A Gift of Dharma for 10.28.10
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 recently on the Dharma Ocean Foundation’s Facebook page:
Mahavipashyana is the increasing awareness of space between one’s self and situations. When we begin to experience vipashyana and then mahavipashyana, we realize how incredibly tied into the world we were. We realize how many expectations we had, and all these neurotic bondages we have with everybody around us. We want them to be a certain way, expect them to be a certain way, expect situations to go a certain way. When mahavipashyana begins to grow, those ties begin to fall away and we begin to see situations and other people with a tremendous amount of space between us and that. In that space, anything can happen. It is an open situation. Things are not trapped, imprisoned nor predetermined.
