Be fully present in our time. Find the courage to breathe in the suffering of our world. Allow peace and healing to breathe out through you in return.

Hold a single vision, in the same thought, the transformation of yourself and of the world. Live your life around that edge, always keeping it in mind.

As a bird flies on two wings, balance outer activity with inner sustenance

Following your heart, realise your own unique gifts. Cultivate them with diligence to offer knowledge and skill to the world.

Train in non- violence of body, speech and mind. With great patience to yourself, learn to make beautiful each action, thought and word.

Do not meet power on its own terms. See through to its real nature: mind and heart made. Lead your response from that level.

Simplify. Clear away the dead wood in your life.

Look for the heartwood and give it the first call on your time, the best of your energy.

Put down the leaden burden of saving the world alone. Join with others of like mind. Align yourself with the forces of resolution

In the crucible of meditation, bring forth day by day the compassion, wisdom, skill and courage for which the world longs

Sit with hatred, until you feel the fear beneath it.

Sit with fear, until you feel the compassion beneath that.

Do not set your heart on particular results. Enjoy positive action for its own sake. Rest confident that it will bear fruit.

When you see violence, greed and narrow-mindedness in the fullness of its power, walk straight into the heart of it, remaining open to the sky and in touch with the earth.

Staying open, staying grounded, remember that you are the inheritors of thousands of generations of life

Staying open, staying grounded, be confident in the magic and power that arise when people come together in a great cause

Staying open, staying grounded, have faith that the forces of wisdom and compassion will manifest through our actions for the healing of our world.

When you see the weapons of hate, disarm them with Love.

When you see the fortresses of narrow mindedness, breach them with truth

When you find yourself in dark clouds of dread, dispel them with courage

When the forces of power seek to isolate us from one another, reach out with joy.

In it and through it all, holding to your intention, let go into the music of life.

Dance.

We read this on the wall of the Buddhafield cafe at the Big Green Gathering 2006 and the shorter version which follows on one of their leaflets.

For more background information on Shambala Warriors you can listen to an hour long feature on the internet radio station Planetary Voices, where Joanna May, a great teacher, tells the story of the twelve-century-old Shambala Warrior prophecy from the Tibetan Buddhust tradition.

The starting point is a time when our world is in danger. Great powers have arisen that waste their wealth on preparing to annihilate eachother. They have weapons of unfathomable destructive power and technologies that law waste the earth. It is at this time, then the future of life seems to hang by the frailest threads, that the Kingdom of Shambala begins to emerge.

Shambala is not a physical place. Rather it arises in the hearts and minds of the Shambala Warriors. These are the people who act with compassion and insight to dismantle the weapons threatening our world. But before they can do this, they need to go into training, to develop the compassion and insight needed for their task.

You can also read about it in the September edition of The Great Turning Times, a free quarterly email newsletter about finding your power to respond to global crisis. Bringing together ecology, psychology, spirituality and world issues, it lists events, news and resources to support the shit towards a life sustaining society. See their website

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