[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Relating with the Subtleties of Thoughts

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

March 6, 2009

RELATING WITH THE SUBTLETIES OF THOUGHTS

The connection between small ideas and large 
ideas is very important. For instance, sudden 
dramas, such as murdering somebody or creating 
immense chaos, begin on the level of minute 
concepts and tiny shifts of attention. Something 
large is being triggered by something quite 
small. The first little hint of dislike or 
attraction for somebody eventually escalates and 
brings on a much more immense scale of emotional 
drama or psychodrama. So everything starts on a 
minute scale, at the beginning, and then 
expands
.Although emotions are seemingly very 
heavy-handed, large-scale, and crude, they have 
their origin in the subtle twists that take place 
in our mind constantly
.We experience the arising 
of such thoughts right now, all the time. It is 
possible for people who have been practicing 
meditation and studying the teachings, who are 
opened up and intrigued, to see this pattern. If 
you have been practicing, you are somewhat raw 
and unskinned, which is good. Being able to 
relate with the subtleties of mental shifts is 
connected with the principle of paying attention 
to every activity that we do in smaller doses.

 From "The Power of Flickering Thoughts," in THE 
TRUTH OF SUFFERING: and the Path of Liberation. 
Forthcoming from Shambhala Publications.


Of interest to Ocean of Dharma subscribers:

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