From cgimian at suchns.com Fri Aug 4 11:46:23 2006 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Fri Aug 4 11:46:38 2006 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Dare to Let Go Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20060804120541.01df9580@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week August 4, 2006 DARE TO LET GO In the practice of meditation, the way to be daring, the way to leap, is to disown your thoughts, to step beyond your hope and fear, the ups and downs of your thinking process. You can just be, just let yourself be, without holding on to the constant reference points that mind manufactures. You do not have to get rid of your thoughts. They are a natural process; they are fine; let them be as well. But let yourself go out with the breath, let it dissolve. See what happens. When you let yourself go in that way, you develop trust in the strength of your being and trust in your ability to open and extend yourself to others. You realize that you are rich and resourceful enough to give selflessly to others, and as well, you find that you have tremendous willingness to do so. From "Renunciation and Daring," in SHAMBHALA: THE SACRED PATH OF THE WARRIOR, the Shambhala Library Edition, pages 63 to 64. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 4,590 subscribers. Please send comments on and contributions to OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK to the list moderator, Carolyn Gimian at: carolyn@shambhala.com. Carolyn Rose Gimian Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week: 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 Taken from works published by Shambhala Publications, the Archive of his unpublished work in the Shambhala Archives, plus other published sources.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 visit the Chogyam Trungpa website by clicking on the following link: http://OceanofDharma.com From cgimian at suchns.com Tue Aug 8 10:20:22 2006 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Tue Aug 8 10:20:36 2006 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: The Humble Warrior Is Supreme Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20060808093259.01e6df90@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week August 8, 2006 THE HUMBLE WARRIOR IS SUPREME Once you have made a leap of daring, you might become arrogant. You might say to yourself: "Look, I have jumped! I am so great, so fantastic!" But arrogant warriorship does not work. It does nothing to benefit others. You need to cultivate gentleness, so that you remain humble, soft, and open. Allow tenderness to come into your heart. Renounce putting on a new suit of armor or growing a thick skin. The warrior who has accomplished true renunciation is completely naked and raw, without even skin or tissue. You are able to be, quite fearlessly, what you are. Slogan 22, SHAMBHALA THE SACRED PATH OF THE WARRIOR BOOK AND CARD SET. Available at a 20% discount at Shambhala.com: http://shambhala.com/html/catalog/items/isbn/1-59030-177-3.cfm All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 4,601 subscribers. Please send comments on and contributions to OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK to the list moderator, Carolyn Gimian at: carolyn@shambhala.com. Carolyn Rose Gimian Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week: 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 visit the Chogyam Trungpa website by clicking on the following link: http://OceanofDharma.com From cgimian at suchns.com Fri Aug 11 07:42:18 2006 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Fri Aug 11 07:42:40 2006 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Appreciate the Accomplishments of Ancestors Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20060811083636.01d64f78@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week August 11, 2006 APPRECIATE THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF YOUR ANCESTORS We should not ignore the contributions of the past. The failure to appreciate the resourcefulness of human existence -- which we call basic goodness --has become one of the world's biggest problems. However, we need to find the link between tradition and the present experience of life. NOWNESS, or the magic of the present moment, is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present. When you appreciate a painting, a piece of music, or a work of literature, no matter when it was created, you appreciate it NOW. You experience the same nowness in which is was created. It is always NOW. Slogan 34, in SHAMBHALA THE SACRED PATH OF THE WARRIOR BOOK AND CARD SET. Available at a 20% discount at Shambhala.com: http://shambhala.com/html/catalog/items/isbn/1-59030-177-3.cfm All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 4,612 subscribers. Please send comments on and contributions to OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK to the list moderator, Carolyn Gimian at: carolyn@shambhala.com. Carolyn Rose Gimian Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week: 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 visit the Chogyam Trungpa website by clicking on the following link: http://OceanofDharma.com From cgimian at suchns.com Mon Aug 14 07:57:31 2006 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Mon Aug 14 07:58:36 2006 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: This Very Moment Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20060814085508.01d7a590@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week August 14, 2006 THIS VERY MOMENT IS ALWAYS THE OCCASION The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society. You may wonder what the best approach is to helping society and how you can know that what you are doing is authentic and good. The only answer is nowness. The way to relax, or rest the mind in nowness, is through the practice of meditation. In meditation you take an unbiased approach. You let things be as they are, without judgment, and in that way you yourself learn to be. Slogan 35, in SHAMBHALA THE SACRED PATH OF THE WARRIOR BOOK AND CARD SET. Available at a 20% discount at Shambhala.com: