[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Gossip and Emotion

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

August 22, 2007

GOSSIP AND EMOTION

Discursive thought might be compared to the blood circulation which 
constantly feeds the muscles of our system, the emotions. Thoughts 
link and sustain the emotions so that, as we go about our daily 
lives, we experience an ongoing flow of mental gossip punctuated by 
more colorful and intense bursts of emotion. The thoughts and 
emotions express our basic attitudes toward and ways of relating to 
the world and form an environment, fantasy realms in which we 
live....In order to work with these realms, we must begin to view 
situations in a more panoramic way, which is vipashyana or insight 
meditation. We must become aware not only of the precise details of 
an activity, but also of the situation as a whole....We begin to see 
the pattern of our fantasies rather than being immersed in them. We 
discover that we need not struggle with our projections, that the 
wall that separates us from them is our own creation.

 From "The Bodhisattva Path," in CUTTING THROUGH SPIRITUAL 
MATERIALISM, pages 168 to 169.

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

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