[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Bliss and Vajra Pride

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

August 7, 2008

BLISS AND VAJRA PRIDE

On the level of tantra, the mahamudra level, pleasure does not take 
place through the pores of your skin, but pleasure takes place on 
your very flesh without skin. You become the bliss rather than 
enjoying the bliss. You are the embodiment of bliss, and this 
contains a quality of your being very powerful. You have conquered 
pleasure and pleasure is yours. One doesn't even have to go so far as 
to try to enjoy pleasure, but pleasure becomes self-existing bliss. 
In this way every experience that might occur in our life -- 
communication, visual experience, auditory experience, consciousness: 
anything that we relate to -- becomes completely workable, highly 
workable. In fact, even the notion of workability does not apply. 
It's yours. It is you, in fact. So things become very immediate.
         This is what is often called vajra pride, indestructible 
pride. Pride in this case is not arrogance, but is nondualistically 
self-contained. You are not threatened by your projections or 
projectors, but you are there, and at the same time, everything 
around you is you and yours.

 From "Mahamudra," in ILLUSION'S GAME: The Life and Teaching of 
Naropa. Page 121.

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