Sublime

The notion of balance comes along with that, because if there is too little fearlessness, you might be a coward, and if there is too much fearlessness, everything is too intellectual.

the first step in creating the holding environment is giving ourselves permission to meditate in a personally creative and meaningful way, rather than force ourselves to align with traditional instructions.

According to Master Linji, if, while walking or eating or going about your day, you can create even just one flash of mindfulness, that’s good enough.

Trungpa Rinpoche said that if enough people have confidence in basic goodness and our ability to pull ourselves up and be there for others, then when the challenges become great, instead of going down, society will grow stronger.

Warriorship here refers to fundamental bravery and fearlessness.

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.

Without the practice of meditation, it is difficult if not impossible to achieve this understanding. Even though you may have only ten minutes a day in your schedule to practice, it is worthwhile to meditate for those ten minutes. It will help you to discover gentleness and goodness in your life, and it will help you to organize your life properly,

So visual dharma is based on having these three foundations: a nonindividualistic sense of humor, a sense of all-pervasive space, and an appreciation of the play of phenomena.