Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery
Ashe in body, speech, and mind. You have a good posture of upright head and relaxed shoulders. That doesn’t cost you any money to achieve!
Chogyam Trungpa • Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery
You just give up your privacy, your sense of shyness, and the longing to have a personal “trip.”
Chogyam Trungpa • Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery
Fear is nervousness; fear is anxiety; fear is a sense of inadequacy, a feeling that we may not be able to deal with the challenges of everyday life at all. We feel that life is overwhelming.
Chogyam Trungpa • Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery
Without the practice of meditation, it is difficult if not impossible to achieve this understanding. Even though you may have only ten minutes a day in your schedule to practice, it is worthwhile to meditate for those ten minutes. It will help you to discover gentleness and goodness in your life, and it will help you to organize your life properly,
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There is always further creativity, so there is always joy on the journey, joy in the result.
Chogyam Trungpa • Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery
For a warrior, whatever you wear is a uniform, in some sense. If you have two arms and two eyes and one nose, that is your uniform.
Chogyam Trungpa • Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery
The indestructibility of vajra nature is the idea that nobody can talk you out of your commitment or your existence. Nobody can actually challenge your realization of warriorship at all.
Chogyam Trungpa • Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery
If we are willing to be vulnerable, from that vulnerability we can also discover invincibility. Having nothing to lose, we cannot be defeated. Having nothing to fear, we cannot be conquered.
Chogyam Trungpa • Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery
Sometimes the Ashe is referred to as a razor knife. Basic goodness can’t be too naive. It has its own strength, which is the quality of cutting through unnecessary neurosis.
Chogyam Trungpa • Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery
The first stage of fearlessness contains a feeling of joy and relaxation or well-being. From the goodness of simply being yourself, a quality of upliftedness arises, which is not overly solemn or religious. It is joyful to be in such good health, joyful to have such good posture, joyful to experience that you are alive, you are here. You appreciate
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