[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Fundamentally Awake

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

March 5, 2007

FUNDAMENTALLY AWAKE

Something exists in us which is basically awake, as opposed to asleep. 
There is something intrinsically cheerful and fundamentally pride-worthy. 
It is intrinsic, which is to say: without conning ourselves into it. It is 
one-hundred-percent gold, beyond twenty-four carat. According to the 
Buddhist tradition, that is what is known as Buddha nature. In Sanskrit it 
is often referred to as tathagatagarbha, which means that the essence 
[garbha] of those who have already gone beyond, the tathagatas or buddhas, 
that essence exists in us. We take that attitude: that we ourselves are 
fundamentally awake. We ourselves are good already. It's not just 
potential. It's more than potential.

 From Talk One of  "Warriorship in the Three Yanas," an unpublished seminar 
given by Chogyam Trungpa at the Rocky Mountain Dharma Center, August 22, 1978.

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

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