[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: You in Your Enlightened Version

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

July 12, 2006

YOU IN YOUR ENLIGHTENED VERSION

Question: I have so many ideals about what should happen or what I want to 
happen or how you should be or how the teachings should be. I don't feel 
open and receptive to what is really happening.

Chogyam Trungpa: Well, that seems to be good, actually, utterly good. That 
open and closed fickleness tends to bring a lot of understanding. Whereas 
if you completely buy in to something, so to speak, then it’s like being 
caught in the jaws of a crocodile. You have no (outside) reference point. 
You are just completely buying in. That seems to be one of the problems 
with many present spiritual advertisements: either you are in it or you are 
not in it. Out
in. You can't actually experience the space between the two. 
That is a problem, and that seems to be a spiritual materialistic trick to 
use on people: trying to save them from their problems. That approach is 
based on a hesitation or inability to provide everything legitimately, step 
by step. The leaders of a trip feel somewhat inadequate, so they tell 
potential students, "Buy it or don't buy it." That seems to be too cheap.

Q: So is it best to have a questioning attitude?

CT: Yes, absolutely. Spiritual discipline is not based on becoming somebody 
else. But you become you  in your enlightened version. That is the whole point.

 From "Trungmase and the Three Idiots," Talk Three in THE LINE OF THE 
TRUNGPAS, an unpublished manuscript being edited for publication. 
Forthcoming in 2007 from Vajradhatu Publications.

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

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