Although a wholesome or harmful act may have been minute while it was
still a mere motivation,
by the time it yields its result it will have grown considerably.
Harmful deeds lead to miserable states of existence;
wholesome deeds lead to happy ones.
None of your deeds will be impotent.
You will not experience the results of that which you have not done
Jamgon Kongtrul, The Torch of Certainty, Pg. 82, Shambhala
Publications
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Saturday, April 26, 2008
However Much You Suffer
However much you suffer,
the suffering is just the dance of what is,
so you shouldn't be depressed.
Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, The Great Path of Awakening
the suffering is just the dance of what is,
so you shouldn't be depressed.
Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, The Great Path of Awakening
Thursday, April 17, 2008
If you are not free now, when will you ever be free?
If you're not free now,
when will you ever be free?
People of Tingri, your chance to comes only one time in a hundred.
When a delicious feast is offered to you,
take it while you can.
The clock of Dharma has struck noon,
seize the chance before it passes!
Padampa Sangye & Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, The Hundred Verses of Advice, Shambhala Publications
when will you ever be free?
People of Tingri, your chance to comes only one time in a hundred.
When a delicious feast is offered to you,
take it while you can.
The clock of Dharma has struck noon,
seize the chance before it passes!
Padampa Sangye & Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, The Hundred Verses of Advice, Shambhala Publications
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
NO ENEMY
NO ENEMY
For the Shambhala warrior, the actual, basic notion of victory is not
so much that you have one-upped your enemy and therefore you are
victorious. Rather, no enemy exists at all; therefore, there is
victory. This is the idea of unconditional warriorship and
unconditional victory. In connection with this, the concept of
sacredness is that fearlessness is carried into everyday life
situations, even brushing your teeth. So fearlessness occurs all over
the place, all the time. Fearlessness here is also unconditional. In
this way, fearlessness becomes cheerful and very light. There's no
need for cowardice or fear at all, or any moments of doubt. Actually
what we're talking about is doubtlessness, we could say, rather than
fearlessness. There's no doubt. There are no second thoughts.
Everything is a complete warrior's world. So here victory is not
having to deal with an enemy at all. It is the notion of no enemy.
The whole world is a friend.
From OCEAN OF DHARMA: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa. 365
Teachings on Living Life with Courage and Compassion. Number 119.
[Unpublished excerpt from Talk Five of Warriorship in the Three
Yanas. August 1978, Rocky Mountain Dharma Center.]
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For the Shambhala warrior, the actual, basic notion of victory is not
so much that you have one-upped your enemy and therefore you are
victorious. Rather, no enemy exists at all; therefore, there is
victory. This is the idea of unconditional warriorship and
unconditional victory. In connection with this, the concept of
sacredness is that fearlessness is carried into everyday life
situations, even brushing your teeth. So fearlessness occurs all over
the place, all the time. Fearlessness here is also unconditional. In
this way, fearlessness becomes cheerful and very light. There's no
need for cowardice or fear at all, or any moments of doubt. Actually
what we're talking about is doubtlessness, we could say, rather than
fearlessness. There's no doubt. There are no second thoughts.
Everything is a complete warrior's world. So here victory is not
having to deal with an enemy at all. It is the notion of no enemy.
The whole world is a friend.
From OCEAN OF DHARMA: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa. 365
Teachings on Living Life with Courage and Compassion. Number 119.
[Unpublished excerpt from Talk Five of Warriorship in the Three
Yanas. August 1978, Rocky Mountain Dharma Center.]
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
UNCONDITIONAL CHEERFULNESS
Transplanting the moon of wakefulness into your heart and the sun of
wisdom into your head can be natural and obvious. It is not so much
trying to look for the bright side of life and using that side of
things as a stepping stone, but it is discovering unconditional
cheerfulness, which has no other side. It is just one side, one
taste. From that, the natural sense of goodness begins to dawn in
your heart. Therefore, whatever we experience, whatever we see,
whatever we hear, whatever we think -- all those activities begin to
have some sense of holiness or sacredness in them. The world is full
of hospitality at that point. Sharp corners begin to dissolve and the
darkness begins to be uplifted in our lives. That kind of goodness is
unconditionally good, and at that point, we become a decent human
being and a warrior. Such an approach has to be accompanied by the
sitting practice of meditation. The practice of meditation acts as a
training ground and stronghold. Out of that, the seed of friendliness
begins to occur. The main point is to appreciate your world. That
kind of world is known as the vajra, or indestructible, world. It is
a cheerful world. It never becomes too good or too bad.
