[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Compassion without Dependence

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

June 18, 2009

COMPASSION WITHOUT DEPENDENCE

The essence of compassion is to copy how you relate with your child 
(in your relationships with others). The problem is how much you want 
to be the head of the family or the ringleader of your friends. You 
know, if that ambition is not there, but you have a genuine 
willingness to share, that is precisely the concept of sangha, or the 
Buddhist community, in traditional terms. You are willing to be 
friends with everybody, but at the same time you are not particularly 
taking credit. You don't make people depend on you. Everybody can 
stand on his or her own feet. The ideal of helping is to make others 
independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather 
than making them addicted to you.

 From "The Practicing Lineage," in THE MISHAP LINEAGE: Transforming 
Confusion into Wisdom, page 7. Newly published by Shambhala Publications.

Order your copy at:

http://www.shambhala.com/html/catalog/items/isbn/978-1-59030-713-7.cfm


Ocean of Dharma now has 7,384 subscribers.

Please send comments to the list moderator, Carolyn Gimian, at 
carolyn at shambhala.com.

Teachings by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, taken from works published by 
Shambhala Publications,  the Archive of his unpublished work in the 
Shambhala Archives, plus other published sources.

TO SUBSCRIBE, unsubscribe, see the quotes online or read the Ocean of 
Dharma blog, visit the website at http://oceanofdharma.com





-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.shambhala.com/pipermail/dharmaocean/attachments/20090618/0b81737a/attachment.html