We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

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

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

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending on where we are and what we are doing. In that sense, the present moment is always some kind of beginning.

Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.

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