Osho: Don`t Fall for the Celestial Demon Chogyam Trungpa: Don`t Make Gods Into Demons Pema Chodron: Don`t Make Gods Into Demons Jamgon Kongtrul: Don`t Reduce a God to a Demon Alan Wallace: Do Not Let the Gods Descend to the Devil Rabten & Dhargyey: Do Not Bring a God Down to a Devil. Dilgo Khyentse: Do Not Bring a God Down to the Level of a Demon DON`T ACT WITH A TWIST DON`T SEEK OTHERS` PAIN AS THE LIMBS OF YOUR HAPPINESS  Commitments   Chogyam Trungpa

Don't Make Gods Into Demons

 

 
My Book on Tai Chi Imagery
This slogan refers to our general tendency to dwell on pain and go through life with constant complaints. We should not make painful that which is inherently joyful.

At his point, you may have achieved a certain level of taming yourself. You may have developed the tonglen practice of exchanging yourself for others and feel that your achievement is real. But at the same time, you are so arrogant about the whole thing that your achievement begins to become an evil intention, because you think you can show off. In that way, dharma becomes adharma, or nondharma.

From Training the Mind & Cultivating Loving-Kindness by Chogyam Trungpa , copyright 1993 by Diana Mukpo.
(Official Chogyam Trungpa Website)
Published by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston.

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