Your life and your practice should not be separate. You bring your practice into experience. You bring it about.

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

Shambhala teachings say we all have the potential to accomplish our enlightened nature - our basic goodness.

Meditation practice is relevant because in meditation our conceptual mind relaxes and we can feel who we are at heart.

We live in a culture where information is becoming easier to access. Certain special practices have been kept very quiet and secret, and those traditions need to be respected. But there are a lot of teachings people can access that would benefit them greatly.

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem, it kind of gets to the point.

Being fooled into trying to make things work out for 'me' is called samsara.