[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Radiation without a Radiator

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

February 14, 2008 Valentine's Day

RADIATION WITHOUT A RADIATOR

Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive 
warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a 
balanced state of being and highly intelligent. Self-consciousness 
inhibits this intelligent, balanced state of being. By opening, by 
dropping our self-conscious grasping, we see not only the surface of 
an object, but we see the whole way through. We appreciate not in 
terms of sensational qualities alone, but we see in terms of whole 
qualities, which are pure gold. We are not overwhelmed by the 
exterior, but seeing the exterior simultaneously puts us through to 
the interior. So we reach the heart of the situation, and if this is 
a meeting of two people, the relationship is very inspiring because 
we do not see the other person purely in terms of physical attraction 
or habitual patterns. We see the inside as well as the outside.

 From "Love" in THE MYTH OF FREEDOM, page 110.

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

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