[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: The Bodhisattva's Fearlessness

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

December 2, 2006

THE BODHISATTVA'S FEARLESSNESS

Student: Could you explain more of what you mean by being a warrior or a 
soldier on the path?

Chogyam Trungpa: Being a warrior is not necessarily being a soldier, but it 
is being fearless and willing to trod on the path.....It is not that you 
are unafraid of enemies or fearless towards certain particular things. It's 
different than saying, "I'm not afraid of rattlesnakes. I'm not afraid of 
dogs." That's very dualistic, a special kind of adolescent approach, a 
boyish approach to growing into manhood. When we talk about basic 
warriorship here, we are talking about being a bodhisattva [someone who has 
taken a vow to put others before him or herself], someone who's willing to 
include everything and willing to work with everything without any fear. 
Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.

 From "Bodhisattva and Paramita," Talk Nine of THE TIBETAN BUDDHIST PATH, 
the first seminar given by Chogyam Trungpa at the Naropa Institute, Summer, 
1974. Unpublished.

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