[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Absent-Minded Awareness

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

February 16, 2007

ABSENT-MINDED AWARENESS

If we take the term in a positive and creative sense, we could say that 
awareness is a state of absent-mindedness. The point here is that, when 
there is no mind to be absent, energy comes in, and so you are accurate, 
you are precise, your are mindful -- but absent-minded at the same time. So 
maybe we can use the term absent-minded in this more positive sense, rather 
than in the conventional sense of being forgetful or constantly spaced out, 
so to speak. So whenever there is a message of awareness, then you are in 
it [you are aware] already. There is the state of absent-mindedness and 
mindfulness at the same time.....Approached in this way, mindfulness is no 
longer a problem, a hassle, or a big deal.

Page 119, in "From Raw Eggs to Stepping-Stones" in THE PATH IS THE GOAL: A 
BASIC HANDBOOK OF BUDDHIST MEDITATION.

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

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