Rev. Danny Fisher

Today’s quote is yet another from our friend and former Naropa University professor Dr. Reginald A. Ray, whom I previously quoted and wrote a little biography for here.  This is it–posted today on the Dharma Ocean Foundation’s Facebook page:

The fact of the matter is, we are like an umbilical cord. One end of the umbilical cord needs to be hooked into the buddhas and bodhisattvas: to the Buddha nature in the universe. The other end needs to hook up with sentient beings. The fact is that we are really empty. We don’t have anything really solid to offer. It sounds nihilistic to say that. However, this person that we think of ourselves as being doesn’t have anything to offer except that we can be a channel. We can be a vehicle of the compassion that this universe has to offer. We can bring that compassion and we can transmit it to sentient beings.