[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Be Grateful to Everyone

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

October 9, 2006  Thanksgiving in Canada

BE GRATEFUL TO EVERYONE

Without this world, we cannot attain enlightenment. Without this world, 
there would be no journey. By rejecting the world we would be rejecting the 
ground and rejecting the path. All our past history and all our neurosis is 
related with others in some sense. All our experiences are based on others, 
basically. As long as we have a sense of practice, some realization that we 
are treading on the path, every one of those little details, which are 
seemingly obstacles to us, becomes an essential part of the path. Without 
them, we cannot attain anything at all -- we have no feedback, we have 
nothing to work with, absolutely nothing to work with. So in a sense all 
the things taking place around our world, all the irritations and all the 
problems, are crucial.

 From "Point Three: Transformation of Bad Circumstances" in TRAINING THE 
MIND AND CULTIVATING LOVING KINDNESS, pages 88-89.

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permission.

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