[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Licking Honey on a Razor Blade

[Carolyn Gimian]

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May 5, 2008

LICKING HONEY ON A RAZOR BLADE

There is a quality of fearlessness in enlightenment, not regarding 
the world as an enemy, not feeling that the world is going to attack 
us if we do not take care of ourselves. Instead, there is tremendous 
delight in exploring the razor's edge, like a child who happens to 
pick up a razor blade with honey on it. It starts to lick it; it 
encounters the sweet taste and the blood dripping off its tongue at 
the same time. Simultaneous pain and pleasure are worth exploring, 
from the point of view of the sanity of crazy wisdom. This natural 
inquisitiveness is the youthful-prince quality of Padamsambhava, a 
great teacher who helped bring Buddhism to Tibet. It is the epitome 
of noncaring but at the same time caring so very much -- being eager 
to learn and eager to explore.

 From "Fearlessness," in CRAZY WISDOM, page 115.

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