The Manure of Experience
2007 July 30
This is such a powerful quote from Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s book “Meditation in Action” and helps to keep me in check.
“It is said , I think in the Lankavatara Sutra, that unskilled farmers throw away their rubbish and buy manure from other farmers, but those who are skilled go on collecting their own rubbish, in spite of the bad smell and the unclean work, and when it is ready to be used they spread it on their land, and out of this they grow their crops…. the Buddha says that those who are unskilled will divide clean from unclean and will try to throw away samsara and search for nirvana…”
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