Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior (Shambhala Classics)

Great Eastern Sun hierarchy is based on seeing that there is a natural source of radiance and brilliance in this world—which is the innate wakefulness of human beings.

The dawn of the Great Eastern Sun is based on actual experience. It is not a concept. You realize that you can uplift yourself, that you can appreciate your existence as a human being.

Absence of doubt is trusting in the heart, trusting yourself.

The setting-sun approach is to shield ourselves from dirt as much as we can, so that we don’t have to look at it—we just get rid of anything unpleasant.

In working with ourselves, cleaning up begins by telling the truth. We have to shed any hesitation about being honest with ourselves because it might be unpleasant. If you feel bad when you come home because you had a hard day at the office, you can tell the truth about that: you feel bad. Then you don’t have to try to shake off your pain by throwi

Being without doubt means that you have connected with yourself, that you have experienced mind and body being synchronized together. When mind and body are synchronized, then you have no doubt.

The setting-sun point of view is based on fear.

We can always return to that primordial ground. That is the logic of the Great Eastern Sun.

When we say sun here, we mean the sun of human dignity, the sun of human power. The Great Eastern Sun is a rising sun rather than a setting sun, so it represents the dawning, or awakening, of human dignity—the rising of human warriorship.