What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when we don’t want to.

People can be trained in certain principles, but then they actually have to apply them and try them out.

When we are using this term 'basic goodness,' we are talking about our inherent completeness.

If you decide to go on a Buddhist path, you have to be careful if you start mixing a lot of different traditions you are not totally familiar with - mixing this kind of meditation with that kind of practice or this kind of visualization with that kind of mantra. Then you really are concocting your own thing, and you have no idea what is going to happen.

Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.

My books definitely are ambassadors, as you called them. They express what the vision is, what the purpose is.

You have people who are good at English but don't have the training in Buddhism or Shambhala, or they have the training but are not good in English. Getting that mixture is really rare.