[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Buddha Saw the Problem

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

January 4, 2009

BUDDHA SAW THE PROBLEM

With tremendous deception, we create samsara -- pain and misery for 
the whole world, including ourselves --but we still come off as if we 
were innocent. We call ourselves ladies and gentlemen, and we say, "I 
never commit any sins or create any problems. I''m just a regular old 
person, blah blah blah." That snowballing of deception and the type 
of existence our deception creates are shocking.

You might ask, "If everybody is involved with that particular scheme 
or project, then who sees the problem at all? Couldn't everybody just 
join in so that we don't have to see each other that way? Then we 
could just appreciate ourselves and our snowballing neuroses, and 
there would be no reference point whatsoever outside of that." 
Fortunately -- or maybe unfortunately -- we have one person who saw 
that there was a
problem. That person was known as Buddha. He saw that there was a 
problem, he worked on it, and he got beyond it. He saw that the 
problem could be reduced -- and not just reduced, but completely 
annihilated, because he discovered how to prevent the problem right 
at the source. Right at the beginning, cessation is possible. 
Cessation is possible not only for the Buddha, but for us as well. We 
are trying to follow his path, his approach.

 From "Introduction" to THE TRUTH OF SUFFERING AND THE PATH OF 
LIBERATION, edited by Judith Lief, forthcoming this Spring from 
Shambhala Publications. To preorder your copy at a 20% discount, go to:
http://www.shambhala.com/html/catalog/items/isbn/978-1-59030-668-0.cfm

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

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