[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: The Buddhist Journey

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

October 20, 2005

THE BUDDHIST JOURNEY

The Buddhist journey is a journey from beginning to end in which the end is 
also the beginning....It is an ongoing journey [in a vehicle] without 
reverse and without brakes. It is an ongoing process. Beginning this 
journey is committing yourself to a particular karmic flow, a karmic chain 
reaction. It is like being born. When you are born, nobody can say, "That 
was just a rehearsal" and take the whole thing back. Once you are born, you 
keep on growing up, growing older, becoming aged, more aged, and then 
finally you die. When you are born, there is a certain amount of commitment 
involved -- to be born as a human child from a mother's womb, with parents, 
with a house, and so on. This Buddhist journey is a very definite one, 
absolutely definite, and that is why it is called Buddhism. Although "ism" 
is a rather ugly suffix, it is a definite "ism." It is a "Buddha-ism," 
because we are trying to imitate Buddha's journey.

 From THE LION'S ROAR: An Introduction to Tantra, page 3. Edited by Sherab 
Chodzin.

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