Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery

Windhorse could be described as a bank or storehouse of energy, which is the product of genuineness. If you’re a beginning warrior, first you have a flash of genuineness. Then, having recognized your genuineness, you automatically experience health and wholesomeness. Finally, you feel the spark or the wind of lungta, windhorse. In a fully developed

The traditional analogy is that your posture should be like a king or queen sitting on a throne.

As we know, in order to understand fearlessness, one has to understand fear itself. Fear is a trembling, shaky feeling. Fundamentally, it is the fear of nonexistence.

Check your body before you get into your practice. When you sit down to practice, first check your spine, from your waist up to your shoulders. Then check your shoulders themselves, and finally check your neck. Your seat should be solid, and your posture should feel uplifted and definite, but still relaxed.

Music is connected with the idea of continuously being joyful.

Vulnerability can sometimes make you nervous. It is uncomfortable to feel so real, so you want to numb yourself.

All kinds of thoughts arise naturally. If you have lots of time to sit, endless thoughts happen constantly. The approach to that is actually no approach. Reduce everything to the thought level—recognize that all of this is just thinking. Usually, if you have mental chatter, you call it your thoughts. But if you have deeply involved emotional chatte

Vajra nature is how we can join our experience together to manifest ourselves in the world. It is the diamond-like manifestation of buddha nature. It is putting buddha nature into practice.

When mind and body are synchronized in your life and practice, there is very little chance for neurosis of any kind to arise. The basis of neurosis, or even physical discomfort and pain, is mind and body not joining together. Sometimes the mind is miles away and the body is here. Or the body is miles away and the mind is there. The main point of pr

Often, when someone tells us not to be afraid, we think they’re saying not to worry, that everything is going to be all right. Unconditional fearlessness, however, is simply based on being awake. Once you have command of the situation, fearlessness is unconditional because you are neither on the side of success nor on the side of failure. Success a