Sunday, June 28, 2009

[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Goodness Is Always There

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

June 28, 2009

GOODNESS IS ALWAYS THERE

You have something in yourself that is fundamentally, basically good. It transcends the notion of good or bad. Something that is worthwhile, wholesome, and healthy exists in all of us....Such goodness is synonymous with bravery. It is always there. Whenever you see a bright and beautiful color, you are witnessing your own inherent goodness. Whenever you hear a sweet and beautiful sound, you are hearing your own basic goodness. Whenever you taste something sweet or sour, you are experiencing your own basic goodness....Things like that are always happening to you, but you have been ignoring them, thinking that they are mundane and unimportant, purely coincidences of an ordinary nature. However, it is worthwhile to take advantage of anything that happens to you that has that particular nature of goodness. You begin to realize that there is nonaggression happening all around you in your life, and you are able to feel the freshness of realizing your goodness, again and again.

From "Facing Yourself," Chapter One of SMILE AT FEAR: AWAKENING THE TRUE HEART OF BRAVERY, coming in August from Shambhala Publications.

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: The Ice Water of Anxiety

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

June 25, 2009

THE ICE WATER OF ANXIETY

Seeing our pain as it is, is a tremendous help. Ordinarily, we are so wrapped up in it that we don't even see it. We are swimming in oceans of ice water of anxiety, and we don't even see that we are suffering....Buddhists have realized that we are suffering, that anxiety is taking place. We have understood that anxiety does exist; and because of that, we also begin to realize the possibility of salvation or deliverance from that particular pain and anxiety. According to the hinayana teachings, the fundamental teachings, you have to be very practical: you are going to do something about suffering. On a very personal level, you are going to do something about it.

From "Recognizing the Reality of Suffering," in THE TRUTH OF SUFFERING AND THE PATH OF LIBERATION, page 10.

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Monday, June 22, 2009

[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Gentleness Brings Daring

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

June 22, 2009

GENTLENESS BRINGS DARING

When there is daring, you dare to do something: you put forth your vision fearlessly. People have doubts about big vision because they don't have a sense of gentleness in themselves first. So gentleness brings daring and a sense of fearlessness. Daring is appreciation of letting go in the fundamental sense. First you develop gentleness toward yourself; then you begin to develop daring, which is connected with how to express your gentleness to the world outside, how to proclaim your sanity. Your are not going crazy because you have seen the Great Eastern Sun, which is the symbol of expansive vision in the Shambhala world. Rather, because you have seen the Great Eastern Sun, you are very daring and at the same time very gentle and soft. The softer you become, the greater the message to the world becomes.

From "Outrageousness," a talk to directors of Shambhala Training, October 1978.

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Compassion without Dependence

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

June 18, 2009

COMPASSION WITHOUT DEPENDENCE

The essence of compassion is to copy how you relate with your child (in your relationships with others). The problem is how much you want to be the head of the family or the ringleader of your friends. You know, if that ambition is not there, but you have a genuine willingness to share, that is precisely the concept of sangha, or the Buddhist community, in traditional terms. You are willing to be friends with everybody, but at the same time you are not particularly taking credit. You don't make people depend on you. Everybody can stand on his or her own feet. The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.

From "The Practicing Lineage," in THE MISHAP LINEAGE: Transforming Confusion into Wisdom, page 7. Newly published by Shambhala Publications.

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Sunday, June 14, 2009

[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: What We Are Not

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

June 14, 2009

WHAT WE ARE NOT

The basics teachings of Buddha are about understanding what we are, who we are, why we are. When we begin to realize what we are, who we are, why we are, then we begin to realize what we are not, who we are not, why we are not. We begin to realize that we don't have basic, substantial, solid, fundamental ground that we can exert anymore. We begin to realize that our ideas of security and our concept of freedom have been purely phantom experiences.

From "The Practicing Lineage," in THE MISHAP LINEAGE: Transforming Confusion into Wisdom. Just published by Shambhala Publications.

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Thursday, June 11, 2009

[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: The Practicing Lineage, Part Two

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

June 10, 2009

THE PRACTICING LINEAGE, Part Two

The meaning and significance of the Practicing Lineage is important to understand. Practicing Lineage is a term that was developed by Milarepa. Previously, the tradition was known as the "Lineage of the Sacred Word," which is actually a phrase that I am using again these days. In the Kagyu tradition, ka means "Logos," "sacred word," "command," "truth," and gyu means "thread" or "continuity" — which is close to the idea of lineage. In Milarepa's time, the Kagyu tradition became known as "Drubgyu".Drub means "practice," and gyu means "lineage" or "line." The Practicing Lineage places a lot of importance on the necessity to practice, to sit or meditate. Without practicing, without understanding the meaning of practice, no real communication or development takes place in your understanding of Buddhism, or the buddhadharma.

From "The Practicing Lineage," in THE MISHAP LINEAGE: Transforming Confusion into Wisdom. Just published by Shambhala Publications.

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Saturday, June 6, 2009

[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: The Practicing Lineage, Part One

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June 6, 2009

THE PRACTICING LINEAGE, PART ONE

There are four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The Practicing Lineage or the Kagyu Lineage is one of the middle schools, which came after the old, or ancient, schools.The Kagyu lineage developed through various Tibetan masters and scholars who visited India and received teachings there and then returned to establish their particular situation in Tibet. Namely, there was the famous translator-saint Marpa, who visited India three times and brought the teachings he received there to Tibet. His disciple Milarepa was the greatest yogic poet of Tibet, or shall we say, singer-poet. We could call him the first Tibetan blues singer. And then there was his disciple Gampopa, and then Gampopa's descendants established the lineage of the Karmapas. At this point, the lineage of the Kagyu, the Practicing Lineage, consists of something like forty-five generations — up to the time of the Eleventh Trungpa, whoever he might be! (Chogyam Trungpa was the Eleventh Trungpa.)

From "The Practicing Lineage," in THE MISHAP LINEAGE: Transforming Confusion into Wisdom. Just published by Shambhala Publications.

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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: National and Individual Karma

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

June 3, 2009

NATIONAL AND INDIVIDUAL KARMA

Shared karmic situations fall into two subcategories: national and individual karma. An example of national karma is that you may be born in a particular country where you always have to relate with 7-Elevens, take-out pizza, and badly made cars. You end up in certain environments or worlds, but you cannot totally blame that on yourself. The whole country is made up that way.
        The second subcategory is individual karma within national karma. For example, if the sewage system in your neighborhood is not good, that karma is particularly and personally yours, in a sense, because the pipes keep breaking and costing you a lot of money and effort. Another example is winding up with a bad teacher who gets grumpy because he is poorly paid by the school system. On one hand, that situation is not your fault; but on the other hand, you did end up in that particular school. You have a television network, but you have your own personal TV with which to tune in, and you also choose your own particular station. It's very simple. Environmental and individual karma complement each other; they feed each other.

From Chapter Five, "Perpetually Re-creating Suffering," in THE TRUTH OF SUFFERING AND THE PATH OF LIBERATION, pages 56 to 57.

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