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Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week<br><br>
January 8, 2007 <br><br>
GENUINENESS<br><br>
Student: The point of genuineness seems to be so simple that it's almost
impossible to understand. Could you say something about non-genuineness
and the problems that we get into when we're trying to be confident? From
that, maybe we can get a better idea of genuineness.<br><br>
Chogyam Trungpa: I could give you a lot of examples. Inviting depression
is one way of not being genuine, and refusing to be a human being and
trying to be a superman all the time is another way. In either case, we
are trying to be somebody or something else and not paying attention to
what's happening. You see, what we generally do is constantly, constantly
substitute for ourselves somebody else who doesn't even exist.
Nevertheless, we keep on doing that. When we fail to find our own quality
right away, we run into trouble. Being genuine from that point of view is
being indestructible in some sense. It depends on how much you can be a
warrior.<br><br>
From "Basic Goodness," a talk to directors of Shambhala
Training, January 1978.<br><br>
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