A Gift of Dharma for 12.26.10
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:
The activity of helping others is not a credential that we can hang on our chest so that we can walk around and strut around and say, “look at me and how great I am.” This is why the training is important. If we begin to think of ourselves and become puffed up and pompous, we can’t do the work. There is good news and bad news. The good news is that you can do the work. We have within us, tremendous power, to be helpful to others—unbelievable power, cosmic power. The bad news is in order to do that we have to become empty. We have to become empty vessels.
