Aggressive and "Happy"

Creativity Poetry & Quotes
#1

People who have experienced the Great Eastern sun are constantly gentle and fearless, whereas those who are still trapped in the world of the setting sun are aggressive and fearful.

Whenever genuine sadness attempts to enter their minds, they try to block it from happening. To counteract the feelings of sadness and emptiness, people seek entertainment to distract themselves.

This world of entertainment is designed to help you forget who you are and where you are. The setting-sun version of enjoyment is to forget your gentle sadness and instead become aggressive and “happy.”

However, what you’re experiencing is neither real happiness nor enjoyment. This perverse notion of happiness is based on forgetting that you exist, forgetting that your mind and body could ever be synchronized.

Such a notion of happiness is based on separating mind and body altogether. You try your best to do this by putting your mind on a TV screen while your body is slouched in a chair. That’s the closest to magic that exists in the setting-sun world.

All sort of entertainment have been developed so that your mind is kept away from your body. The objective here is completely opposite of joining heaven and earth. Joining heaven and earth is not separating this and that, but making them indivisible. That unity or harmony is “it” or “That” with a capital T, without qualifications.

Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery
by Ch?gyam Trungpa Rinpoche

This is such a beautiful teaching on experiencing and creating Yoga with our bodies and minds, the first and third koshas.
Namaste,
Nichole

#2

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Whenever genuine sadness attempts to enter their minds, they try to block it from happening. To counteract the feelings of sadness and emptiness, people seek entertainment to distract themselves.[/QUOTE]

Namaste Nichole,

This happens because we fear, we first need to feel safe and believe we deserve to feel our sorrows, before we can even attempt to unblock them. That fear can be so great…

Thank you for your post.

#3

For a moment I thought it’s you talking. And becuase of this, the message was even more personal.

Thank you for fooling me. As far as I am concerned, you can avoid sharing the name of the person you quote from. :slight_smile:

#4

I too was wondering if those were your own words or if you were quoting from the book, because the post contains so much truth and is so eloquently stated.

#5

I’m going to read the book.

#6

Thank you for sharing. I too am adding this to my book list.

#7

I am glad that you all connected to this quote too. Ch?gyam Trungpa Rinpoche teachings on fear have meant so much to me. The way that he speaks pulls every angry tooth from the fear that is in my own heart and mind, at least for a moment, but that moment has made every difference in my practice and life. He was also Pema Chondren’s teacher and I think they share a voice and open-heartedness that is rare and precious in this world.

Here is another quote from the same book that I quoted above, Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery ‎Fearlessness is not like a wild tiger or brown bear that is locked up in a cage and growls every time you open the door. Fearlessness is powerful, but it also contains gentleness and constant loneliness and sadness. Wisdom and consideration for others are also part of fearlessness. When you are more fearless, you become more available and kinder to others, more considerate of others and more touched by them. The more fearlessness evolves, that much more available and vulnerable you become. That is why sadness and gentleness are part of fearlessness.

Jai Sangha,
Nichole

#8

I like that. A lot. Thank you.