[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: The Sun Is about to Rise

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

December 21, 2008

THE SUN IS ABOUT TO RISE

The Great Eastern Sun is the sun that is fully risen in your life. It 
is the sun of wakefulness, the sun of human dignity. It is Great 
because it represents upliftedness and the qualities of openness and 
gentleness. You have an uplifted sense of posture or place in your 
world, which we call having good head and shoulders. It is East 
because you have a smile on your face. East is the concept of dawn. 
When you look to the East, first thing in the morning, you see light 
coming from the East, even before the sun rises. So East is the smile 
you have when you wake up. The sun is about to rise. Fresh air is 
coming with the dawn. So the sun is East and it is Great.

 From "Facing Yourself," in CONQUERING FEAR, forthcoming from 
Shambhala Publications, Fall 2009.


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

OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 6,521 subscribers.

Please send comments on and contributions to OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES 
OF THE WEEK to the list moderator, Carolyn Gimian at: carolyn at shambhala.com.

Carolyn Rose Gimian

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week: teachings by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
Taken from works published by Shambhala Publications,  the Archive of 
his unpublished work in the Shambhala Archives, plus other published sources.
TO SUBSCRIBE visit the Chogyam Trungpa website by clicking on the 
following link: http://OceanofDharma.com
TO UNSUBSCRIBE: <http://lists.shambhala.com/mailman/listinfo/dharmaocean>,
         <mailto:dharmaocean-request at lists.shambhala.com?subject=unsubscribe>




Carolyn Rose Gimian

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week: teachings by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
Taken from works published by Shambhala Publications,  the Archive of 
his unpublished work in the Shambhala Archives, plus other published sources.
TO SUBSCRIBE visit the website at http://oceanofdharma.com
For the Chogyam Trungpa Legacy Project and the blog of Carolyn Gimian 
go to: http://ChogyamTrungpa.com


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.shambhala.com/pipermail/dharmaocean/attachments/20081221/9987802f/attachment.html