Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior

[stancheung75]

I recently started to reread the book SHAMBHALA The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chogyam Trungpa. It's one of my favorite books to reflect on what I'm doing in life and if I'm staying on a noble path. There's a blog (http://enlightenyourday.com/2008/04/30/lessons-on-shambhala-the-sacred-path-of-the-warrior/) on the 53 principles for living life with Fearlessness and Gentleness.

Take a look at it and lets see what's the difference and similarities between the Shambhala Warrior and Jedi.

[jdmcowan]

The style of kyudo (Japanese Archery) that I study has a very close connection with Shambala. But I don't really know anything about it.

[Charles]

Good books, I use to be really heavily into that area of spiritualism and philosophy but I found there were some conflicts with my beliefs on self defense and such so I took a different direction. Still the basic concepts are good none the less and there are a lot of lessons in that book. Enjoy the reread!!

[Mindas Arran]

I disagree with the "Don't ever give up on people." It's a sad fact that there are some people in this world who aren't worth helping and who will exploit your kindness and compassion. In the event of such people there is little recourse but to cut your losses early. Likewise, there is a saying to 'avoid the unhappy and unlucky' which is better advice I think. There will be times in all our lives where we ourselves will fall subject to either of those conditions, and will rightfully lean on our friends or family for support. However, there are also people who choose to make it a persistent condition and will only drag you down with them in their search for pity and impotent sympathy.

[Setanaoko]

I don't believe that there are people who are not worth helping. But I do believe that there are some people that you are either not qualified to help or not meant to help.

[RyuJin]

sometimes it's more helpfull not to help...it's how some lessons need to be learned...it's hard to resist the urge to help, but sometimes you can do more damage by helping then if you don't help...the challenge is knowing when and how to help.

[Charles]

I'd say sometimes there are no right decisions, only damage control.

[Coragus Corvus]

I read this book and took a lot of notes. I'm currently re-reading it. Maybe we can discuss it at the 2010 Gathering.