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Masters and Grand Masters

Shambhala Masters are Mentors:
Whether or Not You Want To Be

Shambhala Masters are committed to Integrity. Their lives reflect this Integrity and other people are impressed. Consequently, Shambhala Masters are frequently asked for advice on everything from child rearing to financial investments. This typically leads to time consuming, ear bending, needy people wanting answers to subjects you know little and maybe even care less about.

You can effectively shorten your listening time and give wise counsel by keeping one focus. Behind every life dilemma there is one sticky issue … relationships. In the end, everything boils down to relationships. Relationships with others or one’s relationship with one’s Self.

For example, people asking for your advice about a financial investment may not recognize it, but behind their desire to invest wisely or get rich is a family they are trying to support, or an insatiable wife, or a desire to impress the Joneses, or a competitive urge to out do colleagues, or a desire to spend more time with you.

Consequently, to save time and to give wise guidance you need to do two things:

  • Find out quickly who else is involved.
  • Simply ask who else is involved in this problem? Or who else are you concerned about? Who’s favor are you trying to gain?
  • Speak from your heart about your own relationship guidelines.
  • For reference, a Shambhala Masters’ Guidelines to Relationships is included below. But do not memorize this list. Live it. Require yourself to practice it daily.

Shambhala Masters‘ Guidelines to Relationships with Self and Others

Limit Time Spent with People and Experiences that:

  1. Encourage me to abdicate my Self or personal Power.
  2. Make me feel worthlessness or limited.
  3. Fragment me and refuse to honor the whole of me.
  4. Suppress my intellect or my unique talents.
  5. Confine me to stereotypes or conventional ways of being.
  6. Rob me of either my femininity or my masculinity.
  7. Encourage me to prostitute myself or my Integrity to secure others (no matter how much I may love them.)
  8. Encourage me to be gutless or dishonest about my feelings or needs, even if it means risking the loss of the relationship.
  9. Tell me in word or deed that there is something wrong with me if I live life the way I need to for my Self.
  10. Limit me to caring for only one “special” person or only one specific gender.

After you reference a guideline or two then simply direct the person to, “Go and truthfully speak to the other person(s) involved and, then, if you wish, you may return and let me know what you both (all) decide to do.”