Shambhala The Sacred Path of the Warrior (Shambhala Library)

I recommend Shambhala, The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chogyam Trimhor Roshi, which is an excellent book to be reading right now in terms of what's happening in the world.

One of the things I've experienced with some of your work and some of this is that there were a lot of actions I could not willing to take because I was afraid of the discomfort ... and it was only when I became less afraid of feeling that that I could take those actions.

A good book on that is Shambhala the sacred path of the warrior by Chogyam Trungpa if somebody wants to get look tuned into that kind of perspective.

And in training a warrior you cultivate certain qualities which start with humility that's the first one and it's symbolized by a tiger and then the lot snow lion symbolizes a kind of perky or you know sort of game playful kind of energy and then the outrageous or daring is symbolized by a Garuda these are ancient you know symbols that are everywhere around Asia and somewhere in the West to this corollaries to it but the outrageous one is like the celestial hawk that guru doesn't need to land it's airborne though it's like refueling in the air like a 747 you know and that means it doesn't need to be confirmed all the time it doesn't need oh good boy good girl you know you did well it doesn't need confirmation now people give you confirmation you don't need that anymore and in the outrageous there's just a sense of spontaneity that is governing and you trust yourself and you trust the situation but it's it's pretty advanced in a way because most of us doubt ourselves so then you go back to the kind of trap of doubt and then if we're not paying attention you go back to the mindfulness exercise so it's a way to calibrate certain aspects of your path and you can think about this Dan I'm sure times where you just took a leap I bet you did and you just went I'm going I'm doing this I'm going here I'm doing that I'm gonna talk to this person I'm gonna start this podcast whatever it was there's a leap involved.