Decency is the absence of strategy
If you are a warrior, decency means that you are not cheating anybody at all. You are not even about to cheat anybody. There is a sense of straightforwardness and simplicity. With setting-sun vision, or vision based on cowardice, straightforwardness is always a problem. If people have some story or news to tell somebody else, first of all they are either excited or disappointed. Then they begin to figure out how to tell their news. They develop a plan, which leads them completely away from simply telling it. By the time a person hears the news, it is not news at all, but opinion. It becomes a message of some kind, rather than fresh, straightforward news. Decency is the absence of strategy. It is of utmost importance to realize that the warrior's approach should be simple-minded sometimes, very simple and straightforward. That makes it very beautiful: you having nothing up your sleeve; therefore a sense of genuineness comes through. That is decency.
Teaching by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
From "Perkiness," a talk given to the Directors of Shambhala Training, July 1978.
Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week, May 21, 2009
Teaching by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
From "Perkiness," a talk given to the Directors of Shambhala Training, July 1978.
Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week, May 21, 2009
posted by Kent at
10:17 PM
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Twenties, attractive, waiting for the 21 bus. I notice from the window seat of this Hayes Vally restaurant. It is still light out at 7 something pm. I'm satiated, she's pacing the sidewalk. Looks cold. Its foggy cold here. Doesn't look the type but has worn holes in both knees of her jeans. Seems lonely from here; I can't read if someone is waiting for her or if she's anxious to get to see them, or if no one waits. Like me, no one waits.
Indiana Jones is a decent warrior.
Is or was?
Dr. Jones was a teacher and a hero, and Han Solo a scoundrel. Cheaters? You tell me.
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