On November 11th and on December 9th, Paolo Morley-Fletcher, PhD presented as a guest lecturer in the course “Great Books,” Ubiquity University’s exploration of the books past and present that continue to shape our culture.

These sessions were a 2-part teaching on the book “Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior” by Chögyam Trungpa.

The book is a practical guide to enlightened living that first presented the Buddhist path of the warrior to the West, as a vision for personal, social and global change.

In this two-Lecture series and dialogue, Paolo Morley-Fletcher uses Chögyam Trungpa’s book as an opportunity to embrace a new vision for change and peace-oriented leadership. A practical guide to enlightened living that first introduced the Buddhist path of the warrior to the West, SHAMBHALA offers the inner direction for personal, social and global change. There is a foundational human Wisdom that can help solve the world’s problems. It doesn’t belong to any one culture or region or religious tradition—though it can be found in many of them throughout history. It is what the author, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, called the Sacred Path of the Warrior.
In such lineage, the peaceful warrior conquers the world not through violence or aggression, but through gentleness, courage, and self-knowledge, discovering the basic goodness of human life to establish an enlightened society.
In interpreting the warrior’s journey in contemporary terms, Paolo Morley-Fletcher invites us to awaken and embody our inherent sacred human-ness and take responsibility to radiate it out into the world for Wisdom to elevate Peace and well-being of others across the planet.