[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Warrior Versus Seer

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

October 26, 2008

WARRIOR VERSUS SEER

The warrior is a practitioner like the bodhisattvas, great Mahayana 
practitioners dedicated to helping others. The seer is a man of 
wisdom like the buddhas, who see the situation as it is but don't 
have to enter into manipulative actions of any kind at all. In the 
case of the warrior, there's still duality. Even though it may not be 
the duality of awareness of oneself as ego, there is still the 
duality of action and the object of action. That's where bravery 
comes in -- not to hesitate because you see action as it is; not to 
interpret in terms of concepts, but try to work with action itself 
and go along and along. Somehow that doesn't mean struggle. Absolute 
warriors, ideal warriors, don't struggle. They just proceed along 
because they know their work, they know their abilities. They don't 
question it. Their actual inspiration comes from the situation as it 
is. If the situation becomes more and more overwhelming and powerful, 
that much more energy goes along with it. It's like judo: you use the 
situation as your power rather than trying to fight with it.

 From "The Bardo of Dreams," in TRANSCENDING MADNESS: THE EXPERIENCE 
OF THE SIX BARDOS, pages 114 to 115.


Of interest to readers:

Emacs!
     Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, prominent Buddhist teacher and the 
author of What Makes You Not a Buddhist, will be teaching a public 
seminar in Halifax, Nova Scotia, November 28 to 30. Rinpoche will 
comment on Transcending Madness: The Experience of the Six Bardos, 
Chogyam Trungpa's book on the bardo states and the six realms. 
Khyentse Rinpoche's dynamic style and brilliant intellect, as well as 
his deep appreciation for Chogyam Trungpa's teachings, are sure to 
make this a memorable weekend.

The program begins Friday evening, November 28, and runs until the 
afternoon of Nov. 30. For more information on registration, phone 
902-420-1118, x 10, or go to: 
http://www.halifax.shambhala.org/eventdetails.php?id=2764

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

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