Sublime

Shantideva, the author of The Way of the Bodhisattva,

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.

Shunryu Suzuki addressed the assembly, “Each one of you is perfect the way you are and you can use a little improvement.”

Thirty-Seven Practices is about the bodhisattva path. What, then, is a bodhisattva? One answer is that a bodhisattva is a person who lives and breathes compassion. Compassion is ordinarily understood as an emotion, but the compassion of a bodhisattva is not a sentiment. It is not pity. It is a quality of awareness itself, the knowing that is the

The Five Ps PURPOSE: Remain grounded in your passions and contributions. It takes conviction to ensure you are doing your highest and best work and that your work has meaning and is making a difference. PROCESS: Rely on daily practices and routines that honor your natural energy rhythms, enhance performance, save time, help you restore, and provide

Then we have the principle of human, which falls into two categories. Number one is freedom from subconscious gossip.

We are not even in the process of becoming wise—we are already wise.

The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being “without anxiety about imperfection.”