[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: The Car Drives You

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

November 19, 2007

THE CAR DRIVES YOU

When you have a sense of the awareness experience taking place in 
you, you begin to feel a sense of hollowness to your experience. It's 
as if you are not driving a car, but it is driving you, in some 
sense. If you are a bad driver, you would feel lots of YOU, because 
you take all kinds of chances and you do all kinds of dangerous 
things. So there is more of a sense of YOU involved. Whereas if you 
are a confident driver, you have a proper relationship with your 
motor car. You have a sense of being there. You just move a little 
bit, and the car goes in the direction you want. It's not your 
movement, as much as the movement of the car dictating to you. So 
awareness dictates to you, from that point of view. Awareness becomes 
part of your basic being, part of your behavior. You don't have to 
meditate as such. Meditation is conducting you, rather than you are 
conducting the practice of meditation. There is a sense of 
delightfulness and openness taking place.

 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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