking, caring for our family, become part of our practice?

Drawing inspiration from teachers like Lama Yeshe and the Dalai Lama, this talk explores the power of positive motivation and how it can infuse even the smallest daily acts with meaning. Whether we are teaching, serving coffee, scanning groceries, or simply greeting a stranger, every action can become an offering when guided by the wish to benefit others.

Rather than looking for Dharma only in retreat, we’ll discover how our ordinary lives can themselves become the path: how to make life itself our practice.

In brief:
How can our daily lives become Dharma? This evening talk explores how positive motivation transforms ordinary actions into meaningful practice. We’ll discover practical ways to bring purpose, compassion, and joy into every moment of our lives so that we can make our daily life, our practice.

Key Points
• Compassion and warm heartedness are essential for our wellbeing
• Why motivation shapes how we experience life. Why starting the day with intention matters.
• Our “precious human existence” and finding meaning through contribution.
• Everyday examples of service, showing how ordinary actions sustain the whole.
• The role of compassion and ethics: why simply choosing not to harm already benefits the world.
• Practical tools, reflections and ways to transform daily activities into offerings.

Learning Outcomes
• Understand the benefits of warm-heartedness for ourselves and others
• Learn how to set a positive intention to guide your day and protect your mind.
• Discover how reframing your work and actions as contributions brings deeper satisfaction.
• Recognise the interconnected web of interdependence that makes up our lives.
• Explore simple, daily practices to sustain positive motivation.
• Leave with a sense of meaning, joy and possibility in the smallest actions.

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