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Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week<br><br>
May 6, 2007 <br><br>
BEYOND REASSURANCE<br><br>
Question: How does one get away from the need for reassurance?<br><br>
Chogyam Trungpa: Acknowledge needing reassurance, acknowledge it as
an effigy that looks in only one direction and does not look around. (It
is) an effigy with one face, possibly only one eye. It doesn't see
around, doesn't see the whole situation. Do you see what I
mean?...Whenever you need reassurance, that means you have a fixed idea
of what ought to be. And because of that, you fix your vision on one
situation, one particular thing. And those situations that are not being
observed because of the point of view of needing reassurance, (those
things) that we are not looking at, are a source of paranoia. We wish we
could cover the whole ground, but since we can't do that physiologically,
we have to try to stick to that one thing as much as we can. So the need
for reassurance has only one eye.<br><br>
Question: And the way to get beyond that one-eyed vision...?<br><br>
Chogyam Trungpa: Develop more eyes, rather than just a unidirectional
radar system. You don't have to fix your eye on one thing. You can have
panoramic vision, vision all around at once.<br><br>
From "Genuine Madness and Pop Art" in ILLUSION'S GAME: THE
LIFE AND TEACHING OF NAROPA, pages 30 to 31.<br><br>
All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by
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