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Approach

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

The Buddhist approach to faith is that you help yourself rather than being helped by something outside yourself. You learn that you can help yourself, completely, and you have faith in your ability to do so. Buddhism is not particularly a centralized philosophy, which would be symbolized by a pyramid. Rather, one of the main symbols for Buddhism is a wheel. It is a circular approach rather than a pyramid approach. Your effort is recirculated. What you put out in a situation goes out and around and it comes back to you. Faith here is the solid ground of real appreciation of things as they are: that fire burns, that water flows. It is based on a real experience of how things work.

-Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

link: Ocean of Dharma

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Deal

Friday, March 12th, 2010

“The path of dharma, the dharma marga, provides all kinds of problems, and we work along with those. Without that path, we would fall asleep. Suppose highways were without any bends, just like Roman roads, a one-shot deal straight from New York to Washington, 100 percent straight. The drivers would fall asleep. Because of that, there would be more accidents than if the road had bends in it with road signs here and there. The path is personal experience, and one should take delight in those little things that go on in our lives, the obstacles, seductions, paranoias, depressions, and openness. All kinds of things happen, and that is the content of the journey, which is extremely powerful and important.”

- Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

link: shambhala sunspace

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Alan Watts & Chögyam Trungpa – Right Here And Now

Friday, October 9th, 2009

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Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche on the Buddhist Practice

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

“The Buddhist tradition teaches the truth of impermanence, or the transitory nature of things. The past is gone and the future has not yet happened, so we work with what is here — the present situation. This actually helps us not to categorize or theorize. A fresh, living situation is taking place all the time, on the spot. This noncategorical  approach comes from being fully here, rather than trying to reconnect with past events. We don’t have to look back to the past in order to see what people are made out of. Human beings speak for themselves, on the spot.”

link: shambhala meditation center

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