“If you are a warrior, decency means that you are not cheating anybody
at all. You are not even about to cheat anybody. There is a sense of
straightforwardness and simplicity. With setting-sun vision, or vision
based on cowardice, straightforwardness is always a problem. If people
have some story or news to tell somebody else, first of all they are
either excited or disappointed. Then they begin to figure out how to
tell their news. They develop a plan, which leads them completely away
from simply telling it. By the time a person hears the news, it is not
news at all, but opinion. It becomes a message of some kind, rather than
fresh, straightforward news. Decency is the absence of strategy. It is
of utmost importance to realize that the warrior’s approach should be
simple-minded sometimes, very simple and straightforward. That makes it
very beautiful: you having nothing up your sleeve; therefore a sense of
genuineness comes through. That is decency.”
―
Chögyam Trungpa
