The Shambhala Warrior Prophecy
"'So,' said Choegyal, 'now is the time for the Shambhala warriors to go into training.' 'How do they train?' Joanna asked. 'They train in the use of two implements,' he said. Actually, he used the term weapons. 'What are they?' Joanna asked, and he held up his hands the way the dancers hold up the ritual objects in the great lama dances of his people. 'One,' he said,' is compassion. The other is insight into the radical interdependence of all phenomenon.
"You need both. You need compassion because it provides the fuel to move you out to where you need to be and to do what you need to do. It means not being afraid of the suffering of your world, and when you're not afraid of the world's pain, then nothing can stop you.'
"But by itself that implement is very hot; it can burn you out. So you need the other tool, the insight into the radical interconnectivity of all that is. When you have that, then you know that this is not a battle between the good guys and the bad guys. You know that the line between good and evil runs through the landscape of every human heart. And you know that we are so interwoven in the web of life that even our smallest acts have repercussions that ripple through the whole web, beyond our capacity to see. But that is kind of cool, even a little abstract. So you also need the heat of compassion."
- Joanna Macy and Dugu Choegyal Rinpoche, in Joanna's book, 'Active Hope.'
"You need both. You need compassion because it provides the fuel to move you out to where you need to be and to do what you need to do. It means not being afraid of the suffering of your world, and when you're not afraid of the world's pain, then nothing can stop you.'
"But by itself that implement is very hot; it can burn you out. So you need the other tool, the insight into the radical interconnectivity of all that is. When you have that, then you know that this is not a battle between the good guys and the bad guys. You know that the line between good and evil runs through the landscape of every human heart. And you know that we are so interwoven in the web of life that even our smallest acts have repercussions that ripple through the whole web, beyond our capacity to see. But that is kind of cool, even a little abstract. So you also need the heat of compassion."
- Joanna Macy and Dugu Choegyal Rinpoche, in Joanna's book, 'Active Hope.'
