[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Surrendering Insanity

[Carolyn Gimian]

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August 12, 2007

SURRENDERING INSANITY

Marpa the Translator was a great teacher in my lineage of Tibetan 
Buddhism. Discussing Marpa's life is discussing surrendering 
insanity, which is a barter, an exchange in which we get sanity back 
instead. Surrendering insanity also means surrendering the habitual 
patterns of our state of mind, neurotic patterns of all kinds, and 
the things we're used to indulging ourselves in. We have to give up 
all of them. We might have to give up reading Time magazine before we 
go to bed or novels when we get bored. We might have to give up 
anything. Personal indulgence has to be given up. That seems to be 
the starting point and seems to be the problem at the same time.


 From "Marpa," in SELECTED TALKS ON LINEAGE AND DEVOTION, pages 21 to 
22. Out of print sourcebook.

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

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