[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: A Buddhist Saint

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

February 10, 2008

A BUDDHIST SAINT

Padmasambhava was an Indian teacher who brought the complete 
teachings of buddhadharma to Tibet. He remains our source of 
inspiration even now, here in the West...I suppose the best way to 
characterize Padmasambhava for people with a Western or Christian 
cultural outlook is to say that he was a saint....The Buddhist 
approach to spirituality is nontheistic. It does not have the 
principle of an external divinity.The Buddhist approach to 
spirituality is connected with awakening within oneself rather than 
with relating to something external....A saint in the Buddhist 
context -- for example, Padmasambhava  or a great being like the 
Buddha himself -- is someone who provides an example of the fact that 
completely ordinary, confused human beings can wake themselves up. 
They can put themselves together and wake themselves up....The pain, 
the suffering of all kinds, the misery and the chaos that are part of 
life, begins to wake them, shake them.

 From "Padmasambhava and Spiritual Materialism," in CRAZY WISDOM, pages 3 to 5.

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

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