From cgimian at suchns.com Wed May 2 07:24:58 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Wed May 2 07:25:05 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Not Entrapped in Karma Message-ID: <20070502112459.GXCJ1582.simmts12-srv.bellnexxia.net@shambhal-e9f554.suchns.com> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week May 2, 2007 NOT ENTRAPPED IN KARMA If you are captivated by the past, then you can't make a move. But if you have the faintest, slightest doubt of your existence, the faintest suspicion that it could be changed -- any progressive mentality, rebellious approach, revolutionary approach, whatever -- that breeds further freedom. In other words, the potential of the embryonic enlightened mind in us can't be undermined by the heavy karma of the past all the time. Sooner or later it's going to break through. So we are not entrapped in karma, particularly. There is free choice from that point of view. 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URL: http://lists.mandala-designs.com/pipermail/oceanofdharma/attachments/20070502/73ed5981/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Sun May 6 14:16:15 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Sun May 6 14:16:23 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Beyond Reassurance Message-ID: <20070506181617.OYST4057.simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net@shambhal-e9f554.suchns.com> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week May 6, 2007 BEYOND REASSURANCE Question: How does one get away from the need for reassurance? Chogyam Trungpa: Acknowledge needing reassurance, acknowledge it as an effigy that looks in only one direction and does not look around. (It is) an effigy with one face, possibly only one eye. It doesn't see around, doesn't see the whole situation. Do you see what I mean?...Whenever you need reassurance, that means you have a fixed idea of what ought to be. And because of that, you fix your vision on one situation, one particular thing. And those situations that are not being observed because of the point of view of needing reassurance, (those things) that we are not looking at, are a source of paranoia. We wish we could cover the whole ground, but since we can't do that physiologically, we have to try to stick to that one thing as much as we can. So the need for reassurance has only one eye. Question: And the way to get beyond that one-eyed vision...? Chogyam Trungpa: Develop more eyes, rather than just a unidirectional radar system. You don't have to fix your eye on one thing. You can have panoramic vision, vision all around at once. From "Genuine Madness and Pop Art" in ILLUSION'S GAME: THE LIFE AND TEACHING OF NAROPA, pages 30 to 31. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 5,309 subscribers. 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URL: http://lists.mandala-designs.com/pipermail/oceanofdharma/attachments/20070506/d06420d2/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Wed May 9 11:18:08 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Wed May 9 11:18:22 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Natural Inspiration Message-ID: <20070509151811.VTTB4057.simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net@shambhal-e9f554.suchns.com> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week May 9, 2007 NATURAL INSPIRATION Genuine inspiration is not particularly dramatic. It's very ordinary. It comes from settling down in your environment and accepting situations as natural. Out of that you begin to realize that you can dance with them. So inspiration comes from acceptance rather than from having a sudden flash of a good gimmick coming up in your mind. Natural inspiration is simply having something somewhere that you can relate with, so it has a sense of stableness and solidity. Inspiration has two parts: openness and clear vision, or in Sanskrit, shunyata and prajna. Both are based on the notion of original mind, traditionally known as buddha mind, which is blank, nonterritorial, noncompetitive, and open. From "One Stroke" in DHARMA ART, page 100. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 5,315 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/20070509/3729f378/attachment.html From cgimian at suchns.com Mon May 14 16:55:45 2007 From: cgimian at suchns.com (Carolyn Gimian) Date: Mon May 14 16:56:08 2007 Subject: [OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Willing to Be a Fool Message-ID: <20070514205600.VCBW4057.simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net@shambhal-e9f554.suchns.com> Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week May 14, 2007 WILLING TO BE A FOOL There is lots of room to make mistakes. That's true, absolutely true. But such room for mistakes cannot be created unless there is surrendering, giving, some kind of opening. It cannot take place if there's no basis for it. However, if there is some basis --if we can give away our aggression or attempt to give it away, if we attempt to open up and strip away our territoriality and possessiveness -- then there is lots of room for making mistakes. That doesn't necessarily mean there is room for dramatic mistakes, but lots of little dribbles of mistakes can take place, which usually occur in any case -- we can't avoid it. We have to allow ourselves to realize that we are complete fools; otherwise, we have nowhere to begin. We have to be willing to be a fool and not always try to be a wise guy. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool in one of the first wisdoms. From "Wise Fool" in DHARMA ART, page 75. All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission. OCEAN OF DHARMA QUOTES OF THE WEEK now has 5,320 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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