[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: The Birth of Karma

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

April 23, 2007

THE BIRTH OF KARMA

In the process of giving birth to a child, each push becomes an 
heroic effort. You actually have to give birth to your child, which 
you want very much to get out of your body. and you are making a 
definite statement: "I am going to have this child. And I'm going to 
make it come out of my body." This particular type of push that 
mothers experience in labor is like the birth of karma. It is like 
the birth of karma because the push to give birth to the world of 
passion, aggression, or ignorance is accompanied by a sense of 
continuity. If you push and give birth, then an extension of you 
continues. So you push not so much because "I want to get rid of this 
child" but because "I am going to create this new life out of my 
body. This particular child is going to be my child; I'm going to be 
its mother." So there is a sense of ownership, or sense of 
continuity. In other words: "This is my world; I'm going to get into 
this, my world."

 From "The Birth of Karma," in the Karma sourcebook, based on a 
seminar in 1973 at Karme Choling, Vermont, page 5, available from 
Vajradhatu Publications at shambhalashop.com

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

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