From OCEAN OF DHARMA: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa. 365
Teachings on Living Life with Courage and Compassion. Number 98.
[Unpublished excerpt from Talk Five of Warriorship in the Three
Yanas. August 1978, Rocky Mountain Dharma Center.]
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wisdom into your head can be natural and obvious. It is not so much
trying to look for the bright side of life and using that side of
things as a stepping stone, but it is discovering unconditional
cheerfulness, which has no other side. It is just one side, one
taste. From that, the natural sense of goodness begins to dawn in
your heart. Therefore, whatever we experience, whatever we see,
whatever we hear, whatever we think -- all those activities begin to
have some sense of holiness or sacredness in them. The world is full
of hospitality at that point. Sharp corners begin to dissolve and the
darkness begins to be uplifted in our lives. That kind of goodness is
unconditionally good, and at that point, we become a decent human
being and a warrior. Such an approach has to be accompanied by the
sitting practice of meditation. The practice of meditation acts as a
training ground and stronghold. Out of that, the seed of friendliness
begins to occur. The main point is to appreciate your world. That
kind of world is known as the vajra, or indestructible, world. It is
a cheerful world. It never becomes too good or too bad.
From OCEAN OF DHARMA: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa. 365
Teachings on Living Life with Courage and Compassion. Number 98.
[Unpublished excerpt from Talk Five of Warriorship in the Three
Yanas. August 1978, Rocky Mountain Dharma Center.]
*** This new book of short teachings by Chogyam Trungpa contains
quotes from the Ocean of Dharma list serv as well as much new
material. Order your copy now at shambhala.com.
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Saturday, April 12, 2008
Our Vision of this life
Our vision of this life is just like when we wake up from sleeping,
at that moment we discover what kind of dream we had and that it is
all impermanent and unreal. For that reason, even if we have some
happiness, at the end we will leave all these things and go away.
Even if we became very famous, a very important person, with so many
dependents and great wealth, when we go away we go alone. All these
things are of no use. For that reason, it is very important that we
try to apply and integrate the Dharma.
âChogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche
at that moment we discover what kind of dream we had and that it is
all impermanent and unreal. For that reason, even if we have some
happiness, at the end we will leave all these things and go away.
Even if we became very famous, a very important person, with so many
dependents and great wealth, when we go away we go alone. All these
things are of no use. For that reason, it is very important that we
try to apply and integrate the Dharma.
âChogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche
Friday, April 11, 2008
FRIENDLINESS TO ONESELF
The recognition of sacredness comes from developing a basic sense of
gentleness towards ourselves, so that the irritation of being stuck with
oneself is taken away. When that kind of friendliness to oneself has
occurred, then one also develops friendliness towards the rest of the
world, at the same time. At that point, sadness, loneliness, and
wretchedness begin to dissipate. We begin to develop a sense of humor. We
don't get so pissed off if we have a bad cup of coffee in the morning. A
natural sense of dignity begins to occur.
From OCEAN OF DHARMA: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa. 365 Teachings on Living Life with Courage and Compassion. Number 10. [Unpublished excerpt from Talk Five of Warriorship in the Three Yanas. August 1978, Rocky Mountain Dharma Center.]
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gentleness towards ourselves, so that the irritation of being stuck with
oneself is taken away. When that kind of friendliness to oneself has
occurred, then one also develops friendliness towards the rest of the
world, at the same time. At that point, sadness, loneliness, and
wretchedness begin to dissipate. We begin to develop a sense of humor. We
don't get so pissed off if we have a bad cup of coffee in the morning. A
natural sense of dignity begins to occur.
From OCEAN OF DHARMA: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa. 365 Teachings on Living Life with Courage and Compassion. Number 10. [Unpublished excerpt from Talk Five of Warriorship in the Three Yanas. August 1978, Rocky Mountain Dharma Center.]
