When we raise lungta, we become like fully charged batteries: strong, awake and radiant with the life force of confidence. Raising lungta cuts through fixation and transcends aggression, allowing us to harness the power of immediacy. When authentic lungta fills our beings, we can’t avoid the tender sadness of our own hearts. In fact, our intimate relationships with ourselves become beacons of confidence for the rest of the world.
When we speak of a tender heart of sadness, we are not referring to melancholy or mundane disappointment. A warrior’s sadness has little in common with the emotional deflation, depression or self-pity normally associated with the word sadness. Rather, the ‘genuine heart of sadness’ borders on joy. Trungpa Rinpoche called it “the ideal human emotion”. When our longing for sanity melts into an appreciation of sacredness, it leaves us tenderized, transports us to the frontiers of intimacy and invites us to leap. It is one thing to talk about the power of the human heart, but another to step bravely forward and taste its fragile essence.
Trungpa Rinpoche said, “Fear does not allow fundamental tenderness to enter into us. When tenderness tinged by sadness touches our heart, we know that we are in contact with reality. We feel it. That contact is genuine, fresh, and quite raw. That sensitivity is the basic experience of warriorship.” So our challenge is to meet fear with fearlessness and aggression with tenderness. This kind of relationship with power creates an atmosphere of unrequited love, non-conceptual bravery and vulnerability that is quite literal and tangible.
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