Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week
May 29, 2009
CHANGING THE FLOW OF KARMA
Although currently you have ended up with a very bad situation, you can suddenly change the karmic flow with a tremendous, quite sudden and forceful effort. You may have ended up in a tremendous depression, but you are able to make a jump in your life and overcome that. You are able to change the flow of your particular lifestyle. You might be used to being very lazy and sloppy, but the sitting practice of meditation could tighten up your lifestyle so that suddenly you become a tidy, vigorous and uplifting person. There are second thoughts happening each time you act. There is hesitation, and from that hesitation or gap, you can go backward or forward. Changing the flow of karma happens in that gap. So the gap is very useful. It is in the gap that you give birth to a new life.
From Chapter Five, "Perpetually Re-creating Suffering," in THE TRUTH OF SUFFERING AND THE PATH OF LIBERATION, page 56.
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Friday, May 29, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Love's Fool
Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week
May 25, 2009
LOVE'S FOOL
Love.
What is love?
What is love.
Love is a fading memory.
Love is piercingly present.
Love is full of charm.
Love is hideously in the way.
Explosion of love makes you feel ecstatic.
Explosion of love makes you feel suicidal.
Love brings goodliness and godliness.
Love brings celestial vision.
Love creates the unity of heaven and earth.
Love tears apart heaven and earth.
Is love sympathy.
Is love gentleness.
Is love possessiveness.
Is love sexuality.
Is love friendship.
Who knows?
Maybe the rock knows,
Sitting diligently on earth,
Not flinching from cold snowstorms or baking heat.
O rock,
How much I love you:
You are the only loveable one.
Would you let me grow a little flower of love on you?
If you don't mind,
Maybe I could grow a pine tree on you.
If you are so generous,
Maybe I could build a house on you.
If you are fantastically generous,
Maybe I could eat you up,
Or move you to my landscape garden.
It is nice to be friends with a rock!
8 July 1975. TIMELY RAIN, pages 112 to 113.
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May 25, 2009
LOVE'S FOOL
Love.
What is love?
What is love.
Love is a fading memory.
Love is piercingly present.
Love is full of charm.
Love is hideously in the way.
Explosion of love makes you feel ecstatic.
Explosion of love makes you feel suicidal.
Love brings goodliness and godliness.
Love brings celestial vision.
Love creates the unity of heaven and earth.
Love tears apart heaven and earth.
Is love sympathy.
Is love gentleness.
Is love possessiveness.
Is love sexuality.
Is love friendship.
Who knows?
Maybe the rock knows,
Sitting diligently on earth,
Not flinching from cold snowstorms or baking heat.
O rock,
How much I love you:
You are the only loveable one.
Would you let me grow a little flower of love on you?
If you don't mind,
Maybe I could grow a pine tree on you.
If you are so generous,
Maybe I could build a house on you.
If you are fantastically generous,
Maybe I could eat you up,
Or move you to my landscape garden.
It is nice to be friends with a rock!
8 July 1975. TIMELY RAIN, pages 112 to 113.
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Decency Is Absence of Strategy
Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week
May 21, 2009
DECENCY IS ABSENCE OF STRATEGY
If you are a warrior, decency means that you are not cheating anybody at all. You are not even about to cheat anybody. There is a sense of straightforwardness and simplicity. With setting-sun vision, or vision based on cowardice, straightforwardness is always a problem. If people have some story or news to tell somebody else, first of all they are either excited or disappointed. Then they begin to figure out how to tell their news. They develop a plan, which leads them completely away from simply telling it. By the time a person hears the news, it is not news at all, but opinion. It becomes a message of some kind, rather than fresh, straightforward news. Decency is the absence of strategy. It is of utmost importance to realize that the warrior's approach should be simple-minded sometimes, very simple and straightforward. That makes it very beautiful: you having nothing up your sleeve; therefore a sense of genuineness comes through. That is decency.
From "Perkiness," a talk given to the Directors of Shambhala Training, July 1978.
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May 21, 2009
DECENCY IS ABSENCE OF STRATEGY
If you are a warrior, decency means that you are not cheating anybody at all. You are not even about to cheat anybody. There is a sense of straightforwardness and simplicity. With setting-sun vision, or vision based on cowardice, straightforwardness is always a problem. If people have some story or news to tell somebody else, first of all they are either excited or disappointed. Then they begin to figure out how to tell their news. They develop a plan, which leads them completely away from simply telling it. By the time a person hears the news, it is not news at all, but opinion. It becomes a message of some kind, rather than fresh, straightforward news. Decency is the absence of strategy. It is of utmost importance to realize that the warrior's approach should be simple-minded sometimes, very simple and straightforward. That makes it very beautiful: you having nothing up your sleeve; therefore a sense of genuineness comes through. That is decency.
