![]() ![]() After all, I would say to myself, this man is clearly pretty realized, and I clearly am not, so who am I to disagree? And yet…įew around me within the sangha seemed to have much in the way of qualms. ![]() And indeed it created some real cognitive dissonance. I recognized it as a provocative challenge to my inherited Western skepticism about kingship. The monarchical and Confucian political vision which emerged later in the book, however: this I had to hold in my mind in “negative capability”. Most of the book made a tremendous impression on me, particularly the first main part–”How To Be a Warrior”. Jby Damchö Print This Post Some Thoughts on Monarchy and the Dynamics of Power within Shambhalaġ) I came to Trungpa Rinpoche’s first Shambhala book after I’d read nearly all of his published Buddhist teachings.
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