[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Become the Car

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

November 16, 2007

BECOME THE CAR

In the practice of meditation, there is a term for awareness, 
sheshin, which means knowing as it is or knowing things as they are. 
Awareness is sharpening our antenna, so that a visual, olfactory, 
auditory, sensory, total perceptual sense of expansion is taking 
place. It is analagous to driving a car. If we rent a car, at the 
beginning, when we first start driving, we are concerned about how 
the car accelerates and how to work all the little gadgets on the 
dashboard, and how to control the power and speed of the car. If you 
are an experienced driver, however, you begin to tune yourself 
immediately into the size of the car, whether it's big or small. Your 
whole awareness becomes the car, as if the car were your body. So you 
don't miscalculate the size of the car on the highway, and you know 
your size, its size, for parking, for that matter. In terms of 
awareness in meditation practice, we should similarly adapt 
ourselves. There is a sense of perception expanding, a sense of 
radiation and seeing how far our feelings extend. Our life situation, 
running our day to day life, also works that way.

 From Talk Four of MEDITATION: THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA, a five talk 
seminar at Naropa University, July 1, 1974, Boulder, Colorado. Edited 
from the transcript.

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

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