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Monday, April 07, 2008
SEE THE WORLD AS SACRED
Usually in life, when we act, when we exist, we tend to have a very
wretched and small notion of what we are doing. Sometimes, we try to
be good boys and girls. We struggle, taking our journey stitch by
stitch. We go to sleep at night, we get up the next day, and we
struggle to lead our life. The ordinary approach to that is
undignified and very small, like flat Coca-Cola. Sometimes we feel
better, we try to cheer up, and it feels pretty good. But then,
behind that, there is the same familiar "me" haunting us all the
time. We don't have to be that way, at all. We actually could see our
world as a big world and see ourselves as open and vast. We can see
our world as sacred. That is the key to bringing together the sun of
wisdom with the moon of wakefulness.
From OCEAN OF DHARMA: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa. 365
Teachings on Living Life with Courage and Compassion. Number 284.
[Unpublished excerpt from Talk Five of Warriorship in the Three
Yanas. August 1978, Rocky Mountain Dharma Center.]
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quotes from the Ocean of Dharma list serv as well as much new
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wretched and small notion of what we are doing. Sometimes, we try to
be good boys and girls. We struggle, taking our journey stitch by
stitch. We go to sleep at night, we get up the next day, and we
struggle to lead our life. The ordinary approach to that is
undignified and very small, like flat Coca-Cola. Sometimes we feel
better, we try to cheer up, and it feels pretty good. But then,
behind that, there is the same familiar "me" haunting us all the
time. We don't have to be that way, at all. We actually could see our
world as a big world and see ourselves as open and vast. We can see
our world as sacred. That is the key to bringing together the sun of
wisdom with the moon of wakefulness.
From OCEAN OF DHARMA: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa. 365
Teachings on Living Life with Courage and Compassion. Number 284.
[Unpublished excerpt from Talk Five of Warriorship in the Three
Yanas. August 1978, Rocky Mountain Dharma Center.]
*** This new book of short teachings by Chogyam Trungpa contains
quotes from the Ocean of Dharma list serv as well as much new
material. It is officially available as of April 8, but you can order
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Friday, April 04, 2008
Meeting My Teacher
April 4, 2008 [The 21st Anniversary of the Parinirvana (death) of Chogyam Trungpa]
MEETING MY TEACHER
Meeting my teacher, Jamgon Kongtrul, was remarkable. Throughout the whole time I was studying with my tutor and being educated at the Surmang monastery in Tibet, they were telling me stories about their admiration for people who had died, great teachers they had met, who lived in the past. I had never met any of them. According to these stories, the whole spiritual thing is that you have to be a completely religious person. Even if you are not, you should pretend. You pretend to be good, and you keep smiling at everybody. You say nice things to everybody, and you half close your eyes all the time, as if you are pretending to meditate all the time. That was the kind of story I heard.
But then, meeting Jamgon Kongtrul, I began to actually see what people really meant. It was not so much that he half-closed his eyes all the time or behaved in a saintly way, particularly. He joked around, he was very jolly, and he was very kind and soft and insightful. Sometimes he didn't even sit upright. I had been told to always sit upright. He lay down in his seat, and he accommodated people. There was immense power coming to you from that presence. From that time onward, I would say that the journey was very definite and really committed. Before that particular point, I felt that I was being made to be a charlatan and asked to make a fool of myself.
From "The Eleventh Trungpa," in MISHAP LINEAGE: THE LINE OF THE TRUNGPAS, forthcoming.
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MEETING MY TEACHER
Meeting my teacher, Jamgon Kongtrul, was remarkable. Throughout the whole time I was studying with my tutor and being educated at the Surmang monastery in Tibet, they were telling me stories about their admiration for people who had died, great teachers they had met, who lived in the past. I had never met any of them. According to these stories, the whole spiritual thing is that you have to be a completely religious person. Even if you are not, you should pretend. You pretend to be good, and you keep smiling at everybody. You say nice things to everybody, and you half close your eyes all the time, as if you are pretending to meditate all the time. That was the kind of story I heard.
But then, meeting Jamgon Kongtrul, I began to actually see what people really meant. It was not so much that he half-closed his eyes all the time or behaved in a saintly way, particularly. He joked around, he was very jolly, and he was very kind and soft and insightful. Sometimes he didn't even sit upright. I had been told to always sit upright. He lay down in his seat, and he accommodated people. There was immense power coming to you from that presence. From that time onward, I would say that the journey was very definite and really committed. Before that particular point, I felt that I was being made to be a charlatan and asked to make a fool of myself.
From "The Eleventh Trungpa," in MISHAP LINEAGE: THE LINE OF THE TRUNGPAS, forthcoming.
