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.

In Tibetan, we say people who have good windhorse have the sense they can accomplish what they want to do.

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

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Your regular teachers will get mad at you. If you keep asking something again and again, they will get tired of saying the same thing. A book will not do that. A book always will be there for you. In whatever you want, the book will be there.

If you rise with a positive attitude - because everything is possible, everything is doable - if you have that level of confidence, you exude it. It actually inspires the people around you.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.