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Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week<br><br>
March 15, 2007<br><br>
The Wind of Knowing<br><br>
The nature of prajna [transcendental knowledge[ starts with bewilderment.
It is as if we were entering a school to study a certain discipline with
great, wise, learned people. The first self-conscious awareness we would
have is a sense of our own ignorance, how we feel extraordinarily stupid,
clumsy, and dumb. At the same time, we begin to get wind of the
knowledge; otherwise we would have no reference point to experience
ourselves being dumb....Strangely enough, that is the wind of prajna.
Knowing one's own stupidity is, indeed, the first glimpse of prajna, very
much so. The interesting point, however, is that we cannot consistently
be stupid. Our stupidity is not all that well fortified. There are
certain gaps in which we forget that we are stupid, that we are
completely bewildered. Those glimpses, those gaps where we have some room
-- definitely that is prajna.<br><br>
From "Very Practical Joke" in THE TEACUP AND THE SKULLCUP:
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA ON ZEN AND TANTRA. Pages 4-5. <br><br>
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