To be a good warrior, one has to feel sad and lonely, but rich and resourceful at the same time. This makes the warrior sensitive to every aspect of phenomena: to sights, smells, sounds, and feelings. In that sense, the warrior is also an artist, appreciating whatever goes on in the world. Everything is extremely vivid.

When the sun shines on the land, it doesn’t neglect any area. It does a thorough job. Similarly, as a warrior, you never neglect your discipline. We’re not talking about military rigidity here. Rather, in all your mannerisms, every aspect of behavior, you maintain your openness to the environment. You constantly extend yourself to things around

Sometimes the Ashe is referred to as a razor knife. Basic goodness can’t be too naive. It has its own strength, which is the quality of cutting through unnecessary neurosis.

The magical trick or practice, the key to relating with others, is to project the physical and psychological healthiness of lungta, or windhorse. You might have had a terrible day, but when you turn your mind to communicating with others in the Shambhala style, you tune yourself in to lungta. You feel good, healthy, and ready to launch.

The heart of the warrior is this basic aliveness or basic goodness. Such fearless goodness is free from doubt and overcomes any perverted attitudes toward reality.

Windhorse arises in the environment of Great Eastern Sun vision, which creates an atmosphere of sacredness in which you are constantly moving forward and recharging your energy. You feel that you are truly leading your life in the fullest sense.

So the real notion of victory is not having to deal with an enemy at all. If victory is the notion of no enemy, then the whole world is a friend.

So we are simply trying to feel ourselves, appreciate ourselves. The whole presentation of the way of the warrior is based on this gentleness.

when one experiences a threat that seems to come from outside—whether it is illness, some undesirable experience in the world, or literal opponents—the only way to develop a balanced state of being is not to try to get rid of those things, but to understand them and make use of them.