From cgimian at suchns.com Sat Feb 3 08:27:23 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Sat Feb 3 08:27:32 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Compassion Never Harms Anyone Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20070203092114.03f28de0@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week February 3, 2007 COMPASSION NEVER HARMS ANYONE In stories and in images, Avalokiteshvara [the bodhisattva of compassion] is often shown carrying a deerskin on his back. The symbol is used because the deer is a compassionate animal. It does not kill other creatures, but lives on a vegetarian diet. And here Avalokiteshvara appears as a sage. For in the Indian tradition, sages often carry their seat on their shoulders when they are travelling, and when they want to sit down they simply spread this on the floor and sit on it. In this particular case, the deerskin symbolizes harmlessness, that is to say, the act of compassion. When compassion acts, it never harms, it never hurts anyone, but always moves gently forward in order to fulfill its purpose. From "The Mahasattva Avalokiteshvara," page 450 in THE COLLECTED WORKS OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA, Volume One. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 5,018 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 Taken from works published by Shambhala Publications, the Archive of his unpublished work in the Shambhala Archives, plus other published sources.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/20070203/26bad5f8/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Tue Feb 6 12:07:15 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Tue Feb 6 12:07:30 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Love's Fool Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20070206125447.0390c6c8@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week February 6, 2007 LOVE'S FOOL Love. What is love? What is love. Love is a fading memory. Love is piercingly present. Love is full of charm. Love is hideously in the way. Explosion of love makes you feel ecstatic. Explosion of love makes you feel suicidal. Love brings goodliness and godliness. Love brings celestial vision. Love creates the unity of heaven and earth. Love tears apart heaven and earth. Is love sympathy. Is love gentleness. Is love possessiveness. Is love sexuality. Is love friendship. Who knows? Maybe the rock knows, Sitting diligently on earth, Not flinching from cold snowstorms or baking heat. O rock, How much I love you: You are the only loveable one. Would you let me grow a little flower of love on you? If you don't mind, Maybe I could grow a pine tree on you. If you are so generous, Maybe I could build a house on you. If you are fantastically generous, Maybe I could eat you up, Or move you to my landscape garden. It is nice to be friends with a rock! From TIMELY RAIN: Selected Poetry of Chogyam Trungpa. Written July 1975. First published in FIRST THOUGHT BEST THOUGHT. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 5,029 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/20070206/1bc7b073/attachment-0001.html From cgimian at suchns.com Thu Feb 8 07:21:37 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Thu Feb 8 07:21:45 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Awareness Is Like a Wind Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20070207132056.03985fc0@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week February 8, 2007 AWARENESS IS LIKE A WIND In talking about open mind, we are referring to a kind of openness that is related with letting self-existing awareness come to us. And awareness is not something that needs to be manufactured: when there is a gap, awareness enters into us. So awareness does not require a certain particular effort. Such an effort is unnecessary in this case. Awareness is like a wind. If you open your doors and windows, it is bound to come in. Page 116, in "From Raw Eggs to Stepping-Stones" in THE PATH IS THE GOAL: A BASIC HANDBOOK OF BUDDHIST MEDITATION. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 5,024 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/20070208/fccb9838/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Mon Feb 12 17:56:03 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Mon Feb 12 17:56:42 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Misunderstanding Awareness Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20070207132643.03985fc0@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week February 12, 2007 MISUNDERSTANDING AWARENESS Openness and awareness is a state of not manufacturing anything else; it is just being. And there is a misunderstanding,...which regards awareness as an enormous effort -- as if you were trying to become a certain unusual and special species of animal. You think now you're known as a meditator, so now you should proceed in a certain special way, and that way you will become a full-fledged meditator. That is the wrong attitude. One doesn't try to hold oneself in the state of meditation, the state of awareness. One doesn't try painfully to stick to it. Page 118, in "From Raw Eggs to Stepping-Stones" in THE PATH IS THE GOAL: A BASIC HANDBOOK OF BUDDHIST MEDITATION. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 5,0 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/20070212/13bceada/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Fri Feb 16 15:15:27 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Fri Feb 16 15:15:48 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Absent-Minded Awareness Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20070207133154.039b7718@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week February 16, 2007 ABSENT-MINDED AWARENESS If we take the term in a positive and creative sense, we could say that awareness is a state of absent-mindedness. The point here is that, when there is no mind to be absent, energy comes in, and so you are accurate, you are precise, your are mindful -- but absent-minded at the same time. So maybe we can use the term absent-minded in this more positive sense, rather than in the conventional sense of being forgetful or constantly spaced out, so to speak. So whenever there is a message of awareness, then you are in it [you are aware] already. There is the state of absent-mindedness and mindfulness at the same time.....Approached in this way, mindfulness is no longer a problem, a hassle, or a big deal. Page 119, in "From Raw Eggs to Stepping-Stones" in THE PATH IS THE GOAL: A BASIC HANDBOOK OF BUDDHIST MEDITATION. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 5,039 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/20070216/9307e573/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Mon Feb 19 08:34:56 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Mon Feb 19 08:35:11 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: It Is Always Morning Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20070219093015.02dfbff8@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week February 19, 2007 Yesterday was Shambhala Day, the celebration of the Tibetan (and Chinese) New Year. Cheerful New Year to you all! IT IS ALWAYS MORNING Warriors of the Great Eastern Sun never say good night. We always say good morning no matter what time of day it is, because we are not connected with the setting sun (indulgence in confusion) at all. We always say good morning because the Great Eastern Sun always shines. Great means that you are not infected by ignorance. East is where things always begin. The sun always rises in the east. And Sun is all-pervasive power and strength, which illuminate your responsibility, as well as your genuineness. Genuineness always shines through, like the sun. From "Attaining the Higher Realms" in GREAT EASTERN SUN: THE WISDOM OF SHAMBHALA, page 135. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 5,059 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/20070219/1962dea4/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Sat Feb 24 09:13:04 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Sat Feb 24 09:13:17 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: What Is a Warrior? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20070224100359.034f0e78@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week February 24, 2007 WHAT IS A WARRIOR? Anyone who is interested in hearing the dharma [teachings], anyone who is interested in finding out about oneself, and anyone who is interested in practicing meditation is basically a warrior. The approach of cowardice is looking for some tremendous external help, whether it comes from the sky or from the earth. You are afraid of actually seeing yourself; therefore you use spirituality or religion as a seeming way of seeing yourself without looking directly at yourself at all. Basically, when people are embarrassed about themselves, there's no fearlessness involved. Therefore, anybody who is interesting in looking at oneself, finding out about oneself, and practicing on the spot could be regarded as a warrior. From Talk One of "Warriorship in the Three Yanas," an unpublished seminar given by Chogyam Trungpa at the Rocky Mountain Dharma Center, August 22, 1978. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 5,078 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/20070224/83c27dac/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Tue Feb 27 14:59:21 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Tue Feb 27 14:59:31 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Facing Ourselves Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20070227155118.02b54f00@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week February 27, 2007 FACING OURSELVES We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible. We can't do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We have to see our gut, our excrement, our most undesirable parts. We have to see them. That is the foundation of warriorship, basically speaking. Whatever is there, we have to face it, we have to look at it, study it, work with it and practice meditation with it. From Talk One of "Warriorship in the Three Yanas," an unpublished seminar given by Chogyam Trungpa at the Rocky Mountain Dharma Center, August 22, 1978. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 5,087 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. 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