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Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week<br><br>
May 9, 2007 <br><br>
NATURAL INSPIRATION<br><br>
Genuine inspiration is not particularly dramatic. It's very ordinary. It
comes from settling down in your environment and accepting situations as
natural. Out of that you begin to realize that you can dance with them.
So inspiration comes from acceptance rather than from having a sudden
flash of a good gimmick coming up in your mind. Natural inspiration is
simply having something somewhere that you can relate with, so it has a
sense of stableness and solidity. Inspiration has two parts: openness and
clear vision, or in Sanskrit, shunyata and prajna. Both are based on the
notion of original mind, traditionally known as buddha mind, which is
blank, nonterritorial, noncompetitive, and open.<br><br>
From "One Stroke" in DHARMA ART, page 100.<br><br>
All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by
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