"The following is excerpted from The Buddha Walks Into a Bar: A Guide to Life for a New Generation, available from Shambhala Publications.
You can help the world. You, you, you, you, and you -- all of you -- can help the world. You know what the problems are. You know the difficulties. Let us do something. Let us not chicken out. Let us actually do it properly.
Please, please, please! --Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
In 2003, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche called forth the young people of the Shambhala Buddhist tradition for a weekend retreat. Two hundred people showed up, eagerly anticipating what advice he might have to impart to us.
Some of us were hoping he would tell us what we should do for a living. Others were figuring out what sort of relationship they wanted to have with their lovers. Others just wanted general guidance on how to live a good Buddhist lifestyle.
After waiting what seemed an eternity, the Sakyong took his seat, looked out at the crowd, and instead of giving us an instruction manual for our life, he said, "I am going to create an enlightened society. And you are going to help me do that, right?"
The crowd, not surprisingly, sat mute, blown away by the implications of his statement. He leaned in farther and very pointedly said, "Right?"
To which we all replied "Of course!"
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