[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: See the World as Sacred

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

[The Ocean of Dharma book goes on sale tomorrow. See information below.]

April 7, 2008

SEE THE WORLD AS SACRED

Usually in life, when we act, when we exist, we tend to have a very 
wretched and small notion of what we are doing. Sometimes, we try to 
be good boys and girls. We struggle, taking our journey stitch by 
stitch. We go to sleep at night, we get up the next day, and we 
struggle to lead our life. The ordinary approach to that is 
undignified and very small, like flat Coca-Cola. Sometimes we feel 
better, we try to cheer up, and it feels pretty good. But then, 
behind that, there is the same familiar "me" haunting us all the 
time. We don't have to be that way, at all. We actually could see our 
world as a big world and see ourselves as open and vast. We can see 
our world as sacred. That is the key to bringing together the sun of 
wisdom with the moon of wakefulness.

 From OCEAN OF DHARMA: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa. 365 
Teachings on Living Life with Courage and Compassion. Number 284. 
[Unpublished excerpt from Talk Five of Warriorship in the Three 
Yanas. August 1978, Rocky Mountain Dharma Center.]

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