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Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week<br><br>
April 26, 2007 <br><br>
BELIEF COMES FROM PERCEPTION<br><br>
It is worthwhile for individuals, even student and teacher, to have
eye-level relationships. There is a Sanskirt term, kalyanamitra, which
means "spiritual friend." It seems most appropriate that we
relate to each other as friends, rather than as student and master as
such. If we relate to one another as equal persons, the world in which we
relate is also an equal situation. The physical living situation is the
only way to relate with our lives as such. I do not believe in the
mystical world, the ethereal world, the world of the unseen, unknown or
whatever. There is no reason to believe in it, because we don't perceive
it. Belief comes from perception. If there's no perception of something,
we don't believe it. Belief does not come from manufacturing ideas. There
may be millions of arguments and logics set forth, saying that there is
an unseen world that operates on higher levels of consciousness, a world
which fulfills human concerns, punishes those who don't believe, and so
forth. But from the point of view of physics, that is unreal. I'm afraid
I'm not going to say that there is another world. The world that we live
in is the only world.<br><br>
From "Work, Sex, and Money," Talk One of an unpublished
transcript of a seminar in Burlington, Vermont, April, 1972.<br><br>
All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by
permission. <br><br>
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