[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Go for Sanity

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

September 5, 2007

GO FOR SANITY

In the practice of meditation, we are trying to plant a seed of 
mindfulness-awareness; we are trying to plant a seed of less 
habitual, less animal-like instinct. Rats always go for cheese, and 
rabbits always go for carrots, but we could do better than that. As 
human beings, we could always go for sanity.  We don't always have to 
think immediately, for our own sake, of our own comfort alone. But 
right from the moment when cognitive mind begins to function, we 
could think in terms of something more than self-interest.

 From "Mindfulness Discipline: Cutting the Root of Cause and Effect," 
in THE 1980 HINAYANA-MAHAYANA TRANSCRIPTS, page 24.

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

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