From cgimian at suchns.com Sun Apr 1 08:47:14 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Sun Apr 1 08:47:23 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: The Joke Is on Us Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20070401093640.0198fb20@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week April Fools Day 2007 THE JOKE IS ON US In order to become a follower of the dharma [the teachings of Buddhism], one has to become nonaggressive, beyond aggression. In order to do that, there has to be some kind of warmth in oneself, gentleness in oneself, which is known as maitri, and there has to be greater gentleness to others, which is known as karuna, or compassion. When we begin to make a connection to dharma, we are willing to open our gates, to tear down our walls. Then for the first time we begin to realize that the joke has been on us all the time. Accumulating ammunition and building fence after fence was our trip rather than something actually having taken place. We have wasted so much of our energy and economy on that trip. When we begin to realize the joke was on us and created by us, then we are actually following the dharma, following our minds according to the dharma. From "Aggression," Talk Two of THE FOUR DHARMAS OF GAMPOPA, a seminar given at Karme-Choling in July 1975, published in a sourcebook by Vajradhatu Publications. Available from shambhalashop.com Of interest to our readers: TWENTIETH PARINIRVANA April 4, 2007 is the 20th anniversary of the Parinirvana, or the death, of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Information about Parinirvana events and a tribute to Chogyam Trungpa from other teachers, his family, students, and others will be featured on the Chronicles of CTR website at: http://www.chronicleproject.com/ All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 5,219 subscribers. 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URL: http://lists.mandala-designs.com/pipermail/oceanofdharma/attachments/20070401/9a7c3265/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Wed Apr 4 03:46:28 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Wed Apr 4 03:44:38 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Genuine Buddha Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20070402095629.03ff8590@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week April 4, 2007 The Twentieth Anniversary of the Parinirvana, or death, of Chogyam Trungpa GENUINE BUDDHA When the enlightened one was with us, When he talked to us, When he walked with us, When he fixed his robes, When he washed his hands after a meal, The enlightened one was always precise, accurate. He possessed ideal total shinjang, without reference point. He was playful and he was accurate. He was clean, neat, tidy. It was beautiful the way Buddha handled his begging bowl. Watching his fingers He had no discrimination against or, for that matter, rejection of the way phenomena works: Buddha worked with a blade of grass, Pebbles, dirt, in his begging bowl. He washed his robes with such precision, We like the way the Buddha is in action. Watching Buddha work is magnificent. There is no discrepancy. Buddha is the best friend. He is the best at working with the unworkables, Therefore he is the king. The best monarch we could ever find is the Buddha. The Buddha's gaze and the Buddha's hands -- the way he washed his hands He washed his hands as a monarch would. He is not arrogant, He is humble and genuine and imperial. We like Buddha's way: Imperial humbleness. There is no one like him. That is why we call him samyaksambuddha. O how much I love you Buddha! The way you do things properly, The way you feel the world around you, You have no aggression O Buddha! O tathagata! You are so tamed, You are so beautiful, You are so royal, You are so humble. O to be like you, the genuine Buddha Who need not clarify or validate You are buddha as Buddha. O how gorgeous to be Buddha! We love your simplicity. We are glad that you took human birth and that you conducted yourself in the human realm. O Buddha, samyaksambuddha, We love you. We are astonished that you are Buddha, Fascinated that you are Buddha, Totally captivated that you are Buddha, We are inspired to follow your example. Shakyamuni, O Buddha, we love you. We are your best friend, O best friend. Homage to the sambuddha, the perfect being. I, Ch?gyam, emulate you. O Buddha, Namo buddhaya Buddham sharanam gacchami. By Dharma Sagara, Ananda, Buddha Das, Hotei. Composed in 1982 at the Vajradhatu Seminary, Bedford Springs, Pennsylvania. Reprinted from THE ESSENTIAL CHOGYAM TRUNGPA, pages 101-102. Editor's Notes: The 1982 Seminary, where this poem was written, began only a few months after the Parinirvana, or the death, of His Holiness the Sixteenth Gyalwang Karmapa, the head of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche?s lineage. At this Seminary, Rinpoche composed a number of poems as examples of devotional poetry for his students. The last two lines of the poem are Sanskrit and mean: "Homage to the Buddha, I take refuge in the Buddha." Chogyam Trungpa signed four titles as his name at the end of this poem. Dharma Sagara is Sanskrit for Dharma Ocean; Ananda was the servant and a close disciple of Shakyamuni Buddha; Buddha Das is a mixture of Sanskrit and Hindi, which means "servant of the Buddha"; and Hotei is the name of a legendary Chinese Zen Master, known for his crazy wisdom teachings. He is the model for the fat, round-bellied buddha figures that traditionally bring good luck and wealth. In the poem itself, shinjang refers to the quality of being tamed or processed, which results from the practice of meditation. Samyaksambuddha is a Sanskrit epithet for the Buddha, which means ?the completely perfect awakened one.? Tathagata is another Sanskrit epithet that means ?He who has gone beyond.? Shakyamuni is the name of the historical Buddha, which means ?sage of the shakya clan.? Sambuddha means the perfect Buddha, the perfectly awake one. Two notices of interest to our readers: I. TWENTIETH PARINIRVANA Information about Parinirvana events and a tribute to Chogyam Trungpa from Buddhist teachers, his family, students, and others is being featured on the Chronicles of CTR website at: http://www.chronicleproject.com/ II. The Spring issue of ELEPHANT magazine is now available. A column by Chogyam Trungpa will appear in each issue. The Spring issue features the first column. 