[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Freedom from Habitual Tendencies

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

December 11, 2008

FREEDOM FROM HABITUAL TENDENCIES

There are all kinds of habitual tendencies that are connected with 
holding on to what we are. People get divorced because they think 
they might find a better mate. People change restaurants because they 
think they might get cheaper and better food. The habitual patterns 
of ego work that way. The notion of enlightenment is a sense of 
freedom from those patterns. And the way to attain that freedom is by 
means of the sitting practice of meditation. In sitting practice, we 
look at our minds, and we maintain good posture. When we combine body 
and mind that way, we find ourselves emulating the Buddha -- the way 
to be properly. Then we begin to develop sympathy toward ourselves, 
rather than just holding on.

 From "Manifesting Enlightenment," in THE HEART OF THE BUDDHA, pages 
212 to 213.

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

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