Chogyam Trungpa on meditation: Take your seat

spacer “The practice of meditation is taking your seat in the warrior’s world. Then, throughout your life, meditative awareness shows you how to regain your balance when you lose it, and how to use the messages from the phenomenal world to further your discipline. The practice of meditation also allows you to be completely grounded in reality. Then, if someone asks, ‘How do I know that you are not overreacting to situations?’ you simply reply, ‘My posture in the saddle, my seat on the earth, speaks for itself.’” — from the Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior Book and Card Set (via Ocean of Dharma).

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  1. Michael
    Posted July 28, 2010 at 11:55 pm | Permalink

    I've just arrived back from a fairly sublime experience in Thailand with some very dedicated and compassionate monks and lay people serving the needs of the refugees from Burma. I contrast this with my understanding of Trungpa Rinpoch…e's erratic and sometimes abusive behavior toward people in the compound he created in the 70's…I contrast the good works of the Buddhist communities worldwide on behalf of Tibet and Burma and all who are suffering worldwide, with Chogyam Trungpa's conspiracy behind the AIDS infection by his regent, of members of his sangha. No matter how often I see these "warrior" themes of Trungpa Rinpoche's, I cannot avoid thinking of the suffering he caused by his willful abuse of alcohol, his abuse of those in his sangha, and his active complicity in the deaths of members of his community by AIDS. I see him talking the talk, but not walking the walk.

    Sorry to be a dhamma jerk, but I'm calling him out. Metta.

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