[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Negativity

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

January 17, 2008

NEGATIVITY

We all experience negativity -- the basic aggression of wanting 
things to be different than they are. We cling, we defend, we attack, 
and throughout, there is a sense of one's own wretchedness, and so we 
blame the world for our pain. This is negativity. We experience it as 
terribly unpleasant, foul-smelling, something we want to get rid of. 
But if we look into it more deeply, it has a very juicy smell and is 
very alive. Negativity is not bad per se, but something living and 
precise, connected with reality.

 From "Working with Negativity," in THE MYTH OF FREEDOM and the Way 
of Meditation, page 93. Shambhala Library edition.

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

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