The trust I'm speaking of here is not trust in someone or something. I am simply talking about trust; your own sense of knowing what you’re doing at a very fundamental level. This is trusting your own intrinsic goodness. This is the trust from which you can act on the basis of not knowing. You have some kind of hunch, some kind of intuition which isn’t simply based on wishful thinking. The trust is based on the experience of practice, and arises out of the very sane ability to be insane when the chips are down.
p207-208, Wearing the Body of Visions, Ngakpa Chögyam, Aro Books, 1995, ISBN 1-898185-03-4
Buddhism is a statement of our intrinsic goodness; and the possibility of discovering
that intrinsic goodness. This is the simple answer, but complex questions can
arise from that. Giving a simple answer is not always that simple. When I use
the word goodness, I am not using it in the sense of nicey-nicey goodness, or
piety, or sanctity, or holiness – ‘goodness’ here relates to complete value.
This goodness is the goodness of freshly baked bread; the goodness of seeing a
field of sunflowers; the goodness of birth and death; the goodness of being
present. There is a basic goodness, a basic sanity with which we can connect.
We have that – we simply need to allow ourselves the non-referential space to
find it.
Aro Encyclopaedia Index: Ah, but I was so much older then – I'm younger than that now. Ngak'chang Rinpoche interview 1993
The trust I'm speaking of here is not trust in someone or something. I am simply talking about trust; your own sense of knowing what you’re doing at a very fundamental level. This is trusting your own intrinsic goodness. This is the trust from which you can act on the basis of not knowing. You have some kind of hunch, some kind of intuition which isn’t simply based on wishful thinking. The trust is based on the experience of practice, and arises out of the very sane ability to be insane when the chips are down.