[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: The Heart of Zen

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

March 25, 2007

THE HEART OF ZEN

One of the basic points in the understanding of the Zen tradition is to 
discipline and train the wild animal of mind, which should have become 
domesticated a long time ago, because this wild animal has buddhanature -- 
not just buddhanature, but it is buddha. So Zen is largely based on the 
idea of what is known as the trusting in the heart, or believing in the 
heart. Every experience we might go through has the potentiality of truth 
-- everything -- including the confusion.

 From "Beauty and Absurdity" in THE TEACUP AND THE SKULLCUP: CHOGYAM 
TRUNGPA ON ZEN AND TANTRA. Page 89.

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AND THE SKULL CUP: CHOGYAM TRUNGPA ON ZEN AND TANTRA. Edited by Judith Lief 
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Buddhist practitioners. Available from shambhalashop.com.

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