From "Perkiness," a talk given to the Directors of Shambhala Training, July 1978.
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Monday, May 18, 2009
[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Belief Is Based on Simplicity
Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week
May 18, 2009
BELIEF IS BASED ON SIMPLICITY
For the accomplished warrior, belief is not a form of strategy, nor is it borrowing the stories of previous warriors from books and stories. Trying to theorize and borrow ideas doesn't seem to help. The notion of belief, or view, here is based on complete simplicity. Your view is not affected by liberalism or conservatism, nihilism or eternalism, at all. Your view is straightforward and simple; it is almost a cosmic domestic view. It is the notion of complete simplicity. When you meet a person, you don't have to develop a whole style of how to view that person according to either the historic or present situation, the sociological context, his religious connections, or whatever it may be. You don't have to go through all that. You can have a direct relationship, which is very simple, direct, and straightforward -- extremely straightforward.
From "Inscrutability," a talk given to the Directors of Shambhala Training, July 1978.
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May 18, 2009
BELIEF IS BASED ON SIMPLICITY
For the accomplished warrior, belief is not a form of strategy, nor is it borrowing the stories of previous warriors from books and stories. Trying to theorize and borrow ideas doesn't seem to help. The notion of belief, or view, here is based on complete simplicity. Your view is not affected by liberalism or conservatism, nihilism or eternalism, at all. Your view is straightforward and simple; it is almost a cosmic domestic view. It is the notion of complete simplicity. When you meet a person, you don't have to develop a whole style of how to view that person according to either the historic or present situation, the sociological context, his religious connections, or whatever it may be. You don't have to go through all that. You can have a direct relationship, which is very simple, direct, and straightforward -- extremely straightforward.
From "Inscrutability," a talk given to the Directors of Shambhala Training, July 1978.
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Friday, May 15, 2009
[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Willing to Make Mistakes
Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week
May 15, 2009
WILLING TO MAKE MISTAKES
The notion of being willing to make mistakes is just the general sense that you are no longer hopeful, that you are no longer hoping to achieve complete perfection. You are confronted with all kinds of factors -- poverty, biasedness, aggression, passion, and trying to measure yourself -- and all those situations are the opposite of being willing to make mistakes. You don't want to make mistakes; therefore you want to stick with you biasedness; you want to stick with your poverty. You want to make sure that everything goes right. ...You don't want to make mistakes; you are hoping for something good. Whereas if you abandon hope, you have no idea what you are going to get in your life. Still, whatever comes is within the context of warriorship in any case.
From "Outrageousness," a talk given to the Directors of Shambhala Training, July 1978.
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May 15, 2009
WILLING TO MAKE MISTAKES
The notion of being willing to make mistakes is just the general sense that you are no longer hopeful, that you are no longer hoping to achieve complete perfection. You are confronted with all kinds of factors -- poverty, biasedness, aggression, passion, and trying to measure yourself -- and all those situations are the opposite of being willing to make mistakes. You don't want to make mistakes; therefore you want to stick with you biasedness; you want to stick with your poverty. You want to make sure that everything goes right. ...You don't want to make mistakes; you are hoping for something good. Whereas if you abandon hope, you have no idea what you are going to get in your life. Still, whatever comes is within the context of warriorship in any case.
From "Outrageousness," a talk given to the Directors of Shambhala Training, July 1978.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Gentleness to Yourself
Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week
May 12, 2009
GENTLENESS TO YOURSELF
Confidence brings the natural dignity of gentleness. You can afford to be gentle. You are not pretending to be gentle in order to achieve something by it, but you have a general sense of gentleness, which means you are being kind to yourself. Sometimes when the warrior feels doubtful about himself, he might have a problem being gentle to himself. Gentleness to yourself is necessary for a warrior; otherwise you find yourself puffed up, with no way to expand your vision to a great level at all. At that point, warriorship becomes pure bluff.
From "Outrageousness," a talk given in July 1978 to Directors of Shambhala Training.
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Sunday, May 3, 2009
[OceanofDharma] Our Connection with the Natural World
Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week
May 3 2009
OUR CONNECTION WITH THE NATURAL WORLD
There seems to be a need for us to realize that the cosmic world -- the sky and mountains and trees and rivers and oceans and jungles and everything -- can be woven into those persons who are interested. Those who are willing students and warriors can draw in that world and work with it. The natural situation provides us with the whole phenomenal world, and we should learn to assoicate with that....Basically there is cultivated presence and then there is naturally existing presence. When we cultivate an authentic presence, we develop a sense of what is naturally existing. So we begin to make our connection to the world in that way.
>From The Golden Key Sourcebook.
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