From cgimian at suchns.com Thu Jan 4 11:07:29 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Thu Jan 4 11:07:45 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Unconditional Confidence Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20070104120259.0307a120@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week January 4, 2007 UNCONDITIONAL CONFIDENCE Student: Would you say that unconditional confidence is the same as tenderness? Chogyam Trungpa: Yes, very much so. The unconditional confidence is the pragmatic aspect of that tenderness. It is the action arising from the softness. It is just like watching the sun rise. First, it is very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. And then it shines and shines. Confidence is not arrogance or pride or anything like that. Confidence is a natural unfolding process. It's not a question of needing confidence or not needing it. It's naturally there. From "Basic Goodness," a talk to directors of Shambhala Training, January 1978. 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URL: http://lists.mandala-designs.com/pipermail/oceanofdharma/attachments/20070104/28acfaf4/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Mon Jan 8 11:42:49 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Mon Jan 8 11:42:57 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Genuineness Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20070108123644.032815b0@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week January 8, 2007 GENUINENESS Student: The point of genuineness seems to be so simple that it's almost impossible to understand. Could you say something about non-genuineness and the problems that we get into when we're trying to be confident? From that, maybe we can get a better idea of genuineness. Chogyam Trungpa: I could give you a lot of examples. Inviting depression is one way of not being genuine, and refusing to be a human being and trying to be a superman all the time is another way. In either case, we are trying to be somebody or something else and not paying attention to what's happening. You see, what we generally do is constantly, constantly substitute for ourselves somebody else who doesn't even exist. Nevertheless, we keep on doing that. When we fail to find our own quality right away, we run into trouble. Being genuine from that point of view is being indestructible in some sense. It depends on how much you can be a warrior. From "Basic Goodness," a talk to directors of Shambhala Training, January 1978. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 4,956 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/20070108/616ba6dc/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Fri Jan 12 16:30:53 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Fri Jan 12 16:28:59 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Crash Course Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20070112172306.03736de8@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week January 12, 2007 CRASH COURSE Particularly in the Western hemisphere, when you go to a new country, you take a crash course to learn how to conduct yourself. A lot of business people get into a crash course to learn how to eat with chopsticks, how to move and behave, what to eat or not eat, what to say and whether it is polite to finish the food on your plate or leave something behind. However, when you come to a spiritual master, you don't come having had a crash course on how to handle a guru. You have already had a crash course of your own, which is your own neurosis, your confusion. That's fantastic. It's a very vivid crash course, a very good one. It's honest and genuine experience. You come along as you are, as they say. From "Tradition and Sanity in Zen and Tibetan Buddhism," Talk Ten of Fourteen, from THE TIBETAN BUDDHIST PATH, Summer, 1974, Naropa University. Forthcoming as a DVD series from shambhalashop.com. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 4,974 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/20070112/0a7edaf6/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Mon Jan 15 08:53:58 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Mon Jan 15 08:53:04 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Freedom Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20070115094327.037eead0@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week January 15, 2007 FREEDOM Giving birth to bodhicitta in one's heart, buddha in one's heart, brings freedom. That is the notion of freedom in Buddhism, altogether...We are talking about freedom from the constriction of our own capabilities. It is as if we were extraordinary children, possessing all sorts of genius, and we were being undermined by the society around us, which was dying to make us normal people. Whenever we would show any mark of genius, our parents would get embarrassed. They would try to put the lid on our pot, saying, "Charles, don't say those things. Just be an ordinary person." That is what actually happens to us, with or without our parents. I don't particularly want to blame our parents; we have also been doing this to ourselves. When we see something extraordinary, we are afraid to say so; we are afraid to express ourselves or to relate to such situations. So we put lids on ourselves -- on our potential, our capabilities. But in Buddhism we are liberated from that kind of conventionality....Fundamentally speaking, ladies and gentlemen, here is the really good news, if we may call it that: We are intrinsically buddha and we are intrinsically good. From "What Is the Heart of the Buddha?" in THE HEART OF THE BUDDHA, THE COLLECTED WORKS OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA, Volume 3, page 311. (THE HEART OF THE BUDDHA is also available in paperback.) All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 4,976 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/20070115/10d9c39f/attachment-0001.html From cgimian at suchns.com Thu Jan 18 21:13:32 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Thu Jan 18 21:15:50 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: The Problem of Dogma Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20070118220811.03907d00@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week January 18, 2007 THE PROBLEM OF DOGMA East West Journal: Why is it that human beings think they know, or they do know, what's the right thing to do with their lives, and repeatedly they find themselves not doing it? Chogyam Trungpa: That's a good one. Well, I think we have the problem of dogma again. Dogma tells you to do something, and you feel it will be good for you. At the same time, if you don't practice it, you'll be looked down upon as such a naughty boy or a naughty girl. Rather than encouragement, there's a sense of criticism. There's no inspiration but a punishment orientation. 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URL: http://lists.mandala-designs.com/pipermail/oceanofdharma/attachments/20070118/9d336075/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Wed Jan 24 07:12:34 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Wed Jan 24 07:15:03 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Inspiring American Buddhists Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20070114201808.0174b400@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week January 21, 2007 INSPIRING AMERICAN BUDDHISTS Student: Do you think a new kind of tantric [artistic] tradition might develop here in the West, if art is being done by Buddhist meditator artists? Chogyam Trungpa: I very much hope so....It has to be American Buddhists who become inspired. It is only they who have the understanding to work with the Western world. It is necessary to have that situation. We reach a point, a limit to how far we can live on imports. There's some point where we better manufacture things for ourselves rather than borrowing from somebody else. Otherwise, we will be enormously in debt. From "The Doha Tradition," Talk Twelve of Fourteen, from THE TIBETAN BUDDHIST PATH, Summer, 1974, Naropa University. Forthcoming as a DVD series from shambhalashop.com. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 4,999 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/20070124/5c5fdfc0/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Fri Jan 26 23:12:49 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Fri Jan 26 23:12:55 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: A Poem to Buddha Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20070127000742.031bd008@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week January 27, 2007 A Poem to Buddha You overcome the temptations of the world You are inspired by the simplicity of life without passion Your exertion is the only way to conquer the seduction of the world The victorious one, compassionate, Propagates profound dharma to all beings. Bewilderment Brings passion and aggression The world of samsara Is endless suffering. Realizing deception I seek the path of non-ego I find the delighted Buddha. You understand my hopes and fears You are both pleasure and pain You are my friend eternally, I would like to ask you to be my teacher. 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URL: http://lists.mandala-designs.com/pipermail/oceanofdharma/attachments/20070127/0008d119/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Mon Jan 29 06:46:05 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Mon Jan 29 06:46:13 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Compassion with a Thousand Arms Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20070128094944.01a07de8@206.47.199.40> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week January 29, 2007 COMPASSION WITH A THOUSAND ARMS One often finds Avalokitesvara [the bodhisattva of compassion] portrayed as having a thousand arms [and a thousand eyes], and these symbolize his innumerable activities. He took a vow to save all sentient beings in that very lifetime....As long as there are more sentient beings and as long as there is more that needs to be done, his compassion also increases. And this shows that compassion is something within us. Where there is new suffering or a new outbreak of violence, that violence contains another eye, another hand of Avalokitesvara. The two things always go together. There is always a kind of negative, but there is always a positive which comes with it. In this particular sense, then, one should not exclude the negative and work only for the positive, but realize that the negative contains the positive within itself. Therefore the act of compassion, the act of Avalokiteshvara, is never ending. From "The Mahasattva Avalokiteshvara," pages 450-451 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 5,004 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. 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