[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Nonaction Is the Source of All Action

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

December 31, 2008

NONACTION IS THE SOURCE OF ALL ACTION

Real peace is nonaction; that is the source of all action. We have to 
learn how to be a rock in order to be a tree or a flower or wind or 
lightning or a typhoon. We have to be still; then we go beyond that. 
Therefore sitting practice is very important. (In meditation) we are 
not particularly training ourselves to destroy or conquer the world. 
We are trying to relate to the world in the same way that we relate 
to the birth of our first child or, for that matter, to our own 
orgasm -- which happens, I hope, when we make love. Anything active 
that happens has some relationship to that very stillness. That 
stillness is not vacant or deadly; it is fully of energy, automatically.

Thanks to  Todd Amodeo for suggesting this quote from "What Is the 
Heart of the Buddha?" in THE HEART OF THE BUDDHA, page 9.  And 
apologies to Barry Gruessner, who suggested the last quote, for 
calling him Bruce.

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

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