[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Removing the Splinter of Ego

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

January 25, 2009

REMOVING THE SPLINTER OF EGO

Understanding suffering is very important. The practice of meditation 
is designed not to develop pleasure but to understand the truth of 
suffering; and in order to understand the truth of suffering, one 
also has to understand the truth of awareness. When true awareness 
takes place, suffering does not exist. Through awareness, suffering 
is somewhat changed in its perspective. It is not necessarily that 
you do not suffer, but the haunting quality that fundamentally you 
are in trouble is removed. It is like removing a splinter. It might 
hurt, and you might still feel pain, but the basic cause of that 
pain, the ego, has been removed.

 From Chapter Three, "The Power of Flickering Thoughts," in THE TRUTH 
OF SUFFERING AND THE PATH OF LIBERATION, edited by Judith Lief, 
forthcoming this Spring from Shambhala Publications. This book is 
entirely based on talks at the Vajradhatu Seminaries conducted by 
Chogyam Trungpa.

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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