Rev. Danny Fisher

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 his poem “Timely Rain,” which you can find in editor David Rome’s Timely Rain:  Selected Poems of Chögyam Trungpa, pg. 35:

In the jungles of flaming ego,
May there be a cool iceberg of bodhicitta.

On the racetrack of bureaucracy,
May there be the walk of the elephant.

May the sumptuous castle of arrogance,
Be destroyed by vajra confidence.

In the garden of gentle sanity,
May you be bombarded with coconuts of wakefulness.