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Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week<br><br>
[Note: I will be away from my desk from December 6 until January 3rd. I
have left quotes to be sent out in my absence. However, from
December 16 to January 3rd, there will be some interruption in sending
out the quotes. I hope to send a few from the road. Wishing you all a
good end of year. Ocean of Dharma will return in "full force"
in January. Carolyn Gimian, Moderator]<br><br>
December 16, 2006 <br><br>
NONTHEISTIC MAGIC<br><br>
One's state of mind is very powerful. It can imagine destroying
something, and it destroys it. It can imagine creating something, and it
creates it. Whatever you intend in the realm of mind, it happens. Imagine
your enemy. You want to destroy your enemy, and you have developed all
kinds of tactics for doing so, You have infinite imaginations about how
to handle the destruction of that enemy. Imagine your friend. You have
infinite inspirations about how to relate with your friend, how to make
him or her feel good or better or richer....Man does exist; his
intelligence does exist. This is entirely nontheistic.The approach of
Padmasambhava [who brought Buddhism to Tibet] to magic was on this
nontheistic level. Lightning happens because it does happen, rather than
because there is any further why or who or what involved. It does happen.
Flowers blossom because it happens, it is so. We cannot argue that there
are no flowers. We cannot argue that no snow falls. It is so. It
happens.<br><br>
From CRAZY WISDOM, pages 55 to 56.<br><br>
All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by
permission. <br><br>
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