[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Peace without Qualification

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

September 21, 2006 Peace Day

PEACE WITHOUT QUALIFICATION

When you take the bodhisattva vow [a vow to help others and put them before 
yourself], at this point, spontaneity without qualification arises in you; 
it is basic gentleness and basic peacefulness. You begin to realize that 
you can love yourself genuinely, without qualification.... It is simply 
being there. The process of being there contains anti-ego. It contains 
peace, because at last you have decided to give in to something 
extraordinarily simple and ordinary and basic --almost at the level of 
naivete. Just be with your breath; be with your discursive thoughts. That 
purity brings a sense of relief and a sense of peace, which is known as 
individual salvation. Peace in this case means being without complications. 
It is not a state of tranquility per se; it is just basic simplicity and 
basic ordinariness. That peace, that simplicity, is empty by nature. It has 
nothing to dwell on or with; therefore, it is basically fresh and clean and 
free from dirt, free from sloppiness. It is empty.

 From "The Bodhisattva Vow," in the 1979 Hinayana-Mahayana Seminary 
Transcripts, page 80.

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