http://shambhala.com/html/catalog/items/isbn/1-59030-177-3.cfm All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 4,613 subscribers. Please send comments on and contributions to OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK to the list moderator, Carolyn Gimian at: carolyn@shambhala.com. Carolyn Rose Gimian Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week: 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 visit the Chogyam Trungpa website by clicking on the following link: http://OceanofDharma.com From cgimian at suchns.com Thu Aug 17 08:39:25 2006 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Thu Aug 17 08:39:36 2006 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: The Wish-Fulfilling Gem Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20060816210806.040335d0@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week August 17, 2006 THE WISH-FULFILLING GEM The moon rises, the sun has set, Planets rotate in their orbit. Yet the heavens will not change. This we discover in each other. Do not hope for too much -- Results might bring painful disappointment. If you remain without any doubts That is the wish-fulfilling gem. Excerpted from "the Victoria Memorial," in MUDRA: EARLY POEMS AND SONGS, page 23. Written in 1969. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 4,619 subscribers. Please send comments on and contributions to OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK to the list moderator, Carolyn Gimian at: carolyn@shambhala.com. Carolyn Rose Gimian Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week: 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 visit the Chogyam Trungpa website by clicking on the following link: http://OceanofDharma.com From cgimian at suchns.com Sun Aug 20 16:14:59 2006 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Sun Aug 20 16:15:07 2006 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: The Three Wheels Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20060820170257.01623bb0@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week August 20, 2006 THE THREE WHEELS There is a tremendously fertile situation happening with American karma, the American search for spirituality. Students here are involved in the basic patterns of practice and study that evolved in the medieval times of Indian Buddhism, at places like Vikramashila and Nalanda University. In North America, we are involved with the same view of the three wheels: the wheel of meditation, the wheel of study -- in terms of understanding the intellectual aspect of the teaching -- and the wheel of action -- in relating with day-to-day living situations. So we are forming this sangha, the community in North America, in accordance with the basic Buddhist teaching that evolved already in the past. Maybe ours is not a strict monastic sangha; we are not a community of monks and nuns. But our situation could be referred to as the maha or greater sangha: the greater community in which yogis and yoginis, lay practitioners, can live and work together. Excerpts from "The Ultimate Truth Is Fearless," the Opening Ceremony of the Karma Dzong Meditation Center, 1111 Pearl Street, Boulder, Colorado, 25 February 1972. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 4,628 subscribers. Please send comments on and contributions to OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK to the list moderator, Carolyn Gimian at: carolyn@shambhala.com. Carolyn Rose Gimian Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week: 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 visit the Chogyam Trungpa website by clicking on the following link: http://OceanofDharma.com From cgimian at suchns.com Wed Aug 23 11:28:14 2006 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Wed Aug 23 11:28:25 2006 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Open House Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20060823122528.016e5830@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week August 23, 2006 OPEN HOUSE [From unpublished remarks at the opening of the first meditation center in Boulder, Colorado:] This event is a proclamation of open house. Those who want to practice are invited to take part in meditation, to go through the pain, go through the bliss, whatever you experience. Creating an open house situation is a gesture proclaiming that our aim and object are not related with dogma but on trying to encompass all areas of openness. That knowledge can be found throughout the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism or Buddhism in general -- Sanskrit Buddhism, Pali Buddhism, or other schools of Buddhism. Since it is known that all dharmas are marked with emptiness, therefore all dharma is marked with openness, at the same time. There is tremendous room to work with chaos or confusion. Excerpts from "The Ultimate Truth Is Fearless," the Opening Ceremony of the Karma Dzong Meditation Center, 1111 Pearl Street, Boulder, Colorado, 25 February 1972. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 4,636 subscribers. Please send comments on and contributions to OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK to the list moderator, Carolyn Gimian at: carolyn@shambhala.com. Carolyn Rose Gimian Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week: 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 visit the Chogyam Trungpa website by clicking on the following link: http://OceanofDharma.com From cgimian at suchns.com Thu Aug 24 08:21:39 2006 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Thu Aug 24 08:22:52 2006 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Dragon Thunder Available Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20060823162745.0174f438@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week August 24, 2006 This is a special announcement about a book of interest to Ocean of Dharma readers: Subscribers to Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week may want to know that DRAGON THUNDER: MY LIFE WITH CHOGYAM TRUNGPA by Diana J. Mukpo with Carolyn Rose Gimian is now available at Shambhala.com. If you order direct from the publisher, Shambhala Publications, you receive 20% off the list