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Basic Sanity
April 2, 2008
BASIC SANITY
In contrast to the traditional medical model of disturbances, the Buddhist approach is founded on the belief that basic sanity is operative in all states of mind. Confusion, from this point of view, is two-sided: it creates a need, a demand for sanity. This hungry nature of confusion is very powerful and very important. The demand for relief or sanity that is contained in confusion is, in fact, the beginning point of Buddhism. That is what moved Buddha to sit beneath the bodhi tree twenty-five hundred years ago -- to confront his confusion and find its source-- after struggling vainly for seven year in various ascetic yogic disciplines.
Basically, we are faced with a similar situation now in the West. Like Siddhartha before he became the Buddha, we are confused, anxious, and hungry psychologically. Despite a physically luxurious prosperity, there is a tremendous amount of emotional anxiety. This anxiety has stimulated a lot of research into various types of psychotherapy, drug therapy, behavior modification, and group therapies. From the Buddhist viewpoint, this search is evidence of the nature of basic sanity operating within neurosis.
From OCEAN OF DHARMA: 365 Teachings on Living Life with Courage and Compassion, number 34.
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BASIC SANITY
In contrast to the traditional medical model of disturbances, the Buddhist approach is founded on the belief that basic sanity is operative in all states of mind. Confusion, from this point of view, is two-sided: it creates a need, a demand for sanity. This hungry nature of confusion is very powerful and very important. The demand for relief or sanity that is contained in confusion is, in fact, the beginning point of Buddhism. That is what moved Buddha to sit beneath the bodhi tree twenty-five hundred years ago -- to confront his confusion and find its source-- after struggling vainly for seven year in various ascetic yogic disciplines.
Basically, we are faced with a similar situation now in the West. Like Siddhartha before he became the Buddha, we are confused, anxious, and hungry psychologically. Despite a physically luxurious prosperity, there is a tremendous amount of emotional anxiety. This anxiety has stimulated a lot of research into various types of psychotherapy, drug therapy, behavior modification, and group therapies. From the Buddhist viewpoint, this search is evidence of the nature of basic sanity operating within neurosis.
From OCEAN OF DHARMA: 365 Teachings on Living Life with Courage and Compassion, number 34.
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Sunday, March 30, 2008
Vajra Pride
March 30, 2008
VAJRA PRIDE
Vajra, or indestructible, pride is the sense that basic sanity does
exist in our state of being, so we don't particularly have to try to
work it out logically. We don't have to prove that something is
happening or not happening. The basic dissatisfaction that causes us
to look for some spiritual understanding is an expression of vajra
pride: we are not willing to submit to the suppression of our
confusion. We are willing to stick our necks out. That seems to be a
first expression of the vajra-pride instinct -- and we can go on from there!
From "Let the Phenomena Play," in CRAZY WISDOM, page 60.
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VAJRA PRIDE
Vajra, or indestructible, pride is the sense that basic sanity does
exist in our state of being, so we don't particularly have to try to
work it out logically. We don't have to prove that something is
happening or not happening. The basic dissatisfaction that causes us
to look for some spiritual understanding is an expression of vajra
pride: we are not willing to submit to the suppression of our
confusion. We are willing to stick our necks out. That seems to be a
first expression of the vajra-pride instinct -- and we can go on from there!
From "Let the Phenomena Play," in CRAZY WISDOM, page 60.
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Sunday, March 23, 2008
Sane Romanticism
SANE ROMANTICISM
It is time to begin with the romantic approach, the sane romantic approach, not the materialistic romantic approach. Our being here together happened purely by accident. It is a very precious accident that we are able to discuss such a topic as the life of Padmasambhava, the great Tibetan teacher. The opportunity to discuss such a subject is very rare, unique, very precious. But such rare and precious situations go on constantly; our life as part of the teachings is extremely precious. Each person is here purely by accident, and since it was an accident, it cannot be repeated. That is why it is precious. That is why the dharma is precious. Everything becomes precious; human life becomes precious. There is this rare preciousness of our human life: we each have our brain, our sense perceptions, our materials to work on. We each have had our problems in the past: our depressions, our moments of insanity, our struggles -- all those make sense. So the journey goes on, the accident goes on -- which is that we are here. This is the kind of romanticism, the kind of warmth I am talking about. It is worthwhile approaching the teaching in this way.
