is the study and practice of Shambhala warriorship - the tradition of human bravery and leadership. This secular path of meditation shows how to take the challenges of daily life in our modern society as opportunities for both contemplative practice and social action.

Levels I-V provide a strong foundation in mindfulness-awareness meditation practice, emphasizing the development of genuine confidence, humor, and personal dignity within the complexity of daily life. The journey to connecting fully with our heart arises from being willing to face our mind. Through the practice of gentleness, fearlessness and appreciation we can discover our glorious human dignity. Then it is possible to help the world.

The Sacred Path program introduces further warriorship practices, which extend the basic meditation training. These practices are based on a societal vision and aspiration to help the world. This level of training cultivates one's dignity and natural gifts that are able to widen one's sphere of compassionate and practical influence. During a series of visionary experiences that took place between 1976 and 1980, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche wrote down what became known as the Shambhala texts. The Sacred Path of the Warrior is based on these texts and on the extensive commentaries Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche gave on these teachings and on how to practice them in modern times.
The sequential levels of this path are called: