[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Discovering Enlightenment

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

July 1, 2007  [Canada Day]

DISCOVERING ENLIGHTENMENT IN NOVA SCOTIA [In honor of Canada Day]

Supposing you were dumped here in the middle of Nova Scotia, without 
any introductions from anybody -- not even your father, mother, 
relatives, business associates. What if you suddenly landed here in 
the middle of nowhere [rural Nova Scotia] without even clothes in the 
middle of this [November] weather? How are you going to handle 
yourselves, ladies and gentlemen? You don't have calling cards in 
your pocket, you don't have business references; you are on your own 
-- literally, ideally, absolutely. That is the Buddhist notion of 
discovering enlightenment....With nobody to introduce you to each 
other, or to anybody, how could you make yourself available and kind 
to somebody? That is a very interesting reference point, don't you 
think?...[In this context] basic goodness does not mean that we can 
con others because we have basic goodness. We are talking about 
personal basic goodness which we don't have to proclaim or advertise. 
It does not depend on advertisement or on introductions by somebody 
else. Instead, basic goodness could mean being on the spot -- right here.

From"Conquering Comfort," in THE COLLECTED WORKS OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA, 
Volume Eight, page 439. This talk was given at the Keltic Lodge in 
Ingonish, Nova Scotia, in November 1979.

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

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