[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Natural Inspiration

[Carolyn Gimian]

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.

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