[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Taking a Big Chance

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

October 5, 2006

TAKING A BIG CHANCE

Taking the bodhisattva vow [to help others and put them before oneself] 
implies that, instead of holding our own individual territory and defending 
it tooth and nail, we become open to the world that we are living in. It 
means we are willing to take on greater responsibility, immense 
responsibility. In fact, it means taking a big chance. But taking such a 
chance is not false heroism or personal eccentricity. It is a chance that 
has been taken in the past by millions of bodhisattvas, enlightened ones, 
and great teachers. So a tradition of responsibility and openness has been 
handed down from generation to generation, and now we too are participating 
in the sanity and dignity of this tradition.

 From "The Bodhisattva" in the SHAMBHALA SUN magazine, November 2006, page 
53. This article is compiled from a number of sources, based on remarks 
made by Chogyam Trungpa when he gave the bodhisattva vow to students.

Of interest to our readers: Today's quote is excerpted from Chogyam 
Trungpa's presentation of the bodhisattva ideal in the November issue of 
the SHAMBHALA SUN. This issue also contains excerpts from DRAGON THUNDER: 
MY LIFE WITH CHOGYAM TRUNGPA by Diana J. Mukpo with Carolyn Rose Gimian and 
features an interview with Diana.

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