[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Nontheistic Magic

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

[Note: I will be away from my desk from December 6 until January 3rd. I 
have left  quotes to be sent out in my absence. However, from December 16 
to January 3rd, there will be some interruption in sending out the quotes. 
I hope to send a few from the road. Wishing you all a good end of year. 
Ocean of Dharma will return in "full force" in January. Carolyn Gimian, 
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December 16, 2006

NONTHEISTIC MAGIC

One's state of mind is very powerful. It can imagine destroying something, 
and it destroys it. It can imagine creating something, and it creates it. 
Whatever you intend in the realm of mind, it happens. Imagine your enemy. 
You want to destroy your enemy, and you have developed all kinds of tactics 
for doing so, You have infinite imaginations about how to handle the 
destruction of that enemy. Imagine your friend. You have infinite 
inspirations about how to relate with your friend, how to make him or her 
feel good or better or richer....Man does exist; his intelligence does 
exist. This is entirely nontheistic.The approach of Padmasambhava [who 
brought Buddhism to Tibet] to magic was on this nontheistic level. 
Lightning happens because it does happen, rather than because there is any 
further why or who or what involved. It does happen. Flowers blossom 
because it happens, it is so. We cannot argue that there are no flowers. We 
cannot argue that no snow falls. It is so. It happens.

 From CRAZY WISDOM, pages 55 to 56.

All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by 
permission.

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