If you see life as an opportunity, or if you see helping others as an opportunity, then all of a sudden you become joyous. You want to go forward.

Shambhala is a Buddhist tradition with its own unique view and approach.

Shambhala can be relevant in terms of what is going on in the world.

To shift the direction of our planet, we must now be willing to experiment with the theory that within the speed and stress, we are good.

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Shambhala vision is universal. It has no bias towards one type of culture or group. It is not ethnocentric and does not encourage one specific kind of person, race, or religion. Shambhala vision promotes a universality in relationship to basic goodness. All human beings are basically good and an enlightened society, at various levels of manifestation, can occur in any culture.

True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.