Developing Leadership Consciousness!

During our Buddhist pilgrimage in India we were honoured to receive a teaching from The Ven. Prof. Geshe Ngawang Samten, Director and Vice Chancellor of the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, Varanasi. His answer to the question "how should we best prepare ourselves for pilgrimage?" was a perfect template for how to develop leadership consciousness!

"The best way is to transform ourselves", he said. "And then try to transform others". He went on to say, "cultivate and make manifest those positive qualities in yourself. There is no better way to bring about peace in the world than to transform ourselves!"

Pilgrimage!

Just back from a 2-week Buddhist pilgrimage through North-East India and still trying to integrate the experience! However, sunrise over the Ganges at Varanasi was like the dawning of the world - an event celebrated every morning for thousands of years.