[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Transcending Aggression

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

November 23, 2008

TRANSCENDING AGGRESSION

The experience of hell comes from deliberate, basic aggression. That 
aggression is the opposite of patience....The basic aggression of 
hell comes from your wanting to destroy your projection. It is 
natural aggression: you want to destroy the mirror. Since projection 
works as it is, in a very efficient and accurate way, it becomes too 
embarrassing. You don't want to go along with it. Instead of seeing 
the naked truth, you want to destroy the mirror -- to the extent of 
not only destroying the projection, or the mirror, but also the 
perceiver of the mirror. The perceiver is also extremely painful, so 
there is the suicidal mentality of wanting to destroy the perceiver 
of the mirror as well as the mirror itself. There is constant 
struggle, destruction, going on.....However, change is taking place 
always, constantly. That is why the teachings place tremendous 
importance on the realization of impermanence. Impermanence becomes 
extremely important at this particular point of aggression. 
Aggression is trying to freeze the space, trying to sterilize the 
space. But when you begin to see the impermanence, you cannot 
solidify space anymore. That then is the peak experience of 
transcending aggression.

 From "The Bardo of Death," in TRANSCENDING MADNESS: THE EXPERIENCE 
OF THE SIX BARDOS, pages 146 to 147.


Of interest to readers:

Emacs!
     Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, prominent Buddhist teacher and the 
author of What Makes You Not a Buddhist, will be teaching a public 
seminar in Halifax, Nova Scotia, November 28 to 30. Rinpoche will 
comment on Transcending Madness: The Experience of the Six Bardos, 
Chogyam Trungpa's book on the bardo states and the six realms. 
Khyentse Rinpoche's dynamic style and brilliant intellect, as well as 
his deep appreciation for Chogyam Trungpa's teachings, are sure to 
make this a memorable weekend.

The program begins Friday evening, November 28, and runs until the 
afternoon of Nov. 30. For more information on registration, phone 
902-420-1118, x 10, or go to: 
http://www.halifax.shambhala.org/eventdetails.php?id=2764

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

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