[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Sane Romanticism

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

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March 23, 2008

SANE ROMANTICISM

It is time to begin with the romantic approach, the sane romantic 
approach, not the materialistic romantic approach. Our being here 
together happened purely by accident. It is a very precious accident 
that we are able to discuss such a topic as the life of 
Padmasambhava, the great Tibetan teacher. The opportunity to discuss 
such a subject is very rare, unique, very precious. But such rare and 
precious situations go on constantly; our life as part of the 
teachings is extremely precious. Each person is here purely by 
accident, and since it was an accident, it cannot be repeated. That 
is why it is precious. That is why the dharma is precious. Everything 
becomes precious; human life becomes precious. There is this rare 
preciousness of our human life: we each have our brain, our sense 
perceptions, our materials to work on. We each have had our problems 
in the past: our depressions, our moments of insanity, our struggles 
-- all those make sense. So the journey goes on, the accident goes on 
-- which is that we are here. This is the kind of romanticism, the 
kind of warmth I am talking about. It is worthwhile approaching the 
teaching in this way.

 From "Cynicism & Devotion," in CRAZY WISDOM, page 71.

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

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