SHAMBHALA
Chogyam Trungpa
Subtitled 'The Sacred Path of the Warrior', this book is a guide to enlightened living, written by the founder of the Naropa Institute. 'Warrior', in this context, doesn't mean a military fighter, but rather one who has found his own innate bravery to face life honestly and openly, with love and compassion for all that exists.
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"When you are fully gentle, without arrogance and without aggression, you see the brilliance of the universe. You develop a true perception of the universe."
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"What you are is genuinely, basically good."
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"The magical strength and wisdom of reality are always there. That wisdom abides in the cosmic mirror. By relaxing the mind, you can reconnect with that primoridal, original ground, which is completely pure and simple."
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"Human beings have basic goodness, not next door, but IN them already."
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"The human potential for intelligence and dignity is attuned to experiencing the brilliance of the bright blue sky, the freshness of green fields, and the beauty of the trees and mountains. We have an actual connection to reality that can wake us up and make us feel basically, fundamentally good."
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"Every aspect of life has the potential of being upgraded…there is the potential for sacredness in every situation…Begin to view the universe as a sacred world. The sacred world is that which exists spontaneously, naturally in the phenomenal world."
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"It is necessary to appreciate that, for many thousands of years, human beings have been collecting wisdom….We should not ignore the contributions of the past."
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"There is a natural source of radiance and brilliance in this world – which is the innate wakefulness of human beings."
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"Because of the extraordinary vastness of perception, you have possibilities of communicating with the depth of the world."
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"We must try to think how we can help this world. If we don't help, nobody will. It is our turn to help the world."
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"Understand that your life, as it is, contains the means to unconditionally cheer you up and cure you of depression and doubt."
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"You do not possess basic goodness but you ARE the basic goodness itself."
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"The goodness in everyone's heart CAN be realized without doubt."
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"There is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems."
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"Every human being has a basic nature of goodness, which is undiluted and unconfused. That goodness contains tremendous gentleness and appreciation."
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"Appreciating sacredness begins very simply by taking an interest in all the details of life."
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"Something living, something real, is taking place in everything."
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"You can learn to experience the sacredness, the nowness, of reality. That is the basis for creating an enlightened society."
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"Absence of doubt is trusting in the heart, trusting yourself. Being without doubt means that you have connected with yourself."
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"Sacredness goes back and back through history to prehistory to before history, before thought, before mind had ever thought of anything at all. So experiencing the greatness of the sacred world is recognizing the existence of that vast and primordial wisdom, which is reflected throughout phenomena. This wisdom is old and young at the same time, and it is never tarnished or diminished by the relative problems in the world."
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"The world around us is very sacred, so we have to constantly serve our world."
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"Arrogance comes from hanging on to the reference point of me and other."
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"Basic goodness is what we have, what we are provided with. It is the natural situation that we have inherited from birth onwards."
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"There is something basically good about our existence as human beings. Unless we can discover that ground of goodness in our own lives, we cannot hope to improve the lives of others."
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"We experience glimpses of goodness all the time, but we often fail to acknowledge them. When we see a bright color, we are witnessing our own inherent goodness. When we hear a beautiful sound, we are hearing our own basic goodness."
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