[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: The Phone Call of Nowness

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

October 17, 2007

THE PHONE CALL OF NOWNESS

The natural process of freeing yourselves from arrogance and cutting 
off your habitual tendencies is a very drastic measure for a lot of 
you. You should understand that I have tremendous sympathy for all of 
you....Habitual tendencies come back all the time. At this very 
moment, some of you may be thinking: "When I'm done reading this, I 
should make a phone call," or "When this is over, I should do this 
and that." Habitual tendencies overcome nowness. That doesn't 
necessarily mean to say, of course, that you shouldn't make your 
phone call. You can make your phone call on the basis of nowness, on 
the level of duty or efficiency -- almost on a military level. But 
when you mindlessly follow your habitual tendencies, you recruit a 
lot of cronies to join you and cheer you up, you begin to collect 
in-groupies, and you begin to collect your own little problems.

From" Overcoming Habitual Patterns," in COLLECTED KALAPA ASSEMBLIES, 
page 263 to 264.

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

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