[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Sacredness and Superstition

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

September 8, 2006

SACREDNESS AND SUPERSTITION

There is a great deal of difference between sacredness and superstition. 
Superstition is believing something that you've been told, such as that, if 
somebody drops a rotten egg on your head, it is bad luck. Superstition has 
no foundation in basic practice. Sacredness, however, is like the 
experience when you look at pure gold: you get some transmission of pure 
goldness because gold IS pure and good. Similarly, when you converse with a 
person of great wisdom, the conversation doesn't necessarily have to be 
profound per se -- it could just be "hello" and "good-bye" -- but you 
experience the basic nature of goodness coming out of that person.

 From "The Warrior's Way," a sourcebook for Shambhala Training, page 11.

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