[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: The Wisdom of Shambhala

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

April 6, 2007

THE WISDOM OF SHAMBHALA

The best doctor of all the doctors, the best medicine of medicines, and the 
best technology of technologies cannot save you from your life. The best 
consultants, the best bank loans, and the best insurance policies cannot 
save you. Eventually you must realize that you have to do something, rather 
than depending on technology, financial help, your smartness or good 
thinking of any kind -- none of which will save you. That may seem like the 
dark truth, but it is the real truth. In the Buddhist tradition, this is 
called the vajra truth, the diamond truth, the truth you cannot avoid or 
destroy.
         We cannot avoid our lives at all. We have to face our lives, young 
or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our 
lives at all. We have to face the eventual truth -- not even the eventual 
truth but the real truth of our lives. We are here; therefore, we have to 
learn how to go forward with our lives. This truth is what we call the 
wisdom of Shambhala.

 From "The Wisdom of Shambhala," in ELEPHANT magazine, Spring 2007.

The Spring issue of ELEPHANT features a column by Chogyam Trungpa, which 
will appear in each issue. ELEPHANT online is:

http://www.themindfullife.com/news/currentintro.html

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

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