Saturday, April 2, 2022

Shambhala. The Sacred Path of the Warrior. By Chögyam Trungpa. Quotes IV

 -The genuine heart of sadness comes from feeling that your nonexistent heart is full. You would like to spill your heart's blood, give your heart to others. For the warrior, this experience of sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. 

-Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. 

-We have to realize our fear and reconcile ourselves with fear. We should look at how we move, how we talk, how we conduct ourselves, how we chew our nails, how we sometimes put our hands in our pockets uselessly. 

-Because we possess such fear, we also are potentially entitled to experience fearlessness. 

-When you begin to feel comfortable being a gentle and decent person, you reindeer horns no longer have little hairs growing on them, they are becoming real horns. Fear evolves into fearlessness naturally, very simply and quite straightforwardly. 

-The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that the warrior can be very brave as well. Without that heartfelt sadness, bravery is brittle. 

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