[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Vajra Pride

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

March 30, 2008

VAJRA PRIDE

Vajra, or indestructible, pride is the sense that basic sanity does 
exist in our state of being, so we don't particularly have to try to 
work it out logically. We don't have to prove that something is 
happening or not happening. The basic dissatisfaction that causes us 
to look for some spiritual understanding is an expression of vajra 
pride: we are not willing to submit to the suppression of our 
confusion. We are willing to stick our necks out. That seems to be a 
first expression of the vajra-pride instinct -- and we can go on from there!

 From "Let the Phenomena Play," in CRAZY WISDOM, page 60.

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