[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Undoing Habitual Patterns

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

April 29, 2007

UNDOING HABITUAL PATTERNS

In order to overcome ego, we have to undo our habitual patterns, 
which we have been developing for thousands of years, thousands of 
eons, up to this point. Such habitual patterns may not have any 
realistic ground, but nonetheless, we have been accustomed to doing 
dirty work, so to speak. We are used to our habitual patterns and 
neuroses at this point. We have been used to them for such a long 
time that we end up believing they are the real thing. In order to 
overcome that, to begin with, we have to see our egolessness: seeing 
the egolessness of oneself and the egolessness of other, and how we 
can actually overcome our anxiety and pain, which in Buddhist terms 
is known as freedom, liberation, freedom from anxiety. That is 
precisely what nirvana means -- relief.

 From "The Birth of Ego" in THE SANITY WE ARE BORN WITH: A BUDDHIST 
APPROACH TO PSYCHOLOGY, pages 79 to 80.

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

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