[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Meditation as Part of Daily Life

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

December 28, 2008

MEDITATION AS PART OF DAILY LIFE

Chogyam Trungpa: Meditation practices have nothing to do with the 
value of the techniques as such, but are based on simplicity as a 
whole.  They (students) shouldn't regard the technique as magical 
power at all.  I should warn everybody that meditation has no magical 
power as such, but everybody has to work on themselves.  Having used 
the technique diligently, from that point, people begin to 
develop.  There is simplicity in the technique; they don't have to 
strive for it.  The technique becomes part of themselves, (the) same 
as drinking a cup of tea, that becomes very close to it.  So the 
technique should be referred to as part of the daily life situation, 
rather than medicine or a sedative as such.

Student: But what does meditation develop?

CT: Becoming sane and becoming skillful in dealing with your daily life.

S: OK, but how does it happen?

CT: Well, it just happens!

Thanks to Bruce Gruessner for suggesting and transcribing this quote 
from an interview in 1971 in Montreal. The interview is posted on The 
Chronicles of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, at
http://www.chronicleproject.com/chroniclesradio_dispatches/2008_07_17.html

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

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