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Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week<br><br>
March 5, 2007<br><br>
FUNDAMENTALLY AWAKE<br><br>
Something exists in us which is basically awake, as opposed to asleep.
There is something intrinsically cheerful and fundamentally pride-worthy.
It is intrinsic, which is to say: without conning ourselves into it. It
is one-hundred-percent gold, beyond twenty-four carat. According to the
Buddhist tradition, that is what is known as Buddha nature. In Sanskrit
it is often referred to as tathagatagarbha, which means that the essence
[garbha] of those who have already gone beyond, the tathagatas or
buddhas, that essence exists in us. We take that attitude: that we
ourselves are fundamentally awake. We ourselves are good already. It's
not just potential. It's more than potential.<br><br>
From Talk One of "Warriorship in the Three Yanas," an
unpublished seminar given by Chogyam Trungpa at the Rocky Mountain Dharma
Center, August 22, 1978.<br><br>
All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by
permission. <br><br>
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