[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Not Entrapped in Karma

[Carolyn Gimian]

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.

 From "Past, Present and Future," page 16 in THE KARMA SEMINAR, a 
sourcebook available from Vajradhatu Publications at shambhalashop.com

All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used 
by permission.

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