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In the Buddhist tradition, this is called the vajra truth, the diamond truth, the truth you cannot avoid or destroy. We cannot avoid our lives at all. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all. We have to face the eventual truth -- not even the eventual truth but the real truth of our lives. We are here; therefore, we have to learn how to go forward with our lives. This truth is what we call the wisdom of Shambhala. From "The Wisdom of Shambhala," in ELEPHANT magazine, Spring 2007. The Spring issue of ELEPHANT features a column by Chogyam Trungpa, which will appear in each issue. ELEPHANT online is: http://www.themindfullife.com/news/currentintro.html All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 5,243 subscribers. 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URL: http://lists.mandala-designs.com/pipermail/oceanofdharma/attachments/20070406/6b6cc6b2/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Tue Apr 10 13:31:44 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (cgimian@suchns.com) Date: Tue Apr 10 13:31:50 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Feminine Principle Message-ID: <20070410173144.HKCY1582.simmts12-srv.bellnexxia.net@smtp8.sympatico.ca> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week April 10, 2007 [This message is being sent from on the road. I'm at my mother-in-laws' to celebrate her 88th birthday. Apologies for any formatting problems.] FEMININE PRINCIPLE We all possess that feminine principle in us, in all our states of being. We all have that feminine aspect. Whether we are men or women, we have that quality of basic accommodation without trying. >From "Prajnaparamita," in Glimpses of Space, page 27. From cgimian at suchns.com Sat Apr 14 12:21:04 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Sat Apr 14 12:19:13 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Ego Trusts Complexity Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20070414131034.018b57a0@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week April 14, 2007 EGO TRUSTS COMPLEXITY Solidifying by the ego of its space is based on an attitude which trusts complexity. Ego places its trust on very complicated answers, complicated logic. Satipatthana [the sitting practice of meditation] is a way of simplifying the logical mind, the logical mind which...attempts to fixate, hold onto, grasp, and thus is continually projecting something definite and solid. So the basic practice of simplifying every activity of the mind into just breathing or bodily movement reduces the intensity of the Rudra [or ego] of body. From "Laying the Foundation" in THE DAWN OF TANTRA, page 9. Of interest to readers: The Spring issue of ELEPHANT features a column by Chogyam Trungpa, which will appear in each issue. ELEPHANT online is: http://www.themindfullife.com/news/currentintro.html All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 5,267 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mandala-designs.com/pipermail/oceanofdharma/attachments/20070414/041ea26c/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Sun Apr 15 10:42:54 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Sun Apr 15 10:41:02 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Contest Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20070415112208.01995980@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week April 15, 2007 CONTEST Ocean of Dharma is going to be a book! A volume containing 365 quotations, tentatively entitled OCEAN OF DHARMA: THE EVERYDAY WISDOM OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA, is being edited by Carolyn Rose Gimian, from the teachings of Chogyam Trungpa. The book is intended to provide readers with wisdom they can contemplate each day of the year. Publication is planned for Spring 2008. You are invited to help the editor select quotations for inclusion in this volume. Many of the quotations will be newly selected for this volume, from both published and unpublished sources, but a number of the quotes will be chosen from those sent out over the last four years as Quotes of the Week. If you have a favorite quotation that you think should be included in the book, please send your suggestion to carolyn@shambhala.com. [Please include the date that the quote was published.] If your quotation is used in the book, your name will be entered into a draw. Twelve names will be drawn to receive a free copy of the book. This contest closes on June 1st, 2007. Final selection of the quotations will be made by September, 2007, and I'll notify you in the fall if your quotation was selected and you are in the final draw. The winners of the books will be notified by the end of 2007. Thanks for helping. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 5,267 subscribers. 