[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Naturally Rich

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

December 13, 2007

NATURALLY RICH

When I'm dressing, sometimes my friend, Mr. P., says to me, "You 
can't wear that shirt for the fourth time," I say, "Of course I can." 
I've worn a single shirt many times, and it has looked fine. That's 
what we call merit. Merit means that somebody deserves that kind of 
manifestation. A person doesn't have to be extravagant in order to 
manifest wealth, but he or she does have to have some karmic sense of 
basic sanity, worthwhileness...We tend to borrow the concepts of how 
people have made money in the past. Obviously, we are born naturally 
rich, but at the same time, from a Buddhist point of view, we have 
forgotten the merit involved, the fact that we are glowing as we are, 
wearing our shirt for the eighth time!

 From "Regarding Money as Mother's Milk," an address at a business 
conference, June 19, 1981. Unpublished transcript.

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

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