[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Outrageous Dharma

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

August 14, 2008

OUTRAGEOUS DHARMA

The reason dharma is regarded as sacred as opposed to other things, 
as opposed to a-dharmas or anti-dharmas, is because its contents are 
outrageous, in that the contents are in touch with the energy of the 
world, the cosmic flow, so to speak, of the world. So there is almost 
a magical element in that. And in fact the dharma is not the dharma 
particularly because it's so sensible and so true in the ordinary 
sense; therefore it is workable and it works. Rather, there is that 
element of the magical quality of dharma. So the unconditioned truth, 
the unconditioned dharma, has extraordinary power in it.

 From "The First Foundation: Mindfulness of Body," in the 1973 
Hinayana-Mahayana Transcripts, page 38.

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