[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: When You're Hassled

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

September 25, 2006

WHEN YOU'RE HASSLED

Question: Do you have any suggestion as to how we can actually transmute 
when we are caught in the speed of a situation?....How is it possible to 
work at a rate of speed and still have any sanity about it?

Chogyam Trungpa:  Well, it's overall view. When you are being hassled, you 
are reduced into a pinpoint, traditionally. You begin to become so small, 
that you are hassled by the giant situations that begin to close in on you. 
You are afraid about your timetable, scheduling, and everything. Whereas if 
you take a greater view at that point, then you are no longer that small. 
You can cover a lot of areas. You can extend your tentacles greater that 
way, so that you have some sort of stronghold, or at least some kind of 
clear vision of where you're coming from. You are not just being bounced 
back and forth like a ping-pong ball by the mercy of the situation on your 
ping-pong table. When you're hassled, there's a tendency to become small. 
So the opposite approach, in this case, is like taming and entering: when 
you're hassled, you have to become bigger, so you can't be bounced around.

 From COLLECTED VAJRA ASSEMBLIES: VOLUME ONE, pages 240 to 241.

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