Choiceless magic
‘The only magic that exists is this life, this world, the particular phenomena we are experiencing right at this moment. Right now, right here, you are this magic. For instance, in giving this talk, I am a captive speaker and you are a captive audience. We can’t just walk out in the middle of a sentence-if we were to try and do that, the implications would linger with us for a long time. So we cannot wipe out our past, present, or future. Magic is direct and personal and lingers in our state of being. It is choiceless magic.’
Chogyam Trungpa, ‘Dharma Art’
July 28th, 2006 at 9:47 am
amen
July 30th, 2006 at 6:02 am
I would have walked out immediately after the “We can’t just walk out….”
I’m an asshole like that.
July 31st, 2006 at 7:41 pm
Guess you have a lot of lingering implications buzzing around then… and most likely, flopping about on the ground like moths unheeded, even in their final death throes by the very lantern they perished to claim.
August 22nd, 2006 at 6:59 pm
I collect lingering implications and make them fight to the death for my amusement!
In reality I wouldn’t have walked out because as rude as I tend to be on my blog I’m a pretty polite person in public. But the temptation to yell “Yer not the boss of me!” would be pretty high
August 26th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
I think Trungpa would have loved that-I get the feeling he rather enjoyed orn’ry assholes.