Shambhala's Quotes

#1. What distinguishes Shambhala is its intention of trying to create a society based upon certain principles. So, Shambhala's focus is not just on the individual, but on society as a whole.

Sakyong Mipham

#2. Shambhala vision teaches that in the face of the world's great problems, we can be heroic and kind at the same time.

Chogyam Trungpa

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

Sakyong Mipham

#4. A genuine sense of humor is having a light touch: not beating reality into the ground but appreciating reality with a light touch. The basis of Shambhala vision is rediscovering that perfect and real sense of humor, that light touch of appreciation.

Chogyam Trungpa

#5. We must give more and expect less, respect people as human beings and do what we preach!

Rossana Condoleo

#6. For me, Shambhala, you see, turned out to be not a goal but an absence. Not the discovery of a place but the act of leaving the futureless place where I was. And in the process I arrived at Constantinople.

Thomas Pynchon

#7. Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.

Todd Rundgren

#8. Shambhala existed in Tibet and has been continued over the years, and now it is in the West. At its core, it is very much dedicated to the basic theme of benefiting others.

Sakyong Mipham

#9. No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.

Egon Schiele

#10. A lot of people talk about the spirituality of Buddhism, and it is a spiritual discipline. But in Shambhala there also is a notion that you have to be synchronized with both heaven and earth.

Sakyong Mipham

#11. If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind of fearfulness in the cradle of loving-kindnes."

Sakyong Mipham

#12. The first thing you have to do is acknowledge the basic and fundamental goodness of all beings. If you don't, then you are going to have conflict. That's at the core of Shambhala.

Sakyong Mipham

#13. When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.

David Richo

#14. I think Shambhala can be a very strong force as a social example of how you can try to live a life balanced in terms of both the spiritual and the secular.

Sakyong Mipham

#15. For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#16. Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.

Pablo Neruda

#17. If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

Pema Chodron

#18. The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness.

Chogyam Trungpa

#19. Shambhala is a tradition where there were rulers, kings, and powerful people who actually were very benevolent and kind. They got things done, and they didn't abandon their tradition.

Sakyong Mipham

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

Sakyong Mipham

#21. When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by writers in particular, though finance folk also invite me on occasion.

Katy Lederer

#22. It is a Siren's burden," she whispered, "So much strength, so much pain. You will feel the weight of humanity on your shoulders, though you are only partly human yourself. Soon you will not have any traces of that left.

Kay Harding

#23. This is the development of prajna, transcendent knowledge, the ability to see situations as they are.

Shambhala Publications

#24. In Germany the police had supported the Nazis and sided with the Brownshirts. Would they do the same here? Surely

Ken Follett

#25. You have people who are good at English but don't have the training in Buddhism or Shambhala, or they have the training but are not good in English. Getting that mixture is really rare.

Sakyong Mipham

#26. 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.

Sakyong Mipham

#27. Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal.

Robin Williams

#28. The principles of Buddhism and Shambhala can be effective in helping the course of what is happening in the world.

Sakyong Mipham

#29. But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

Damien Hirst

#30. Those who have no real virtue within but outwardly rely on flowery cleverness are like leaky boats brightly painted - if you put manikins in them and set them on dry ground they look all right, but once they go into the rivers and lakes, into the wind and waves, are they not in danger?

Shambhala Publications

#31. I didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself.

William Shatner

#32. He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.

Ian McEwan

#33. Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking them from a cloister.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#34. I swear by the invigorating shampoo and conditioner by Como Shambhala. When you're in need for a quick mental vacation, it does the trick

Phillip Lim

#35. The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans.

David Richo

#36. The key to warriorship and the first principle of Shambhala vision is not being afraid of who you are. Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.

Chogyam Trungpa

#37. Neutral territory, therefore, this abbey where the two groups could meet.

Umberto Eco

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

Sakyong Mipham

#39. I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.

Baruch Spinoza