Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery

If you can raise good posture in your head and shoulders, then regardless of your living situation, you will feel a sense of joy. It’s not any kind of cheap joy. It’s individual dignity. This experience of joy and unconditional healthiness is the basic virtue that comes from being what we are, right now. You have to experience this natural healthin

Having developed a basic understanding and connection to warriorship, we plant the moon in our heart, which contains gentleness, compassion, and wakefulness. Then we plant the sun in our head, which brings further wakefulness and genuineness into the whole situation. The growth of warriorship comes from an absence of laziness.

Sacredness comes from developing gentleness toward ourselves. Then the irritation of being with oneself is taken away.

You don’t give yourself an easy time to escape the embarrassing and unpleasant moments, the self-conscious moments of your life. Such thoughts might arise as memories of the past, the painful experience of the present, or painful future prospects. All those things happen, and you experience them and look at them, and only then do you come back to y

An overreaction or an exaggerated reaction to situations shouldn’t happen at this level. You have trust, you are constantly being joyful, and therefore you can’t be startled either. This doesn’t mean that your life is monotone, but rather you feel established in this world. You belong here. You are one of the warriors in this world, so even if litt

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.

This experience brings sympathy toward the world, including the world of the setting sun. The sadness you experience, as well as a sense of delight, encourages you to share your experience with others. You want to include them in your vision.

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

Ashe altogether is the powerful existence arising out of basic goodness.