price. [See below for information on book signings and other book related events.] In the monthly Shambhala Publications newsletter, the publisher writes: Chogyam Trungpa is a figure of inestimable importance in the transmission of the Buddhist teachings from the mystic East to the rational West, and we are honored to be his principal publisher. But he was an unconventional lama, and controversial enough that, though his teaching lives on twenty years after his death, the man himself remains a puzzle to many. In an interview a few years back, Pema Chodron expressed a feeling that many share: "I felt everything he did was to help others," she said, "but I would also say now that maybe my understanding has gone even deeper, and it feels more to the point to say I don't know. I don't know what he was doing. I know he changed my life. I know I love him. But I don't know who he was. I learned something from him. But who was that masked man?" One person uniquely qualified to answer that question would be the woman he was married to for the last seventeen years of his life, Diana Mukpo. This, Diana's memoir, provides the most intimate portrait of Chogyam Trungpa that we will likely have. It begins with her marriage to Trungpa -- as a sixteen-year-old girl from an upper-class English family -- and goes on to detail the couple's migration to America and the establishment of his teaching here, with her close participation. "It was not always easy to be the guru's wife," she writes, "but I must say it was seldom boring." Diana led an unusual life as the "first lady" of a burgeoning Buddhist community in the American 1970s and '80s. She conveys with insight and humor what it was like to be the first modern Western woman married to a Tibetan lama, as well as what it was like to be married to a man who was adored and sought out by thousands of eager students. Surprising events and colorful characters fill the narrative as Diana seeks to understand the dynamic, puzzling, and larger-than-life man she married -- and to find a place for herself in this extraordinary world. But who, as Pema asked, was that masked man? Though this book provides intriguing clues, the question may not have a simple satisfying answer. As Diana says, "When the teacher dies, it is like breaking a vase; the air that was held in the container mixes with the whole of space. It is partially in this sense that the teacher's death is a blessing." The more we learn about the masked man, the more we are confronted with his teaching, and the more he seems, almost mischievously, to disappear beneath it. And this seems appropriate -- even though it remains fascinating to read about him. David O'Neal, Senior Editor Shambhala Publications Book events: September 8 to 10: Cleveland, Ohio, Shambhala Center Buddhist Program October 12, Boston, Trident Booksellers Book Signing October 13, Boston, Shambhala Meditation Center: Lecture October 14: Providence, RI, Brown Bookstore: Book Signing October 20: Boulder, Colorado, Naropa University, Keynote Address and Booksigning at the first Naropa Ocean of Dharma conference on the life and teachings of Chogyam Trungpa. October 20 to 22: Diana Mukpo will attend the Ocean of Dharma conference on the life and teachings of Chogyam Trungpa at Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado. November 2: Halifax, Nova Scotia: Reading and Book signing co-sponsored by Shambhala Centre of Halifax and Frog Hollow Books. Place to be announced. Tickets will be around $7 -- or buy your book from Frog Hollow and get a ticket for 2$. Other events to be announced. For contact information for any of these events, you can write to carolyn@shambhala.com OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 4,638 subscribers. Please send comments on and contributions to OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK to the list moderator, Carolyn Gimian at: carolyn@shambhala.com. Carolyn Rose Gimian Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week: 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 visit the Chogyam Trungpa website by clicking on the following link: http://OceanofDharma.com From cgimian at suchns.com Mon Aug 28 14:10:48 2006 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Mon Aug 28 14:11:24 2006 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Within Ourselves Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20060828135755.01643800@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week August 28, 2006 WITHIN OURSELVES It is necessary to light the torch of wisdom to illuminate the thick black fog of materialism.... One of the greatest teachings of Buddhism is that which transcends this and that, or the dualistic barrier. This is often described as the sword of Manjushri [a deity who personifies transcendental wisdom] which cuts the aorta of ego.... Talking about great wisdom, the most stupid remark that has been heard is that enlightenment could be manufactured by external means. That is the question: whether an experience such as transcendental knowledge can be achieved by external means or logical means or concepts or whether it is something that we have to cultivate within ourselves. It seems that there is no other way than to work through the natural situation of daily existence. Hope, fear, pain, pleasure, misery, bliss: these dichotomies constantly go on. In order to transcend them, we have to use them as stepping stones, without relying on heretical ideas that enlightenment could be achieved by external means. Something has to develop within ourselves. Excerpts from "The Ultimate Truth Is Fearless," the Opening Ceremony of the Karma Dzong Meditation Center, 1111 Pearl Street, Boulder, Colorado, 25 February 1972. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 4,648 subscribers. Please send comments on and contributions to OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK to the list moderator, Carolyn Gimian at: carolyn@shambhala.com. Carolyn Rose Gimian Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week: 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 visit the Chogyam Trungpa website by clicking on the following link: http://OceanofDharma.com