Aspiration

Aspiration is one of the five strengths that allow us to practice our
bodhisattva discipline of helping others throughout our whole life.
Because you have experienced joy and celebration in your practice, it
does not feel like a burden to you. Therefore, your aspire further and
further. You would like to attain enlightenment. You would like to free
yourself from neurosis. You would also like to serve all sentient beings
throughout all times, all situations, at any moment. You are willing to
become a rock or a bridge or a highway. You are willing to serve any
worthy cause that will help the rest of the world. It is also general
instruction on becoming a very pliable person, so that the rest of the
world can use you as a working basis for their enjoyment of sanity.

Condensed from pages 74 to 75 in /Training the Mind and Cultivating
Loving Kindness

Teachings by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, taken from works published by
Shambhala Publications,  the Archive of his unpublished work in the
Shambhala Archives, plus other published sources.
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Write Magick

Manipulating the field of perception . . . Shamanic trance postures, sending the unstruck note via written word into your blood stream . . .  Scrying the dark side of the brain . . . coaxing whispers from the spaces between the emptiness neurons . . . Buddhism

Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, Ray Bradbury. . .

“i think i was programed from birth to adore reading. With both of my grandmothers being librarians, there was never a lack of literature in my home. As I got older and began to develop my own personal appreciation of art, I found certain novels that pushed through me, and changed who I was as a person. Although I am always searching for a new bound copy of my dreams, it seems like I always go back to the same stories. These are the books that have changed who I am. These are the stories that diagram my life, these are the novels that i can recite every word from every page, the books that are like sex and drugs and raw emotion and life.”

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a zen fool’s notebook

an extended glimpse into the art and philosophy of a zen fool, poems in the creative stage, drawings, insightful quotes from past thoughtful minds . . .

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