[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Sadness for Others

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

November 16, 2008

SADNESS FOR OTHERS

[For Baird Bryant, a student of Chogyam Trungpa's who passed away this week]

I personally feel sadness, always. You feel sad, 
but you don't want to burst into tears. You feel 
embryonic sadness. There are hundreds of 
thousands of people who need your help, which 
makes you feel sad, so sad. It's not that you 
need someone to keep you company, but it is sad 
because you feel the sense of aloneness, and 
others do not. Many people have this experience. 
For example, I have a friend and student named 
Baird Bryant whom I've worked with for many 
years. He is a filmmaker, and we worked together 
on several films. I can see that he has that kind 
of sadness. He wishes that something could be 
done for others, that something could be made 
right. He has that sadness, aloneness, and 
loneliness, which I appreciate very much. In 
fact, I have learned from witnessing my friend's experience.

 From "Helping Others," in GREAT EASTERN SUN: THE 
WISDOM OF SHAMBHALA, page 175.

Great Eastern Sun
<http://www.shambhala.com/html/catalog/items/isbn/978-1-57062-818-4.cfm#zoomed#zoomed>
Great Eastern Sun


"As a loving and grateful student of Chögyam 
Trungpa, the Dorje Dradul of Mukpo, I am 
delighted that these wonderful teachings -­which 
have so profoundly influenced and shaped my life 
­- are now available to benefit others. May 
countless people have the good fortune to read 
this book."­Pema Chodrön, author of When Things Fall Apart

Available from Shambhala Publications on line at:
http://www.shambhala.com/html/catalog/items/isbn/978-1-57062-818-4.cfm

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

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Carolyn Rose Gimian

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week: teachings by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
Taken from works published by Shambhala Publications,  the Archive of 
his unpublished work in the Shambhala Archives, plus other published sources.
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