From carolyn at shambhala.com Mon Nov 2 14:19:40 2009 From: carolyn at shambhala.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:19:40 -0500 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Ocean of Dharma: Come Down to Earth Message-ID: <51c580cf$3820990e$6431d3c1$@com> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week November 2 , 2009 COME DOWN TO EARTH The disciplined technique of practicing meditation amounts to putting yourself into an inconceivable situation in which the analytical mind doesn't function anymore. So I would say that the disciplines of the Buddhist teachings are largely a way of freeing oneself from analytical mind, which has a dream quality. Analytical mind is close to the clouds, while the instinctual level is much closer to the earth. So in order to come down to earth, you have to use the earth as a means of bringing you down. >From "An Approach to Meditation: A Talk to Psychologists" in The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Psychology, page 53. 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URL: http://lists.shambhala.com/pipermail/dharmaocean/attachments/20091102/abca9710/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Fri Nov 6 12:16:58 2009 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:16:58 -0400 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Getting Out of the Cocoon Message-ID: <20091106171700.JWAW3150.torspm04.toronto.rmgopenwave.com@shambhal-e9f554.suchns.com> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week November 6, 2009 GETTING OUT OF THE COCOON The point of the Shambhala training is to get out of the cocoon, which is the shyness and aggression in which we have wrapped ourselves. When we have more aggression, we feel more fortified. We feel good, because we have more to talk about. We feel that we are the greatest author of the complaint. We write poetry about it. We express ourselves through it. Instead of constantly complaining, can't we do something positive to help this world? The more we complain, the more concrete slabs will be put on the earth. The less we complain, the more possibilities there will be of tilling the land and sowing seeds. We should feel that we can do something positive for the world instead of covering it with our aggression and complaints. From Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala, page 6. Order your copy at: http://www.shambhala.com/html/catalog/items/isbn/978-1-57062-818-4.cfm Ocean of Dharma is now on facebook! Find mini-quotes at: http://www.facebook.com/ShambhalaPublications Ocean of Dharma now has 8,005 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/20091106/336e17da/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Mon Nov 9 08:12:50 2009 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:12:50 -0400 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Early Morning Depression Message-ID: <20091109131252.DGUT3150.torspm04.toronto.rmgopenwave.com@shambhal-e9f554.suchns.com> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week November 9, 2009 EARLY MORNING DEPRESSION When you feel depressed, when you feel bad, it is sometimes for no reason at all. You wake up in the morning and feel hopeless, terrible. We may use our experiences to justify that feeling. I feel bad...because I don't have any money. I feel bad...because something has gone wrong in my life. In fact, our early morning depression is not all that logical. Out of nowhere, you just don't feel so good. Then you come up with all kinds of logical explanations for why you are depressed. In the Shambhala tradition, we talk about how fearlessness comes out of the realization of fear. Similarly, when you experience morning depression, it is possible to cheer up. That situation is genuine and quite workable. From morning depression and its terror, we can step right into basic goodness. We can appreciate depression as being like a wobbly staircase. When you put your foot on the first step, you wonder whether it's going to hold you. You might fall. But as you take further steps, you realize that it's going to carry you upstairs. We learn to reject the terror of morning depression and to step into morning basic goodness, right on the spot. From Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa. # 77. Originally condensed from Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala, pages 30-31. Order your copy of Ocean of Dharma at: http://www.shambhala.com/html/catalog/items/isbn/978-1-59030-536-2.cfm Ocean of Dharma is now on facebook! 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URL: http://lists.shambhala.com/pipermail/dharmaocean/attachments/20091109/84c3232c/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Sat Nov 14 05:30:08 2009 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:30:08 -0400 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Remaining Human Message-ID: <20091114103012.HANU5108.torspm04.toronto.rmgopenwave.com@shambhal-e9f554.suchns.com> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week November 14, 2009 REMAINING HUMAN Going along with mindfulness requires a great deal of trust. Probably the beginning meditator will not be able simply to rest there, but will feel the need for a change. I remember someone who had just finished a meditation retreat telling me how she had sat and felt her body and felt grounded. But then she thought how she should be doing something else. She went on to tell me how the right book had "just jumped" into her lap, and she had started to read. At that point, one doesn't have a solid base anymore. One's mind is beginning to grow little wings. Mindfulness of body has to do with trying to remain human, rather than becoming an animal or fly or etheric being. It means just trying to remain a human being, an ordinary human being. From "The Four Foundations of Mindfulness," in THE SANITY WE ARE BORN WITH: A BUDDHIST APPROACH TO PSYCHOLOGY, page 27. Available at: http://www.shambhala.com/html/catalog/items/isbn/978-1-59030-090-9.cfm Ocean of Dharma is now on facebook! Find mini-quotes at: http://www.facebook.com/ShambhalaPublications Ocean of Dharma now has 8,064 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/20091114/c7d9d142/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Wed Nov 18 16:53:39 2009 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:53:39 -0400 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Cling Free Message-ID: <20091118215342.QCSA11188.torspm04.toronto.rmgopenwave.com@shambhal-e9f554.suchns.com> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week November 18, 2009 CLING FREE The application of mindfulness has to be precise. If we cling to our practice, we create stagnation. Therefore, in our application of the techniques of mindfulness, we must be aware of the fundamental tendency to cling, to survive. We come to this in the mindfulness of life, or survival. We encounter this tendency in the form of clinging to the meditative state. We experience the meditative state and it is momentarily tangible, but in that same moment it is also dissolving. Going along with this process means developing a sense of letting go of awareness as well as of contacting it. This could be described as touch-and-go: you are there -- present, mindful -- and then you let go. From "The Four Foundations of Mindfulness," in THE SANITY WE ARE BORN WITH: A BUDDHIST APPROACH TO PSYCHOLOGY, pages 27 to 28. Available at: http://www.shambhala.com/html/catalog/items/isbn/978-1-59030-090-9.cfm Ocean of Dharma is now on facebook! Find mini-quotes at: http://www.facebook.com/ShambhalaPublications Ocean of Dharma now has 8,078 subscribers. Please send comments to the list moderator, Carolyn Gimian, at carolyn at shambhala.com. 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