[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Making Friends with the Real World

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

March 29, 2007

MAKING FRIENDS WITH THE  REAL WORLD

[In the practice of meditation] having developed a sense of trust in 
oneself, slowly that expands its expression outward, and the world becomes 
a friendly world rather than a hostile world. You could say that you have 
changed the world: you have become the king or queen of the universe. On 
the other hand, you can't quite exactly say that, because the world has 
come towards you, to return your friendship. It tried all kinds of harsh 
ways to deal with you at the beginning, but finally the world and you begin 
to speak with each other, and the world becomes a real world, a completely 
real world, not at all an illusory world or a confused world. It is a real 
world. You begin to realize the reality of elements, the reality of time 
and space, the reality of emotions -- the reality of everything.


 From "Dynamic Stillness and Cosmic Absorption" in THE TEACUP AND THE 
SKULLCUP: CHOGYAM TRUNGPA ON ZEN AND TANTRA. Page 99.

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