[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: The Truth of Insecurity

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

July 7, 2007

THE TRUTH OF INSECURITY

Fundamentally, every one of us feels extremely 
insecure. You could have lots of money, lots of 
background, education, friends, resources, 
skills, but none of that is going to make any 
difference to your security. The more we seek 
security, the more insecurity that creates. Is 
constantly happens that way. There's something 
fundamentally threatening and insecure taking 
place all the time in our lives. Something's not 
quite as solid as we would like it to be, so we 
need lots of reassurance -­ some philosophy, some 
idea, some kind of backing from the world of 
comfort, the world of companionship. There is 
always hollowness, an emptiness taking place in 
us always. Basically, we feel we are broke and we 
have a poverty mentality. Very few people like to 
face that, but it's the first truth, one of the 
very valuable truths to face. It is not really 
pleasant, and it may not even seem helpful, for 
that matter. But maybe its unhelpfulness is 
helpful. There’s always that possibility.


 From "Truth," now appearing  in slightly edited 
form as "Just the Facts" in ELEPHANT Magazine, 
Summer 2007. Now available at Whole Foods and 
other outlets. To read the article on line, go to 
<http://www.iamelephant.com>http://www.iamelephant.com 
and click on the current issue on the 
right.  Based on material in "Following the 
Dharma," in The Four Dharmas of Gampopa, a 
sourcebook published by Vajradhatu Publications 
and available at shambhalashop.com.

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

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