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Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.

Pema Chodron
Warrior, Inspire, Everyday
Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.

Pema Chodron
Warrior, Training, Discomfort
Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity? When we are distracted by strong emotion, do we remember that it is our path? Can we feel the emotion and breathe it into our hearts for ourselves and everyone else? If we can remember to experiment like this even occasionally, we are training as a warrior. And when we can't practice when distracted but KNOW we can't, we are still training well. Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.

Pema Chodron
Strong, Heart, Warrior
Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68)

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Loneliness, Warrior, Journey

On the journey of the warrior-bodhisattva, the path goes down, not up, as if the mountain pointed toward the earth instead of the sky. Instead of transcending the suffering of all creatures, we move toward turbulence and doubt however we can. We explore the reality and unpredictability of insecurity and pain, and we try not to push it away. If it takes years, if it takes lifetimes, we let it be as it is. At our own pace, without speed or aggression, we move down and down and down. With us move millions of others, companions in awakening from fear.

Pema Chodron
Pain, Moving, Warrior

A warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next.

Pema Chodron
Warrior, Next, Accepting
Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warrior’s perspective and contact bodhichitta?

Pema Chodron
Lonely, Warrior, Perspective
Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.90, Shambhala Publications

Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and to be of benefit. The bodhisattva-warrior, therefore, makes a vow to wake up not just for himself but for the welfare of all beings.

Pema Chodron
Warrior, Training, Wake Up

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