[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Poverty Is Also Richness

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

November 26, 2008

POVERTY IS ALSO RICHNESS

The buddha of the human realm is a buddha with a begging bowl. This 
represents the mentality of poverty, which is the largest concern of 
the human realm. In order to relate with poverty, you have to speak 
the language of poverty. But by carrying a begging bowl, in fact, it 
is as though you always have something to put things into. In other 
words, the ultimate mentality of poverty is also the mentality of 
richness at the same time. Whatever situations need to be created, 
you can create them, and you get it. You are in command of the whole 
situation. So that is being extremely wealthy.

 From "The Human Realm," in TRANSCENDING MADNESS: THE EXPERIENCE OF 
THE SIX BARDOS, page 247.


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.

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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Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week: teachings by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
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