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URL: http://lists.mandala-designs.com/pipermail/oceanofdharma/attachments/20070415/cce61629/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Thu Apr 19 08:52:18 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Thu Apr 19 08:50:31 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Full Moon in Your Heart Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20070419094200.03e9bc50@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week April 19, 2007 FULL MOON IN YOUR HEART The teacher, or the spiritual friend, enters your system much as medicine is injected into your veins. According to the tradition, this is known as planting the heart of enlightenment in your heart. It is transplanting the full moon into your heart. Can you imagine the full moon coming through your living room window and coming closer and suddenly entering your heart? On the one hand, unless you are terribly resentful, usually it is a tremendous relief: "Phew. The full moon has entered my heart." That's great, wonderful. On the other hand, however, when that particular full moon has entered into your heart, when it's transplanted into your heart, you might have a little panic. "Good heavens, what have I done? There's a moon in my heart. What am I going to do with it? It's too shiny!" By the way, once that moon has entered your heart, it cannot be a waning moon. It never wanes. It is always waxing. From Talk Two of "Warriorship in the Three Yanas," an unpublished seminar, Rocky Mountain Dharma Center, August, 1978. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 5,270 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mandala-designs.com/pipermail/oceanofdharma/attachments/20070419/3ba1ec0d/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Mon Apr 23 06:51:06 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Mon Apr 23 06:49:14 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: The Birth of Karma Message-ID: <20070423104907.MZVO1582.simmts12-srv.bellnexxia.net@shambhal-e9f554.suchns.com> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week April 23, 2007 THE BIRTH OF KARMA In the process of giving birth to a child, each push becomes an heroic effort. You actually have to give birth to your child, which you want very much to get out of your body. and you are making a definite statement: "I am going to have this child. And I'm going to make it come out of my body." This particular type of push that mothers experience in labor is like the birth of karma. It is like the birth of karma because the push to give birth to the world of passion, aggression, or ignorance is accompanied by a sense of continuity. If you push and give birth, then an extension of you continues. So you push not so much because "I want to get rid of this child" but because "I am going to create this new life out of my body. This particular child is going to be my child; I'm going to be its mother." So there is a sense of ownership, or sense of continuity. In other words: "This is my world; I'm going to get into this, my world." 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URL: http://lists.mandala-designs.com/pipermail/oceanofdharma/attachments/20070423/43c97f86/attachment-0001.html From cgimian at suchns.com Thu Apr 26 12:02:28 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Thu Apr 26 12:00:37 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Belief Comes from Perception Message-ID: <20070426160030.BXMK7534.simmts7-srv.bellnexxia.net@shambhal-e9f554.suchns.com> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week April 26, 2007 BELIEF COMES FROM PERCEPTION It is worthwhile for individuals, even student and teacher, to have eye-level relationships. There is a Sanskirt term, kalyanamitra, which means "spiritual friend." It seems most appropriate that we relate to each other as friends, rather than as student and master as such. If we relate to one another as equal persons, the world in which we relate is also an equal situation. The physical living situation is the only way to relate with our lives as such. I do not believe in the mystical world, the ethereal world, the world of the unseen, unknown or whatever. There is no reason to believe in it, because we don't perceive it. Belief comes from perception. If there's no perception of something, we don't believe it. Belief does not come from manufacturing ideas. There may be millions of arguments and logics set forth, saying that there is an unseen world that operates on higher levels of consciousness, a world which fulfills human concerns, punishes those who don't believe, and so forth. But from the point of view of physics, that is unreal. I'm afraid I'm not going to say that there is another world. The world that we live in is the only world. From "Work, Sex, and Money," Talk One of an unpublished transcript of a seminar in Burlington, Vermont, April, 1972. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 5,289 subscribers. 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URL: http://lists.mandala-designs.com/pipermail/oceanofdharma/attachments/20070426/45632214/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Sun Apr 29 14:42:16 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Sun Apr 29 14:40:27 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Undoing Habitual Patterns Message-ID: <20070429184018.TSYQ1625.simmts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@shambhal-e9f554.suchns.com> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week April 29, 2007 UNDOING HABITUAL PATTERNS In order to overcome ego, we have to undo our habitual patterns, which we have been developing for thousands of years, thousands of eons, up to this point. Such habitual patterns may not have any realistic ground, but nonetheless, we have been accustomed to doing dirty work, so to speak. We are used to our habitual patterns and neuroses at this point. We have been used to them for such a long time that we end up believing they are the real thing. In order to overcome that, to begin with, we have to see our egolessness: seeing the egolessness of oneself and the egolessness of other, and how we can actually overcome our anxiety and pain, which in Buddhist terms is known as freedom, liberation, freedom from anxiety. That is precisely what nirvana means -- relief. From "The Birth of Ego" in THE SANITY WE ARE BORN WITH: A BUDDHIST APPROACH TO PSYCHOLOGY, pages 79 to 80. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 5,295 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. 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