From "Cynicism & Devotion," in CRAZY WISDOM, page 71.
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It is time to begin with the romantic approach, the sane romantic approach, not the materialistic romantic approach. Our being here together happened purely by accident. It is a very precious accident that we are able to discuss such a topic as the life of Padmasambhava, the great Tibetan teacher. The opportunity to discuss such a subject is very rare, unique, very precious. But such rare and precious situations go on constantly; our life as part of the teachings is extremely precious. Each person is here purely by accident, and since it was an accident, it cannot be repeated. That is why it is precious. That is why the dharma is precious. Everything becomes precious; human life becomes precious. There is this rare preciousness of our human life: we each have our brain, our sense perceptions, our materials to work on. We each have had our problems in the past: our depressions, our moments of insanity, our struggles -- all those make sense. So the journey goes on, the accident goes on -- which is that we are here. This is the kind of romanticism, the kind of warmth I am talking about. It is worthwhile approaching the teaching in this way.
From "Cynicism & Devotion," in CRAZY WISDOM, page 71.
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Our Mind
Our mind naturally possesses a kind of joy that we are not always in touch with.
In the beginning, we might have to look for it a little bit and inspire ourselves to feel happy.
If you do that every time you sit to meditate,
you will find that over time the joy will just be there and you'll recognize it.
Lama Norlha Rinpoche, Calm Abiding Meditation Seminar, Kittery Point, Maine, August 2005
In the beginning, we might have to look for it a little bit and inspire ourselves to feel happy.
If you do that every time you sit to meditate,
you will find that over time the joy will just be there and you'll recognize it.
Lama Norlha Rinpoche, Calm Abiding Meditation Seminar, Kittery Point, Maine, August 2005
Sunday, March 16, 2008
THE DIGNITY OF THE TIBETAN PEOPLE
March 16, 2008
The sword of hatred is ornamented with the handle of invasion,
A red star has imprisoned the sun and moon,
The high snow-peaked mountains are cloaked in the darkness of a poisonous wind;
The peaceful valleys have been shattered by the sound of artillery.
But the dignity of the Tibetan people competes with the glory of the sky.
Composed November 10, 1972.
From FIRST THOUGHT BEST THOUGHT, page 39. Also in THE COLLECTED WORKS OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA, Volume Seven, page 339.
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The sword of hatred is ornamented with the handle of invasion,
A red star has imprisoned the sun and moon,
The high snow-peaked mountains are cloaked in the darkness of a poisonous wind;
The peaceful valleys have been shattered by the sound of artillery.
But the dignity of the Tibetan people competes with the glory of the sky.
Composed November 10, 1972.
From FIRST THOUGHT BEST THOUGHT, page 39. Also in THE COLLECTED WORKS OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA, Volume Seven, page 339.
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Friday, March 14, 2008
It is necessary to cultivate some discipline of mind
It is necessary to cultivate some discipline of mind,
for an undisciplined mind always finds excuses to act selfishly and
thoughtlessly.
When the mind is undisciplined, the body is also undisciplined, and
so is speech and action.
Buddha Shakyamuni, from: The Anguttara Nikaya
for an undisciplined mind always finds excuses to act selfishly and
thoughtlessly.
When the mind is undisciplined, the body is also undisciplined, and
so is speech and action.
Buddha Shakyamuni, from: The Anguttara Nikaya
Thursday, March 13, 2008
If your mind becomes firm like a rock
If your mind becomes firm like a rock,
And no longer shakes,
In a world where everything is shaking,
Your mind will be your greatest friend
And suffering will not come your way.
Buddha Shakyamuni, from: The Theragata
And no longer shakes,
In a world where everything is shaking,
Your mind will be your greatest friend
And suffering will not come your way.
Buddha Shakyamuni, from: The Theragata
A SUDDEN FLASH OF ENLIGHTENMENT
A sudden flash of enlightenment does not need training. It does not require an educational system. It is inborn nature, not dependent on any kind of training at all. The whole concept of needing training for things is a very weak approach, because it makes us feel we cannot possess the potential in us, and that therefore we have to make ourselves better than we are; we have to try to compete with heroes or masters. So we try to imitate those heroes and masters, believing that finally, by some process of psychological switch, we might be able to become THEM. Although we are not actually them, we believe we could become them purely by imitating -- by pretending, by deceiving ourselves constantly that we are what we are not. But when this sudden flash of enlightenment occurs, such hypocrisy doesn't exist. You do not have to pretend to be something. You ARE something. You have certain tendencies existing in you in any case. It is just a question of putting them into practice.
