Tonight, before my normal 8:00 pm bedtime, i thought i would spend about an hour reading an old spiritual book.  What i read was so good that i thougtht i wanted to share it with you right away.  Excuse any typing mistakes because i am reading and typing at the same time (and sometimes the keys on my old laptop go funny on me).  Anyway, the following is really, really good.

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When you meet a person who has inner authentic presence, you find he has an overwhelming genuineness, which might be somewhat frightening because it is so true and honest and real.  You experience a sense of command radiating from the person of inner authentic presence.  Although that person might be a garbage collector or taxi driver, still he or she has an uplifted quality, which magnetizes you and commands your attention.  This is not just charisma.  The person with inner authentic presence has worked on himself and made a thorough and proper journey.  He has earned authentic presence by letting go, and by giving up personal comfort and fixed mind.

On the one hand, authentic presence is the result of a gradual, developmental process of letting go of ego fixation.  On the other hand, it is also the result of an instantaneous, magical process of letting go of fixed mind.  The two always work together.  The abrupt and spontaneous process that brings authentic presence is raised by windhorse, or lungta, which is basically rousing "the energy of basic goodness into a wind of delight and power."

Although it beyond the scope of this book to provide actual instruction in the practice of raising windhorse, i hope that you have begun to understand the basic energy of windhorse from our discussion of it.  Raising windhorse is a way to cast out depression and doubt on the spot.  It is not a form of exorcism but a cheering-up process.  That is to say, raising windhorse invokes and actualizes the living aspect of fearlessness and bravery.  It is a magical practice for transcending doubt and hesitation in order to invoke tremendous wakefulness in your state of mind.  And when you have raised lungta, authentic presence occurs.

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I hope you go back and read this more than once.  I took it from pages 160-161 from a book called Shambhala by Chogyam Trungpa.