A Gift of Dharma for 12.24.09
Photograph by James Gritz © 2008.
Today’s dharma quote is yet another from the Vidyādhara, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (1939-1987), whom I previously quoted and wrote a little bio for here. It’s from his book The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Psychology, pg.7:
In order to understand the interpersonal situation correctly, you have to know yourself in the beginning. Once you know the style of the dynamics of your own mind, then you can begin to see how that style works in dealing with others. And, in fact, on the basis of knowing yourself, the interpersonal knowledge comes naturally. You discover that somebody has developed his or her own mind. Then you can experience how the two minds interact with each other. This leads to the discovery that there is no such thing as outside mind and inside mind at all. So “mind” is really two minds meeting together, which is the same mind in some sense.
