The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.

The principles of Buddhism and Shambhala can be effective in helping the course of what is happening in the world.

Initially, you have to live a period where you are developing your attitude. I would consider that a meditation: determining what you want to do. You have a period where you meditate and you get the strength.

Shambhala does have unique teachings, as do many Buddhist traditions. For example, certain teachings within Shambhala have to do with raising the personal windhorse, or the energy of the individual, so a person has good fortitude to be able to live a good life.

Even when we speak of selflessness, the mind goes to "me." We think, "I'm selfless," but everything is selfless.

If we are going to live in a society, there has to be an attitude where people really do care for others.

In looking for my mind, I discovered that it seems to be in many different places. Sometimes it is drinking a glass of water, remembering swimming in the summer, feeling the breeze. In this contemplation I observed that the self is more elusive than I thought.