[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Creative Negativity

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

January 25, 2008

CREATIVE NEGATIVITY

The basic honesty and simplicity of negativity can be creative in 
community as well as in personal relationships. Basic negativity is 
very revealing, sharp, and accurate. If we leave it as basic 
negativity rather than overlaying it with conceptualizations, then we 
see the nature of its intelligence. Negativity breeds a great deal of 
energy, which clearly seen becomes intelligence. When we leave the 
energies as they are with their natural qualities, they are living 
rather than conceptualized. They strengthen our everyday lives.

 From "Working with Negativity," in THE MYTH OF FREEDOM and the Way 
of Meditation, page 94. Shambhala Library edition.

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

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