When I was going into one of my first meditation retreats, I asked my father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for some advice. He said, "How you act when you're alone affects the rest of your life." Even in solitude, the ruler engages in virtue.

Every moment of our life is important.

I write about whatever is timely - whatever is happening at the time for me - with what the expressive feeling is.

Auspicious coincidence is the right thing happening at the right time.

For a lot of us, the opposite of auspicious coincidence is obstacles. Life usually is a mixture of both, but as we begin to exhibit exertion, more and more auspiciousness happens.

We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.

A lot of people dabbling means Buddhism has come into the mainstream, where people begin to use these terms and ideas, and they become less foreign.