[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Hope for Ordinary People

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

July 15, 2007

HOPE FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE

It is fine to look back on the lives of great spiritual teachers, but 
equally, it is not particularly romantic. They had the same problems 
and difficulties in searching for the teachings that we have in this 
century. So there's always hope for all of us; we don't particularly 
have to be born perfect. We could just be ordinary people, perfectly 
ordinary in the rugged sense; but equally we have a chance to develop 
spiritual understanding, as well as to attain enlightenment. So 
therefore, the point of looking back to various great teachers is not 
that there is something mysterious, something magical about them, but 
that they were just ordinary when they began. The point is to see the 
way they proceeded through the various necessary situations which 
forced them to develop.

 From "The Jewel Ornament of Liberation," unpublished seminar, 1970, 
Karme-Choling, Vermont.

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

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