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# Blood & Ink: Monday
- URL: https://www.zenmedicine.co/36/
- Published: 2024-11-04T12:35:58.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-09T15:58:23.000Z
- Description: tibetan warriorship / trunpa’s wisdom / human bravery
- Author: Eric Brown
- Tags: Blood x Ink

## **Chogyam Trungpa’s got the best definition of a warrior…**

In revisiting ‘[Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior](https://www.amazon.com/Shambhala-Sacred-Warrior-Chogyam-Trungpa/dp/1590304519?ref=zenmedicine.co)’, Trungpa starts the book by outlining what *warriorship* means in the Tibetan prophecy and lineage.

**Translating from Tibetan, warrior means ‘one who is brave’.**

Warriorship is the ‘tradition of human bravery’ or, better put, the ‘tradition of fearlessness’. 

**This is the Warrior spirit I am after.**

While the battlefield is a most ready and obvious arena where fearlessness and bravery are needed, this definition is expansive, allowing all individuals to be Warriors.

- It takes bravery to be honest with yourself.
- It takes bravery to initiate difficult conversations.
- It takes bravery to stand up against injustice.
- It takes bravery to keep your heart open.
- It takes bravery to pursue your dreams.
- It takes bravery to move through dark nights of the soul.

**Warriorship is the tradition of human bravery.**

Any individual, any culture, without this foundation of bravery at its core, is doomed. An inevitable victim to the slow arc of entropy. 

*What areas of your life need your bravery right now? Where is courage being called for?*

Call upon your spirit brothers and sisters. The world is with you.

Go forward,  
Eric Brown.