[OceanofDharma] Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week: Fresh Dharma

[cgimian at suchns.com]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

July 25, 2008

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FRESH DHARMA

The teachings are an individual personal experience, right down to the present 
holder of the lineage. They have the quality of warm, fresh baked bread; the 
bread is still warm and hot and fresh. Each baker must apply the general 
knowledge of how to make bread to his particular dough and oven. Then he must 
personally experience the freshness of his bread and must cut it fresh and eat 
it warm. It is a very living process. There is no deception in terms of viewing 
the teachings as collecting knowledge. We must work with our individual 
experiences. When we become confused, we cannot turn back to our collection of 
knowledge and try to find some confirmation or consolation: "The teacher and 
the whole teaching are on my side." The spiritual path does not go that way. It 
is a lonely individual path.

>From OCEAN OF DHARMA: THE EVERYDAY WISDOM OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA. Number 58.