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The Lion's Roar: An Introduction to Tantra (Dharma Ocean) QUOTES

The Lion's Roar: An Introduction to Tantra (Dharma Ocean) QUOTES

1 " Form is no different from emptiness—things do exist in their own right without your judgments, preconceptions, and so forth. [When we drop those,] we begin to see in a very direct way, a straightforward, literal way. The colors are not called red, white, blue, but they are as they are. If we don’t name them, conceptualize them, they become much redder, bluer, and whiter, and so forth. That seems to be the idea of the shunyata principle: seeing things as they are. But there is the problem of the possibility "

― Chögyam Trungpa , The Lion's Roar: An Introduction to Tantra (Dharma Ocean)