[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Larger Scale Thinking

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

May 28, 2008

LARGER SCALE THINKING

Compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts of heroic, juicy, positive, visionary, expansive qualities. And it implies larger scale thinking, a freer and more expansive way of relating to oneself and the world. This is precisely why the second part of the Buddhist path, or yana, is called the "Mahayana," the Great Vehicle." It is the attitude that one has been born fundamentally rich rather than that one must become rich. Without this kind of confidence, meditation cannot be transferred into action at all.

From "The Open Way," in CUTTING THROUGH SPIRITUAL MATERIALISM, page 99.

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