Sunday, August 18, 2013

sacred path of the warrior

In his practical guide to enlightened living, Chogyam Trungpa offers an inspiring vision for our time, based on the figure of the sacred warrior. Content concerns mastering the challenges of life, acquiring a sense of personal freedom and power through self-knowledge. Learn how to find a good and meaningful life that will also serve others.
  • Synchronizing mind and body is a basic principle of how to be a human being and how to use your sense perceptions, your mind and your body together.
  • The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns so that we never leap into fresh air or onto fresh ground.
  • When you live your life in accordance with basic goodness, then you develop natural elegance.
  • When you express gentleness and precision in your environment, then real brilliance and power can descend onto that situation.
  • When you are fully gentle, without arrogance and without aggression, you see the brilliance of the universe.
  • The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle.
The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chogyam Trungpa explains how awareness is developed. Take from it what you will. Go within to shine your grandness onto the world!