From "Eternity and the Charnel Ground," in CRAZY WISDOM, pages 41 to 42.
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From "Eternity and the Charnel Ground," in CRAZY WISDOM, pages 41 to 42.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Mind has no form
Mind has no form, no color, and no substance;
This is it's empty aspect.
Yet mind can know things and perceive an infinite variety of phenomena.
This is it's clear aspect.
The inseparability of these two aspects, emptiness and clarity,
is the primordial, continuous nature of mind.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
This is it's empty aspect.
Yet mind can know things and perceive an infinite variety of phenomena.
This is it's clear aspect.
The inseparability of these two aspects, emptiness and clarity,
is the primordial, continuous nature of mind.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Meditation is Not Therapeutic Practice At All
We seem to have a problem in this country
with the sense that meditation is included with psychotherapy or
physiotherapy or whatever.
A lot of Buddhists feel proud
because meditation is accepted as part of the therapeutic system, a
landmark or the Western world.
But I think that pride is simpleminded pride. Buddhism should
transcend the therapeutic practice of meditation.
Relating with gurus is quite different from going to your psychiatrist.
Chogyam Trunpga Rinpoche, Glimpses of Shunyata, Shambhala
Publications
with the sense that meditation is included with psychotherapy or
physiotherapy or whatever.
A lot of Buddhists feel proud
because meditation is accepted as part of the therapeutic system, a
landmark or the Western world.
But I think that pride is simpleminded pride. Buddhism should
transcend the therapeutic practice of meditation.
Relating with gurus is quite different from going to your psychiatrist.
Chogyam Trunpga Rinpoche, Glimpses of Shunyata, Shambhala
Publications
Saturday, March 08, 2008
THE CHARNEL GROUND
March 8, 2008
THE CHARNEL GROUND
As a young prince who had been recently turned out of his palace, the great Tibetan teacher Padmasambhava roamed around the charnel ground, the burial ground. The genteel young prince seemed to fit in to that scene quite well, as incongruous as it might seem. He was quite fearless, and his fearlessness became accommodation as he roamed through the jungle charnel ground near Bodhgaya. There were awesome-looking trees and terrifying rock shapes and the ruins of a temple. The whole feeling was one of death and desolation....He regarded this place as another palace in spite of all the terrifying sights. Seeing the impermanence of life, he discovered the eternity of life, the constant changing process of death and birth taking place all the time....
Our civilized world is so orderly that we do not see places like this charnel ground. Nevertheless there are the greater charnel grounds of birth, death, and chaos going on around us all the time. We encounter these charnel-ground situations in our lives constantly. If we identify with Padmasambhava, we could relate with that fearlessly. We could be inspired by this chaos -- so much so that chaos could become order in some sense. It could become orderly chaos rather than just confused chaos, because we would be able to relate with the world as it is.
From "Eternity and the Charnel Ground," in CRAZY WISDOM, pages 39 to 40.
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THE CHARNEL GROUND
As a young prince who had been recently turned out of his palace, the great Tibetan teacher Padmasambhava roamed around the charnel ground, the burial ground. The genteel young prince seemed to fit in to that scene quite well, as incongruous as it might seem. He was quite fearless, and his fearlessness became accommodation as he roamed through the jungle charnel ground near Bodhgaya. There were awesome-looking trees and terrifying rock shapes and the ruins of a temple. The whole feeling was one of death and desolation....He regarded this place as another palace in spite of all the terrifying sights. Seeing the impermanence of life, he discovered the eternity of life, the constant changing process of death and birth taking place all the time....
Our civilized world is so orderly that we do not see places like this charnel ground. Nevertheless there are the greater charnel grounds of birth, death, and chaos going on around us all the time. We encounter these charnel-ground situations in our lives constantly. If we identify with Padmasambhava, we could relate with that fearlessly. We could be inspired by this chaos -- so much so that chaos could become order in some sense. It could become orderly chaos rather than just confused chaos, because we would be able to relate with the world as it is.
From "Eternity and the Charnel Ground," in CRAZY WISDOM, pages 39 to 40.
All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission.
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