I just love this passage from Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery by Chogyam Trungpa. To arrive at this place he describes, within one’s self, must be to arrive at a place of deep, deep peace.
“In the saddle, as long as you have good posture and a good seat, you can overcome any startling or unexpected moves your horse makes. So the idea of the saddle is taking a good seat in your life.
You belong here. You are one of the warriors in this world. So even if unexpected things happen, good or bad, right or wrong, you don’t exaggerate them. You come back to your seat in the saddle and maintain your posture in the situation.
The warrior is never amazed by anything. If someone comes up to you and says ‘I’m going to kill you right now’, you are not amazed. If someone says they are going to give you a million dollars, you think ‘so what’.
Assuming your seat in the saddle at this level is achieving inscrutability, in the positive sense. It is also taking your seat on the earth.
Once you take your seat on the earth, you don’t need witnesses to validate you.”
– Chogyam Trungpa
C.M. Rivers 