Rev. Danny Fisher

Today’s dharma quote is yet another from the Vidyādhara, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (1939-1987), whom I first quoted and wrote a little bio for here.  I know I said I would keep the kyping/re-posting of quotes from other sources to an absolute minimum, but this one was too good to pass up.  It’s from The Sadhana of Mahamudra Sourcebook, via Shambhala Sun Space (via Ocean of Dharma):

Buddha in your heart is a symbol of faith: you could be immaculate and perfect, as perfect as Shakyamuni Buddha himself. That possibility already exists in you…. In this case, faith has nothing to do with praying to somebody. Faith is a sense of dignity. The Christian mystic Meister Eckhart talks about faith in the sense of being awake: being present and mindful and aware of the situation. Faith is seeing things as they are — whatever that might be — precisely, directly, and without any hesitation.