[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Preproduction Freedom

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

September 30, 2008

PREPRODUCTION FREEDOM

Restrictions and inadequacies usually come from feeling burdened, as 
though we are carrying a heavy load. But if we develop the notion of 
space fully and properly, we begin to find that there is no burden, 
no load. That is a relief -- not just a petty relief, but a larger 
version of mind altogether. We begin to realize that an extraordinary 
openness takes place in our lives -- in the way we move, the way we 
eat, the way we sleep, and the way we create a work of art. 
Tremendous freedom takes place in that basic space. Such freedom is 
not a product of the creation of art; it is preproduction freedom. 
That is very important for you to know. Before we produce anything at 
all, we have to have a sense of free and open space with no obstacles 
of any kind.

 From "Heaven, Earth and Human," in TRUE PERCEPTION: THE PATH OF 
DHARMA ART, page 129. This new edition of DHARMA ART, containing 
additional material and a new introduction and preface, will be 
published by Shambhala Publications in November 2008. To preorder 
your copy at a 20% discount, go to:
http://www.shambhala.com/html/catalog/items/isbn/978-1-59030-588-1.cfm

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

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