[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Transcending Spiritual Materialism

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

July 1, 2009

TRANSCENDING SPIRITUAL MATERIALISM

Developing basic sanity is a process of working on ourselves in which 
the path itself rather than the attainment of a goal becomes the 
working basis. The path itself is what constantly inspires us, rather 
than, in the style of the carrot and the donkey, promises about 
certain achievements that lie ahead of us....The difference between 
spiritual materialism and transcending spiritual materialism is that, 
in spiritual materialism, promises are used like a carrot held in 
front of a donkey, luring him into all kinds of journeys. In 
transcending spiritual materialism, there is no goal. The goal exists 
in every moment of our life situation, in every moment of our 
spiritual journey. In this way, the spiritual journey becomes as 
exciting and as beautiful as if we were buddha already. There are 
constant new discoveries, constant messages, and constant warnings. 
There is also constant cutting down, constant painful lessons -- as 
well as pleasurable ones. The spiritual journey of transcending 
spiritual materialism is a complete journey rather than one that is 
dependent on an external goal.

 From "The Trikaya," in CRAZY WISDOM page 15.

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