How to be a Warrior: Letting Go

When discipline begins to be natural, a part of you, it is very important to learn to let it go. For the warrior, letting go is connected with relaxing within discipline, in order to experience freedom. Freedom here does not mean being wild or sloppy; rather it is letting yourself go so that you fully experience your existence as a human being... As long as you feel that discipline comes from outside, there is still a lingering feeling that something is lacking in you. So letting go is connected with letting go of any vestiges of doubt or hesitation or embarassment about being you as you are. You have to relax with yourself to realize that discipline is simply the expression of your basic goodness.-- Chogyam Trungpa, pictured in Bhutan 1968