
Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery

We can expand this to include the rest of our sense perceptions: sound, smell, taste, and touch. Everything comes with a sense of appreciation. How wonderful the world is! How beautiful the world is! How exotic and how fabulous the world is! You might take the world for granted, but if you look again, you will find that tremendous beauty and subtle
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We need to remind ourselves over and over that this approach always has to be accompanied by the sitting practice of meditation. Meditation acts as a training ground, a stronghold, and out of that, the seed of friendliness to oneself is planted. The main point is to appreciate our world, which becomes the vajra world, the warrior’s world, which is
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We unconditionally trust the phenomenal world to always give us a message, either success or failure. The fruition of our action will always provide us with information. Such trust in the reservoir keeps us from being too arrogant or too timid. If you’re too arrogant, you’ll find yourself bumping into the ceiling. If you’re too timid, you’ll be pus
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Vajra nature is how we can join our experience together to manifest ourselves in the world. It is the diamond-like manifestation of buddha nature. It is putting buddha nature into practice.
Chogyam Trungpa • Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery
This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstance.
Chogyam Trungpa • Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery
Music is connected with the idea of continuously being joyful.
Chogyam Trungpa • Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery
We discover genuine one hundred percent gold, not even twenty-four karat. According to the Buddhist tradition, that is discovering our buddha nature.
Chogyam Trungpa • Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery
The second guide on the warrior’s path is represented by the analogy of an echo, which is connected with meditative awareness, or samadhi. When you try to take time off from being a warrior, when you want to let go of your discipline or indulge mindlessly in some activity, your action produces an echo. It’s like a sound echoing in a canyon, bouncin
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As far as the discipline of mind is concerned, you should rest your mind in basic goodness and appreciate that. Appreciating goodness brings a sense of celebration. Your world might be falling apart, you might be in tremendous financial debt, your husband or wife might be leaving you, or you might be living in a depressed neighborhood where the pol
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