[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Living on the Razor's Edge

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

September 16, 2007

LIVING ON THE RAZOR'S EDGE

Nowness is the sense that we are attuned to what is happening. The 
past is fiction and the future is a dream, and we are just living on 
the edge of a razor blade. It is extraordinarily sharp, 
extraordinarily tentative and quivering. We try to establish ground 
but the ground is not solid enough, because it is too sharp. We are 
quivering between that and this....This razor-blade quality is 
something more than psychological irritation. Life as a whole becomes 
penetratingly sharp -- unavoidable and at the same time cutting. We 
could say that is the living description of the truth that life 
contains pain. According to Buddhism, life or existence is defined 
according to the truth of suffering, which is the razor blade.

 From "The Razor's Edge," in ORDERLY CHAOS: THE MANDALA PRINCIPLE, 
pages 18 to 19.

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

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