[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Crash Course

[Carolyn Gimian]

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.

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