[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: True Freedom

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

July 4, 2006

TRUE FREEDOM

Freedom cannot be created by an outsider or some superior authority. Once 
must develop the ability to know the situation. In other words, one has to 
develop a panoramic awareness, an all-pervading awareness, knowing the 
situation at that very moment. It is a question of knowing the situation 
and opening one's eyes to that very moment of nowness, and this is not 
particularly a mystical experience or anything mysterious at all, but just 
direct, open, and clear perception of what is now.

 From "Patience" in MEDITATION IN ACTION, in THE COLLECTED WORKS OF CHOGYAM 
TRUNGPA, Volume One, page 326-327.

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

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