[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: A Warrior without Territory

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

August 28, 2007

A WARRIOR WITHOUT TERRITORY

Student: The idea of a warrior is usually associated with territory 
or responding to a sense of danger. If we give up all territory, what 
is the motivation for having the spirit of a warrior?

Chogyam Trungpa: A warrior is not like a samurai who is looking for a 
job. You are not trying to be hired by anybody, not even by yourself. 
The idea of a warrior is based on a sense of fundamental 
fearlessness. There is no reason why you should be a coward. It's as 
simple as that. You are not being a warrior because a state of war 
exists in your country. We are not trying to win against the egohood 
people. We are not trying to fight with them. You are being a warrior 
because you ARE a warrior. If someone asks you, "Are you twenty-one 
years old?" you say, "Yes, I am." They don't ask you WHY you are 
twenty-one years old or how you have done this. You would have no 
answer for that. You are just twenty-one. Warriorship is a basic 
sense of unshakeability. It's a sense of immovability and 
self-existing dignity rather than that you are trying to fight with 
something else.

 From "Meditation: The Way of the Buddha," Talk Four, Naropa 
Institute, Boulder, Colorado, July 1 1974. Edited from an unpublished 
transcript.

All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used 
by permission.

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