Sublime

Seng-tsan

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,

This natural wholesomeness is the beginning of developing what we call vajra or indestructible nature.

The enlightened expression of yourself is in accord with your inherent nature.

The problem with that approach is that our individuality is completely neglected. That

But there seems to be a need for two further types of energy—the energy of nonaggression and the energy of outrageousness.

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.

Chögyam Trungpa gave a teaching about this. He said that if we had nothing but smooth sailing, if our habitual patterns just dropped away, continually, week after week with no problem, we would have no empathy for all those people who continue to get hooked and act out.

Your relationship to the world becomes very soothing.